Release Notes

August 1, 2023

Android Mobile Core 1.11.6

• Implemented database recovery in SQLiteDataQueue for cases where adding or removing an entry fails due to unexpected errors.

March 29, 2023

Android Mobile Core 1.11.5

• Fixed crash when initializing SDK in Android direct boot mode.

March 2, 2023

iOS ACPCore 2.9.7

• Fix race conditions in StringUtils.

January 5, 2023

Android Lifecycle 1.1.2

• Fixes an issue where Lifecycle launch events may set an invalid XDM environment._dc.language field when the device is set to specific locales.

September 9, 2022

Android Core 1.11.4

• Fixed a bug that prevents bundled rules from being retrieved from the correct location.

September 8, 2022

Android Core 1.11.3

• Fixed a bug that prevents early events from being processed correctly by the rules engine.
• Removed unnecessary AtomicBoolean usage while listening to Android Activity lifecycle changes.

August 25, 2022

iOS ACPCore 2.9.6

• Fix race conditions in HitQueue.

August 18, 2022

Android Core 1.11.2

• Added support for bundled rules.
• Fixed a crash that can occur while extracting data from launch intent of an Android Activity.

Android Identity 1.3.2

• Fixed a crash that can occur during construction of a query string of IDs.

February 14, 2022

iOS Core 2.9.5

• Updates version for bundled ACPIdentity 2.5.2 release.

iOS Identity 2.5.2

• Fixes intermittent issue for GetUrlVariables and AppendToUrl APIs when custom Analytics identifiers are being used.

Sept 3, 2021

Mobile Core Launch extension v2.1.20

• New Foreground and Background event types to be used in rules for triggering actions based on Mobile Application Lifecycle XDM events.

June 30, 2021

iOS Core 2.9.4

• Fixed a Rules Engine bug affecting strings that contain the & character.
• Fixed a bug where JSON objects containing empty strings were not handled correctly.

June 15, 2022

Android Core 1.11.1

• Fixed a crash which was caused by an exception thrown from the Android Activity class.

April 21, 2022

Android Core 1.11.0

• Internal fixes to support In-App Messaging with the AEPMessaging extension.

Android Identity 1.3.1

• Improved extension stability by adding additional error checks when processing sync identifier requests.

March 31, 2021

Lifecycle Core 1.0.7

• No longer generate invalid values for Days Since Last Use, Days Since First Use and Days Since Last Upgrade metrics when the time setting on the device is off.

March 16, 2021

iOS Core 2.9.3

• Fixed a Rules Engine bug affecting strings that contain regex escaping characters (one of *?+{) in the following matcher types:
  • Contains
  • Not Contains
  • Starts With
  • Ends With

March 11, 2022

Android Core 1.10.1

• Updates the timestamp format for rule token ~timestampp with fractional seconds and UTC time zone. This rule token is used to set the mobile property data element "Adobe Experience Platform Timestamp".

Android Lifecycle 1.1.1

• Lifecycle foreground and background events for Edge Network now format timestamps with fractional seconds and UTC time zone.

February 8, 2022

Android Identity 1.3.0

• Added a device_consent status parameter when setAdvertisingIdentifier is called after ad tracking is enabled/disabled.
• Added support to handle the MobileCore.resetIdentities() API.
• Fixes intermittent issue for GetUrlVariables and AppendToUrl APIs when custom Analytics identifiers are being used.
• Stability improvements for network connections.

Released with sdk-core version 1.10.0

February 7, 2022

Android Core 1.10.0

• Added support for a new API clearUpdatedConfiguration(), see Configuration API reference for more details.
• Added support for optionally capturing event history on the device.
• Added support for triggering rules engine conditions based on event history.
• Added public platform support for datastore and UI services.

December 22, 2021

Android Core 1.9.2

• Fixed a bug where event number was not incremented correctly for shared states.
• Stability improvements for Configuration extension.
• Configuration now allows for empty appId to reset the previously set appId value.
• The Event Hub shares wrapper type in its shared state.

