I am building an iOS app in Azure DevOps. The build and export of the *.ipa works fine, but the upload to the App Store fails with the following message:
2020-10-05T14:02:27.9260830Z [14:02:27]: [Transporter Error Output]: ERROR ITMS-90057: "The bundle 'Payload/MyApp.app' is missing plist key. The Info.plist file is missing the required key: CFBundleShortVersionString. Please find more information about CFBundleShortVersionString at https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/information_property_list/cfbundleshortversionstring"
2020-10-05T14:02:27.9268950Z [14:02:27]: [Transporter Error Output]: ERROR ITMS-90056: "This bundle Payload/MyApp.app is invalid. The Info.plist file is missing the required key: CFBundleVersion. Please find more information about CFBundleVersion at https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/information_property_list/cfbundleversion"
2020-10-05T14:02:28.1474570Z [14:02:28]: Transporter transfer failed.
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2020-10-05T14:02:28.1477810Z [14:02:28]: ERROR ITMS-90057: "The bundle 'Payload/MyApp.app' is missing plist key. The Info.plist file is missing the required key: CFBundleShortVersionString. Please find more information about CFBundleShortVersionString at https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/information_property_list/cfbundleshortversionstring"
2020-10-05T14:02:28.1480380Z ERROR ITMS-90056: "This bundle Payload/MyApp.app is invalid. The Info.plist file is missing the required key: CFBundleVersion. Please find more information about CFBundleVersion at https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/information_property_list/cfbundleversion"
2020-10-05T14:02:28.2737090Z [14:02:28]: [iTMSTransporter] [2020-10-05 14:02:27 UTC] <main> DBG-X: parameter ShouldUseRESTAPIs = false
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2020-10-05T14:02:28.2743710Z [14:02:28]: [iTMSTransporter] [2020-10-05 14:02:27 UTC] <main> ERROR: ERROR ITMS-90057: "The bundle 'Payload/MyApp.app' is missing plist key. The Info.plist file is missing the required key: CFBundleShortVersionString. Please find more information about CFBundleShortVersionString at https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/information_property_list/cfbundleshortversionstring"
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2020-10-05T14:02:28.2746740Z [14:02:28]: [iTMSTransporter] [2020-10-05 14:02:27 UTC] <main> ERROR: ERROR ITMS-90056: "This bundle Payload/MyApp.app is invalid. The Info.plist file is missing the required key: CFBundleVersion. Please find more information about CFBundleVersion at https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/information_property_list/cfbundleversion"
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2020-10-05T14:02:28.2749420Z [14:02:28]: [iTMSTransporter] [2020-10-05 14:02:27 UTC] <main> INFO: Done performing authentication.
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2020-10-05T14:02:28.2751070Z [14:02:28]: [iTMSTransporter] Package Summary:
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2020-10-05T14:02:28.2751950Z [14:02:28]: [iTMSTransporter] 1 package(s) were not uploaded because they had problems:
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2020-10-05T14:02:28.2753070Z [14:02:28]: [iTMSTransporter] /var/folders/24/8k48jl6d249_n_qfxwsl6xvm0000gn/T/d20201005-1299-rww8bj/1454404673.itmsp - Error Messages:
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2020-10-05T14:02:28.2754860Z [14:02:28]: [iTMSTransporter] ERROR ITMS-90057: "The bundle 'Payload/MyApp.app' is missing plist key. The Info.plist file is missing the required key: CFBundleShortVersionString. Please find more information about CFBundleShortVersionString at https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/information_property_list/cfbundleshortversionstring"
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2020-10-05T14:02:28.2757000Z [14:02:28]: [iTMSTransporter] ERROR ITMS-90056: "This bundle Payload/MyApp.app is invalid. The Info.plist file is missing the required key: CFBundleVersion. Please find more information about CFBundleVersion at https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/information_property_list/cfbundleversion"
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2020-10-05T14:02:28.2758440Z [14:02:28]: [iTMSTransporter] [2020-10-05 14:02:28 UTC] <main> DBG-X: Returning 1
Sure enough, when I extract the ipa file and look in "Payload/MyApp.app/Info.plist", CFBundleVersion and CFBundleShortVersionString are missing.
