From 547fc5ead87583ce3e20233fecb788cf714c17b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Miller <jmiller-moko@noreply.git.mokoconsulting.tech>
Date: Sat, 30 May 2026 19:50:11 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix: sort updates.xml entries dev first, stable last [skip
 ci]
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Joomla reads entries top-down. Sorting dev→alpha→beta→rc→stable
ensures proper display ordering in the Joomla update manager.

Authored-by: Moko Consulting
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 cli/updates_xml_build.php | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cli/updates_xml_build.php b/cli/updates_xml_build.php
index 93b8f11..3d8b94c 100644
--- a/cli/updates_xml_build.php
+++ b/cli/updates_xml_build.php
@@ -458,6 +458,15 @@ $output = <<<XML
 <updates>
 XML;
 $allEntries = array_merge($preservedEntries, $entries);
+
+// Sort entries: dev first, stable last
+$stabilityOrder = ['dev' => 0, 'development' => 0, 'alpha' => 1, 'beta' => 2, 'rc' => 3, 'stable' => 4];
+usort($allEntries, function ($a, $b) use ($stabilityOrder) {
+    preg_match('/<tag>([^<]+)<\/tag>/', $a, $ma);
+    preg_match('/<tag>([^<]+)<\/tag>/', $b, $mb);
+    return ($stabilityOrder[$ma[1] ?? ''] ?? 99) - ($stabilityOrder[$mb[1] ?? ''] ?? 99);
+});
+
 $output .= "\n" . implode("\n", $allEntries) . "\n</updates>\n";
 
 $dest = $outputFile ?? "{$root}/updates.xml";