Two things it could not do, both needed now that a tag ships to production.
Release notes: it never sent `releaseNotes`, so Play's "What's new" was whatever
the previous release said. It now takes --release-notes-file, and refuses text
over Play's 500-char-per-language cap with the actual count — that check has to
happen before the upload, because the API only rejects it at commit, by which
point the AAB is already on Play.
Promotion: --promote assigns a versionCode that is already on Play instead of
uploading, so what reaches production is the byte-identical artifact the testers
ran. Rebuilding would mint a fresh versionCode from possibly-newer sources and
ship something nobody tested. --promote-from asserts the code really is on that
track (a typo'd versionCode now fails before it touches production) and clears
that track in the SAME edit, so the build is never active on both at once.
--user-fraction comes along because --status inProgress is an API error without
it; it is validated as strictly between 0 and 1 rather than left to Google.
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The uploader only caught HTTPError — a URLError (TLS "EOF occurred in
violation of protocol", the failure that dropped two release uploads on
2026-07-02) or a Google 5xx killed the job outright. Retry those with
3/9/27 s backoff; 4xx still fails fast. The edits API is transactional
until commit, so re-sending is safe.
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r0adkll/upload-google-play hides real API errors behind "Unknown error
occurred." Proved the full upload sequence (insert edit -> upload bundle ->
track update -> validate) succeeds with the service account, so the failure was
r0adkll's opaque error handling and/or a base64-encoded SERVICE_ACCOUNT_JSON
secret.
clients/android/ci/play-upload.py does the same sequence with stdlib + openssl
(no pip), reuses the SERVICE_ACCOUNT_JSON secret, tolerates it being raw JSON or
base64, auto-retries commit with changesNotSentForReview, and prints Google's
actual error. Locally dry-run-validated against the live app (both secret forms).
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