What's new at AppZung - May 2025 edition

Many behind-the-scenes improvements and ongoing work this month! While most changes weren’t user-facing, here are the notable updates:

AppCenter migration

AppCenter CodePush has finally been retired this month. AppCenter Analytics and Diagnostics will continue working until June 30, 2026.

This means that the automatic migration from AppCenter (appzung codepush migrate) now works only partially. Starting this month, you’ll need to recreate the release channels when migrating (previously known as “deployments” in AppCenter).

If you haven’t migrated yet, don’t worry – we’re here to help make the transition as smooth as possible!

Developer Experience

CLI

If you rely on your project’s package.json version for your native binary version, you can now use the --use-package-json-version flag instead of --target-binary-version or auto-detection from native files.

This addresses feedback from developers who prefer managing versions centrally in their package.json.

React Native module

Version 11 is now compatible with Android Proguard rules to help squeeze those last bits of app size optimization.

We know every kilobyte matters when it comes to mobile apps! (and we plan to improve CodePush in this regard)

Release management

Release archival

You can now archive releases directly from the web interface, giving you better control over your release management.

Since we’re beginning to accumulate many stored releases across our platform, we’ve introduced an automatic release archival process:

For projects marked as Production:

• We never archive the last release of each target binary version
• We archive releases older than 12 months

For other projects:

• We never archive the last release of the highest target binary version
• We archive releases older than 3 months

If these limits are too constraining for your use case, please contact us with your specific requirements and we’ll adapt the limits for your account.

Final words

While this month focused heavily on infrastructure improvements and maintaining compatibility as AppCenter winds down, we’re working on some exciting user-facing features for the next months.

Stay tuned for more significant updates in our next editions!