4.4.0

App Center

• [Breaking change] Remove AppCenter.SetCustomProperties API.

iOS

• [Fix] Fix throw an exception when checking to authenticate MAC value during decryption.

Android

• [Fix] Fix crash in AppCenterLoader during call getContext() API when an application uses a custom context for initializing SDK. Such context should contain getApplicationContext() API which must return default Android application context.

App Center Analytics

• [Feature] Add Analytics.EnableManualSessionTracker and Analytics.StartSession APIs for tracking session manually.
• [Feature] Increase the interval between sending logs from 3 to 6 seconds for the backend load optimization.

App Center Distribute

Android

• [Feature] Replace installing a new release using the deprecated intent action ACTION_INSTALL_PACKAGE with the PackageInstaller API.
• [Feature] Remove the download manager task if the download doesn't start within 10 seconds.
• [Feature] Add sumcheck on the downloaded file before starting the install process.
• [Fix] Fix a crash after discarding the installation if the download of a new release was interrupted in the previous application start and resumed in the current one.

iOS

• [Fix] Cancel authorization process if application is not active, otherwise ASWebAuthenticationSession will fail opening browser and update flow will end up being in a broken state. This only affects updating from a private distribution group.

4.3.0

AppCenter

UWP

• [Fix] Fix sending pending logs after the first application start.

iOS/Android

• [Feature] Improved AES token encryption algorithm using Encrypt-then-MAC data authentication approach.

App Center Crashes

iOS

• [Improvement] Update PLCrashReporter to 1.10.

App Center Distribute

Android

• [Fix] Fix a rare deadlock case when a new version starts downloading and at the same moment the download status is checked.
• [Fix] Fix passing pending intent flag for a completed download notification on Android lower then 23 API.

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4.2.0

AppCenter

• [Feature] Add a AppCenter.IsNetworkRequestsAllowed API to block any network requests without disabling the SDK.

Android

• [Fix] Remove android:allowBackup and android:supportsRtl from AndroidManifest.xml in appcenter-loader, to prevent these attributes from merging into the final AndroidManifest.xml in a client app.

UWP

• [Fix] Fix infinite loop when old logs cannot be purged by a new one with a different channel name in a case when the storage is full.

App Center Crashes

iOS

• [Fix] Merge the device information from the crash report with the SDK's device information in order to fix some time sensitive cases where the reported application information was incorrect.
• [Improvement] Update PLCrashReporter to 1.9.0.

App Center Distribute

Android

• [Fix] Fix crash during downloading a new release when minifyEnabled settings is true.
• [Fix] Add a missing tag android:exported to the manifest required for Android 12.

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4.1.1

AppCenter

UWP

• [Feature] Add a SetMaxStorageSizeAsync API which allows setting a maximum size limit on the local SQLite storage. The default value is 10MiB.

iOS

• [Fix] Fix a crash when SQLite returns zero for page_size.

App Center Distribute

iOS/Android

• [Feature] Add NoReleaseAvailable callback to distribute listener.
• [Fix] Fix show the custom dialog update after the application start.

iOS

• [Feature] Add WillExitApp callback to distribute listener.

Android

• [Fix] Fix a crash when the app is trying to open the system settings screen from the background.
• [Fix] Fix browser opening when using a private distribution group on Android 11.

App Center Crashes

Android

• [Fix] Fix removing throwable files after rewriting error logs due to small database size.

4.1.0

AppCenter

UWP

• [Feature] Add a SetMaxStorageSizeAsync API which allows setting a maximum size limit on the local SQLite storage. The default value is 10MiB.

iOS

• [Fix] Fix a crash when SQLite returns zero for page_size.

App Center Distribute

iOS/Android

• [Feature] Add NoReleaseAvailable callback to distribute listener.
• [Fix] Fix show the custom dialog update after the application start.

iOS

• [Feature] Add WillExitApp callback to distribute listener.

Android

• [Fix] Fix a crash when the app is trying to open the system settings screen from the background.
• [Fix] Fix browser opening when using a private distribution group on Android 11.

