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DodoSSH/scripts/release-windows.ps1
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jaap-jan af0e29a98b Give the desktop a nightly channel, the way the phone has one
ADR 0014 gave the phone a nightly and ADR 0013 rule 3 gave the desktop none, so
the two heads had different answers to the same question — how does somebody try
what is on main? — for no reason except the order the work happened in. This is
the desktop's answer: CI publishes a build from main on every push, and it
installs beside the release one rather than over it.

The phone gets its separation from the platform. Android refuses an update signed
by a different key, so its two channels cannot replace one another whatever
anybody does. Nothing refuses anything here: Velopack applies what its feed serves
and verifies no signature. So all of it is construction, and there are four
separations because each closes a different door.

A pack id each, so the two install in different directories and neither feed's
package can be applied to the other's install. A Velopack channel each —
win and win-nightly — so neither build ever reads the other's release index; the
name reaches the wire as releases.win-nightly.json, which is why the constant in
VelopackUpdateChannel and the argument in ci.yml have to agree or the channel
answers nothing forever with no error. A prerelease flag, so the release channel
cannot see the nightly even by accident. And a profile directory each, which is
the one that is easy to skip and would hurt most: the cache schema is migrated on
every launch, before unlock, so a shared profile means a nightly quietly upgrading
a database the release build then opens. Both are installed at once by design, so
that is an ordinary Tuesday rather than a corner case.

The prerelease flag turns out to be load-bearing across heads as well. The phone's
release channel reads releases/latest, which skips prereleases — so a desktop
nightly published as a stable release would become the newest release in this
repository and every phone on the release channel would start failing its check
against a release carrying no Android manifest.

Which build this is arrives as assembly metadata, the same mechanism and the same
reasoning as the Android head: the updater needs the string rather than a branch,
and a value baked into the assembly is one a crash report can be asked for. Three
things read it — the feed, the prerelease flag, and the profile — and one more
shows it: the titlebar says DodoSSH Nightly. Everything else that distinguishes
the two is somewhere nobody is looking while typing a passphrase into one of them.

The version needed a floor and it is applied to the whole build rather than to the
packaging. MinVer answers 0.0.0-alpha.0.N until the first v* tag and vpk refuses
anything below 0.0.1, so the job lifts the patch digit and keeps the height —
through MinVerVersionOverride, so the assemblies carry the same number the
installer does. Packing a version the assembly disagreed with would put one string
on the preferences screen and another in the feed, which is the screen somebody
reads when asked which nightly they are on.

Two things found by running it rather than reading it. -t:MinVer needs a restore
first, because the target arrives with the package and MSB4057 on a clean checkout
reads like a typo in the workflow rather than a missing restore; the release
script had the same gap and now restores before it reads. And vpk rejects an empty
--packVersion loudly, which is how a broken version handoff announces itself
rather than shipping a package called 1.0.0.

Rule 3 is untouched. The release channel still has no job, no token and no runner,
and the two channels cannot see each other. What a nightly costs is written where
somebody reads it before installing one: whoever can write a release here can put
a build on every nightly machine, which is fine for a build being tried and is not
fine for a build holding somebody's infrastructure credentials.

