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v0.6.10

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Highlights

  • Windows in-app updates now use a detached relay that survives the main PaneFlow process exit and reopens the app after the MSI transaction finishes.
  • Release publishing is now blocked by every real release validation gate: all Linux distro smokes, the Windows MSI smoke, and the Linux auto-update E2E.
  • The release workflow now validates the Windows MSI installer end to end before publishing: signed MSI integrity, silent install/uninstall, installed paneflow --version, and the --msi-relay path.
  • The auto-update E2E no longer waits for an already-published GitHub Release. It signs the NEW tarball inside the E2E job, so the test remains a true pre-publish release gate.

What changed

Windows updater

  • Spawned the copied MSI relay as a detached non-elevated process so it keeps running after PaneFlow exits.
  • Moved UAC elevation to the relay's msiexec invocation for Program Files installs, then waits for the elevated installer process to finish and captures its exit code.
  • Relaunches PaneFlow after msiexec completes, including success, user-cancel, and installer-failure paths, so users are not left with a closed app and no feedback.
  • Always removes the staged MSI after the relay attempts installation.
  • Added relay diagnostics for spawn, argument-parse failures, msiexec launch/wait status, and relaunch attempts.
  • Made relay argument parsing resilient when host launchers inject flags before --msi-relay.
  • Added regression coverage for shifted relay args, relay parse logging, quoted MSI paths, and relaunch-after-exit behavior.

Release validation

  • Added smoke-test-windows-msi on windows-2022.
  • The Windows smoke downloads the signed Windows MSI artifact, verifies its .sha256 sidecar, verifies Authenticode status, installs the MSI silently, checks C:\Program Files\PaneFlow\paneflow.exe --version, exercises --msi-relay on a copied relay binary, verifies relay logs, confirms the staged MSI copy is removed, then uninstalls.
  • Added the Windows MSI smoke, Debian smoke, openSUSE smoke, Arch smoke, and auto-update-e2e to Publish GitHub Release needs, so any failed smoke now prevents publication.
  • Changed auto-update-e2e to sign its NEW tarball before publish using the release minisign key. This keeps the updater test as a pre-publish gate without waiting on release assets that do not exist yet.
  • Removed the previous publish-ordering deadlock where auto-update E2E waited for a signature from a release that was itself waiting on the E2E gate.

Release metadata

  • Bumped the workspace version from 0.6.9 to 0.6.10.
  • Updated Cargo.lock workspace package versions.
  • Added the Debian changelog stanza for 0.6.10-1.

Upgrade notes

  • Windows users who previously saw PaneFlow close during update without coming back should install 0.6.10 from the MSI once.
  • After 0.6.10, future in-app MSI updates should close PaneFlow, run the installer through the relay, and relaunch the installed app.
  • If Windows still shows UAC, accept the prompt for paneflow-app; the relay waits for msiexec to finish before trying to relaunch.
  • Release v0.6.10 intentionally includes release-pipeline hardening. This makes future releases fail earlier and more visibly instead of publishing with a red smoke test.

Downloads

  • Windows x64: paneflow-0.6.10-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.msi
  • macOS Apple Silicon: paneflow-0.6.10-aarch64-apple-darwin.dmg
  • Linux x86_64: AppImage, .deb, .rpm, and tar.gz
  • Linux aarch64: AppImage, .deb, .rpm, and tar.gz
  • Checksums and Minisign signatures are attached for release assets.

Validation

  • Local: cargo check --workspace
  • Local: cargo fmt --check
  • Local targeted: cargo test -p paneflow-app relay -- --nocapture
  • Workflow syntax: git diff --check -- .github/workflows/release.yml
  • Workflow syntax: YAML parse via Prettier
  • Release workflow: https://github.com/ArthurDEV44/paneflow/actions/runs/28300166219
  • Release gates: 4/4 build matrix jobs green
  • Release gates: Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, openSUSE, Arch smoke tests green
  • Release gates: Windows MSI install + relay smoke green
  • Release gates: Linux x86_64 auto-update E2E green
  • Published release assets: 32

Commits

  • 70d9fff fix(update): harden Windows MSI relay restart
  • 09d2a39 ci(release): harden release smoke gates
  • fce0976 chore(release): bump version to v0.6.10
  • a73a33c ci(release): sign auto-update smoke before publish

Full changelog: v0.6.9...v0.6.10

Notes pulled live from the GitHub release.