[TimeToBuildBob]

Summary

• Read Cargo-tracked compile-time AW_VERSION and apply the existing aw-server version override before GUI/mini/daemon dispatch.
• Keep absent/empty development input on the server default; do not report the aw-tauri crate's 0.1.0 as the bundle version.
• Add standalone rustc input regressions plus startup ordering coverage, run them in lint CI, and document the build contract.

Verification

• Locked native cargo build with AW_VERSION=v0.14.2 passed (2 build jobs, private target directory).
• Standalone regression: 2 tests passed, including five unset/empty/stable/prerelease/research compile inputs.
• cargo fmt and hook-enabled commit checks passed.
• Isolated native daemon and GUI-mode GET /api/0/info both returned v0.14.2. Ordinary visible footer verification is still being finalized; these API checks alone do not claim that surface passed.

Delivery boundary

Companion ActivityWatch/activitywatch#1535 exports the original bundle identity in release CI. Related to ActivityWatch/activitywatch#1533, version slice only. Requires both merges, a bundle pin and published-artifact replay; the export complaint remains separate. This does not repair the published v0.14.1 AppImage.

[greptile-apps]

Confidence Score: 5/5

[Medium impact] The PR appears safe to merge within its stated delivery boundary.

Summary

Reads compile-time AW_VERSION and applies the server override before choosing GUI, mini, or daemon mode.

• The embedded server reports the enclosing ActivityWatch release.

Acknowledged boundary: TimeToBuildBob states that release exports belong to the companion change and require both merges, a bundle pin, and published-artifact replay. TimeToBuildBob also states that visible footer verification remains unfinished and that this does not repair the published v0.14.1 AppImage.

Review checks were source-only; tests were not run.

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[TimeToBuildBob]

Greptile reports 5/5 with no requested changes, and format, clippy and the macOS build have passed. The other four platform builds are still running; no fix or rerun is indicated. Leaving this for maintainer review once CI completes. The companion bundle input, bundle pin and published-artifact replay remain required, including the ordinary visible footer check.

[TimeToBuildBob]

CI-green and mergeable (Greptile 5/5) — waiting only on a maintainer click.

This PR is ready to merge, but the bot has pull-only access to this repo and can't self-merge — surfacing it here so it isn't lost. The monitoring loop will stop re-flagging it now that this note is posted.

[TimeToBuildBob]

🤖 AI code review

Adds release_version::bundle_version() to read nonempty compile-time AW_VERSION and calls aw_server::version::set_version_override(version) at the start of run(). Adds standalone Python tests for compile-time inputs and startup ordering, runs them in lint CI, and documents the bundle version build contract.

Safe to merge — no P0/P1 findings

Confidence 5/5

✅ No findings. The diff looks correct to me on this pass.

Files changed (5) — the diff as I read it

• .github/workflows/lint.yml — Adds a format-job step running python3 tests/test_release_version.py.
• README.md — Documents compile-time AW_VERSION, server version reporting, development fallback, research suffixes, and the standalone regression command.
• src-tauri/src/lib.rs — Declares release_version and applies its bundle version through set_version_override before logging initialization and mode dispatch.
• src-tauri/src/release_version.rs — Adds bundle_version() returning compile-time AW_VERSION, filtering out empty strings.
• tests/test_release_version.py — Adds tests for Windows module path generation, five compile-time version inputs, and source ordering before daemon and mini dispatch.

Previous review passes

commit	score	findings	engine	when
20c23e7995ae	4/5	1	subscription	2026-10-23 10:03 UTC

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Outage coverage: 1-pass, not merge evidence. Subscription review supplied findings while full consensus capacity was unavailable. The consensus merge gate remains unsatisfied.