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Asked: 2026-05-23T09:34:31+00:00

Yes, this is very related to this question , yet I think that question

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Yes, this is very related to this question, yet I think that question is adequately answered for XCode 3. Not sure if this should be merged or not.

So – Using similar instructions from there, I’ve long had the nice effect of having build numbers encoded into archived .ipa files, such that Organizer shows versions like “1.0.3281” (where 3281 is the revision via the below build script attached to my iOS target):

REV=`svnversion -nc | /usr/bin/sed -e 's/^[^:]*://;s/[A-Za-z]//'`
echo "REV=$REV"
echo "#define kRevisionNumber @\"$REV\"" > ${PROJECT_DIR}/revision.h
echo "INFOPLIST_PATH=${INFOPLIST_PATH}"

BASEVERNUM=`/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print :CFBundleVersion" "${INFOPLIST_FILE}" | sed 's/,/, /g'`
echo "BASEVERNUM=$BASEVERNUM"
PLISTARG1="Set :CFBundleVersion $BASEVERNUM.$REV"
echo "PLISTARG1=$PLISTARG1"

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "$PLISTARG1" "${TARGET_BUILD_DIR}"/${INFOPLIST_PATH}

However, XCode 4 (which I’ve since come to love) clearly needs some tweaking, as this magic only sort-of works. Here is the result of the scripts above.

REV=3281
INFOPLIST_PATH=Foo.app/Info.plist
BASEVERNUM=1.0
PLISTARG1=Set :CFBundleVersion 1.0.3281

And I can see by looking in ~/Library/…/Foo.app/Info.plist that yes, it did update the right version:

<key>CFBundleVersion</key>
<string>1.0.3281</string>

So clearly there is an additional file needing updating.. perhaps in the .xcarchive? Any suggestions on where to drill into first?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m not sure about the archive angle, but the following is working for me in Xcode 4 (i.e. my app is listed in organiser as Foo 1.0.307)

    1. Manually set the CFBundleShortVersionString (aka “Bundle versions string, short”) value in your info.plist to your major.minor build number (e.g. 1.0)

    2. Add a ‘run script’ build phase to your project with the following script

      REV=`svnversion -nc | /usr/bin/sed -e 's/^[^:]*://;s/[A-Za-z]//'`
BASEVERNUM=`/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print :CFBundleShortVersionString" "${INFOPLIST_FILE}"`
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set :CFBundleVersion $BASEVERNUM.$REV" "${INFOPLIST_FILE}"

    3. Clean and build (the Clean step forces Xcode to reprocess the info.plist).

    BTW you can also access this version number inside your app (e.g. on your ‘about’ page) using [[NSBundle mainBundle] objectForInfoDictionaryKey:@"CFBundleVersion"]

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