feat: show newer pre-release on downloads page (robust, from real assets) by ErikBjare · Pull Request #62 · ActivityWatch/activitywatch.github.io

ErikBjare · 2026-07-11T23:44:01Z

What

The /downloads/ page only shows the latest stable (v0.13.2); v0.14.0b1 is filtered out as a prerelease. This adds a Pre-release section whenever the newest prerelease is newer than stable.

Why the rewrite

The old update-downloads.py built links by substituting the version number into a fixed template. v0.14 changed asset naming (activitywatch-tauri-...) and moved macOS to arm64, so substitution would have produced dead -macos-x86_64.dmg links. The rewrite builds each platform's links from the release's actual assets (preferring the plain non-tauri builds), so it survives naming changes — and future-proofs stable for when it moves to v0.14.

_data/downloads.yml is now { stable, prerelease? }.
downloads.pug renders a "Pre-release: vX" section (with an instability note) when prerelease is present.
Package-manager (Chocolatey/AUR/nixpkgs/Homebrew) and Play Store links stay on stable only — betas aren't distributed there.
macOS buttons now note Intel vs Apple Silicon.

Verification

Ran the script against the live API and HEAD-checked all 14 generated GitHub asset URLs → all 200, including the v0.14.0b1 Apple Silicon macOS builds. CI build will confirm the pug/Liquid render.

Note: for v0.14 (which ships both classic and tauri builds) this shows the classic activitywatch-* builds for consistency with stable; easy to flip to tauri if preferred.

v4/v5 still target Node 20, which the runners now force onto Node 24 with a deprecation warning. v5/v6 are the Node-24-native majors and clear it.

… assets The downloads page only showed the latest stable (prereleases were filtered out), and update-downloads.py generated links by substituting the version number into a fixed template — which breaks when asset naming changes (v0.14 ships 'tauri' builds and moved macOS to arm64, so substitution would produce dead -macos-x86_64.dmg links). Rewrite update-downloads.py to build each platform's links from the release's actual assets, and emit a 'prerelease' block whenever the latest pre-release is newer than the latest stable. downloads.yml is now {stable, prerelease?}; downloads.pug renders a 'Pre-release: vX' section when present. Package-manager and Play Store links stay on the stable block only. Verified: all 14 generated GitHub asset URLs return 200, including the v0.14.0b1 arm64 macOS builds.

greptile-apps · 2026-07-11T23:45:47Z

Greptile Summary

This PR updates the downloads page to show a newer prerelease when one exists. The main changes are:

Generate download data from real GitHub release assets.
Store stable and prerelease downloads under separate YAML keys.
Render a prerelease section on downloads.pug.
Bump the Pages workflow checkout and Python setup actions.

Confidence Score: 4/5

The changed download data path needs fixes before merging.

The regenerated YAML shape can break existing homepage schema and download-button consumers.
GitHub API error bodies can be treated as release data and crash the scheduled update job.
The workflow action bumps look compatible with the hosted runner setup.

scripts/update-downloads.py, _includes/download-url.js, _includes/schema-index.html

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
.github/workflows/pages.yml	Bumps checkout and setup-python to newer action majors that match the hosted runner setup.
_data/downloads.yml	Changes download metadata to separate stable and prerelease releases.
downloads.pug	Reads the new stable data and conditionally renders prerelease downloads.
scripts/update-downloads.py	Rewrites release selection and asset extraction, but leaves schema consumers and API error handling incomplete.

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chatgpt-codex-connector · 2026-07-11T23:45:50Z

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-platforms:
+# Generated by scripts/update-downloads.py — do not edit by hand.
+stable:


Update remaining download data consumers

Because the downloads data now lives under stable, the existing consumers that still read site.data.downloads.version and site.data.downloads.platforms lose their inputs. On the homepage download button, _includes/download-url.js parses the missing platforms value and then calls .filter(...), so visitors with a detected OS hit a JS error instead of getting a direct platform download; _includes/schema-index.html also emits an empty software version and no per-platform entry points. Please either preserve the old top-level aliases or update those includes to read site.data.downloads.stable.*.

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Fixed in e4749b4. Updated _includes/download-url.js (download button) and _includes/schema-index.html (JSON-LD) to read site.data.downloads.stable.*. Verified no flat downloads.version/downloads.platforms references remain anywhere in the repo.

greptile-apps · 2026-07-11T23:45:51Z

+        raise SystemExit("No stable release found")
+    latest_stable = stable[-1]
+
+    data = {"stable": build_block(latest_stable, include_packages=True, with_android=True)}


Nested Downloads Break Consumers

When this script writes only stable and prerelease, the existing homepage schema and download-button include still read site.data.downloads.version and site.data.downloads.platforms. After regeneration, those old keys are missing, so the JSON-LD loses its version/download entries and the site-wide download CTA can fail when it tries to filter a null platform list.

Fixed in e4749b4. Updated _includes/download-url.js (download button) and _includes/schema-index.html (JSON-LD) to read site.data.downloads.stable.*. Verified no flat downloads.version/downloads.platforms references remain anywhere in the repo.

greptile-apps · 2026-07-11T23:45:52Z

+    token = os.getenv("GITHUB_TOKEN")
+    if token:
+        headers["Authorization"] = f"Bearer {token}"
+    releases = requests.get(API, headers=headers, timeout=30).json()


API Error Becomes Releases

When GitHub returns a JSON error body for a rate limit, auth failure, or transient server error, this line still decodes it and the next filter treats the object keys as release records. The scheduled pages workflow can then crash at r["draft"] instead of reporting the HTTP failure clearly or keeping generation deterministic.

Fixed in e4749b4. Added resp.raise_for_status() and an isinstance(releases, list) guard, so a GitHub API error body (rate-limit/auth/5xx) now fails loudly instead of being parsed as releases and crashing at r['draft'].

…rrors Address review on #62: - download-url.js (homepage download button) and schema-index.html (JSON-LD) still read the old flat site.data.downloads.version/.platforms, which the stable/prerelease split removed — point them at .stable.* so the CTA and schema keep working. - update-downloads.py: raise_for_status() + validate the response is a list, so a GitHub API error body (rate-limit/auth/5xx) fails loudly instead of being parsed as releases and crashing at r['draft'].

ErikBjare added 2 commits July 12, 2026 01:40

chore: bump checkout->v5 and setup-python->v6 (Node 24 native)

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v4/v5 still target Node 20, which the runners now force onto Node 24 with a deprecation warning. v5/v6 are the Node-24-native majors and clear it.

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