December 15, 2021

Android Core 1.9.1

• Fixed an issue that was causing duplicate query parameters in a deep link to be removed.

Android Signal 1.0.4

• Bug fix to improve Signal stability.

September 3, 2021

Android Core 1.9.0

• Added support for dispatch event rules consequence.
• Added getFriendlyName API for third party extensions.
• Specifies mutability for PendingIntent in the UIService in preparation for Android 12 changes.

Android Lifecycle 1.1.0

• Lifecycle extension now dispatches two new events applicationLaunch and applicationClose which contain Mobile Lifecycle metrics in XDM format.

August 27, 2021

Android Core 1.8.3

• Updated proguard rules to fix an issue which caused some extensions to not be registered correctly when using minification.

June 8, 2021

Android Core 1.8.2

• Fixed a bug in the PersistentHitQueue where hits would be retried earlier than desired in certain scenarios
• Fixed a bug where rule tokens with "&" were not handled correctly
• Minor change to how the SDK computes the operating system name

Android Lifecycle 1.0.8

• Minor update to ensure compatibility with the latest Core 1.8.2

May 25, 2021

Android Core 1.8.1

• Added support for Event encode/decode.

March 31, 2021

Android Core 1.8.0

• New API - Public platform services for network, data queue, device info.
• New API - MobileCore.resetIdentities() - See API Reference for more information
• New API - MobileCore.dispatchEventWithResponseCallback() - See API Reference for more information.
• The EventHub's shared state dictionary now uses the full name of each registered extension as its key.

Android Lifecycle 1.0.7

• No longer generate invalid values for Days Since Last Use, Days Since First Use and Days Since Last Upgrade metrics when the time setting on the device is off.

March 9, 2021

iOS Core 2.9.2

• Update version for bundled ACPIdentity 2.5.1 and ACPLifecycle 2.2.1 release.

iOS Identity 2.5.1

• Fixed a bug where the visitor URL variables was using a TS in milliseconds instead of seconds.

iOS Lifecycle 2.2.1

• No longer generate invalid values for Days Since Last Use, Days Since First Use and Days Since Last Upgrade metrics when the time setting on the device is off.

February 24, 2021

Android Core 1.7.0

• Fixed a crash which was caused by the exception thrown from the Android okhttp library.
• Added new public APIs to set XDM shared state.
• Added a new API MobileCore.configureWithFileInAssets() which allows the app to use a config file in the app's Assets folder.

February 2, 2021

Android Core 1.6.0

• Added a new API MobileCore.registerEventListener which can be used to register a permanent event listener.
• Fixed a bug which prevented cached configuration being loaded during app launch.
• Fixed a crash which was caused by the exception thrown from the Android okhttp library.

February 11, 2021

iOS Core 2.9.1

• Fixed a crash which happened in AdobeMarketingMobile::StringUtils

December 18, 2020

iOS Core 2.9.0, iOS Identity 2.5.0, iOS Lifecycle 2.2.0, iOS Signal 2.2.0

• The AEP SDKs are now distributed using XCFrameworks in order to support hardware with the new Apple M1 architecture while maintaining support for existing Intel architecture.
  • IMPORTANT: Upgrading to XCFrameworks distribution requires Xcode 12.0 or newer
  • IMPORTANT: If using Cocoapods, upgrading to the XCFrameworks distribution requires Cocoapods 1.10.0 or newer

December 3, 2020

Android Identity 1.2.2

• Fix issue where push identifier had incorrect value in Identity shared state when setPushIdentifer was not called on each launch.

  Released with sdk-core version 1.5.8

December 2, 2020

iOS Core 2.8.2

• Update version for bundled ACPIdentity 2.4.1 release.

iOS Identity 2.4.1

• Fix issue where push identifier had incorrect value in Identity shared state when setPushIdentifer was not called on each launch.

November 18, 2020

iOS Core 2.8.1

• Fixed a memory alignment issue that caused crashes in iOS 10.x.

