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Windows Store (appx): Apps are not allowed to have a Version with a revision number other than zero specified in the app manifest.

See original GitHub issue

Version: ^20.8.1

Target: --win --x64 --ia32

When trying to submit an appx that was built with AppVeyor to the Windows Store, we get rejected during validation with:

You must fix all package validation errors before submitting.

Bitwarden-1.3.0-ia32.appx

Package acceptance validation error: Apps are not allowed to have a Version with a revision number other than zero specified in the app manifest. The package Bitwarden-1.3.0-ia32.appx specifies 1.3.0.553.

553 was the build number from AppVeyor, which seems to be getting automatically injected into the built appx manifest file:

  <Identity Name="8bitSolutionsLLC.bitwardendesktop"
    ProcessorArchitecture="x64"
    Publisher='...'
    Version="1.3.0.553" />

This seems to be new since I don’t recall this happening in previous versions of submitting our app to the Windows store.

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Created 5 years ago
Reactions:2
Comments:6 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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kspearrincommented, Jul 27, 2018

I worked around this problem for now by defining environment variable BUILD_NUMBER to 0 in AppVeyor settings, which will override APPVEYOR_BUILD_NUMBER in electron builder.

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GarryLowthercommented, Sep 1, 2021

Crazy that an arbitrary poor decision by a junior software engineer at Microsoft can cause so much grief as it defies common sense. Most people today are using YYYY.MM.DD.HHmm e.g. 2021.09.01.1045 as their version numbers as it is the most logical approach.