CrocDrop v1.1.0 - In-App Updater, Theme/Font Fixes, and Installer Reliability

Overview

This release brings a full update workflow inside the app, startup/UI stability fixes, and better installer/build reliability.

New Features

• Added in-app app updater in Settings:
  • Update App button
  • Checks latest GitHub release
  • Compares local vs remote version
  • Downloads update with a dedicated progress popup
  • Closes app, applies update, and restarts automatically (no installer rerun)

UI / UX Improvements

• Added new App Updates section in Settings with current version display.
• Added update progress dialog with live download progress and status text.
• Added release/update messaging flow for up-to-date, download success, and failures.

Stability Fixes

• Fixed startup warning:
  • QFont::setPointSize: Point size <= 0 (-1)
• Added safe fallback font initialization to prevent invalid point-size on some systems.

Installer / Packaging Fixes

• Fixed installer version mismatch in build pipeline:
  • Version now resolved from app/version.py by default
  • build_installer.bat and build_installer.ps1 now stay in sync
• Updated installer defaults and references to current versioning flow.
• Fixed installed-build icon issue:
  • PyInstaller now bundles runtime assets (--add-data ".\assets;assets")
  • Added frozen-build icon fallback (QIcon(sys.executable)) when SVG asset is unavailable

Repository / Release Infrastructure

• Updated repository references to:
  • https://github.com/B1progame/CrocDrop
• Added GitHub release helper files:
  • .github/RELEASE_TEMPLATE.md
  • .github/release.yml
• Updated .gitignore with more practical local/build/cache exclusions.

Metadata / Version Sync

• Added centralized app metadata file (app/version.py).
• Synced app/installer version references to avoid drift.
• Updated docs/examples to reflect current installer version usage.

Notes

• If Windows still shows an old taskbar icon after installing:
  • unpin old shortcut and pin the new one (icon cache behavior).