Getting "version number has been previously used" but uploading via Transporter succeeds

[skytreader]

We have a fastlane installation in a CI worker machine. All releases are automated through this and it uploads to other app stores in addition to Apple's.

However, lately we are getting the following error, seemingly out of the blue:

/usr/local/Cellar/fastlane/2.213.0/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.213.0/spaceship/lib/spaceship/connect_api/api_client.rb:204:in `handle_response': \e[31m[!] The provided entity includes a relationship with an invalid value - You cannot create a new version of the App in the current state. - /data/relationships/app (Spaceship::UnexpectedResponse)
The provided entity includes an attribute with a value that has already been used - The version number has been previously used. - /data/attributes/versionString\e[0m
	from /usr/local/Cellar/fastlane/2.213.0/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.213.0/spaceship/lib/spaceship/connect_api/api_client.rb:124:in `post'
	from /usr/local/Cellar/fastlane/2.213.0/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.213.0/spaceship/lib/spaceship/connect_api/tunes/tunes.rb:898:in `post_app_store_version'
	from /usr/local/Cellar/ruby@3.1/3.1.4/lib/ruby/3.1.0/forwardable.rb:238:in `post_app_store_version'
	from /usr/local/Cellar/fastlane/2.213.0/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.213.0/spaceship/lib/spaceship/connect_api/models/app.rb:220:in `ensure_version!'
	from /usr/local/Cellar/fastlane/2.213.0/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.213.0/deliver/lib/deliver/runner.rb:127:in `verify_version'
	from /usr/local/Cellar/fastlane/2.213.0/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.213.0/deliver/lib/deliver/runner.rb:55:in `run'
	from /usr/local/Cellar/fastlane/2.213.0/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.213.0/deliver/lib/deliver/commands_generator.rb:82:in `block (2 levels) in run'
	from /usr/local/Cellar/fastlane/2.213.0/libexec/gems/commander-4.6.0/lib/commander/command.rb:187:in `call'
	from /usr/local/Cellar/fastlane/2.213.0/libexec/gems/commander-4.6.0/lib/commander/command.rb:157:in `run'
	from /usr/local/Cellar/fastlane/2.213.0/libexec/gems/commander-4.6.0/lib/commander/runner.rb:444:in `run_active_command'
	from /usr/local/Cellar/fastlane/2.213.0/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.213.0/fastlane_core/lib/fastlane_core/ui/fastlane_runner.rb:124:in `run!'
	from /usr/local/Cellar/fastlane/2.213.0/libexec/gems/commander-4.6.0/lib/commander/delegates.rb:18:in `run!'
	from /usr/local/Cellar/fastlane/2.213.0/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.213.0/deliver/lib/deliver/commands_generator.rb:187:in `run'
	from /usr/local/Cellar/fastlane/2.213.0/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.213.0/deliver/lib/deliver/commands_generator.rb:18:in `start'
	from /usr/local/Cellar/fastlane/2.213.0/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.213.0/fastlane/lib/fastlane/cli_tools_distributor.rb:115:in `take_off'
	from /usr/local/Cellar/fastlane/2.213.0/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.213.0/bin/fastlane:23:in `<top (required)>'
	from /usr/local/Cellar/fastlane/2.213.0/libexec/bin/fastlane:25:in `load'
	from /usr/local/Cellar/fastlane/2.213.0/libexec/bin/fastlane:25:in `<main>'

What's confusing is that uploads to other app stores (bearing the same version) succeeds. Also, uploading via Transporter with the same version number also succeeds.

What else can I check here? How exactly does fastlane perform this check? I suspect fastlane has some kind of internal tracking that fails to correspond to the actual state in the app store. Is there any way to reset this?

[nwainwright]

@skytreader Hi Chad, did you ever resolve this? I'm getting the same error with CircleCI/fastlane and to our knowledge we didn't change anything on our end. Thanks, Neil

[ronyfadel]

Seeing this as well

[soaurabhopendoor]

Hey @ronyfadel, @nwainwright, @skytreader. I'm facing this as well, curious if there's any fix/workaround here. Appreciate any help, many thanks!

[nwainwright]

@soaurabhopendoor it worked for me yesterday (first time since mid-Dec '23) but we've got this unmerged branch running in CircleCI #21742

[soaurabhopendoor]

Thanks @nwainwright, this looks like a reasonable workaround until the fix gets shipped in the next release👍