v0.2.5

Rudder v0.2.5

Released: 2026-05-20

Rudder 0.2.5 is a patch release focused on Desktop startup and update
reliability, package verification, agent-work lifecycle skills, and continued
UI workflow polish after the 0.2.4 line.

Highlights

• Fixed the Desktop dev shell regression by removing leftover extracted update
  flow code that could keep pnpm dev from compiling the Electron main process.
• Hardened Desktop startup, update, and packaging paths with server-package
  verification, safer post-update reload handling, workspace launcher icon
  resilience, and update force-quit targeting.
• Added and refined maintainer skills for development lifecycle routing, review
  loops, UI polish, data-path diagnosis, mock data, and run-transcript
  debugging.
• Split several large server, runtime, Desktop, CLI, and UI modules into
  narrower source files while preserving their public behavior.
• Improved issue, chat, messenger, automation, and approval workflows with
  clearer statuses, richer validations, better ask-user handling, and denser
  operator surfaces.
• Updated release, publishing, and bundled-skill references for the current
  package and CLI behavior.

Install

npx @rudderhq/cli@latest start

After the persistent CLI is installed, rudder start uses the same CLI surface
when it resolves to the same version.

Notes

This release promotes the 0.2.5 package line to the stable npm latest
dist-tag. Desktop assets are attached to the v0.2.5 GitHub Release and
verified by checksum before installation.