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Ludovic Marie 3612f51812 Game releases send people to the launcher: notes open with it, archives labelled
GitHub's "Latest release" is the newest game release, so new players download the game's archive, which
does not start on its own (#1647). Making a launcher release the latest instead would break every
installed horizon-server, install.sh and install.ps1: they ask for releases/latest and expect the game's
archives, and a server that can't update can't fetch a fix either. So the game stays the latest and says
where to go:

- The notes open with "Want to play? Download the Horizon launcher, not the files below", linking
  playhorizon.dev and the launcher releases. It is raw HTML on one line, which GitHub renders and the
  launcher's notes view and one-line summary skip (pulldown-cmark HTML events), so launchers already
  installed don't tell players to download themselves. The game footer that said the same at the bottom
  goes. The site's Releases page leaves the block out.
- release.yml gives each archive a label ("Game files the launcher installs: Linux (...)", "Dedicated
  server for Linux (...)"), which GitHub shows instead of the file name. Everything that downloads
  matches the asset's name, which is unchanged.

Fixes #1647

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-25 01:00:21 +02:00

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name: release
# Automatic game releases (docs/release-flow.md). After every green `checks` run on main, every 10 minutes (so a
# release waiting for merges to settle goes out without another merge) and by hand, tools/release_train.py decides:
# a release when 5 pull requests merged since the last one changed what players run and the newest merged 5 minutes
# ago, or when the oldest has waited 6 hours, or at once for a pull request labelled release-now.
# RELEASES_PAUSED=1 (repository variable) stops them; so does an open issue labelled release-blocker, forced runs too.
# Builds Linux (an older Ubuntu, so the binary runs on any recent distribution and on NixOS through nix-ld) and
# Windows on GitHub, macOS on the Mac mini's runner (MAC_RUNNER=macos-latest sends it to GitHub), then
# publishes vX.Y.Z on the release line in .github/release-line.txt (docs/versioning.md; without it, the dated
# vYYYY.MM.DD[.N] from before 0.2) with notes from the merged pull requests, as the release and GitHub's latest: one
# channel, which launchers, `horizon-server update` and install.sh follow at once. So it is published only after the
# checks that used to gate a promotion pass in this run: the Mac mini's smoke test drew a world, and no release-blocker
# is open (tools/release_train.py gate); otherwise nothing is published. macOS: with the repository variable
# MACOS_SIGN_IDENTITY set, the programs are signed with
# Developer ID and the hardened runtime and the zip is notarized, from the runner's signing keychain
# (packaging/macos/README.md); unset (forks), ad hoc.
# gh workflow run release --ref <branch> # dry run: builds and notes, publishes nothing
# gh workflow run release -f dry_run=false -f force=true # on main: release now, whatever the rules say
on:
workflow_run:
workflows: [checks]
types: [completed]
branches: [main]
schedule:
- cron: '2-59/10 * * * *'
workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
dry_run:
description: Build everything and write the notes, but publish nothing
type: boolean
default: true
force:
description: Release even without player-facing changes, before merges settle or while paused
type: boolean
default: false
permissions:
contents: read
# The open release-blocker issues (decide).
issues: read
concurrency:
group: game-release
cancel-in-progress: false
jobs:
decide:
if: >-
github.event_name != 'workflow_run' ||
(github.event.workflow_run.conclusion == 'success' && github.event.workflow_run.event == 'push')
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
timeout-minutes: 10
outputs:
release: ${{ steps.decide.outputs.release }}
tag: ${{ steps.decide.outputs.tag }}
version: ${{ steps.decide.outputs.version }}
head: ${{ steps.decide.outputs.head }}
dry_run: ${{ steps.mode.outputs.dry_run }}
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
fetch-depth: 0
- id: mode
# A dry run never publishes; a hand-started run off main is always one.
run: echo "dry_run=${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && (inputs.dry_run || github.ref != 'refs/heads/main') }}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