November 4, 2020

iOS Core 2.8.0

• Update version for bundled ACPIdentity 2.4.0 release.

iOS Identity 2.4.0

• Added a device_consent status parameter when setAdvertisingIdentifier is called after ad tracking is enabled/disabled.
• The default Identity Server URL of dpm.demdex.com is used if the SDK configuration parameter experienceCloud.server is either missing or an empty string.

October 21, 2020

iOS Core 2.7.6

• Fixed several crashes that were happening during app shutdown.

September 22, 2020

iOS Core 2.7.5

• Fixes an issue where the EventHub could be blocked by synchronous network calls returning recoverable errors.

September 10, 2020

iOS Core 2.7.4

• Fixed an intermitted issue where third party extensions may experience crashes after unregistration when using the ACPExtensionAPI.

iOS Lifecycle 2.1.2

• Added previous application Id and OS version info to lifecycle event data.

September 9, 2020

Android Core 1.5.7

• Fixed the issue where it may fail to save caches when Etag contains special characters.

Android Identity 1.2.1

• Report extension details to Mobile Core for improved logging and Griffon support.
• Identity shared state now gets updated in current session on server response changes for blob or locationHint.
• In order to improve the Analytics push tracking reports, the push notification preferences (a.push.optin) are now forwarded to Analytics whenever the value passed to setPushIdentifier is different than the previous time it was called.
• Improved existing log messages and added additional logging to assist with debugging.

Android Lifecycle 1.0.6

• Added previous application Id and OS version info to lifecycle event data.

August 10, 2020

iOS Core 2.7.2 (Released with ACPCore version 2.7.3 on Cocoapods)

• Fixed a crash happening on AdobeMarketingMobile::RulesEngine::ProcessEventForRules().
• Fixed an issue where null values in rules consequences were not respected.

iOS Identity 2.3.2

• Identity shared state now gets updated in current session on server response changes for blob or locationHint.
• In order to improve the Analytics push tracking reports, the push notification preferences (a.push.optin) are now forwarded to Analytics whenever the value passed to setPushIdentifier is different than the previous time it was called.
• Improved safety checks for the Identity APIs with completion handler.

iOS Lifecycle 2.1.1

• Session start time is now added to the shared state of Lifecycle extension.

July 31, 2020

Android Core 1.5.6

• Fixed an issue where null values in rules consequences was not respected.
• Some internal fixes.

Android Lifecycle 1.0.5

• Session start time is now added to the shared state of Lifecycle extension

July 16, 2020

Android Core 1.5.5

• Updated the wrapper type strings used by SDK plugins.
• Added support for the token ~timestampp which complies with the Adobe Experience Platform Edge Network.

iOS Core 2.7.1

• Updated the wrapper type strings used by SDK plugins.
• Added support for the token ~timestampp which complies with the Adobe Experience Platform Edge Network.
• Another attampt to fix the crash on std::__1::system_error: mutex lock failed: Invalid argument.

Released with ACPCore version 2.7.2 on Cocoapods

June 26, 2020

iOS Identity 2.3.1

• Fixed an intermittent bug where Identity data was not loading at SDK initialization time.

Released with ACPCore version 2.7.1 on Cocoapods

June 17, 2020

iOS Core 2.7.0

• Added tvOS compatibility
• Version 2.7.0 onwards, binaries are built with Xcode 11.0
• Fixed a crash which happened in AdobeMarketingMobile::ModuleEventListenerBase

iOS Lifecycle 2.1.0

• Added tvOS compatibility
• Version 2.1.0 onwards, binaries are built with Xcode 11.0

iOS Signal 2.1.0

• Added tvOS compatibility
• Version 2.1.0 onwards, binaries are built with Xcode 11.0

iOS Identity 2.3.0

• Added tvOS compatibility
• Version 2.3.0 onwards, binaries are built with Xcode 11.0

May 28, 2020

The following updates were made in this release:

Android Core 1.5.4

• Added the capability for rules engine to reprocess the events that are dispatched before rules are loaded.
• Fixed a bug where the shared state of event hub was not properly created.
• Fixed a security issue.

iOS Core 2.6.2

• Added the capability for rules engine to reprocess the events that are dispatched before rules are loaded.
• Fixed the import statement in ACPNetworkServiceOverrider.h.

