Notify admins of new GitHub releases - #5
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Checks the GitHub releases API daily via the existing pg-boss scheduler (plus a manual "check now" button) and shows a badge in Admin → Updates when a newer version is published. Installing remains a manual `docker compose pull` since the app runs as an immutable container image and cannot replace itself.
- ci.yml: only run the PR Docker-build validation job when Docker-relevant files (Dockerfile, compose files, package(-lock).json, drizzle config/migrations) actually changed, instead of on every PR. - release.yml: version-bump.yml pushes a "chore(release): vX.Y.Z" commit to main and then the matching tag for the same commit, which triggered two separate image builds of identical content. Skip the main-push build for that commit; the tag push builds and publishes it instead.
An unmerged PR never ships an image, so there's nothing to validate a build for ahead of time. release.yml already builds and validates the real image on every push to main and on release tags — that's the only place a Docker build now happens.
Replace the opt-out "skip-release" label with an opt-in "release-candidate" one — a PR only bumps the version, tags, and ships a Docker image when explicitly marked as such. Adding the label (and each subsequent push while it's present) now also runs a pre-merge Docker build validation (release-candidate.yml). This surfaces a broken Dockerfile before merge, closing the previous gap where a build failure would only appear after version-bump.yml had already bumped the version and created the tag/release.
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Replace the dedicated Admin → Updates page with a small dot next to the version number in the sidebar (admins only), linking straight to the GitHub release. Simpler than a whole page for what's just a notification.
A dot didn't say what changed. Replace it with "v1.0.0 → v1.0.3" in place of the plain version text, linking to the release.
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v1.0.0 → v1.0.3, highlighted and linking straight to the release notes.check-updatesqueue,0 6 * * *).app_configsettings store (system.updateCheck).release-candidatePR label (validated pre-merge), and drop the redundant Docker build from regular PR checks — see commit history for details.Why not one-click install?
The app runs as an immutable Docker image pulled from GHCR (
node server.jsinside the container perDockerfile/docker-entrypoint.sh) — it cannot replace its own image from the inside. Unlike a single self-updating binary, giving the app that ability would require mounting the Docker socket into the container (host root access). This PR intentionally only surfaces that an update exists; installing it stays the existingdocker compose pull && docker compose up -ddocumented indocs/self-hosting.md.Test plan
npx tsc --noEmitnpx eslint .npx prettier --writeon changed filesisNewerVersion) with several version pairsv{current} → v{latest}linking to the release when a newer version existsGenerated by Claude Code