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Ship your Tauri app: signed, notarized, auto-updating

A complete GitHub Actions release pipeline for Tauri v2 — with the seventeen failure modes that break real releases, documented from real broken releases.

Building a Tauri app is well documented. Releasing one is not. The gap is everything between “it runs on my machine” and “a stranger on Windows downloaded your installer, and their copy auto-updated three weeks later without being asked.” This kit is that gap, solved once.

Platform	You ship	Signing
macOS (Apple Silicon)	.dmg + updater bundle	Developer ID, notarized & stapled
Windows	.msi + updater signature	Authenticode optional — documented with real costs
Linux	.deb, .AppImage + updater signature	minisign updater keys

What you get

Two runnable workflows — plain (single crate, npm, four placeholders) and monorepo (pnpm + turbo). Fill the placeholders, push a tag, get a release. The plain template went from create-tauri-app to a notarized, auto-updating release with no edits beyond the placeholders.
TRAPS.md — the actual product. Seventeen failure modes, each from a real broken release, each traceable to a line in the YAML. Almost all are silent until the worst possible moment.
SETUP.md — the seven secrets (updater keypair, Apple certificate, notarization key), generated from scratch, assuming only an Apple Developer account.
WINDOWS-SIGNING.md — what Authenticode actually costs, from “stay unsigned honestly” to Azure Artifact Signing at $10/month, and the one rule that keeps code signing from breaking auto-update.
VALIDATION.md — the runbook that proves your pipeline end-to-end before your users do it for you.
Offline test scripts that check your filled workflow’s structure, pins and manifest logic — no credentials, no network.

A taste of the traps

#1 upload-artifact and download-artifact stopped interoperating across generations. The mismatch first executes in the publish job — after an hour of builds, with the tag already pushed.

#8 A build that produces no updater signature still publishes a release. Nothing fails. Every installed copy silently rejects the update. Nobody reports it.

#9 Tag a release candidate without one expression in the publish job, and every production user auto-updates to your rc.

#16 On every Linux distro where /tmp is tmpfs, auto-update fails after the signature verifies — found by running this kit’s own validation runbook, fix measured against a live update.

Tested, not just written

The whole pipeline has been validated end-to-end: scratch app, real tag, notarized macOS build, installed copies on macOS and Windows actually auto-updating to the next tag, and a release candidate proven invisible to installed apps. Three of the seventeen traps were discovered during that validation. That is the difference between a pipeline that has been written and one that has been tested.

What it is not

Not a Tauri tutorial — you should already have an app that builds.
Not a substitute for an Apple Developer account ($99/yr, Apple’s price) or a Windows certificate (optional, costs documented).
Not vendor-specific beyond GitHub Actions.

$49 one-time

One purchase, one team, unlimited apps.
Workflows you generate and everything they ship are yours — no attribution. Kit updates included.

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Delivered as a zip download. 14-day refund, no questions — if the traps didn’t save you time, say so.

Questions

Which Tauri versions? Tauri v2 with tauri-plugin-updater.

Support? The docs are the product; genuine gaps reported by email become kit updates.

Bigger than one team? One purchase per team — the licence in the download spells it out.

Contact: hi@abhishek.be

Sold by Abhishek Gupta. Payments and taxes handled by Lemon Squeezy as merchant of record.

Tauri is a trademark of The Commons Conservancy. This product is an independent tool for use with Tauri and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Tauri project.