Inappbrowser does not show when using cordova-ios 8.0.0

[ksch10bob]

Bug Report

Problem

When we use the latest published Version of cordova-ios (8.0.0) and the latest published Version of the inappbrowser plugin (6.0.0) the inappbrowser window does not show when we call
cordova.InAppBrowser.open('https://whitelisted-url.com', '_blank');
When we use the latest coding from github for the inappbrowser plugin everything works fine.

What is expected to happen?

we can use a released Version of this core plugin to work properly with the latest platform releases

What does actually happen?

we have to use the latest coding from github in package.json which is far from optimal.

Information

The missing critical improvement was added here to the codebase

#1067
I also added a discussion for the timeline for updating or deprecating core plugins of apache cordova
apache/cordova#574

Environment, Platform, Device

• on iPhone se second generation iOS 26.1

Version information

• cordova-ios@8.0.0
• cordova-plugin-inappbrowser@6.0.0

Checklist

• I searched for existing GitHub issues
• I updated all Cordova tooling to most recent version
• I included all the necessary information above

[drewtoma]

I'm experiencing the same issue, but with a _system target.

[Emadello]

same issue here
Thanks @ksch10bob for pointing out that using the latest code from github works, and pointing out to the fixing commit.

At least there's a workaround for now until a proper version is released