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  • New Features

    • Added native safe-area handling options, including viewport-fit hints, for improved edge-to-edge layouts.
    • Added scene storyboard configuration to iOS app templates.
    • Improved iOS lifecycle event delivery after web content loads.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Blocked navigation to internal HTTP proxy paths and restricted proxy interception to enabled configurations.
    • Improved handling of plugins without metadata and Android image capture callbacks.
    • Improved TypeScript configuration loading and Swift Package Manager updates.
  • Documentation

    • Updated release notes and System Bars guidance for the latest behavior.

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The pull request synchronizes Capacitor package metadata and release records with upstream, extends Android and iOS HTTP protections, updates SystemBars inset handling, adjusts iOS scene lifecycle behavior, and revises CLI migration and project tooling.

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Upstream release metadata

Layer / File(s) Summary
Release metadata and CI
.github/workflows/ci.yml, */package.json, */CHANGELOG.md, core/native-bridge.ts
CI job timeouts increase to 30 minutes. Package identities and changelogs move from the fork branding to upstream Capacitor. Several legacy bridge and formatting changes are removed or updated.

Android HTTP interception and plugin handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Android interceptor protections
android/capacitor/src/main/java/com/getcapacitor/Bridge.java, android/capacitor/src/main/java/com/getcapacitor/WebViewLocalServer.java, android/capacitor/src/androidTest/*
Android blocks internal interceptor navigation before plugin overrides. Document proxy requests are rejected, proxy responses receive a sandbox CSP, and instrumentation tests cover these paths.
Plugin and activity handling
android/capacitor/src/main/java/com/getcapacitor/Plugin.java, android/capacitor/src/androidTest/java/com/getcapacitor/android/TestHostActivity.java
Missing plugin annotations now produce warnings instead of permission-related null failures. Test setup enables CapacitorHttp and registers a plugin that attempts to allow interceptor navigation.

SystemBars inset handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
SystemBars configuration and inset processing
cli/src/declarations.ts, android/capacitor/src/main/java/com/getcapacitor/plugin/SystemBars.java, core/system-bars.md
SystemBars supports native, css, and disable inset modes plus initialViewportFitValueHint. It detects viewport coverage, listens on the decor view, applies native or CSS insets, and handles keyboard visibility.
Bridge and test cleanup
core/native-bridge.ts, android/capacitor/src/main/assets/native-bridge.js, ios/Capacitor/Capacitor/assets/native-bridge.js, android/capacitor/src/test/java/com/getcapacitor/plugin/SystemBarsTest.java
The Android DOM-ready SystemBars bridge is removed. Obsolete navigation-bar state tests and helpers are deleted.

iOS lifecycle and proxy behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scene lifecycle delivery
ios/Capacitor/Capacitor/CapacitorBridge.swift, ios/Capacitor/Capacitor/CAPSceneDelegateProxy.swift
Scene lifecycle events are filtered by window scene and forwarded only after subsequent web view loads complete. Pending scene connection data is redispatched after the first view-appearance notification.
HTTP proxy configuration and navigation
ios/Capacitor/Capacitor/WebViewAssetHandler.swift, ios/Capacitor/Capacitor/WebViewDelegationHandler.swift
Proxy requests require enabled CapacitorHttp configuration. Proxy responses retain headers and add a sandbox CSP. Navigation to the internal interceptor path is cancelled.
iOS templates and tests
ios-pods-template/App/App/Info.plist, ios-spm-template/App/App/Info.plist, ios/Capacitor/CapacitorTests/*, ios/Capacitor/Capacitor.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
Generated scene configurations include UISceneStoryboardFile: Main. XCTest coverage validates interceptor navigation for main frames, subframes, and normal in-app URLs.

CLI migration and project tooling

Layer / File(s) Summary
CLI configuration and platform updates
cli/src/declarations.ts, cli/src/ios/update.ts, cli/src/util/node.ts, cli/src/util/spm.ts
The CLI exposes the new SystemBars options, patches Swift package from versions per plugin, loads TypeScript configs through native ESM when required, and writes scene storyboard configuration.
UIScene migration and Xcode updates
cli/src/tasks/migrate-uiscene.ts, cli/src/tasks/migrate.ts, cli/src/util/xcode.ts, cli/src/tasks/run.ts
UIScene migration uses inline brace-depth scanning. The exported brace helper is removed. UIScene warnings apply only to @capacitor/ios, Xcode file registration uses addSourceFile, and live-reload errors only revert the Capacitor config.
CLI validation updates
cli/test/migrate-uiscene-plist.spec.ts, cli/test/migrate-uiscene-scan.spec.ts, cli/test/xcode.spec.ts
Tests validate the generated storyboard key and use the revised migration and Xcode helper behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Other

