Latest plugin release not showing up for download

  • Resolved indextwo

    (@indextwo)


    10 months ago

    I took over maintenance of a very old plugin several months ago, making it compatible with PHP 8. I released an updated version and it worked fine. I then did another update a few months later, which again worked fine.

    I was then alerted to a potential security vulnerability, and while I was patching that, I decided to do an overhaul of the plugin code and interface, bumping up the major version number. As I was doing this, I tweaked the readme.txt file and noticed for the first time that the Stable tag simply said trunk, which I hadn’t noticed before, so I changed it to the new version: 4.0.0.

    I updated the plugin last night, but I noticed that after around an hour it still hadn’t updated. I looked around and saw a couple of people mentioning issues where they’d changed the version number, but their plugin wasn’t updating because their new version was actually earlier than the previous one (for example changing from 1.1.66 to 1.1.7, where the latter is earlier than the former because 7 < 66). I wondered if that was the issue, because trunk alphanumerically comes way after 4.0.0, so I reverted the version in the readme to trunk and updated again. However it’s now been ~14 hours and the update still isn’t showing, so now I’m not entirely sure what I’ve done wrong.

    Any ideas?

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  • threadi

    (@threadi)

    You have set the Stable Tag to trunk in the readme.txt. This is no longer permitted. Change this to version number 4.0.0.

    Tip: the readme validator helps to recognise this: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/developers/readme-validator/

    Thread Starter indextwo

    (@indextwo)

    Thanks for this – I had originally changed it from trunk to 4.0.0, as I was sure trunk wasn’t correct, but it didn’t seem to take, hence why I changed it back.

    I just changed it back again (from trunk to 4.0.0), and then did another minor version update to 4.0.1 (I tweaked a couple of field descriptions and added the Requires PHP tag), and that seems to have worked. No idea why it didn’t the first time.

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