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CapsuleCraft v1.8.1 — a release pipeline that does not lose artifacts

Released 2026-10-27.

This is a patch release of the build system, not of the app. No application
code changed between v1.8.0 and v1.8.1 — the binaries are v1.8.0 features, built
by a pipeline that now actually delivers all of them.

Why this release exists

v1.8.0 was published without its Linux AppImage and without the macOS .app.zip.
The cause was a race, not a code bug: the native jobs finish in 2–3 minutes, and
they called gh release upload before tauri-action had created the GitHub
Release (7–10 minutes). The uploads died with 404 release not found, and the
release was published anyway, minus those files. The published checksums were
also overwritten by each job in turn, so SHA256SUMS.txt covered only one
platform.

PR #13 by @kobaltgit rebuilt the pipeline. This
release is the first one to run it.

What changed in the pipeline

  • create-release runs first and guarantees the GitHub Release exists before
    any builder starts — the race is structurally impossible now. Release notes are
    taken from this file (docs/releases/<tag>.md).
  • Native Windows build (native-windows): a zero-dependency portable
    CapsuleCraft_native_<version>_x64.zip containing CapsuleCraft.exe,
    README.md and LICENSE. No WebView2, no installer.
  • finalize-release waits for every builder, downloads all assets, writes a
    single authoritative SHA256SUMS.txt, uploads it, and only then clears the
    draft flag.
  • CI now tests the native shell (cargo check + cargo test -j 1) on every
    pull request and push to main, next to the existing frontend and Tauri jobs.
  • if-no-files-found: warn plus a complete bundle-path list, so the macOS
    Tauri job stops failing because a Windows-only mask matched nothing.

Fixed during this release

  • The AppImage's appdata.xml had <release version="1.8.0" date="2026-10-26"/>
    hardcoded in the workflow; it is now generated from the tag and the build date.
  • finalize-release published the release unconditionally (if: always()), even
    when a build had failed. It now refuses to publish an incomplete artifact set
    and leaves the release as a draft.
  • Manifest drift: src-tauri/Cargo.toml was at 1.5.0 and package-lock.json at
    1.4.0; both now match package.json, tauri.conf.json and native/Cargo.toml.

Artifacts

Platform File
Linux x64 CapsuleCraft_1.8.1_amd64.AppImage, CapsuleCraft_1.8.1_amd64.deb, CapsuleCraft-1.8.1-1.x86_64.rpm
macOS arm64 CapsuleCraft_native_1.8.1_arm64.app.zip, CapsuleCraft_1.8.1_aarch64.dmg
Windows x64 CapsuleCraft_native_1.8.1_x64.zip, CapsuleCraft_1.8.1_x64_en-US.msi, CapsuleCraft_1.8.1_x64-setup.exe

SHA256SUMS.txt covers every artifact above in a single file.

Upgrading

Nothing on disk changes: the .eml vault format, X-Capsule-* headers and the
app-data folder are untouched. v1.8.1 opens any vault written by v1.8.0 or
earlier, and the other way round.

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