* fix(ci): stop hourly versions dropping below a tagged or already-shipped build
Hourly/daily/adhoc based their X.Y.Z on GitHub releases, not git tags. When
v1.4.202 was tagged and then its GitHub release vanished, the next hourlies
shipped as 1.4.202-hourly — below both stable 1.4.202 and the 1.4.203-hourly
builds already installed, so electron-updater stopped offering updates.
Read main's v* tags and already-published channel tags instead.
* docs(ci): record that 1.4.202's release was unpublished for a bug
The leftover tag is what hourly must still honor; this was not a failed cut.
main's version only moves on `release:` commits, and stable patches are cut
from release branches that never merge back. On 2026-08-03 main read
1.4.165-rc.0 for twenty hours while 1.4.165, 1.4.166 and 1.4.167 all shipped,
so every hourly built in that window was stamped 1.4.165-hourly.* while
carrying code newer than 1.4.167 — and sorted below the stable its user was
already running.
Resolve the base from the main repo's published tags instead, taking the patch
above the highest shipped stable. package.json stays a floor for the case where
main leads the tags.
Co-authored-by: Orca <help@stably.ai>
Neil
