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feat(desktop): open What's new in beta from the command palette and Settings - #57940
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Issue for this PR
N/A. Follows #57886. Kit asked for a way back to the beta changelog after its dialog closes: a ⌘K command or setting, and a full page.
Type of change
What does this PR do?
"What's new in beta" can now be opened from anywhere on beta builds and the desktop dev server:
Only builds that embed the notes register the page and command. Beta builds embed them as before.
electron-vitedev serve now embeds them too, fromgit logonly and without asking GitHub, so the page can be tried locally without slowing dev startup. Production builds are unchanged.The embedded data has no build numbers or dates, so the page groups by New and Fixes like the dialog rather than by build.
Also fixes a small issue in #57886: a visual read its theme colour only once, so switching between light and dark while it was on screen left it in the old colour. It now reads the colour again whenever the root element's theme attributes change.
How did you verify your code works?
bun test src/updater/beta-notes.test.tsinpackages/gui-extensions(15 pass), including a new test for the full list and the history link.bun typecheckinpackages/gui-extensionsandpackages/desktop, andbun run lint:changed beta-notes-rich(0 problems).Screenshots / recordings
Real time: the dialog with its visuals looping, View all, the page scrolling in dark and light, then ⌘K in the app:
whats-new-in-beta.mp4
The page (dark) and the dialog (dark):
The dialog's footer, before ("View all on GitHub") and after ("View all", which opens the page):
Settings → What's new in beta (dark, light):
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