In case our workaround for downloading Patreon post attachments breaks, we can remotely disable it and force AltStore to use its fallback instead (taking user to post directly).
When enabled, AltStore will ignore cached responses for certain requests and will always make a new request to the server. This is useful for development when repeatedly testing changes to remote files.
Limited to UpdateKnownSourcesOperation for now, but will eventually affect fetching sources as well.
Presents error alert that can be explicitly bypassed by user when sideloading apps with undeclared permissions, and also allows user to view all undeclared permissions.
If source is already added, the error message will list all installed apps from the source.
If adding source for first time, the error message will mention exactly which apps have been blocked from the source (if provided).
The MacDirtyCow exploit allows users to remove the 3 active apps limit on iOS 16.1.2 and earlier. To support this, we’ve added a new (hidden) “Enforce 3-App Limit” setting that can be disabled to allow sideloading more than 3 apps.
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.
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.
Refreshing with provisioning profiles causes apps to become untrusted on iOS 14 or later. As a (hopefully) temporary workaround, we instead now always re-install apps to refresh them on iOS 14+ jailbroken devices, which does still work as expected.
