docs: design safe UI-initiated self-updates - #10
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Roost has a CLI updater but no safe UI-initiated update flow. This design recommends a separately supervised updater for enrolled Linux x64 systemd packages, reusing release staging while adding durable recovery, explicit authorization, and complete work draining.
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f966874(0.1.39), identifies current limitations, and specifies installation support, request security, UI/reconnect states, backup and migration compatibility, activation/health/rollback, alternatives, delivery phases, and a future fault-injection test matrix. It distinguishes release-manifest format from database schema and accounts for coding jobs that current maintenance stops monitoring.Verification:
git diff --checkpassed.Limits: documentation only; no app tests or live installer/update/restart experiments were run. Runtime guarantees require the proposed isolated VM and failure-injection tests. No UI or host configuration changed; before/after screenshots are not applicable. No updater is implemented by this PR.