- id: decide
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
RELEASES_PAUSED: ${{ vars.RELEASES_PAUSED }}
# The commit whose checks just passed; a dry run builds the branch it was started on; otherwise
# main's newest commit with green checks.
HEAD_SHA: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.head_sha || (steps.mode.outputs.dry_run == 'true' && github.sha) || '' }}
FORCE: ${{ inputs.force && 'yes' || '' }}
run: |
python3 tools/release_train.py decide --kind game ${HEAD_SHA:+--head "$HEAD_SHA"} ${FORCE:+--force} | tee decision.json
echo "### $(jq -r '.reason' decision.json)" >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
# The version the programs are built with (docs/versioning.md): the tag without its v.
tag=$(jq -r '.tag' decision.json)
echo "version=${tag#v}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
# A dry run builds whatever the decision, to test the builds.
if [[ "${{ steps.mode.outputs.dry_run }}" == true ]]; then echo "release=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"; fi
build:
needs: decide
if: needs.decide.outputs.release == 'true'
name: build ${{ matrix.name }}
strategy:
fail-fast: false
matrix:
include:
- name: linux
os: ubuntu-22.04
dir: horizon-linux-x86_64
asset: horizon-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
# The server build too: packaging/server/install.sh installs it on Linux.
server_dir: horizon-server-linux-x86_64
server_asset: horizon-server-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
- name: windows
os: windows-latest
dir: horizon-windows-x64
asset: horizon-windows-x64.zip
exe: .exe
# The C runtime linked in, so the game runs without the Visual C++ redistributable.
rustflags: -C target-feature=+crt-static
- name: macos
mac: true
dir: horizon-macos-arm64
asset: horizon-macos-arm64.zip
runs-on: ${{ matrix.mac && (vars.MAC_RUNNER || 'ludovics-mac-mini') || matrix.os }}
# Notarizing the zip can take a few minutes.
timeout-minutes: ${{ matrix.mac && 60 || 40 }}
env:
RUSTFLAGS: ${{ matrix.rustflags }}
# The release's version, built in (horizon_core::release): --version, user agents, crash reports and
# telemetry say it. No version-bump commits.
HORIZON_VERSION: ${{ needs.decide.outputs.version }}
defaults:
run:
shell: bash
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
ref: ${{ needs.decide.outputs.head }}
persist-credentials: false
# Always from a clean checkout, the Mac mini's runner too: its work folder is shared with pull requests'
# parity jobs, and nothing they leave (target/, an untracked .cargo/config.toml, a build script's output)
# may end up in a release. target/ is rebuilt from scratch; .local/ is relinked by vanilla-data.sh, which
# keeps its preparations outside the checkout.
clean: true
- uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable
- uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
if: runner.environment == 'github-hosted'
with:
shared-key: release-${{ matrix.name }}
- name: ALSA and udev headers
if: runner.os == 'Linux'
run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libasound2-dev libudev-dev
- name: Build the client, horizon-ctl, horizon-prepare and horizon-server
# `horizon-client/mods`: every released game runs code mods (the feature is off in dev builds).
run: cargo build --release --locked --features horizon-client/mods -p horizon-client --bin horizon-client --bin horizon-ctl -p horizon-prepare --bin horizon-prepare -p horizon-server --bin horizon-server
- name: Every program the release folder takes was built
run: |
for binary in horizon-client horizon-ctl horizon-prepare horizon-server; do
test -f "target/release/$binary${{ matrix.exe }}" || { echo "::error::target/release/$binary${{ matrix.exe }} is missing"; exit 1; }
done
- name: The signing keychain, unlocked
if: runner.os == 'macOS' && vars.MACOS_SIGN_IDENTITY != ''
env:
