Red Editor v0.8.2

Red v0.8.2: Update Red from your editor or terminal

Red v0.8.2 adds a managed updater for official standalone installations. Daily checks notify you about new stable releases; you choose when to install them.

Highlights

• New: Update from the editor or terminal. Run red update, :update, or Update Red in the command palette for an official standalone installation. The updater verifies the release checksum and candidate binary before replacement. Restart your editing sessions to use the new version.
• New: Hear about new releases without unattended installs. Red checks for a newer stable release once per day and notifies you. Set [updates] mode = "off" to disable automatic checks; manual updates remain available.

What's Changed

Features

• update: Add standalone updater by @fcoury-oai in #377

Tests

• installer: Avoid parsing lock inode by @fcoury-oai in #377

Contributors

• @fcoury in #378
• @fcoury-oai in #377

Updating existing installations

Red checks for a new stable release daily and only notifies you. Run red update, :update, or Update Red to install it, then restart your editing sessions. Set [updates] mode = "off" to disable automatic checks while keeping manual updates available.

If red update reports an unmanaged installation, or you installed Red before v0.8.2 or extracted an archive manually, save and close Red, including detached sessions, and rerun this release's installer once into your existing installation directory. It writes the receipt and lock file required for managed updates. Use the installer assets attached to this release for this migration.

macOS and Linux migration

Replace $HOME/.local/bin if you use another directory:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -fsSL \
  https://github.com/codersauce/red/releases/download/v0.8.2/install.sh \
  -o /tmp/red-install-v0.8.2.sh
RED_VERSION=0.8.2 RED_INSTALL_DIR="$HOME/.local/bin" \
  sh /tmp/red-install-v0.8.2.sh

Windows migration

Replace -InstallDir if you use another directory:

$installer = Join-Path $env:TEMP "red-install-v0.8.2.ps1"
Invoke-WebRequest https://github.com/codersauce/red/releases/download/v0.8.2/install.ps1 -OutFile $installer
& $installer -Version 0.8.2 -InstallDir (Join-Path $env:LOCALAPPDATA "Programs\Red\bin")

Homebrew users should run brew upgrade codersauce/tap/red. Source builds use their existing build process.

See Updating Red for restart behavior, detached sessions, and disabling automatic checks.

Installation

Homebrew

brew install codersauce/tap/red

macOS

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -fsSL https://github.com/codersauce/red/releases/download/v0.8.2/install.sh | sh

Linux

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -fsSL https://github.com/codersauce/red/releases/download/v0.8.2/install.sh | sh

Windows

irm https://github.com/codersauce/red/releases/download/v0.8.2/install.ps1 | iex

Install Codex separately and run codex login to enable agent support.

Checksums

Download SHA256SUMS.txt from this release to verify archives.

Full Changelog

v0.8.1...v0.8.2