Vodou v0.6.25 Alpha

This release repairs the updater itself. If an update has ever seemed to hang, told you it crashed while it was working, or quietly left one of your tools broken — that was all real, and this fixes it.

Updates that finish what they start

A bundled tool whose folder contains a linked package — the channels integration that drives Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp and the rest — failed to copy during every update since 0.6.15, and the half-copied folder was left in place. Seven releases in a row reported the same seven words, "1 component failed", and named nothing. If your channels stopped connecting weeks ago and never came back on their own, that is why. This update repairs it.

Alongside that:

• A part of an update that fails now restores the previous copy instead of leaving that tool broken with no way back.
• The update tells you which part failed.
• The memory-graph brain now updates with everything else. It was excluded from every automatic update since it shipped, so an install that lost it could never get it back.
• These fixes apply to the update that delivers them, not the one after.

Updates that tell you the truth

Past the ten-minute mark, a perfectly healthy update printed "a previous update may have crashed — consider rolling back" every thirty seconds until it finished. A full update legitimately takes about half an hour, so most of one looked like a failure. It now reports what is actually happening.

The download used to pull ~350 MB in complete silence, with no way to tell a slow connection from a hung one — which is exactly when someone interrupts an update that was working fine. You now see how much has arrived, how fast, and how long is left. A genuinely stalled download says so instead of waiting forever.

Also in this release

• Create or pick a project folder from a browser, including folders that do not exist yet.
• The Document Library finds documents by meaning, not just by name — ask for what you remember about a document and it finds it without the title.
• Add documents by dropping in a whole folder, and browse anywhere on the filesystem rather than only your home directory.
• Model lists for every provider are current as of this build.

Fixed

• Two copies of the app no longer share one database file, and writes are no longer lost when the database is busy.
• Database corruption is noticed in minutes rather than days, and the automatic repair now acts on what it diagnosed instead of discarding it.
• A scheduled task that never actually runs now says so, instead of appearing healthy.
• Switching projects picks up a project you just created.
• Two Vodou sessions running at once no longer scramble each other's activity log.

Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VodouAI/OS/main/install-vodou.sh | bash

Full changelog: https://github.com/VodouAI/OS/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

Known issues

• Updating to this version still runs the previous version's downloader, so that one last update is quiet and may still show the stale "may have crashed" notice. Every update after this one shows progress.
• The Windows build is unsigned — SmartScreen will warn — and is download-only: Windows installs do not auto-update.

Alpha.