Release 005
Release 005 · VEX 0.2.2
Fresh releases, minutes after they ship.#
A small, fast follow up to 0.2.1 with one job: when a new VEX version is out, you should know about it in minutes, not the next day.
This page summarizes the work merged since 0.2.1.
The ambient update check · Rebuilt
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Minutes between checks, on start, on window focus, and on every tick while VEX runs. The old check fired four times a day.
01 · Updates
Minutes, not the next day.#
VEX now checks for a new version on start, on window focus, and every five minutes while it runs. The check downloads a few small release metadata files and does nothing else: auto download and auto install stay off, and the availability banner remains the only effect. Installing is always your click.
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A five minute cadence. The previous ambient check throttled itself to once every six hours, so a fresh release could sit unnoticed for most of a day. Now every five minute tick may check, guarded by a persisted four minute success throttle so bursts still collapse into one request.
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Never over an active download. A check refuses to run while an update is downloading, downloaded, or installing, and the guard is verified twice, before and after the asynchronous preferences read, so a download you start in that gap is never interrupted. Late results from a silent check cannot rewind an active state either.
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No nagging. Silent checks are invisible unless they find something. A dismissed error banner stays dismissed while the feed is broken, and retries back off exponentially, ten minutes doubling up to a two hour cap, resetting the moment a check succeeds. The per version Later snooze is unchanged: snoozing one version never hides a newer one.
This release rebuilds that ambient check around the five minute goal and hardens it against the races and the nagging a faster cadence could otherwise have introduced.
02 · Engineering
Under the hood.#
The root test suite now passes on a machine with no configured wallet and no local fixtures, closing the environment coupling failures CI surfaced after 0.2.1.
03 · Before you update
Upgrade notes.#
No new database migrations ship in this release. No manual action is required. After updating, VEX itself will tell you about the next release within minutes of it going live.