Verified by running the job's own steps against a clone in a Linux container:
DodoSSH.Desktop.Nightly-win-nightly-Setup.exe, and an index naming pack id
DodoSSH.Desktop.Nightly at 0.0.1-alpha.0.144. The upload itself is the one step
not exercised — it needs a real forge and a write token, and check 16.10 is what
walks the half no runner can.
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<#
.SYNOPSIS
Builds, packages and publishes the Windows desktop client.
.DESCRIPTION
Run by a person, on a Windows machine that is not a CI runner. That is not an accident of tooling —
docs/adr/0011-android-distribution.md rule 1 puts the capability to ship somebody a build on a machine
which is not a runner, and docs/adr/0013-desktop-distribution-and-updates.md explains why the token that
writes a Gitea release is that capability: Velopack clients trust their feed and do not verify a package
signature when they apply it, so whoever can write a release can ship an update every install runs.
Two phases, and the split is the design rather than a convenience.
1. Without -Upload: builds, packs, and stops. Nothing has left this machine.
Install the Setup.exe it names, and walk Phase 16 of docs/manual-checks.md.
2. With -Upload: asks for the forge token and publishes what phase 1 produced. It does not rebuild,
so the bytes that reach users are the bytes that were installed and checked.
The token is prompted for rather than read from a file or an environment variable, and only in the phase
that needs it — the build does not, and the fewer minutes a credential that can publish an update spends
in a shell's memory the better.
.PARAMETER Upload
Publish the packages already in Releases/ instead of building.
.PARAMETER SkipTests
Skip the test run. For a re-pack of a tag CI has already gone green on.
.EXAMPLE
pwsh -File scripts/release-windows.ps1
pwsh -File scripts/release-windows.ps1 -Upload
#>
#Requires -Version 7.0
# PowerShell 7, and stated so the failure is a clear message rather than a confusing one: this script reads
# $IsWindows, which does not exist in Windows PowerShell 5.1 and under Set-StrictMode would throw about an
# unset variable — sending the reader after a typo rather than after the shell they are using.
[CmdletBinding()]
param(
[switch] $Upload,
[switch] $SkipTests
)
Set-StrictMode -Version Latest
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
# Velopack's identity for this application, and it is effectively irreversible.
#
# It is what an installed client matches an update against and the directory it installs into, so changing
# it later orphans every existing install — still running, never updated, invisible to the new one.
#
# DodoSSH.Desktop and not DodoSSH, for a specific reason worth keeping next to the value: Velopack installs
# to %LOCALAPPDATA%\<packId> and removes that whole directory on uninstall, and %LOCALAPPDATA%\DodoSSH is
# where ClientPaths keeps the encrypted cache, the outbox of changes not yet pushed, and the device key.
# Sharing the directory would mean the uninstaller silently taking a user's un-synced work with it.
$PackId = 'DodoSSH.Desktop'
# What a person sees, in the Start menu and in Add/Remove Programs. The distinct pack id costs nothing here.
$PackTitle = 'DodoSSH'
$PackAuthors = 'DodoTech'
# The project's own forge. Never a DodoSSH deployment — ADR 0011 rule 2. The same URL is a constant in
# VelopackUpdateChannel, and the two have to agree or the client polls somewhere nothing is published.
#
# The owner is part of it. When the repository moved organisations Gitea left a 301 at the old path, which
# a GET follows and an upload does not — so a stale URL here fails at the one step that matters rather than
# redirecting quietly.
$RepoUrl = 'https://git.dodotech.cloud/DodoTech-Public/DodoSSH'
# A contract with VelopackUpdateChannel.ReleaseChannel. It is Velopack's Windows default, so leaving it
# unsaid on both sides would work too — but unsaid here and stated there is how a feed goes quiet with no
# error at all: the client checks, finds nothing, and reports itself up to date forever.
#
# The nightly channel is the same three values with different contents — DodoSSH.Desktop.Nightly, DodoSSH
# Nightly, win-nightly — and they live in the `desktop nightly` job in .github/workflows/ci.yml rather than
# here, because that build is CI's and this script is a person's. Nothing shares them, deliberately: this
# file must keep working if that job is deleted. See ADR 0013 decision 9 for what the separation buys.
$Channel = 'win'
$RepoRoot = Split-Path -Parent $PSScriptRoot
$Project = Join-Path $RepoRoot 'src/DodoSSH.Client.App/DodoSSH.Client.App.csproj'
$PublishDir = Join-Path $RepoRoot 'publish/win-x64'
$ReleasesDir = Join-Path $RepoRoot 'Releases'
function Write-Step([string] $Message) {
Write-Host ''
Write-Host "==> $Message" -ForegroundColor Cyan
}
function Stop-With([string] $Message) {