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant WebView
  participant Bridge
  participant HTTPInterceptor
  participant Plugin
  WebView->>Bridge: request internal interceptor path
  Bridge->>Bridge: block navigation before plugin override
  Bridge->>HTTPInterceptor: evaluate proxy request
  HTTPInterceptor-->>WebView: reject document request or return sandboxed response
  Plugin-->>Bridge: navigation override is not consulted for interceptor paths
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Possibly related PRs

  • Cap-go/capacitor-plus#120: It contains the same SystemBars safe-area configuration and inset-handling changes.
  • Cap-go/capacitor-plus#131: It contains overlapping upstream synchronization, package rebranding, UIScene, SystemBars, and HTTP interceptor changes.
  • Cap-go/capacitor-plus#133: It contains the same broad synchronization and overlapping CLI, UIScene, SystemBars, HTTP interceptor, and metadata changes.

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This synchronization currently cannot build: the command-line tool, the Android library, and the iOS framework each contain a compile-blocking error. It also republishes the project's packages under different names than the release tooling expects, and reverts several behaviors that apps rely on, including duplicate app resume/pause events, safe-area insets collapsing to zero on older Android WebViews, and failed iOS plugin version patching. These must be resolved before merging.

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🔴 Critical · Restore import UIKit. · CAPSceneDelegateProxy.swift:11

ios/Capacitor/Capacitor/CAPSceneDelegateProxy.swift:11
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔴 Critical | ⚡ Quick win

Restore import UIKit.

This file declares UISceneDelegate and uses UIKit types. Foundation does not define these symbols. The Capacitor target cannot compile without importing UIKit in this source file.

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In `@ios/Capacitor/Capacitor/CAPSceneDelegateProxy.swift` at line 11, Add the
UIKit import to CAPSceneDelegateProxy, which declares UISceneDelegate and uses
UIKit types; retain the existing Foundation import and other declarations
unchanged.
🔴 Critical · Remove the unresolved navBarVisible assignments. · SystemBars.java:326

android/capacitor/src/main/java/com/getcapacitor/plugin/SystemBars.java:326
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔴 Critical | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the unresolved navBarVisible assignments.

SystemBars extends Plugin, but neither class declares navBarVisible. The assignments at both navigation-bar branches are unresolved symbols and prevent Java compilation. Remove both assignments.

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In `@android/capacitor/src/main/java/com/getcapacitor/plugin/SystemBars.java` at
line 326, Remove the unresolved navBarVisible assignments from both
navigation-bar branches in SystemBars, leaving the surrounding navigation-bar
behavior unchanged.
🟠 Major · Remove the duplicate scene lifecycle observers. · CapacitorBridge.swift:267-283

ios/Capacitor/Capacitor/CapacitorBridge.swift:267-283
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the duplicate scene lifecycle observers.

setupCordovaCompatibility() registers two observer pairs for each scene notification. After a subsequent load, both pairs dispatch resume or pause for the same matching scene. Keep only the guarded observer pair.

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In `@ios/Capacitor/Capacitor/CapacitorBridge.swift` around lines 267 - 283, In
setupCordovaCompatibility(), remove the unguarded
UIScene.willEnterForegroundNotification and
UIScene.didEnterBackgroundNotification observers that call
triggerSceneLifecycleJSEvent. Retain only the guarded observer pair that matches
the notification’s UIWindowScene to the view controller’s window scene and calls
triggerDocumentJSEvent.
🟡 Minor · Restore the scene-specific readiness gate before consuming… · CAPSceneDelegateProxy.swift:21-39

ios/Capacitor/Capacitor/CAPSceneDelegateProxy.swift:21-39
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Restore the scene-specific readiness gate before consuming cold-start events. CAPBridgeViewController.viewDidAppear posts an unscoped notification, and CAPSceneDelegateProxy removes its observer before dispatching the captured connection options. In a multi-scene app, another scene can trigger this path while the captured scene is not loaded or attached. The URL or universal-link notification is then posted before that scene’s plugins can receive it, with no retry. Restore Self.isBridgeReady(for: scene) before removing the observer, along with isBridgeReady(for:) and findBridge(in:), in CAPSceneDelegateProxy.swift.