MACOS_SIGN_IDENTITY: ${{ vars.MACOS_SIGN_IDENTITY }}
run: packaging/macos/keychain.sh unlock
- name: Signed with Developer ID and the hardened runtime
# Before the checks below, so they run the programs as players will.
if: runner.os == 'macOS' && vars.MACOS_SIGN_IDENTITY != ''
env:
MACOS_SIGN_IDENTITY: ${{ vars.MACOS_SIGN_IDENTITY }}
run: |
for binary in horizon-client horizon-ctl horizon-prepare horizon-server; do
codesign --force --options runtime --timestamp --keychain "$MACOS_SIGN_KEYCHAIN" \
--identifier "dev.horizon.${binary#horizon-}" --sign "$MACOS_SIGN_IDENTITY" "target/release/$binary"
codesign --verify --strict --verbose=2 "target/release/$binary"
done
- name: Only system libraries
# Windows: no non-system DLL (a "DLL not found" dialog on some players' machines). Linux: the standard
# loader and libraries every desktop distribution has. macOS: only the system's own libraries.
run: |
for binary in horizon-client horizon-ctl horizon-prepare horizon-server; do
file="target/release/$binary${{ matrix.exe }}"
if [[ "$RUNNER_OS" == macOS ]]; then
others=$(otool -L "$file" | tail -n +2 | awk '{print $1}' | grep -v -E '^(/usr/lib/|/System/Library/)' || true)
[[ -z "$others" ]] || { echo "::error::$binary links $others"; exit 1; }
else
${{ runner.os == 'Windows' && 'python' || 'python3' }} tools/check_imports.py "$file"
fi
done
- name: Every program starts
run: |
set -euo pipefail
bin=target/release
"$bin/horizon-client${{ matrix.exe }}" --help | grep -q -- '--resources'
"$bin/horizon-ctl${{ matrix.exe }}" --help > /dev/null
"$bin/horizon-prepare${{ matrix.exe }}" --help | grep -q -- '--minecraft-dir'
# The version is the release's.
for binary in horizon-prepare horizon-server; do
out=$("$bin/$binary${{ matrix.exe }}" --version | tr -d '\r')
echo "$out"
[[ "$out" == "$binary $HORIZON_VERSION" ]] || { echo "::error::expected $binary $HORIZON_VERSION"; exit 1; }
done
- name: Tools from the runner
if: runner.environment == 'self-hosted'
run: bash tools/ci/runner-env.sh
- name: Resources prepared from the runner's own Minecraft
if: runner.environment == 'self-hosted'
run: bash tools/ci/vanilla-data.sh
- name: The game runs (offscreen, a new world, 1500 frames)
if: runner.environment == 'self-hosted'
run: |
set -euo pipefail
# From a scratch folder: the game keeps its saves and options in the folder it starts in.
home="$RUNNER_TEMP/horizon-smoke"
rm -rf "$home" && mkdir -p "$home"
version=$(sed -n 's/.*"version": *"\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p' research-lock.json | head -1)
client="$PWD/target/release/horizon-client"
resources="$PWD/.local/horizon-client/$version"
(cd "$home" && HORIZON_HOME="$home" HORIZON_NO_AUDIO=1 "$client" --resources "$resources" --offscreen \
--world smoke --seed 1 --render-distance 4 --world-frames 1500 --timeout-seconds 180 \
--smoke-report "$home/smoke.json" > "$home/client.log" 2>&1) || { tail -40 "$home/client.log"; exit 1; }
python3 - "$home/smoke.json" <<'EOF'
import json, sys
report = json.load(open(sys.argv[1]))
print(json.dumps(report))
if report.get("error") is not None or report.get("frames", 0) < 1500 or not report.get("chunks") \
or not report.get("meshed_sections") or not report.get("player"):
sys.exit("the smoke run did not draw a world")
