fix(desktop): show the changelog in the update dialog - #226
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The release body was a fixed string — "Pythinker Desktop <v> (<channel> channel), built from <commit>." — so the in-app updater had nothing to tell users about a version. The body now carries the entries for that version from apps/desktop/CHANGELOG.md, with the changesets PR/commit/thanks prefix stripped, and keeps the source commit URL as a footer because resuming a draft checks for it. A stable release whose version has no changelog entry fails in the prepare job instead of shipping a build nobody can describe. The notes also arrived as markup. electron-updater's GitHub provider reads the releases Atom feed, whose content is the body GitHub has already rendered to HTML, and the renderer treats that field as Markdown — so tags printed literally, down to `PyModel/pythinker-code@<tt>`. The main process now reduces that HTML to text at the boundary that already normalizes this field.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe desktop release workflow now generates release bodies from the changelog. The updater converts HTML release notes to plain text. Release scripts and tests cover version extraction, channel fallbacks, validation, and rendering. ChangesDesktop release notes
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The update dialog now transforms hosted release notes before rendering, but encoded markup may still become active HTML if the renderer allows raw HTML. This creates a concrete security-sensitive merge risk that should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ReleaseWorkflow
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ReleaseWorkflow->>DesktopReleaseScript: Generate notes from CHANGELOG.md
DesktopReleaseScript-->>ReleaseWorkflow: Return release note text
ReleaseWorkflow->>GitHubRelease: Create release with notes file
GitHubRelease-->>DesktopUpdater: Send update-available release notes
DesktopUpdater->>DesktopUpdater: Sanitize HTML and render plain text
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Deleting tags with a chained replace is single-pass: removing an inner tag lets the surrounding text close back up into markup, and a trailing unterminated `<` survives untouched. CodeQL flagged both. Walk the input once and copy out only the text the scan passes, so nothing that was not already a tag can become one.
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911-917: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winUse neutral identifiers in the release-note fixture.
Line 912 and line 916 use a repository-specific identifier in test data. Replace it with a neutral placeholder such as
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- + '<p>Built from <a class="commit-link" href="https://example.com/commit/f27686a">PyModel/pythinker-code@<tt>f27686a</tt></a>.</p>', + + '<p>Built from <a class="commit-link" href="https://example.com/commit/f27686a">example.test/repository@<tt>f27686a</tt></a>.</p>', ... - '- Install Windows updates in the background.\n\nBuilt from PyModel/pythinker-code@f27686a.', + '- Install Windows updates in the background.\n\nBuilt from example.test/repository@f27686a.',🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@apps/desktop/src/updater.ts`:
- Around line 217-224: Update plainReleaseNotes and normalizedNote so entity
decoding occurs before HTML_MARKUP_PATTERN scanning, or ensure decoded markup is
escaped before returning it; preserve safe trimming and normalization. Add a
regression test covering mixed literal and encoded markup, and verify the
downstream Markdown renderer escapes raw HTML before displaying the release
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In `@apps/desktop/tests/desktop-release-workflow.spec.ts`:
- Around line 911-917: Update the release-note fixture in
desktop-release-workflow tests to replace the repository-specific identifier
with a neutral placeholder such as example.test/repository, while preserving the
surrounding test data and behavior.
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Entity decoding runs after the tag scan, so `<script>` — how GitHub renders a tag an author typed literally — became `<script>` once the scan could no longer see it. The update dialog renders this value with a Markdown component that does render raw HTML, so escape the angle brackets on the way out: the text still reads as written and can no longer open an element.
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## Related Issue No issue — follow-up to #226, which fixed the release-notes *content*. This fixes how that content is presented. ## Problem The update popover rendered release notes with the chat `Markdown` component. Three problems, in order of weight: 1. **It renders raw HTML as live DOM.** Mounting `markstream-vue` against `<img src=x onerror=...>`, `<script>`, `<b>` and `<i>` shows `<b>`/`<i>` coming through as real elements; it strips scripts and event handlers, but it is a sanitizing HTML renderer, not a text renderer. #226 had to escape angle brackets in `updater.ts` specifically to stay inert for it. 2. **It cannot be mounted in a test** — it resolves katex and mermaid workers and throws. So `update-dialog.test.ts` stubbed it, and this user-facing surface shipped with its rendering entirely unverified. 3. **It drags katex, mermaid and shiki** into a 440px panel that shows a few bullets. On top of that, the generated body ends with `Built from <url>.