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In `@ios/Capacitor/Capacitor/CAPSceneDelegateProxy.swift` around lines 21 - 39,
Update the capacitorViewDidAppear observer in CAPSceneDelegateProxy to check
Self.isBridgeReady(for: scene) before removing the observer or dispatching
captured URL and user-activity events; leave the observer registered when the
captured scene is not ready so delivery is retried. Restore the
isBridgeReady(for:) and findBridge(in:) helpers and use them to perform the
scene-specific bridge readiness check.
🟡 Minor · Persist image-capture state before launching the camera. · BridgeWebChromeClient.java:405-425

android/capacitor/src/main/java/com/getcapacitor/BridgeWebChromeClient.java:405-425
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Persist image-capture state before launching the camera. showImageCapturePicker stores filePathCallback and imageFileUri only in instance-local variables. If activity recreation creates a new BridgeWebChromeClient, its activityListener is null, while the static fallback state is also unset. The activity result is then ignored, so the WebView file input does not receive a result.

At BridgeWebChromeClient.java:400-425, set pendingFilePathCallback, pendingImageFileUri, and pendingFileChooserType = FileChooserType.IMAGE_CAPTURE before activityLauncher.launch(takePictureIntent).

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In `@android/capacitor/src/main/java/com/getcapacitor/BridgeWebChromeClient.java`
around lines 405 - 425, Update showImageCapturePicker to persist
pendingFilePathCallback, pendingImageFileUri, and pendingFileChooserType as
FileChooserType.IMAGE_CAPTURE after preparing the capture intent and before
activityLauncher.launch, so the result can be restored after activity
recreation.

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In `@android/capacitor/src/main/java/com/getcapacitor/plugin/SystemBars.java`:
- Line 247: Update the non-passthrough path in SystemBars so injectSafeAreaCSS
receives the original insets rather than the zeroed newInsets, while continuing
to return newInsets to the view hierarchy. Add a regression test covering the
non-passthrough css path.

In `@android/capacitor/src/test/java/com/getcapacitor/plugin/SystemBarsTest.java`:
- Line 68: Update the SystemBarsTest helper to accept a hide boolean and
exercise the public show() and hide() APIs, including cases for all three hide
targets; retain assertions for the observable behavior across each branch.

In `@cli/src/ios/update.ts`:
- Around line 64-74: Remove the duplicate unguarded SPM patch block around
getCapacitorPackageVersion, including its version parsing and replacement logic,
so updatePluginFiles cannot reject before the guarded path. Retain the guarded,
validated handling in the existing path around lines 90-126, including
validation before calling major.

In `@cli/src/tasks/migrate-uiscene.ts`:
- Around line 146-147: Restore lexical Swift brace matching in the
delegate-method body logic near cli/src/tasks/migrate-uiscene.ts lines 146-147,
the configurationForConnecting logic near lines 231-234, and the AppDelegate
class-body logic near lines 252-254. Replace raw brace counting with the
existing lexical matcher so braces inside comments and string literals are
ignored at all three sites.

In `@cli/src/tasks/migrate.ts`:
- Line 449: Update the iOS dependency check in the migration notice flow to also
recognize `@capacitor-plus/ios`, preserving the existing behavior for
`@capacitor/ios` so the UIScene notice appears for either supported package.

In `@cli/src/util/node.ts`:
- Line 33: Remove the duplicate top-level requireTS declaration, keeping the
later implementation that includes the unsupported-syntax fallback. Ensure only
one requireTS symbol remains exported and preserve its existing behavior.

In `@cli/src/util/xcode.ts`:
- Line 23: Update the early-return logic around project.hasFile(fileRelPath) to
also verify that the file belongs to the app target’s sources phase before
returning { added: false }; only skip adding when both project-file existence
and target-source membership are confirmed.

In `@core/package.json`:
- Line 2: Restore the package name in the manifest from `@capacitor/core` to
`@capacitor-plus/core`, and apply the same naming correction to the Android and
iOS fork manifests so they use `@capacitor-plus/android` and `@capacitor-plus/ios`.
Preserve all other manifest fields.

In `@ios/Capacitor/Capacitor/CAPSceneDelegateProxy.swift`:
- Line 24: Update the .capacitorViewDidAppear observer callback to set the
captured token variable to nil immediately after removing the observer, using
the existing token cleanup flow to break the retain cycle.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@android/capacitor/src/main/java/com/getcapacitor/BridgeWebChromeClient.java`:
- Around line 405-425: Update showImageCapturePicker to persist
pendingFilePathCallback, pendingImageFileUri, and pendingFileChooserType as
FileChooserType.IMAGE_CAPTURE after preparing the capture intent and before
activityLauncher.launch, so the result can be restored after activity
recreation.

