Releases and version numbers are gone. CI now rebuilds all three platforms
on every change to main and commits the packages to the `builds` branch,
so what anyone downloads is the current state of the repository. The
branch is rewritten from scratch each time rather than added to, so the
repository keeps one copy of the packages instead of a ~70 MB set per
commit.
Without tags there is no version to compare, so a build carries the
commit it was made from and the branch carries a VERSION file naming the
same commit. The updater fetches those few bytes and treats any
difference as being behind; commits are not ordered, and the branch only
ever holds the current build.
The installers fetch from the branch over raw.githubusercontent.com for
the same reason.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Bake the release tag into the binary so the app knows what it is running;
plain builds keep the "dev" default and never offer an update. The CI
workflow already exported the tag on Linux and macOS, so only the Windows
job needed it.
Read the newest version from the redirect GitHub serves for
/releases/latest, which avoids the REST API and its unauthenticated rate
limit and needs no JSON parser. Networking goes through the curl command
rather than a linked library: curl handles TLS, redirects and proxies, it
ships on all three platforms, and it keeps the bundling scripts free of
another shared library.
An application cannot reliably replace its own files while running, so
every platform follows one shape: unpack beside the current install,
write a script that waits for this process to exit before swapping, then
launch it detached and quit. Staging beside the install keeps the move on
one filesystem and fails early when the location is read-only. The
Windows script copies without mirroring so the progress files kept inside
the install directory survive.
Check quietly a few seconds after startup and offer the result in a
banner above the pages, with a manual check in the settings popover.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
