[BUG] SideStore August 2024 update shows October 2023 update as new

[FxRe]

Describe the bug

I recently updated to the latest version, 0.5.7, which was described as August update. Today I noticed that SideStore shows an update as available, but that “new” version is the old October 23 update. I didn’t try to update.

Instructions to reproduce

Install 0.5.7, watch the old update become available.

What version of SideStore are you using?

0.5.7

Other info

No response

[yodaluca23]

This was made as a bug in the announcements on their discord channel. What I believe the issue is at least from my experience in using other sources with SideStore is that it won't update very often you can usually force it on a third-party source by deleting it and re-adding it obviously you can't do that with the internal source so yeah, they will be fixed in the next update according to the announcements on the discord server...

[FxRe]

Oh, I see. Thanks. Posting the full announcement, in case someone else is curious:

for any of you using latest SideStore, there seems to be a bug that keeps the last update pop up in the SideStore app. This will get fixed. When the fix comes you will likely need to sideload the ipa manually. Sorry for the inconvenience. Other than that it has a good amount of fixes that the last version needed that you will likely enjoy.

[Spidy123222]

Yeah this was announced in the discord. It's currently a known issue

[nythepegasus]

Hello this should be resolved now, if not you can reopen this issue.

[FxRe]

Apologies, but this doesn’t seem to be fixed for me. I had to reinstall SideStore using SideServer due to another issue, it then immediately showed the April 2024 update. I installed that, SideStore still reports being 0.5.7, and now shows the November 2023 update as newly available.

[sasagr]

same here with the last nightly announced ipa, installed from within sidestore old version using +

[FxRe]

Yup, I also tried the latest nightly (2024.08.19), which shows the same behavior. For some reason it displays a different version as latest update (November 23).

[sasagr]

same here with the last nightly announced ipa, installed from within sidestore old version using +

I continue to have the same issue also with the 0.5.8 stable

[wamuumu]

Do you guys know why my SideStore doesn't show anything under the updates section? I'm currently using version 0.5.7, and I wish to update to 0.5.8. Since nothing showed, I tried to manually install the SideStore .ipa using SideStore, but the app crashes. Am I missing something?

[yodaluca23]

Do you guys know why my SideStore doesn't show anything under the updates section? I'm currently using version 0.5.7, and I wish to update to 0.5.8. Since nothing showed, I tried to manually install the SideStore .ipa using SideStore, but the app crashes. Am I missing something?

For the crashing, force close the app, and reopen it and try again.

[Staubgeborener]

Can someone open this issue? It still exists (tested with version 0.5.8).

[aaronliu0130]

@nythepegasus @SideStore Since this has been confirmed unresolved in the Discord server, can this please be reopened? Thank you.

[polymo1]

Sure

[mahee96]

This annoying thing got me digging into the source code...

Anyways for the RCA:

1. Issue is possibly due to Regression? caused by merging PR#616.
2. In AltStoreCore/Model/InstalledApp.swift, The updatesFetchRequest() logic had been changed to use a different check rather than the property hasUpdate: Boolean, which was being used earlier, so that both are in sync.

Code Reference

https://github.com/SideStore/SideStore/blob/867a9c77e652b0a0f3a06cad4a1b4b2cdde89d83/AltStoreCore/Model/InstalledApp.swift#L166

Commit id is shown below:

Fix:

Reverting it to use hasUpdate fixes it but not sure if this was intentional change by the team. So the team should decide on the final fix or make enhancements.

[polymo1]

@SideStore/project-maintainers cc!