# 0.27.1 — 2026-07-20 — "Auto-Updater & Daemon Process Upgrade"

- **Fixed**: **Environment inheritance during background auto-update** — cleaned inherited `npm_config_*` and `npm_*` environment variables when spawning `npm install -g kandown` in `checkForUpdate()`. Previously, if Kandown was run via `npx` or `npm run`, inherited local prefix overrides could cause global background updates to fail or target a temporary cache.
- **Fixed**: **Binary path resolution for system PATH and `~/.local/bin`** — updated `resolveKandownBin()` to check `which kandown`, `command -v kandown`, and `~/.local/bin/kandown` before checking package manager prefixes, ensuring custom global PATH installations are detected accurately.
- **Fixed**: **Live daemon process upgrade on CLI update** — updated `refreshRunningProjectHtml()` so that background project daemon processes in RAM running older code are automatically stopped and relaunched with the newly updated CLI binary.