pixcode Files

In-app update UX

• Server: /api/system/update now emits selfRestarting: true on the runtime-dir path so the client knows the server is about to exit on its own and skips the now-pointless POST /api/system/restart (which was failing with connection-refused and surfacing a spurious "Restart request failed" error even when the update succeeded).
• Server: socket.setNoDelay(true) on the SSE response guarantees the done event flushes before the process exits on Windows loopback — previously the 250 ms exit delay could race TCP coalescing. Exit delay also nudged up to 500 ms.
• Client: VersionUpgradeModal has a dedicated waitForServerBackOnline helper for self-restart releases — polls /health and reloads when the server is back instead of calling /restart. Clean stream close without a done frame now throws a retryable error rather than dropping the user into a hopeful polling loop.
• Client: alreadyLatest short-circuit for nothing-to-update case.

Route compatibility

• Three Express routes that used bare * wildcards rewritten as RegExp so they survive path-to-regexp v8 (pulled in as a transitive dep). /:name/assets/* specifically uses (.*) so trailing-slash requests still reach the handler's 400 guard — same behaviour as before the refactor.

Sidebar

• The Recent / By project history toggle now stays visible in Conversations search mode too. Flipping the tab no longer made the sidebar feel like it lost state.

CI: smart reuse for pixcode-only releases

Biggest change under the hood. The desktop CI workflow now:

1. Checks git diff between the previous v* tag and the current one over desktop/electron/, desktop/electron-builder.yml, and desktop/build-resources/.
2. Wrapper unchanged (this release): fetches the previous release's installer binaries via gh release download, renames them with the new version, reuploads. ~30 seconds instead of ~10 minutes. latest.yml is explicitly NOT reuploaded, so electron-updater stays silent instead of prompting installed wrappers to redownload identical bytes.
3. Wrapper changed: full Win/macOS/Linux matrix build, latest.yml included → electron-updater sees a real wrapper update.

What this means for users:

• Already on 1.31.x: your installed Pixcode auto-updates to 1.31.8 via the in-app Update button. ~4 MB download, 10-30 seconds, no installer redownload.
• Downloading fresh: installers on this release page are renamed copies of 1.31.7 (wrapper was already working), so you get a working binary with the right version in the filename.

Install

• Windows — Pixcode-Setup-1.31.8.exe
• macOS — Pixcode-1.31.8-arm64.dmg · Pixcode-1.31.8-x64.dmg

• Linux — Pixcode-1.31.8-x86_64.AppImage · Pixcode-1.31.8-amd64.deb

  :::bash npm install -g @pixelbyte-software/pixcode@1.31.8 pixcode

Upgrading from 1.31.7

Your installed wrapper is already on the correct binary — just click Update inside Pixcode when the banner appears. No installer redownload needed for this version or any future patch release until the Electron wrapper itself changes.