EOF
# Published with the release; the publish job checks it again before it publishes anything.
cp "$home/smoke.json" "$RUNNER_TEMP/smoke-test.json"
- uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
if: runner.environment == 'self-hosted'
with:
name: smoke-test.json
path: ${{ runner.temp }}/smoke-test.json
if-no-files-found: error
retention-days: 3
- name: Package
run: |
set -euo pipefail
cargo run --locked -p xtask -- package "target/release/horizon-client${{ matrix.exe }}" "dist/${{ matrix.dir }}"
cd dist
rm -f "${{ matrix.asset }}"
case "${{ matrix.asset }}" in
*.tar.gz) tar czf "${{ matrix.asset }}" "${{ matrix.dir }}" ;;
*) if [[ "$RUNNER_OS" == Windows ]]; then 7z a -tzip "${{ matrix.asset }}" "${{ matrix.dir }}" > /dev/null
else
# Without resource forks and extended attributes: plain ditto adds an
# AppleDouble `._` file beside every file that has any.
ditto -c -k --norsrc --noextattr --noqtn --keepParent "${{ matrix.dir }}" "${{ matrix.asset }}"
if unzip -Z1 "${{ matrix.asset }}" | grep -E '(^|/)(\._|__MACOSX/)'; then
echo "::error::macOS metadata files in ${{ matrix.asset }}"; exit 1
fi
fi ;;
esac
ls -l "${{ matrix.asset }}"
- name: Notarized
# A zip of programs can't be stapled: Gatekeeper asks Apple the first time each one runs.
if: runner.os == 'macOS' && vars.MACOS_SIGN_IDENTITY != ''
run: |
for binary in horizon-client horizon-ctl horizon-prepare horizon-server; do
codesign --verify --strict "dist/${{ matrix.dir }}/$binary"
done
packaging/macos/notarize.sh "dist/${{ matrix.asset }}"
- uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
with:
name: ${{ matrix.asset }}
path: dist/${{ matrix.asset }}
if-no-files-found: error
retention-days: 3
- name: The server build (the game without sound or controllers, as horizon-engine)
if: matrix.server_asset
run: |
set -euo pipefail
# After the client is packaged: target/release/horizon-client is rebuilt without the audio and
# controllers features, so it needs neither libasound nor libudev (minimal server images lack them),
# and with code mods like the client.
cargo build --release --locked -p horizon-client --no-default-features --features mods --bin horizon-client
cargo run --locked -p xtask -- package-server target/release/horizon-client "dist/${{ matrix.server_dir }}"
folder="dist/${{ matrix.server_dir }}"
python3 tools/check_imports.py --server "$folder/horizon-engine" "$folder/horizon-server" "$folder/horizon-prepare"
"$folder/horizon-engine" --help | grep -q -- '--resources'
[[ "$("$folder/horizon-server" --version)" == "horizon-server $HORIZON_VERSION" ]]
cd dist
rm -f "${{ matrix.server_asset }}"
tar czf "${{ matrix.server_asset }}" "${{ matrix.server_dir }}"
ls -l "${{ matrix.server_asset }}"
- uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
if: matrix.server_asset
with:
name: ${{ matrix.server_asset }}
path: dist/${{ matrix.server_asset }}
if-no-files-found: error
retention-days: 3
- name: The signing keychain, locked again
if: always() && runner.os == 'macOS' && vars.MACOS_SIGN_IDENTITY != ''
run: packaging/macos/keychain.sh lock
sign:
needs: [decide, build]