`, which read as a stray sentence at the end of the release notes. ## What changed `ReleaseNotes.vue` renders the one narrow shape the release generator produces: - **Headings, bullets and paragraphs as real elements**, bound through Vue interpolation. Markup cannot be contributed by a release body no matter what upstream did to it, which retires the coupling in point 1. Escaped angle brackets are decoded back for display, so the reader sees the characters the author typed. - **`Built from <url>` becomes a footnote** under a rule, linking the short commit reference — and only when the URL is an actual web page, since a release body is remote input that `will-navigate` hands to `shell.openExternal`. - **Wrapped bullets join into one item**; a thematic rule that no longer separates anything is dropped. - **The scroll region is a tab stop** (`role="group"`): notes that outgrow the panel could not be scrolled without a pointer. - **The fade over the last rows is conditional** — it appears only when content is actually below, and clears at the end of the list. An unconditional fade claims there is more to read when there is not. - **Overflow**: `min-width: 0` + `overflow-wrap: anywhere` + `overflow-x: clip`, so a long commit URL wraps instead of being silently clipped by the `overflow: hidden` shell. Verified in a real browser (built bundle, faked desktop bridge): no horizontal overflow, fade on with content below and off at the end, both light and dark. The chat renderer is untouched and still used by chat, plan, goal, approval, question and file-preview surfaces. ## Checklist - [x] I have read the CONTRIBUTING document. - [ ] I have linked a related issue — follow-up to #226, no separate issue. - [x] I have added tests that prove my feature works. - [x] Ran `gen-changesets` skill, or this PR needs no changeset. - [x] Ran `gen-docs` skill, or this PR needs no doc update. ### Tests `apps/pythinker-web/test/release-notes.test.ts` covers the generated body, heading grouping, wrapped bullets, provenance extraction and short-ref labelling, a rejected non-web scheme, the escaped-markup payload from #226, and the empty state. `update-dialog.test.ts` **no longer stubs the renderer** — that is the change that makes this surface real. `app-shell-contracts.test.ts` now asserts the chat renderer is not imported by the sidebar. 1012 web tests, typecheck and lint all green; `dist-web` rebuilt and restaged in the same commit.
This PR was opened by the [Changesets release](https://github.com/changesets/action) GitHub action. When you're ready to do a release, you can merge this and the packages will be published to npm automatically. If you're not ready to do a release yet, that's fine, whenever you add more changesets to main, this PR will be updated. # Releases ## @pymodel/pythinker-desktop@0.3.9 ### Patch Changes - [#228](#228) [`62e2e75`](62e2e75) Thanks [@elkaix](https://github.com/elkaix)! - Lay out the update release notes as a readable list with the build reference as a footnote, and show when there is more to scroll. - [#226](#226) [`e9ebda6`](e9ebda6) Thanks [@elkaix](https://github.com/elkaix)! - Show the changelog for the new version in the update dialog instead of a build stamp with raw HTML tags. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit - **New Features** - Update dialogs now display the new version’s changelog instead of a raw build stamp or HTML markup. - Release notes are presented as a readable list with the build reference shown as a footnote. - A scroll indicator appears when additional release-note content is available. - **Release** - Desktop application updated to version 0.3.9. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> Co-authored-by: github-actions[bot] <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
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No linked issue — reported from the app: the v0.3.8 release-notes popover read "Pythinker Desktop 0.3.8 (stable channel), built from PyModel/pythinker-code@
<tt>0f49851</tt>.", with the tags printed literally.Problem
Two separate causes produced that one popover.
desktop-release.ymlcreated the draft with a fixed--notes "Pythinker Desktop <v> (<channel> channel), built from <commit>.". Nothing else ever wrote the body, so the updater had nothing to say about a version.<content type="html">is the body GitHub has already rendered. The renderer treatsreleaseNotesas Markdown, so the tags GitHub emits —<p>,<a>,<tt>— printed as text.Fixing only the body would have left the markup visible, since a real changelog renders to
<ul>/<li>/<a>too.What changed
apps/desktop/scripts/desktop-release.mjs— new exporteddesktopReleaseNotes()and anotessubcommand. It takes the## <version>section ofapps/desktop/CHANGELOG.md, strips the changesets prefix ([#225](…) [sha](…) Thanks [@user](…)! -), and returns the bullets plus aBuilt from <commit>footer..github/workflows/desktop-release.yml— the prepare job writes those notes to a file and passes--notes-file. A stable release whose version has no changelog entry now fails here instead of publishing; preview channels fall back to a one-line description, since a nightly version never appears in the changelog. The source-commit URL stays in the body because the draft-resume check on line 120 gates on.body | contains($source_url).apps/desktop/src/updater.ts—releaseNotesTextreduces HTML notes to text (list items to-, block ends to newlines, entities decoded), and leaves notes without markup untouched.AGENTS.md— records that changeset text is shipped text: it becomes the release body users read, and a body must never be a build stamp.Checklist
/approve).gen-changesetsskill, or this PR needs no changeset.gen-docsskill, or this PR needs no doc update.Tests
scripts/release/desktop-release.test.mjscovers extraction, the next-heading boundary, the stable-release gate, the preview fallback, and the required source URL.updater.spec.tsasserts the exact HTML from the live v0.3.8 feed comes out as text, and that plain notes are unchanged.desktop-release-workflow.spec.tspins--notes-fileand forbids the old literal. Reverting both product changes fails exactly 2 tests; 175 + 25 pass as shipped.What users will see
Instead of the build stamp, the v0.3.9 popover will read:
- Show the changelog for the new version in the update dialog instead of a build stamp with raw HTML tags.Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
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