Help → About gains a "Check for updates" button that fetches the latest GitHub
release, semver-compares it to clideVersion, and shows the result inline:
up-to-date, available (with a tappable link to the release notes), or a clear
error. clide's first and only outbound HTTP call — a plain GET with no user
data, run ONLY on this explicit tap, never on a launch path or a timer. So it's
D-64-clean with no amendment; a background/periodic poll stays deferred (would
need the narrow opt-in amendment first).
The fetch is injectable so no test touches the network. compareSemver handles
2.3.10 > 2.3.9 and ranks pre-releases below their release. Closes T-492 (P1);
the release-channel CI for downloadable signed packages is T-491, and download/
apply (P2/P3) depend on it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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