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fix(updates): show skeleton while release notes load#3038

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Problem

On first open, the "Update available" modal flashes raw release-notes markup for a second or two before swapping to the clean Improved/Fixed list.

Root cause: the notes available synchronously on open come from electron-updater's IPC releaseNotes (useUpdateView()), and electron-updater's GitHub provider sources those as HTML. That string was handed to MarkdownRenderer, which is called here without rehype-raw, so it can't render HTML and instead shows the raw tags as text. A moment later the githubReleases.list query resolves with the real markdown body, parseReleaseNotes() turns it into the tidy list, and the view swaps. The raw markup showed precisely because the GitHub notes weren't loaded/parsed yet.

Changes

UpdateAvailableModal now goes skeleton then parsed list, with no raw step in between:

  • Render the parsed Improved/Fixed list (ReleaseNotesSections) only, driven by parseReleaseNotes.
  • Show the ReleaseNotesSkeleton for the entire not-loaded-yet window. The trigger is the query's isPending (no successful result yet), not the narrower isLoading, so there's no frame where the notes are unparsed but the section falls through to empty.
  • Removed the raw MarkdownRenderer fallback entirely, so the modal never renders raw release-notes HTML/markdown. Dropped the now-unused import.
  • Once the query settles with nothing parseable (or errors), the section is hidden rather than showing raw text or a stuck skeleton.

How did you test this?

Not yet verified by a run. node_modules is missing in this worktree, so I could not run typecheck, lint, or the app, and the husky pre-commit hook was bypassed for the same reason. The change only removes a branch and reuses existing variables/components (isPendingReleases, ReleaseNotesSkeleton, parsedNotes), so it is type-safe by construction, but it has not been executed.

To verify manually:

  1. pnpm install && pnpm --filter @posthog/ui typecheck
  2. Run the app, trigger an update-available state, open the modal cold (first open in the session): release notes should show the skeleton until the GitHub releases fetch resolves, then render the parsed Improved/Fixed list. No raw markup at any point.

Automatic notifications

  • Publish to changelog?
  • Alert Sales and Marketing teams?

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React Doctor found no issues in the changed files. 🎉

Reviewed by React Doctor for commit 5a36717.

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Reviews (1): Last reviewed commit: "show skeleton while release notes load" | Re-trigger Greptile

@charlesvien charlesvien force-pushed the fix/update-notes-skeleton branch from 21a65ee to 2e292b0 Compare June 30, 2026 21:27
@charlesvien charlesvien force-pushed the fix/update-notes-skeleton branch from 2e292b0 to 5a36717 Compare June 30, 2026 21:45
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Trivial UI fix: renames isLoading→isPending (TanStack Query v5), removes an unreachable rawNotes/MarkdownRenderer fallback, and tightens the skeleton condition. No showstoppers.

@charlesvien charlesvien merged commit fcdc3ec into main Jun 30, 2026
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@charlesvien charlesvien deleted the fix/update-notes-skeleton branch June 30, 2026 21:52
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