However, those values are included in the original, pre-compilation Info.plist and are also set during the build phase using GitVersion and PlistBuddy. I have checked that the variables are correctly set and also tried to just use the hard-coded versions, which did not change the result.
> echo 'iOsBundleVersion: $(iOsBundleVersion)'
iOsBundleVersion: 1.2.21
> echo 'iOsMarketingVersion: $(iOsMarketingVersion)'
iOsMarketingVersion: 1.2
- task: InstallAppleCertificate@2
displayName: 'Install certificates'
inputs:
certSecureFile: $(certSecureFile)
certPwd: '$(certPwd)'
keychain: 'temp'
- task: InstallAppleProvisioningProfile@1
displayName: 'Install provisioning profile'
inputs:
provisioningProfileLocation: 'secureFiles'
provProfileSecureFile: $(provProfileSecureFile)
- task: CocoaPods@0
displayName: 'Install CocoaPods'
inputs:
workingDirectory: '$(appRoot)'
forceRepoUpdate: true
projectDirectory: 'ios'
- task: Bash@3
displayName: 'Set bundle version'
inputs:
targetType: 'inline'
script: |
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set CFBundleVersion $(iOsBundleVersion)" ./Info.plist
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set CFBundleShortVersionString $(iOsMarketingVersion)" ./Info.plist
workingDirectory: '$(appRoot)'
- task: Xcode@5
displayName: 'Build project'
inputs:
actions: 'archive'
configuration: 'Release'
sdk: 'iphoneos'
xcWorkspacePath: '$(appRoot)/MyApp.xcworkspace'
scheme: '$(appName)'
packageApp: true
exportPath: '$(appRoot)/ios/build'
xcodeVersion: 'default'
signingOption: 'manual'
signingIdentity: '$(APPLE_CERTIFICATE_SIGNING_IDENTITY)'
provisioningProfileUuid: '$(APPLE_PROV_PROFILE_UUID)'
args: '-UseModernBuildSystem=0'
workingDirectory: '$(appRoot)'
useXcpretty: true
which results in the following commands:
xcodebuild -workspace /Users/runner/work/1/s/MyApp.xcworkspace -scheme MyApp archive -sdk iphoneos -configuration Release -archivePath /Users/runner/work/1/s/MyApp CODE_SIGN_STYLE=Manual CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY=Apple Distribution: xxxxxxxx (xxxxxxxxx) PROVISIONING_PROFILE=xxxxxxxx PROVISIONING_PROFILE_SPECIFIER= -UseModernBuildSystem=0 | /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/bin/xcpretty --no-color
and
xcodebuild -exportArchive -archivePath /Users/runner/work/1/s/MyApp.xcarchive -exportPath /Users/runner/work/1/s/ios/build -exportOptionsPlist _XcodeTaskExportOptions.plist | /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/bin/xcpretty --no-color
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
<string>en</string>
<key>CFBundleDisplayName</key>
<string>$(PRODUCT_NAME)</string>
<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
<string>$(EXECUTABLE_NAME)</string>
<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
<string>$(PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER)</string>
<key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
<string>6.0</string>
<key>CFBundleName</key>
<string>$(PRODUCT_NAME)</string>
<key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
<string>APPL</string>
<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
<string>1.2</string>
<key>CFBundleSignature</key>
<string>????</string>
<key>CFBundleVersion</key>
<string>1.2.20</string>
<key>ITSAppUsesNonExemptEncryption</key>
<false/>
<key>LSApplicationCategoryType</key>
<string>public.app-category.utilities</string>
<key>LSRequiresIPhoneOS</key>
<true/>
<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
I'm afraid the solution for this specific problem is almost completely unrelated to everything I included in the in my description of the problem.
It was entirely an error in the way I created the pipelines in Azure DevOps. I have used global vars to set the version numbers in one job and read them in another job, which is not possible. In the end, $(iOsBundleVersion) and $(iOsMarketingVersion) were not set. Unfortunately, none of the build scripts failed with any sensible error message. A gradle-build for the Android version of the app actually completed just fine.
There are probably no new lessons to learn from this issue. I checked the values of $(iOsBundleVersion) and $(iOsMarketingVersion) in another context, which made me believe that they were correctly set - so maybe this issue is just a reminder to always make sure to be in the correct context when "debugging" any code.