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feat(website): offer the beta channel on the download page

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Beta testers had to find prerelease assets on GitHub by hand. The
download page now carries a Stable/Beta switch, with stable staying the
default and the canonical URL.

The channel lives in the URL (?channel=beta) rather than client state so
maintainers can link someone straight to it. That link outlives the beta
it was shared for, so the switch only renders while the newest
prerelease leads stable on its core version, and a stale ?channel=beta
falls back to stable instead of serving a promoted version twice.

"What's new" deep-links the minor group anchor (/changelog#release-0.3),
not the exact entry: promotion rewrites the -beta.N entry in place, so
that anchor dies while the group survives — and the group is the
stable-to-beta diff a beta downloader came to read. A version missing
from the bundled changelog links plain /changelog rather than a dead
anchor, which covers the window between a tag going public and the site
redeploying.

Homebrew, the app stores, and the web app have no beta, so the Beta view
drops those rows instead of showing inert placeholders.
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Mohamed Boudra
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@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Rules that apply to both steps:
There are two supported ways to ship from `main`:
1. **Direct stable release**: you are ready to ship the current `main` commit to everyone immediately.
2. **Beta flow**: release candidates on the `beta` channel. Betas carry an in-place changelog entry (beta users check it), publish npm only on the explicit `beta` dist-tag, and never move the website download target off the latest stable.
2. **Beta flow**: release candidates on the `beta` channel. Betas carry an in-place changelog entry (beta users check it), publish npm only on the explicit `beta` dist-tag, and never become the website's default download — they sit behind the Stable/Beta switch on `/download`.
Paseo has one linear release track even though npm dist-tags are independent
pointers. The npm invariant is:
@@ -317,10 +317,12 @@ The GitHub Release body is populated automatically by the `Release Notes Sync` w
## Website behavior
- The website download page points to GitHub's latest published **stable** release.
- Published beta prereleases are public on GitHub Releases, but they do **not** become the website download target.
- The download target only moves when you publish the final stable release tag like `v0.1.41`.
- The public `/changelog` page renders `CHANGELOG.md` as-is, so the in-flight `-beta.N` entry shows there once it lands on `main` — that's intended, it's where beta users check what's coming. Only the **download target** stays pinned to the latest stable; the download links read GitHub's releases API, not the changelog, so a `-beta.N` heading on top never affects them.
- The website download page defaults to GitHub's latest published **stable** release.
- A published beta prerelease is offered behind the Stable/Beta switch on `/download` (`?channel=beta`), never as the default. The switch only appears while the newest prerelease leads stable on its core version, so promoting `X.Y.Z-beta.N` to `X.Y.Z` retires the beta channel from the page until the next beta line opens.
- Homebrew, the Play Store, the App Store, and `app.paseo.sh` have no beta. The Beta view drops those rows, and the whole Web section, rather than showing an inert "stable only" placeholder. When a surface gains a beta path — say a public TestFlight link — add its row back in `packages/website/src/routes/download.tsx`.
- The default download target only moves when you publish the final stable release tag like `v0.1.41`.
- The public `/changelog` page renders `CHANGELOG.md` as-is, so the in-flight `-beta.N` entry shows there once it lands on `main` — that's intended, it's where beta users check what's coming. Only the **default download target** stays pinned to the latest stable; the download links read GitHub's releases API, not the changelog, so a `-beta.N` heading on top never affects them.
- The download page's "What's new" link deep-links the **minor group** anchor (`/changelog#release-0.3`), not the exact entry: promotion rewrites the `-beta.N` entry in place, so that anchor dies while the group survives. A version with no entry in the bundled changelog — a tag whose changelog commit hasn't redeployed the site yet — links the plain `/changelog` instead of a dead anchor.
- The website itself is deployed by `Deploy Website` (Cloudflare Workers), which redeploys on `release: published` for non-prerelease releases and on pushes to `main` that touch `CHANGELOG.md` or `packages/website/**`.
## Fixing a failed release build