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The Codex Changelog · August 17 · 5 min

Silent 403s and GitHub Rate Limits Break the Installer

We dig into a baffling installer failure caused by unauthenticated GitHub API calls hitting rate limits and silently masking HTTP 403 errors as missing release assets. Then we cover the fix: consolidated metadata lookups, token support for CI pipelines, and a few helpful permission and Windows updater improvements.

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We dig into a baffling installer failure caused by unauthenticated GitHub API calls hitting rate limits and silently masking HTTP 403 errors as missing release assets. Then we cover the fix: consolidated metadata lookups, token support for CI pipelines, and a few helpful permission and Windows updater improvements.

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