Gitea has no /releases/latest/download/ redirect and release URLs always
include the tag, so updaters that poll a constant URL (Shelly) cannot use
them. After publishing a vX.Y.Z release, replace the asset on a rolling
pre-release tagged "latest":
.../releases/download/latest/WhatsThatMusic-latest-linux-x86_64.AppImage
Replacing the asset changes its ETag and Last-Modified, which Shelly
compares. The pre-release flag keeps Gitea's own "latest release" on the
newest vX.Y.Z. The logic lives in .gitea/scripts/update-latest.sh so it can
be run against the API outside CI. The publish job now checks out first,
since checkout cleans the workspace and would delete downloaded artifacts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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