v0.1.37 — Focused patch: paywall pill, claude PATH warning, Dock icon, /launch

Released 2026-05-25. Multi-platform signed/notarized DMG + EXE + AppImage. Auto-update from v0.1.36 happens automatically on next launch.

Five fixes shipping together. No new features — everything here is a regression or visibility bug Karl hit dogfooding v0.1.36 in the last 24h.

1. Trial pill no longer paywalls comped/lifetime users

Bug: Day 29 of 30 · Upgrade appeared in the topbar for accounts on lifetime, comped, paid, business, team, enterprise, pro, developer-pro, super-admin, free-Nmo, or with role admin. Their plan was correct server-side (no paywall, no quota), but the renderer fast-path computed trialDaysLeft from createdAt regardless of plan — so a lifetime user 29 days into account life saw “Day 29 of 30 · Upgrade” as if the trial were about to expire.

Fix: src/renderer/app.js now gates both the dropdown counter (X days left in trial) and the topbar pill on a planIsExempt check mirroring the server’s PAYWALL_EXEMPT_PLANS. Lifetime/comped/admin → pill hidden, full stop, no matter what trialDaysLeft says.

If the pill is still showing for a known-comped account after upgrading, the Supabase profiles.plan row probably still says trial; fix it in the admin dashboard (/admin → Users → Plan).

2. “Native installation exists but ~/.local/bin is not in your PATH” warning gone

Bug: Every time the user launched claude inside CodeNow’s embedded terminal, the Claude CLI printed a yellow warning suggesting they echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.codenow/zsh-shim/.zshrc && source …. The shim was already doing this — .zshrc had the export and interactive shells saw ~/.local/bin first in $PATH. But Claude’s PATH check also spawns non-interactive sub-shells, which only honour .zshenv (not .zshrc / .zprofile). The shim had no .zshenv → sub-shells started with the unmodified PATH → Claude’s check failed → warning.

Fix: ensureZshShim() in src/main.js now also writes $ZDOTDIR/.zshenv with the same source-and-re-prepend pattern as .zprofile / .zshrc. Verified non-interactive: ZDOTDIR=~/.codenow/zsh-shim zsh -c 'echo $PATH' puts /Users/<u>/.local/bin first.

Existing installs pick up the fix on next IDE launch (the shim is rewritten on every terminal-create).

3. App icon — black background, white shape

Bug: macOS wrapped the transparent-background blue/purple gradient hexagon icon in its default light grey rounded square. In a dense Dock or in the menu bar, it disappeared into other light-tinted icons.

Fix: Regenerated assets/icon.png (1024×1024) and assets/icon.icns:

• Solid black background, macOS HIG corner radius (~22.37%, ~229px at 1024).
• White shape (the existing C-hexagon + </> glyph, alpha-masked and recoloured solid white).
• ~80% canvas fill, original padding ratio preserved.
• Multi-size iconset built via sips → iconutil -c icns.

Originals backed up to assets/icon.png.bak-blue-gradient and assets/icon.icns.bak-blue-gradient in case Karl wants to revert.

4. /launch landing page (was 404)

Bug: https://codenow.pro/launch/ returned 404. The hero CTAs on socials + WhatsApp seeds all pointed there.

Fix: New site/launch/index.html — a 15-reasons landing page (the canonical list from the wiki homepage Callout) with the homepage two-row nav, hero with Mac/Windows/Linux download CTAs, responsive numbered card grid, final 30-day-trial CTA + footer. Positioning audited clean: no XSpan / TrustModel / governance / GRC / compliance / open-source / audit-the-source strings. Multi-model framing preserved (Claude / Codex / Gemini / Aider / Copilot, BYOK).

Deployed via Vercel auto-rollout on main push — no vercel.json change needed.

5. Wiki — SMART Code Assistant promoted to top of left nav · stale channels content removed

Bug: The wiki’s left nav was missing on the home page (index page was typed as page, suppressing sidebar). SMART-Code lived buried under /concepts/smart-code, three layers deep. And the Requirements page still had a “CodeNow channels vs. Slack channels” section even though channels were ripped out in v0.1.28 (Workforce humans-only).

Fix:

• app/concepts/smart-code/ → app/smart-code/ (git mv). New URL: /smart-code.
• app/_meta.js: 'smart-code': 'SMART Code Assistant' is the first top-level item; index changed from type: 'page' → type: 'doc' so the homepage now renders with the sidebar.
• app/requirements/page.mdx: deleted the channels-vs-channels section.
• app/page.mdx: new first <Cards.Card> linking to /smart-code + a new Wiki sections bullet at the top.
• app/smart-code/page.mdx: added topbar + Model Arena screenshot embeds; expanded the Local / Ollama section into its own H2 with install flow, recommended ollama pull commands, and an honest tradeoffs table.

Coming in v0.1.38

The SMART-Code write/edit milestone gets its own focused cycle:

• File edits with Approve/Reject diff viewer (red-removed / green-added, then apply on click).
• Three permission modes wired (Confirm / Safe / Full pills — already in topbar, will become functional).
• GPT-with-tools (today, tool-using turns always run on Claude; v0.1.38 keeps the Smart-routed brain on tool turns too).
• Conversation persistence — close the tab, reopen, history restored. Search across past conversations. Share-as-link.
• Per-tool token breakdown in the daily usage meter.
• Shell-run with approval (npm test, pytest, one-liners) — output fed back to SMART-Code for failure diagnosis.

Tracking on the SMART Code Assistant page “What’s coming in v0.1.37” section (which we’ll rename to v0.1.38 when those land).