April 21, 2020

The following updates were made in this release:

Android Core 1.5.3

• Fixed a performance issue where the initialization of SDK extensions could block the main thread for a while.

iOS Core 1.6.1

• Added an internal enum for Cordova support.

April 9, 2020

The following updates were made in this release:

Android Core 1.5.2

• Fixed several security issues.
• Improved existing log messages and added additional logging to assist with debugging.

Android Lifecycle 1.0.3

• Fixed a bug where the Resolution was captured in non-English numerals.

April 2, 2020

The following updates were made in this release:

iOS Core 2.6.0

• Added support for overriding internal network stack with customer-provided implementation. For more information, see Override network stack.

March 16, 2020

The following updates were made in this release:

iOS Core 2.5.1

• Fixed a crash which happened in ADBJsonType::Get.
• Fixed a crash which happened in EventHubInner::CreateOrUpdateSharedStateCommon, the crash was introduced on the version 2.5.0.
• Fixed an internal issue where the SDK failed to create a Json array if it contains empty items.
• Improved log messages.

iOS Identity 2.2.1

• Fixed an issue where all Identity APIs with callbacks were subject to a timeout. Only Identity APIs which use a completionHandler callback are subject to a timeout.
• Improved existing log messages and added additional logging to assist with debugging.

iOS Signal 2.0.4

• Report extension details to Mobile Core for improved logging and Griffon support.
• Improved log messages.

iOS Lifecycle 2.0.4

• Report extension details to Mobile Core for improved logging and Griffon support.
• Improved log messages.

February 27, 2020

The following updates were made in this release:

Android Core 1.5.1

• Fixed a bug where AppID used non-arabic numbers as app versions.
• Fixed a bug where app version was not included in AppID on Android 9 or above devices.
• Added Wrapper Type for Flutter.

Android Signal 1.0.3

• Logging improvement
• Report extension details to Mobile Core for improved logging and Griffon support.

Android Lifecycle 1.0.3

• Logging improvement
• Report extension details to Mobile Core for improved logging and Griffon support.

February 19, 2020

The following updates were made in this release:

iOS Core 2.5.0

• Mobile Core now shares the list of enabled extensions and their meta data through shared state.
• Added Wrapper Type for Flutter.
• Exposed eventNumber and eventTimestamp in ACPExtensionEvent class.
• Added the following API to support the completion handler with an nullable NSError object:
  • getPrivacyStatusWithCompletionHandler
  • getSdkIdentitiesWithCompletionHandler

iOS Identity 2.2.0

• Report extension details to Mobile Core for improved logging and Griffon support.

• Added the following APIs to support the completionHandler callback that is available in iOS ACPCore version 2.5.0:

  • appendToURL:withCompletionHandler
  • getUrlVariablesWithCompletionHandler
  • getIdentifiersWithCompletionHandler
  • getExperienceCloudIdWithCompletionHandler

  When the completionHandler is used, and you are retrieving the Mobile SDK values, the timeout value is 500ms; if the operation times out or is not successful, an NSError is returned.

February 4, 2020

The following updates were made in this release:

Android Core 1.5.0

• Fixed a cursor leak.

• Mobile Core now shares the list of enabled extensions and their meta data through shared state.

• Fixed an issue where the advertising identifier was duplicated in the response to the MobileCore.getSDKIdentifiers API.

• Added support for overriding internal network stack with customer-provided code.

• Added a new interface with failure callback, AdobeCallbackWithError, which can be used with the MobileCore.getPrivacyStatus, MobileCore.getSdkIdentities methods.

  We plan to gradually add the ability to enable failure callback to the other extensions.

