Rather than store both the current user’s Patreon account and all cached Friend Zone patrons in the same table, we now store Friend Zone patrons in the new ManagedPatron table. This avoids the need to distinguish between the two at runtime.
The Patreon API doesn’t have a way to fetch just the patrons belonging to our Friend Zone tier. Instead, we need to fetch ALL patrons (including inactive ones) and filter out those not in the tier. This is very inefficient, and takes over a minute to complete as of April 14, 2022, due to the number of patrons we have.
We can’t do much to change this, but AltStore will now at least cache the fetched patrons with Core Data. Additionally, AltStore will only perform this long fetch whenever the Friend Zone list actually changes, rather than every time the Patreon screen appears.
Previously, only the beta version of AltStore could add sources. Now, the public version supports adding explicitly “trusted” sources, while the beta version can continue to add any source.
Eventually, listing permissions will be mandatory so AltStore can verify that apps only require the permissions they declare. Until then, we’ll allow apps to not list their permissions.
We can’t remove all app groups from an App ID once one has been assigned, but we _can_ disable app groups completely for effectively the same result.
This fixes some apps having permanant access to AltStore’s own app group after being (de-)activated.
If a jailbreak app contains the relevant Fugu14 entries in its Info.plist, AltStore will automatically guide the user through the Fugu14 untether process before installing the jailbreak.
When attempting to install a new app without any active slots available, AltStore will now present an alert asking the user to choose an app to deactivate in order to continue installation — just like when activating an app without an active slot.
7278f75c made all serial operations execute in FIFO order. This caused circular dependencies between BackupAppOperation and InstallAppOperation, resulting in (de-)activating apps never finishing.
Now, we ensure InstallAppOperations that are reinstalling AltStore always execute last in a context, but other serial operations may run in any order they become ready.
