# ForgeFlow 0.8.2

ForgeFlow 0.8.2 activates binary auto-update for packaged Windows releases.

- Installed builds download the matching NSIS installer from the authenticated Gitea release.
- Portable builds download and safely replace the original portable executable.
- Every executable requires a separately published SHA-256 sidecar and is verified again immediately before installation.
- The updater runs outside ForgeFlow, waits for the old process to exit and records a durable success, failure or rollback result.
- Release publishing verifies that local `HEAD` equals `origin/main` before uploading artifacts.

Users of 0.8.1 or older must install 0.8.2 once manually. Updates after 0.8.2 can use the built-in updater.