In `@android/capacitor/src/main/java/com/getcapacitor/plugin/SystemBars.java`:
- Line 326: Remove the unresolved navBarVisible assignments from both
navigation-bar branches in SystemBars, leaving the surrounding navigation-bar
behavior unchanged.

In `@ios/Capacitor/Capacitor/CapacitorBridge.swift`:
- Around line 267-283: In setupCordovaCompatibility(), remove the unguarded
UIScene.willEnterForegroundNotification and
UIScene.didEnterBackgroundNotification observers that call
triggerSceneLifecycleJSEvent. Retain only the guarded observer pair that matches
the notification’s UIWindowScene to the view controller’s window scene and calls
triggerDocumentJSEvent.

In `@ios/Capacitor/Capacitor/CAPSceneDelegateProxy.swift`:
- Line 11: Add the UIKit import to CAPSceneDelegateProxy, which declares
UISceneDelegate and uses UIKit types; retain the existing Foundation import and
other declarations unchanged.
- Around line 21-39: Update the capacitorViewDidAppear observer in
CAPSceneDelegateProxy to check Self.isBridgeReady(for: scene) before removing
the observer or dispatching captured URL and user-activity events; leave the
observer registered when the captured scene is not ready so delivery is retried.
Restore the isBridgeReady(for:) and findBridge(in:) helpers and use them to
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Insets safeAreaInsets = calcSafeAreaInsets(safeAreaSource);
injectSafeAreaCSS(safeAreaInsets.top, safeAreaInsets.right, safeAreaInsets.bottom, safeAreaInsets.left);
injectSafeAreaCSS(newInsets);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Inject CSS from the original insets.

The non-passthrough path sets all system-bar insets in newInsets to zero. Line 247 then injects those zero values as --safe-area-inset-*.

This breaks the documented css fallback for WebView versions below 140 and pages without viewport-fit=cover. Pass insets to injectSafeAreaCSS and return newInsets to the view hierarchy.

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-            injectSafeAreaCSS(newInsets);
+            injectSafeAreaCSS(insets);

Add a regression test for the non-passthrough css path.

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injectSafeAreaCSS(newInsets);
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In `@android/capacitor/src/main/java/com/getcapacitor/plugin/SystemBars.java` at
line 247, Update the non-passthrough path in SystemBars so injectSafeAreaCSS
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Method setHidden = SystemBars.class.getDeclaredMethod("setHidden", boolean.class, String.class);
setHidden.setAccessible(true);
setHidden.invoke(plugin, hide, bar);
setHidden.invoke(plugin, false, bar);

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Restore coverage for hide=true.

The helper now hardcodes false. The test suite can only exercise the three show branches, although the public hide() API still uses setHidden(true, bar).

Test show() and hide() through the public API. At minimum, restore a boolean helper parameter and add cases for all three hide targets.

Based on learnings, tests must verify observable behavior and cover non-happy paths.

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In `@android/capacitor/src/test/java/com/getcapacitor/plugin/SystemBarsTest.java`
at line 68, Update the SystemBarsTest helper to accept a hide boolean and
exercise the public show() and hide() APIs, including cases for all three hide
targets; retain assertions for the observable behavior across each branch.

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const iosPlatformVersion = await getCapacitorPackageVersion(config, config.ios.name);
const packageSwiftPath = join(plugin.rootPath, 'Package.swift');
let content = await readFile(packageSwiftPath, { encoding: 'utf-8' });
const regex = new RegExp(
'url:\\s*"https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor-swift-pm\\.git",\\s*from:\\s*"([^"]+)"',
);
const version = content.match(regex)?.[1];
const majorCapVersion = major(iosPlatformVersion);
if (version && major(version) != majorCapVersion) {
const preCapVersion = prerelease(iosPlatformVersion);
const forceVersion = preCapVersion ? iosPlatformVersion : `${majorCapVersion}.0.0`;

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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Remove the duplicate SPM patch loop. The unguarded getCapacitorPackageVersion call can reject updatePluginFiles before the guarded path logs a warning. The unvalidated from value also reaches major(version), which can throw for malformed versions. Retain the guarded and validated path at lines 90-126.

