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v0.2.0
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Added

  • Self-update from GitHub Releases: the tray menu offers the app's own newer build, verifies it against
    its published checksum, swaps it in by rename with a rollback on failure, and restarts it — opt-in
    via auto_update, with repeated failure notices throttled and failed lookups logged to their own
    diagnostics file (self-update.log).
  • The update batch shows as a queue with per-package progress bars, per-target finish announcements,
    and packages can be toggled ignored straight from the tray menu.
  • New tray glyph — an uppercase G for the rename to Globlin — with an emerald glow when everything is
    current and a rising-water fill while a job runs.

Fixed

  • The single-instance mutex handle is closed after a failed claim, and a replaced launch that never
    claims it still raises its toast; a double rename failure keeps the verified new build instead of
    emptying the live path.
  • The toast artwork is rewritten so a changed glyph actually reaches notifications, and the row bar
    and water level no longer overshoot or misreport what has landed.

Changed

  • The app is renamed from npm-globals-tray to Globlin end to end: binary slug, AppUserModelId, config
    file, data directory, autostart value, single-instance mutex, self-update endpoint and release assets.
    See the README for the leftover files an old install can delete by hand.

A portable Windows tray app that watches your global npm and bun packages, notifies you when one falls
behind, and updates it on a click. It never updates anything on its own.

Install

Download globlin.exe and run it. There is no installer — it keeps its config in a
globlin.json next to itself, so it can live on a USB stick or in any folder you like. Enable
Run at startup from the tray menu if you want it to come back after a reboot.

Verify the download

(Get-FileHash globlin.exe -Algorithm SHA256).Hash.ToLower()

Compare the result with globlin.exe.sha256.

Notes

  • npm and @anthropic-ai/claude-code are ignored by default, because the first rewrites its own shim
    mid-update on Windows and the second updates itself. Remove them from ignore in the config to manage
    them here.
  • Checks run at startup and every six hours; a notification is only raised when the set of outdated
    packages actually changes.
  • See the README for the full config reference and how to remove the app cleanly.
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