fix: correct Help release date, local wait loop, and port check

[Th3BanHamm3r]

Pull request info

Description of the changes proposed

• The About tab under Help pins the Release to the npm build date? Release date should be set to the git tag version date.
• Prevents out of order loading.
• Wrong port checked in js.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Release builds now use the tagged release’s commit date as the release date.
  • Improved developer startup reliability by waiting for the renderer service to become reachable before starting related tooling.
  • Updated default port checking to use 1313 when no port is specified, reducing “port in use” conflicts.

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• .github/workflows/release.yml
• package.json
• scripts/check-port-in-use.js

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• scripts/check-port-in-use.js
• package.json
• .github/workflows/release.yml

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Walkthrough

The release workflow now uses tag commit dates for tagged builds, while development startup waits for port 1313 before launching Electron monitoring. Port availability checks also default to port 1313.

Changes

Release date handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Release date calculation across platform builds .github/workflows/release.yml	macOS, Windows, and Linux build jobs derive release dates from tag commits for v* tags and use the current date for other runs.

Development startup synchronization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Renderer port and Electron monitoring startup package.json, scripts/check-port-in-use.js	Development startup waits for port 1313 before launching electronmon, adds wait-on, and makes port checks default to 1313.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• Autonomy-Logic/openplc-editor#564: Also updates release workflow version and build-date handling.

Poem

A rabbit stamps the release-date beat,
Tag commits make the timing neat.
Port 1313 begins to glow,
Then Electronmon starts to go.
Hop, hop—builds and dev flows align!

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly matches the main changes: release date fix, startup wait loop, and port check correction.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description covers the main changes and includes the required DOD checklist, with only optional reference details omitted.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/release.yml:
- Line 60: Update each git log release-date command in
.github/workflows/release.yml at lines 60, 174, 244, 325, and 391 to use the
committer-date format specifier %cs instead of the author-date specifier %as,
preserving the existing release-date assignment behavior.
- Around line 59-60: Replace direct GitHub expression interpolation in all five
release.yml sites (.github/workflows/release.yml lines 59-60, 173-174, 243-244,
324-325, and 390-391) with quoted "$GITHUB_REF" and "$GITHUB_REF_NAME"
environment variables, and quote the Git revision passed to git log. Preserve
the existing tag check and release-date behavior.

In `@package.json`:
- Line 26: Replace the POSIX-specific readiness loop in the dev script with a
cross-platform Node-based wait helper or declared cross-platform dependency.
Update the dev command to invoke that helper while preserving the existing
renderer startup and Electron launch sequencing.
- Line 26: Update the readiness check in the dev script to match port 1313 as an
exact listening-port token, preventing matches such as 13130. Preserve the
existing wait loop and electronmon startup behavior while anchoring the ss/grep
pattern or reusing a port-aware checker.

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