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In `@cli/src/ios/update.ts` around lines 64 - 74, Remove the duplicate unguarded
SPM patch block around getCapacitorPackageVersion, including its version parsing
and replacement logic, so updatePluginFiles cannot reject before the guarded
path. Retain the guarded, validated handling in the existing path around lines
90-126, including validation before calling major.

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Comment on lines 146 to 147
if (ch === '{') depth++;
else if (ch === '}') depth--;

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Restore lexical Swift brace matching.

The new loops count braces inside Swift comments and string literals. This can create false UIScene warnings, extract class content as a method, or prevent insertion into AppDelegate. Restore the prior lexical matcher and use it at each site.

  • cli/src/tasks/migrate-uiscene.ts#L146-L147: use lexical matching for the delegate-method body.
  • cli/src/tasks/migrate-uiscene.ts#L231-L234: use lexical matching for configurationForConnecting.
  • cli/src/tasks/migrate-uiscene.ts#L252-L254: use lexical matching for the AppDelegate class body.
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  • cli/src/tasks/migrate-uiscene.ts#L146-L147 (this comment)
  • cli/src/tasks/migrate-uiscene.ts#L231-L234
  • cli/src/tasks/migrate-uiscene.ts#L252-L254
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In `@cli/src/tasks/migrate-uiscene.ts` around lines 146 - 147, Restore lexical
Swift brace matching in the delegate-method body logic near
cli/src/tasks/migrate-uiscene.ts lines 146-147, the configurationForConnecting
logic near lines 231-234, and the AppDelegate class-body logic near lines
252-254. Replace raw brace counting with the existing lexical matcher so braces
inside comments and string literals are ignored at all three sites.

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Comment thread cli/src/tasks/migrate.ts
);
}
if (allDependencies['@capacitor/ios'] || allDependencies['@capacitor-plus/ios']) {
if (allDependencies['@capacitor/ios']) {

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Keep the UIScene notice for @capacitor-plus/ios.

When a project uses only @capacitor-plus/ios, this condition is false. The CLI then omits the Capacitor 8.5 UIScene migration notice for a supported iOS package. Restore the @capacitor-plus/ios condition.

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In `@cli/src/tasks/migrate.ts` at line 449, Update the iOS dependency check in the
migration notice flow to also recognize `@capacitor-plus/ios`, preserving the
existing behavior for `@capacitor/ios` so the UIScene notice appears for either
supported package.

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Comment thread cli/src/util/node.ts
* @see https://github.com/ionic-team/stencil/blob/HEAD/src/compiler/sys/node-require.ts
*/
function loadWithClassicCompiler(ts: typeof typescript, id: string): unknown {
export const requireTS = async (ts: typeof typescript, p: string): Promise<unknown> => {

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔴 Critical | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the duplicate requireTS declaration.

Line 33 declares requireTS, and Line 106 declares the same top-level const again. TypeScript fails with a duplicate block-scoped variable error. Keep one implementation. The later implementation includes the unsupported-syntax fallback.

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In `@cli/src/util/node.ts` at line 33, Remove the duplicate top-level requireTS
declaration, keeping the later implementation that includes the
unsupported-syntax fallback. Ensure only one requireTS symbol remains exported
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Comment thread cli/src/util/xcode.ts

const targetUuid = project.getFirstTarget().uuid;
if (project.hasFile(fileRelPath) && isSwiftFileInTargetSources(project, fileRelPath, targetUuid)) {
if (project.hasFile(fileRelPath)) {

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Check target membership before returning.

project.hasFile(fileRelPath) only confirms that the project has a file reference. If the file exists in the group but is absent from the app target sources phase, this returns { added: false } and leaves the file uncompiled. Restore the target-source membership check before the early return.

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In `@cli/src/util/xcode.ts` at line 23, Update the early-return logic around
project.hasFile(fileRelPath) to also verify that the file belongs to the app
target’s sources phase before returning { added: false }; only skip adding when
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@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
{
"name": "@capacitor-plus/core",
"name": "@capacitor/core",

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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rg -n --glob '!node_modules/**' --glob '!dist/**' '`@capacitor-plus/`(core|android|ios|cli)|"name": "`@capacitor/`(core|android|ios|cli)' core/package.json android/package.json ios/package.json cli/package.json scripts .github/workflows package.json lerna.json
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Restore the @capacitor-plus/* package names in the fork manifests.