Write-Host ''
Write-Host $Message -ForegroundColor Red
exit 1
}
if (-not $IsWindows) {
# vpk stamps and embeds the Setup.exe and Update.exe stubs with Windows tooling. This is the smaller of
# the two reasons a runner cannot do this job; see the comment at the foot of .github/workflows/ci.yml
# for the larger one.
Stop-With 'This builds a Windows package and has to run on Windows.'
}
Push-Location $RepoRoot
try {
# ---- What is being released -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Restored before the version is read, and both halves of that sentence are load-bearing.
#
# -t:MinVer, because -getProperty on its own evaluates the project and runs no targets, while MinVer
# sets Version from inside one — so this read answered the SDK's default 1.0.0 regardless of the tag,
# and the check below would then have refused to build anything not tagged v1.0.0. CI's tag check had
# the same line and the same fault.
#
# And a restore first, because naming a target that arrives with a package fails MSB4057 on a clean
# clone, where obj/ has no MinVer targets to import yet. It costs seconds on a machine that has built
# before, which is every machine except the one this would otherwise fail on.
Write-Step 'Restoring the desktop head, so the version can be read'
& dotnet restore $Project --locked-mode
if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { Stop-With 'Restore failed.' }
$version = (& dotnet msbuild $Project -getProperty:Version -t:MinVer -nologo) -replace '\s', ''
if ([string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($version)) {
Stop-With 'Could not read the version from MSBuild.'
}
$tag = "v$version"
Write-Step "DodoSSH $version ($PackId, channel $Channel)"
if ($Upload) {
# ---- Phase 2: publish what phase 1 built ------------------------------------------------------
$setup = Get-ChildItem $ReleasesDir -Filter '*Setup*.exe' -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue |
Select-Object -First 1
if (-not $setup) {
Stop-With "Nothing to upload: $ReleasesDir has no Setup executable. Run this without -Upload first."
}
Write-Host "About to publish the contents of $ReleasesDir to $RepoUrl as $tag."
Write-Host 'Only do this once you have installed it and walked Phase 16 of docs/manual-checks.md.'
# Read-Host -AsSecureString so the token is never echoed and never lands in the shell's history.
$secure = Read-Host -Prompt 'Gitea token (write:repository)' -AsSecureString
$token = [System.Net.NetworkCredential]::new('', $secure).Password
if ([string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($token)) {
Stop-With 'No token given.'
}
# --merge because Gitea already has a release entry for the pushed tag, and without it the upload
# fails on a release that exists. --pre mirrors the rule the docker image job already applies to the
# same tag, so a release candidate is a prerelease in both channels or in neither.
$uploadArgs = @(
'upload', 'gitea',
'--repoUrl', $RepoUrl,
'--token', $token,
'--outputDir', $ReleasesDir,
'--channel', $Channel,
'--releaseName', $tag,
'--tag', $tag,
'--merge',
'--publish'
)
if ($version -match '-') {
$uploadArgs += '--pre'
}
Write-Step 'Uploading'
& dotnet vpk @uploadArgs
if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { Stop-With 'vpk upload failed.' }
Write-Step "Published $tag."
return
}
# ---- Phase 1: build and pack ----------------------------------------------------------------------
if ((git status --porcelain) -ne $null) {
Stop-With 'The working tree is not clean. A release is cut from a commit, not from a desk.'
}
$headTag = git describe --exact-match --tags HEAD 2>$null
if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0 -or [string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($headTag)) {
Stop-With "HEAD is not tagged. Tag it $tag first, or change the version and tag that."
}
if ($headTag -ne $tag) {
# Cannot happen while MinVer is deriving the version from this very tag, and checked anyway: the
# day somebody pins a version by hand this is the guard that notices.
Stop-With "HEAD is tagged $headTag but the computed version is $version."
}
Write-Step 'Restoring tools'
& dotnet tool restore
if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { Stop-With 'dotnet tool restore failed.' }
Write-Step 'Restoring packages (locked, exactly as CI does)'
& dotnet restore (Join-Path $RepoRoot 'DodoSSH.slnx') --locked-mode
if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { Stop-With 'Restore failed. A lock file that only works on Linux fails here.' }
Write-Step 'Building'
& dotnet build (Join-Path $RepoRoot 'DodoSSH.slnx') --no-restore --configuration Release
if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { Stop-With 'Build failed.' }
if (-not $SkipTests) {
