Velork Alpha 0.1.8
This release is an auto-updater reliability overhaul. If updates have felt unreliable — installs not showing up, Linux packages offering the wrong build, or updates silently downloading without ever telling you — this fixes the pipeline end to end.
What's in this release
The "silent update" bug
- Fixed the root cause of updates downloading successfully in the background but never showing a toast to install them: a leftover internal flag was disabling the update-ready notification. You'll now reliably see "Update ready" once a new build finishes downloading.
Linux packaging
- Fixed a platform-key mismatch that could serve the wrong package format to
.debvs.rpminstalls, so Linux users now get the update built for their exact package type.
Update server and manifest
- Removed a stale-cache bug where the production update feed could keep serving an old version for a while after a release finished
- Removed an unnecessary server restart during release registration that briefly took the update API offline — the manifest is now always read fresh from disk
- Every release now runs an automated check against the live update feed for every platform before the release is considered done, so a broken feed can't ship silently
Same-version rebuilds
- If we ship a fix under the same version number (a same-version hotfix with a new build), the updater now correctly offers it instead of treating it as "already up to date"
Install
Download from velork.com/download, or update in-app once you see the "Update ready" notification.
July 2026. The Velork team.