veraPDF version confusion via GUI

[petervwyatt]

The latest release tagged here in GIT is https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-library/releases/tag/v1.26.2, but I was already running a v1.26.2 (it could be a dev release - I'm not sure). However when upgrading via the GUI I get 1.26.4...???

I am (was!) running veraPDF 1.26.2 and did a "Check for updates" via the Help Menu:

The dialog said the latest is now 1.26.3 which I then proceeded to downloaded as "verapdf-installer.zip".

But when I opened the ZIP the folder name is "verapdf-greenfield-1.26.4":

When I run the installer it says it is v1.26.4:

and when I run the newly installed version it is v1.26.4:

and when I check updates again it says v1.26.4 is the latest:

So is the latest GitHub tag version wrong???

[bdoubrov]

@petervwyatt indeed you spotted several inconsistencies in our CI/CD pipeline which we are trying to fix right now. In case you are interested in more detail:

1. The correct latest release tag in verapdf-library is 1.26.2 . It is the latest version of the core Java veraPDF library used for all other integrations (web applications, CLI and GUI, Docker images, etc).

2. We are trying to keep the GUI/CLI version of veraPDF identical to the above, but this is managed by automated builds of Jenkins which may be a bit off in case of some build issues. So, for the moment the correct latest version of verapdf-apps and thus of the GUI application is 1.26.4.

3. The confusion between GUI notifying (incorrectly) that the latest version is 1.26.3 and de facto installing (correctly) the version 1.26.4 is caused by another CI/CD issue. We publish all veraPDF Java artifacts at Maven Central, from where they are automatically picked up by other third-party tools that integrate veraPDF. This publication process is also managed by Jenkins, and this time for some reason the automatic publication of verapdf-apps version 1.26.4 failed. As a result, your GUI app thought that the latest version of veraPDF GUI is 1.26.3, while version 1.26.4 was already available.