# The end-to-end suite starts containers and takes minutes. It is run here anyway rather than taken
# on trust from CI, because a tag is the one build nobody is watching — the same argument ci.yml
# already makes for running the whole workflow on a tag.
Write-Step 'Testing'
& dotnet test (Join-Path $RepoRoot 'DodoSSH.slnx') --no-build --configuration Release
if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { Stop-With 'Tests failed.' }
}
Write-Step 'Publishing win-x64'
if (Test-Path $PublishDir) { Remove-Item $PublishDir -Recurse -Force }
# Self-contained: .NET 10 is recent enough that almost no machine has the runtime, and the usual
# objection — that runtime patches then need an application update — is answered by the updater this
# very script exists to feed. Not single-file: the native libraries ship per RID, deltas would stop
# working, and a self-extracting bundle puts the executable under a temp path deep enough to break
# WebView2 (docs/platform-flags.md).
# RestoreLockedMode=false, and the lock files put back straight afterwards. Both halves need saying.
#
# A RID-specific publish resolves a graph the committed lock files do not describe, because they are
# deliberately kept RID-free: declaring win-x64 on the project writes a net10.0/win-x64 target into
# every project it references transitively, including DodoSSH.Contracts and DodoSSH.Crypto — and the
# API's Dockerfile then restores those with no RID under locked mode and fails NU1004. Packaging the
# desktop client would have broken the server's image build. See the comment in the head's csproj.
#
# So this one command restores unlocked. It is a supervised build, from a tag, run by a person; the
# gate that matters is the locked solution restore two steps above, which is untouched and is the same
# command CI runs.
& dotnet publish $Project `
--configuration Release `
--runtime win-x64 `
--self-contained true `
--output $PublishDir `
-p:RestoreLockedMode=false
if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { Stop-With 'Publish failed.' }
# An unlocked restore rewrites the lock files it walked, adding the win-x64 target. Left there, the
# next commit would carry exactly the change that breaks the image build — so they go back. Safe to do
# bluntly because this script refuses to run on a dirty tree, so anything modified here is its own.
& git checkout -- '*packages.lock.json'
if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { Stop-With 'Could not restore the lock files after publishing.' }
# Checked rather than assumed. A publish directory without Velopack.dll would pack into an installer for
# an application that never checks for updates — which looks completely normal until the next release
# goes out and nobody receives it.
foreach ($required in @('DodoSSH.exe', 'Velopack.dll')) {
if (-not (Test-Path (Join-Path $PublishDir $required))) {
Stop-With "$required is missing from $PublishDir."
}
}
$sizeMb = [math]::Round(((Get-ChildItem $PublishDir -Recurse -File | Measure-Object Length -Sum).Sum / 1MB), 1)
Write-Host " $sizeMb MB in $((Get-ChildItem $PublishDir -Recurse -File).Count) files"
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $ReleasesDir | Out-Null
# The previous release, so a delta can be built against it. Tolerated when it finds nothing: the first
# release has no predecessor, and a hard failure here would make cutting it impossible.
Write-Step 'Fetching the previous release, for deltas'
& dotnet vpk download gitea --repoUrl $RepoUrl --outputDir $ReleasesDir --channel $Channel
if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) {
Write-Host ' Nothing came down. This package will be full-only, which is right for a first release.' -ForegroundColor Yellow
}
Write-Step 'Packing'
# No --signParams. Every installer therefore raises SmartScreen's "Windows protected your PC" on first
# run, once per user — Mark-of-the-Web is applied by the browser that downloads Setup.exe, so in-app
# updates, which this application fetches itself and applies from a local file, never trip it.
#
# This is the one line that changes when a certificate is bought. See ADR 0013 for what it costs and
# what the trigger for buying one is.
& dotnet vpk pack `
--packId $PackId `
--packVersion $version `
--packDir $PublishDir `
--packTitle $PackTitle `
--packAuthors $PackAuthors `
--mainExe 'DodoSSH.exe' `
--icon (Join-Path $RepoRoot 'src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Assets/dodossh.ico') `
--channel $Channel `
--outputDir $ReleasesDir
if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { Stop-With 'vpk pack failed.' }
Write-Step 'Built, and deliberately not uploaded'
Get-ChildItem $ReleasesDir -File |
Sort-Object Length -Descending |
Select-Object Name, @{ n = 'MB'; e = { [math]::Round($_.Length / 1MB, 1) } } |
Format-Table -AutoSize
Write-Host 'Next:'
Write-Host " 1. Install the Setup executable above and walk Phase 16 of docs/manual-checks.md."
Write-Host ' 2. Then: pwsh -File scripts/release-windows.ps1 -Upload'
}
finally {
Pop-Location
}