CLI and Framework compatibility - confusing error message

When using framework version 1.38.0 with CLI version 1.36.0, running cdk synth throws the following error:

Cloud assembly schema version mismatch: Maximum schema version supported is 1.33.0, 
but found 2.0.0. Please upgrade your CLI in order to interact with this app.

While it’s clear to me that I need to upgrade the CLI version, I see two problems with this error message:

1. ~This is probably a bug, but it seems like the check compares two different things as the versions compared are off by a major version, 2.0.0 and 1.33.0.~ This is not a bug there was a major version bump of the scheme.
2. The use of the term Cloud assembly in such a basic functionality of the CDK seems like it can be confusing for many users. While the term is well defined in the CDK documentation I don’t think it’s common among users. Since the action required from the user is to update the CLI I don’t see the added a value of using Cloud assembly in here.

[alextriaca]

~Excuse my ignorance on this one but have just hit this error message and can’t seem to figure out which version this is referring to and what needs to be upgraded. Does anyone have the fix for this?~ Was being a noob, run npm install -g aws-cdk to upgrade the CDK CLI.

[wayne00]

@NetaNir you can try to reinstall cdk. npm uninstall -g cdk and then npm install -g aws-cdk