Build and release

Build platform installers and understand the automated release pipeline.

Tauri packages the React frontend, Rust backend, and bundled resources into native installers. GitHub Actions runs the release pipeline.

Local build

Prepare the toolchain in Development setup, then run:

pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
pnpm build:plugins
pnpm typecheck
pnpm lint
node node_modules/vitest/vitest.mjs run --project unit
pnpm tauri build

pnpm tauri build uses pnpm build to build plugins and the frontend before compiling and bundling Rust. Complete the E2E and Rust checks in Testing and quality checks; platform bundles require a compatible OS and its signing tools.

Current release artifacts

The current desktop source is 0.20.0-beta.1. The v0.20.0-beta.1 prerelease provides these installers:

Platform	Release assets
Windows x64	.exe, plus English and Simplified Chinese .msi installers
macOS Apple Silicon	aarch64.dmg
macOS Intel	x64.dmg
Linux x64	.AppImage, .deb

The separate stable release is v0.19.1. Do not label the prerelease stable or infer unreleased architectures from source code or CI targets.

Release flow

The release workflow runs for a v* tag, a merged release/* PR from the same repository, or a manual trigger. Manual runs produce test prereleases.

1. Align package, Cargo, and Tauri versions, release notes, and both documentation languages.
2. Complete frontend type checking, linting, the three test layers, and cross-platform Rust checks.
3. Build Windows, both macOS architectures, and Linux x64 artifacts in parallel; verify signing, notarization, and installation behavior.
4. A single publishing job gathers successful outputs. Prereleases are marked accordingly; only stable releases update latest.

Never expose signing certificates, notarization credentials, or update keys in logs, documentation, pull requests, or local fixtures. Use repository secrets and the established release workflow.

The current public release provides Linux x64 artifacts only; do not label Linux ARM as supported until matching artifacts are built and verified.