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Add 'Check for Updates...' menu item to the system tray menu. Queries GitHub releases API for latest published release, compares against running version using semver, and downloads and launches platform installer packages.

Closes #859

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Adds a "Check for Updates..." item to the system tray menu that checks GitHub for the latest release, compares it to the running version with semver, and downloads and launches the matching platform installer.

  • Shows release notes, a "Skip This Version" option, progress during download, and SHA-256 verification of the installer. Skipped versions are saved in the tray config and preserved across reapplies.
  • Adds an optional weekly update check, toggled from the setup wizard and the update window and persisted in the tray config. The window reference is synchronized so repeated checks reuse an open window instead of stacking.
  • If no asset matches the platform, it opens the release page instead.
  • Restricts the GITHUB_TOKEN header to api.github.com and caps release payload and download sizes.
  • Fixes tray icon scaling so the logo keeps its aspect ratio and is centered instead of stretched.
  • Fixes the About window to display the full application icon resource.
  • Adds launchctl enable calls on macOS so the service still starts after reinstalls and auto-start registration.
  • Closes the WebSocket response body on failed dials.

Written for commit 7b17520. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • New Features

    • Added “Check for Updates…” to the tray menu.
    • Users can check for releases, view release notes, download updates, and launch installation.
    • Added support for update progress, retries, platform-specific installers, and checksum verification.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved icon rendering by preserving aspect ratio and centering icons.
    • Updated the About dialog to use the full application icon.
    • Improved macOS service activation during installation and startup.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for update workflows, downloads, icon rendering, and service-related behavior.

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The tray application adds GitHub-based update checking, version comparison, platform asset selection, verified downloads, installer launching, and update controls. The tray menu opens one reusable update window. Icon rendering now preserves aspect ratio and centers logos. The About dialog uses the full resource icon. macOS installation and service startup explicitly enable the user LaunchAgent. Tests cover update behavior, downloads, UI flows, and icon rendering.

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The update flow can perform unverified launches, behaves incorrectly on supported platforms, and may ignore cancellation. These issues should be fixed before merging.

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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The update-menu work and its supporting update tests are within issue #859. The PR also changes icon scaling in internal/ui/assets, the About-window icon in tray/about.go, and macOS `launchctl ena… Remove the unrelated icon and macOS service changes from this PR, or link them to separate issues and submit them in a separate PR.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #859 requires a tray-menu entry for checking updates. tray/app.go adds mCheckUpdates with the label “Check for Updates...” and opens the update window through showCheckForUpdates. `tray/up…
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The update-menu work and its supporting update tests are within issue #859. The PR also changes icon scaling in internal/ui/assets, the About-window icon in tray/about.go, and macOS launchctl enable behavior in scripts/bundle-macos.sh and tray/setup/service_darwin.go. The linked issue does not establish a connection between these changes and the update-menu requirement.

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In `@tray/app.go`:
- Around line 1288-1296: Update the ShowUpdateWindow call in the application
update flow to include WithOnSkip, persisting the selected release tag through
the existing configuration mechanism so “Skip This Version” remains skipped
after reopening the app.

In `@tray/update_test.go`:
- Around line 485-490: Update TestShowUpdateWindow_UpdateAvailable and the
related installation test fixtures to construct release asset names using
runtime.GOOS and runtime.GOARCH instead of hard-coded Darwin ARM64 values.
Ensure each test provides an asset matching the host platform so the “Install
and Relaunch” path remains selected across supported operating systems and
architectures.

In `@tray/update.go`:
- Around line 365-366: Update the default branch in the platform installation
flow around FindAssetForPlatform so Linux and FreeBSD .tar.gz assets trigger a
real supported installation action rather than opening the containing directory.
If automatic installation is unavailable, present an explicit manual-install
flow and do not report success or offer “Quit & Install” as though installation
started.
- Around line 481-485: In the update UI around autoCheck, either wire the
checkbox state through the existing automatic-update configuration and
persistence flow so changes are applied and retained, or remove/hide the
checkbox until that feature is implemented; do not leave an interactive control
with no callback or state consumer.
- Around line 330-343: Update ShowUpdateWindow before its DownloadAsset call to
require a non-empty, supported SHA-256 asset.Digest, rejecting invalid or
unsupported digests before any download or installerLauncher invocation.
Preserve the existing checksum verification flow for valid digests and ensure
every release asset follows this validation path.
- Around line 129-130: Update both CheckLatestRelease and DownloadAsset so each
non-2xx response reads a bounded amount of resp.Body and includes the useful
body content in its returned error; keep the two HTTP-error paths independent
and preserve the existing status-code context.
- Around line 788-809: The successful download flow should honor cancellation
before and during the queued UI update. In the path that calls
installerLauncher, check dlCtx.Err() before queuing the fyne.Do closure and
again immediately before installerLauncher(targetFile), also preventing the
launch when the window cancellation context has been canceled.

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verbotenj force-pushed the feat/check-for-updates-859 branch from bcce05f to 26f7b15 Compare September 21, 2026 18:06
Add 'Check for Updates...' menu item to the system tray menu. Queries GitHub releases API for latest published release, compares against running version using semver, and downloads and launches platform installer packages.

Signed-off-by: Ales Verbic <verbotenj@blinklabs.io>
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The update path is sound where it matters: the window refuses an asset without a valid SHA-256 digest, the asset name is checked against traversal, the download lands in a 0600 .part file renamed only after the hash matches, Linux and FreeBSD route to the release page instead of a dead install, and skip plus weekly preferences are both persisted and read back. One change requested on DownloadAsset's contract, plus two smaller points inline. CodeRabbit's skip-persistence and tarball-install findings were checked against this head and no longer apply.

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req.Header.Set("User-Agent", "adder-tray/"+v)
req.Header.Set("Accept", "application/vnd.github+json")
if tok := os.Getenv("GITHUB_TOKEN"); tok != "" {

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GITHUB_TOKEN is attached to whatever BaseURL holds. Releases are public, so the token only buys rate limit, and sending it to a non-GitHub BaseURL leaks it. Gate this on the default api.github.com URL.

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Fixed in d4a049d: GITHUB_TOKEN is now strictly gated to HTTPS requests targeting api.github.com, avoiding token leakage to custom or mirror endpoints.

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Need a Check for Updates button from the tray menu

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