4.2

New features ✨

• Added the ability to use Internal App Sharing (JENKINS-62405, #44)
  • Using internal-app-sharing as the release track name will upload the given app files to Internal App Sharing, and output the download URL to the build log
• Added the ability to retain certain app files from a previous release when creating a new release (JENKINS-66099, #42; thanks to @Entreco)

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fixed crash when attempting to parse manifest information from certain AAB files (JENKINS-65475, #41)
• Fixed handling of changes that "cannot be sent for review automatically" (JENKINS-65815, #43)
  • The changesNotSentForReview flag is now automatically enabled if Google Play rejects an upload with this error

Miscellaneous 🦆

• Increased the minimum Jenkins version to 2.222.4

4.1

New features ✨

• Added the ability to upload native debug symbols files (#38; thanks to Brian Wang)
• Added the ability to set the release name (#39; thanks to Niklas Therning)

Miscellaneous 🦆

• Updated the list of possible languages for release notes, shown in the auto-complete list
• Made logging at build time a bit more consistent
• Updated inline documentation

4.0

Breaking changes ⚠️

• Release track name is now mandatory in job configuration (JENKINS-62398, #33)
  • For jobs configured without a track name, or without a trackName for Pipeline, you must now set its value to production if you wish to retain the previous behaviour
• Rollout percentage is now mandatory in job configuration (JENKINS-62516, #36)
  • For jobs configured without a rollout percentage, or without a rolloutPercentage for Pipeline, you must now set its value to 100 if you wish to retain the previous behaviour

For a minimally configured Pipeline job, these changes would look something like this:

   // Upload and release immediately to 100% of users in Production
-  androidApkUpload googlePlayCredentialsId: 'gp'
+  androidApkUpload googlePlayCredentialsId: 'gp',
+                   trackName: 'production',
+                   rolloutPercentage: '100'

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fixed inability to use Google Play credentials defined in a Folder (JENKINS-56508, #27)
• Fixed variables in rollout percentage configuration being ignored at build time (JENKINS-62320, #28)
• Fixed handling of certain AAB files to be more robust, e.g. those with a manifest obfuscated by tools like DexGuard (JENKINS-63063; thanks to Silvan Fischer)
• Fixed incorrect error message details shown when desired ProGuard mapping files could not be found

New features ✨

• Added the ability to use custom release tracks (JENKINS-62404, #34)
• Added the ability to prepare draft releases, by setting the rollout percentage to 0% (JENKINS-40506, #30)
• Ensured that release notes are now retained when assigning files to a new release track (JENKINS-54479, #32)
• Added the ability to optionally set the priority value for Google Play in-app updates (#37; thanks to Timothy)
• Added automated acknowledgement of the "bundle installation warning" when uploading large AAB files (JENKINS-62389, #31; thanks to Victor Antonovich)

Miscellaneous 🦆

• Increased the minimum Jenkins version to 2.164.3
• Added documentation for configuring Google Play credentials via JCasC (JENKINS-61809, #29)

3.0

• Android App Bundles (AAB files) are now supported by the existing build steps (thanks to andrewjapar and Joe Hansche)
• Expansion files uploaded during a build can be applied to other APKs uploaded in the same build (thanks to Mikhail Korotetsky)
• Increased minimum Jenkins version to 2.138.4
• Migrated documentation and changelog to GitHub, as the Jenkins wiki is deprecated

2.0

• Upgraded to v3 of the Google Play Developer Publishing API (thanks to Joe Hansche)
• Fixed various potential NullPointerExceptions if no APKs had been uploaded already (thanks to Kazuhide Takahashi)
• Increased minimum Jenkins version to 2.60.3