App Center Crashes

Android

• [Fix] Fix removing throwable files after rewriting error logs due to small database size.

4.0.0

App Center

Android

• [Breaking change] Bumping the minimum Android SDK version to 21 API level (Android 5.0), because old Android versions do not support root certificate authority used by App Center and would not get CA certificates updates anymore.

iOS

• [Fix] Fix NSInvalidArgumentException when using non-string object as a key in NSUserDefaults.
• [Fix] Fix NSDateFormatter initialization in a concurrent environment.

App Center Analytics

• [Fix] Fix naming conflict with iOS 14 private Apple framework.

App Center Crashes

iOS

• [Improvement] Update PLCrashReporter to 1.8.0.

App Center Push

App Center Push has been removed from the SDK and will be retired on December 31st, 2020.
As an alternative to App Center Push, we recommend you migrate to Azure Notification Hubs by following the Push Migration Guide.

3.3.1

App Center

iOS

• [Fix] Fix overriding custom URLScheme in the post-build script.

App Center Analytics

iOS

• [Fix] Fix processing logs (e.g., events) emitted from the applicationWillTerminate application delegate method.

App Center Crashes

Android/iOS

• [Fix] Fix sending attachments with a null text value.

iOS

• [Improvement] Update PLCrashReporter to 1.7.2.

App Center Distribute

iOS

• [Fix] Fix manually checking for updates before applicationDidBecomeActive event.

3.3.0

This version has a breaking change on iOS - it drops Xcode 10 support, Xcode 11 is a minimal supported version now.

App Center

Android

• [Fix] Fix possible delays in UI thread when queueing a large number of events.
• [Fix] Fix an IncorrectContextUseViolation warning when calculating screen size on Android 11.
• [Fix] All SQL commands used in SDK are presented as raw strings to avoid any possible static analyzer's SQL injection false alarms.

iOS

• [Fix] Fix crash when local binary data (where unsent logs or unprocessed crashed are stored) is corrupted.
• [Fix] When carrier name is retrieved incorrectly by iOS, show nil as expected instead of "carrier" string.

App Center Analytics

iOS

• [Fix] Fix Analytics.TrackEvent crash if event properties contain null value.

App Center Crashes

iOS

• [Improvement] Update PLCrashReporter to 1.7.1.
• [Fix] Fix reporting stacktraces on iOS simulator.
• [Fix] Add attachments verification in TrackError function to handle explicitly passed null array to variable arguments parameter.

App Center Distribute

Now when Distribute is turned off in AppCenterBehavior, it is unlinked from the application, in order to avoid Google Play flagging the application for malicious behavior. It must be turned off for build variants which are going to be published on Google Play. See the public documentation for more details about this change.

Android

• [Fix] Fix Distribute can't get updates for Realme devices which use Realme UI.

iOS

• [Fix] Obfuscate app secret value that appears as URI part in verbose logs when getting release updates info.

3.2.1

App Center

iOS

• [Fix] Fix reporting crashes caused by a thread exception.
• [Improvement] Use namespaced NSUserDefaults keys with the MSAppCenter prefix for all the keys set by the SDK. Fixed a few keys missing namespace.

App Center Crashes

iOS

• [Improvement] Update PLCrashReporter to 1.6.0.

3.2.0

App Center

• [Fix] Fix SDK doesn't work without Distribute package.

iOS

• [Fix] Add missing system dependencies that aren't implicitly included when APPCENTER_DONT_USE_NATIVE_STARTER flag is used.

UWP

• [Fix] Fix retry sending logs after timeout exception.

App Center Crashes

• [Fix] Remove the multiple attachments warning as that is now supported by the portal.

Android

• [Fix] Change minidump filter to use file extension instead of name.
• [Fix] Fix removing minidump files when the sending crash report was discarded.

iOS

• [Improvement] Update PLCrashReporter to 1.5.1.

App Center Distribute

Android

• [Feature] Automatically check for update when application switches from background to foreground (unless automatic checks are disabled).
• [Fix] Fix checking for updates after disabling the Distribute module while downloading the release.