Android Identity 1.2.0

• Added support for the optional AdobeCallbackWithError callback that is available in Android Core version 1.5.0 on the following APIs:

  • appendVisitorInfoForURL
  • getUrlVariables
  • getIdentifiers
  • getExperienceCloudId

  When the AdobeCallbackWithError is used, and you are retrieving the Mobile SDK values, the timeout value is 500ms; if the operation times out or is not successful, an AdobeError is returned.

Released with sdk-core version 1.5.0.

January 27, 2020

The following updates were made in this release:

iOS Core 2.4.0

• Added a new property, eventUniqueIdentifier, to the ACPExtensionEvent class.
• Fixed an issue where the advertising identifier was duplicated in the response of the getSDKIdentifiers API.
• Fixed an issue where the SDK was trying to download the rules multipile times immediately after app launch.
• Fixed a crash on std::__1::system_error: mutex lock failed: Invalid argument.
• Fixed a bug where the iOS fullscreen message was unable to load cached images.

November 15, 2019

The following updates were made in this release:

iOS Identity 2.1.3

• Synced custom and advertising identifiers with nil or empty values are now cleared from Identity shared state and local storage. They are also not synced with the Experience Cloud ID (ECID) Service.
• Fixed a threading issue where the Experience Cloud ID (ECID) Service response was handled on an incorrect thread potentially causing a memory corruption crash.

These changes were released as part of ACPCore CocoaPod v2.3.6.

October 25, 2019

The following updates were made in this release:

Android Core 1.4.5

• Added support for attach data rules consequence.
• Added support for a boolean-type comparison for the Exist or Not Exist rules condition.
• Fixed a bug where the Exist and Not Exist rules condition might not work for a List or Map type value.
• Fixed a bug that, when fetching the remote config from Launch, might cause a crash on some Android devices.
• Fixed a bug that, when the data URL of an activity did not contain valid schema, might cause a crash.

Android Identity 1.1.2

• Fixed a bug where the default Experience Cloud Server hostname is now used when no value is configured in the SDK.
• Fixed a bug where multiple custom identifiers with same idType value were synced with the Visitor ID Service.
• Custom visitor identifiers can now be cleared from the SDK by providing a null/empty identifier value for a previously synced idType.

iOS Core 2.3.5

• Added support for attach data rules consequence.
• Added support for a boolean-type comparison for the Exist or Not Exist rules condition.

October 4, 2019

The following updates were made in this release:

iOS Core 2.3.4

• Fixed a crash that might have happened during app shutdown..
• Fixed a bug where, when the SDK is being used in multiple threads, the SDK might not function under a race condition..
• Fixed a bug where the downloaded rules zip file might not be decompressed.
• Fixed a bug where the getSdkIdentities API used wrong key names for the Push ID and IDFA.
• Removed the usage of UIWebView.
• Extension listeners with null/empty type or source is now invalid and will not be registered.

iOS Identity 2.1.2

• Fixed an issue where the push identifier is not contained in the Identity shared state on bootup.
• Fixed an issue where appendToUrl uses the incorrect query delimiter when the source URL contains a question mark in its fragment identifier component.

September 17, 2019

The following updates were made in this release:

Android Core 1.4.4

• Starting in API level 16, notifications now support BigTextStyle.
  • This enables long notifications to be displayed without being truncated.
• Fixed the locale string in the HTTP User-Agent to follow the BCP 47 specification.

September 9, 2019

The following updates were made in this release:

Android Identity 1.1.1

• Custom identifiers with null or empty IDs are ignored when calling the syncIdentifier or syncIdentifiers APIs because the Visitor ID Service does not support these identifiers.
• The syncIdentifiers API call is ignored when there is an empty Map.
• The duplicate advertising identifier value is removed from the Identity-shared state when MobileCore.setAdvertisingIdentifier is called with a new value.
• The global.ssl configuration settings are ignored, and SSL is enabled by default.
• Fixed an issue where appendVisitorInfoForURL uses the wrong query delimiter when the source URL contains a question mark in its fragment identifier component.