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
timeout-minutes: 10
# The only job that holds the release signing key, a secret of the `release` environment, which only main's real
# releases enter (dry runs sign with a throwaway key). It runs no code from the repository but
# tools/ci/sign_release.sh, which calls only the runner's sha256sum and OpenSSL (docs/release-flow.md).
environment: ${{ needs.decide.outputs.dry_run != 'true' && 'release' || '' }}
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
sparse-checkout: tools/ci/sign_release.sh
sparse-checkout-cone-mode: false
persist-credentials: false
- uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
with:
path: dist
pattern: horizon-*
merge-multiple: true
- name: Sign the checksums (SHA256SUMS, SHA256SUMS.sig)
env:
RELEASE_SIGNING_KEY: ${{ secrets.RELEASE_SIGNING_KEY }}
RELEASE_SIGNING_KEY_NEXT: ${{ secrets.RELEASE_SIGNING_KEY_NEXT }}
EPHEMERAL: ${{ needs.decide.outputs.dry_run == 'true' && 'yes' || '' }}
TAG: ${{ needs.decide.outputs.tag }}
run: |
bash tools/ci/sign_release.sh "$TAG" dist/horizon-linux-x86_64.tar.gz dist/horizon-windows-x64.zip \
dist/horizon-macos-arm64.zip dist/horizon-server-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
- uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
with:
name: signature
path: dist/SHA256SUMS*
if-no-files-found: error
retention-days: 3
- uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
if: needs.decide.outputs.dry_run == 'true'
with:
name: ephemeral.pub
path: dist/ephemeral.pub
retention-days: 3
publish:
needs: [decide, build, sign]
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
timeout-minutes: 15
permissions:
contents: write
issues: read
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
fetch-depth: 0
- name: Notes
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
run: |
python3 tools/release_train.py notes --kind game --tag "${{ needs.decide.outputs.tag }}" \
--head "${{ needs.decide.outputs.head }}" --out notes > /dev/null
{ echo "## $(cat notes/title.txt)"; echo; cat notes/body.md; } >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
- uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
with:
path: dist
merge-multiple: true
- name: The signature, checked as launchers check it
env:
TAG: ${{ needs.decide.outputs.tag }}
EPHEMERAL: ${{ needs.decide.outputs.dry_run == 'true' && 'yes' || '' }}
run: |
key=(); [[ -n "$EPHEMERAL" ]] && key=(--key "$(cat dist/ephemeral.pub)")
cargo run --locked --quiet -p horizon-release-sign -- verify --tag "$TAG" --publishing "${key[@]}" dist
- name: Ready to publish (the smoke test passed, no release-blocker is open)
# Right before publishing: an issue labelled while the builds ran still holds this release. A dry run only
# reports what a real run would do.
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
DRY_RUN: ${{ needs.decide.outputs.dry_run }}
run: |
if ! python3 tools/release_train.py gate --kind game --smoke dist/smoke-test.json --blockers; then
[[ "$DRY_RUN" == true ]] || { echo "::error::Nothing published"; exit 1; }
echo "::warning::A real run would publish nothing"
fi
- name: Publish ${{ needs.decide.outputs.tag }}
if: needs.decide.outputs.dry_run != 'true'
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
TAG: ${{ needs.decide.outputs.tag }}
run: |
signature=(); [[ -f dist/SHA256SUMS.sig ]] && signature=(dist/SHA256SUMS.sig)
# The release and the latest at once: there is one channel (docs/release-flow.md). Each archive gets a
# label (file#label), which GitHub's page shows instead of the file name, so nobody takes the game's
# files for the download (#1647). Launchers, servers and install.sh match the name, which stays.
gh release create "$TAG" --target "${{ needs.decide.outputs.head }}" --title "$(cat notes/title.txt)" \
--notes-file notes/body.md --latest \
"dist/horizon-linux-x86_64.tar.gz#Game files the launcher installs: Linux (horizon-linux-x86_64.tar.gz)" \
"dist/horizon-windows-x64.zip#Game files the launcher installs: Windows (horizon-windows-x64.zip)" \
"dist/horizon-macos-arm64.zip#Game files the launcher installs: macOS (horizon-macos-arm64.zip)" \
"dist/horizon-server-linux-x86_64.tar.gz#Dedicated server for Linux (horizon-server-linux-x86_64.tar.gz)" \
dist/SHA256SUMS "${signature[@]}" dist/smoke-test.json
- name: Dry run, the release that would be published
if: needs.decide.outputs.dry_run == 'true'
run: |
echo "Would publish ${{ needs.decide.outputs.tag }} at ${{ needs.decide.outputs.head }} as the release and latest: $(cat notes/title.txt)"
ls -l dist
- uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
with:
name: release-notes
path: notes/
retention-days: 3