The upstream-preferred conflict resolution changed the workspace names to @capacitor/*, but this fork's versioning and release tooling still use @capacitor-plus/*. The synchronization script therefore cannot find @capacitor-plus/core, dereferences corePkg.version, and skips the Android and iOS packages.

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  • @capacitor-plus/android
  • @capacitor-plus/ios
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var token: NSObjectProtocol?
token = NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(forName: .capacitorViewDidAppear, object: nil, queue: .main) { [weak self] _ in
guard let self, Self.isBridgeReady(for: scene) else { return }
token = NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(forName: .capacitorViewDidAppear, object: nil, queue: .main) { _ in

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When using the NotificationCenter method addObserver(forName:object:queue:using:), you must manually manage the lifecycle of the observer to avoid memory leaks and retain cycles [1][2]. Retain Cycle Semantics A retain cycle often occurs because of how the closure (block) and the returned observer token interact [3][1]: 1. The NotificationCenter holds a strong reference to the closure [3]. 2. The closure often captures the observer token (to remove it later) or captures self (to perform work) [3][1][4]. 3. If the closure captures the token strongly, and the token is stored in a property that the closure also captures (or if the closure is part of an object that owns the token), a retain cycle is created [3][1]. To prevent this: - Use [weak self] inside the closure if you need to access self [5][6]. - If you must capture the token inside the closure to remove it, be aware that this can create a cycle if the token is stored in a property of the object that the closure also captures [3][1]. A common pattern to break this is to set the token property to nil immediately after calling removeObserver(:) within the closure [7][3]. Manual Removal The NotificationCenter does not automatically remove block-based observers when the object that registered them is deallocated [1][2]. You must call removeObserver(:) or removeObserver(:name:object:) before the object is deallocated [8][2]. Best Practices - RAII Wrapper: A recommended approach is to create a small wrapper class (often called a NotificationToken) that stores the token and calls removeObserver(:) in its own deinit method [2]. By storing this wrapper as a property in your class, the observation is automatically cleaned up when your object is deallocated [2]. - Specific Removal: Always remove the observer using the most specific information available (e.g., the token itself) rather than removing all observers for an object, which can have unintended side effects [8][6].
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<title>NotificationCenter: One-time notification observer</title> https://thoughtsandcode.com/2021/03/14/notificationcenter-one-time-notification-observer/ NotificationCenter: One-time notification observer – Thoughts & Code Skip to content Thoughts & Code Menu # NotificationCenter: One-time notificationobserver Luigi ParpinelSenza categoria14 March 202114 March 20212 Minutes A while ago I found a small memory leak trying to use the pattern for implementing one-time notification observation described inApple’s documentation. Fixing this leak I went down the rabbit hole. In this article I’m only investigating the misleading documentation, I will investigate the possible cause of the memory leak in afuture post. The content of this post is a subset ofthis great article from Ole Begemann, but I’m analysing a slightly different use case. Apple’s documentation reports this example: *Another common practice is to create a one-time notification by removing the observer from within the observation block, as in the following example.* ``` let center = NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter() let mainQueue = NSOperationQueue.mainQueue() var token: NSObjectProtocol? token = center.addObserverForName("OneTimeNotification", object: nil, queue: mainQueue) { (note) in print("Received the notification!") center.removeObserver(token!) } ``` ***Note**:*I reported it as it is in the documentation, but if you try to use it you’ll see that you need some renaming to make it compile. The main issue is that the documentation does not specify the scope in which this code should be used. I find it a bit misleading because you can be tempted to use it in a class method like the following: ``` class MyClass { func registerOneTimeAction() { let center = NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter() let mainQueue = NSOperationQueue.mainQueue() var token: NSObjectProtocol? token = center.addObserverForName("OneTimeNotification", object: nil, queue: mainQueue) { \_ in print("Received the notification!") center.removeObserver(token!) } } } ``` The problem with the code above is that, even if the`token`is a local variable, it gets captured by the closure and the closure is retained by the`token`itself. This causes a retain cycle. This memory leak can be verified with instruments and I will investigate it further in another article. I will focus now on the scariest part of the issue: the closure lifecycle. As reported by Ole Begemann’s article back in 2018, you are still responsible of removing the observer by calling`removeObserver(\_:)`on the Notification Center. Right now (2021, I’m not sure if it was recommending this back in 2018), the documentation alerts you against this: *You must invokeremoveObserver(:)orremoveObserver(:name:object:)before the system deallocates any object thataddObserver(forName:object:queue:using:)specifies.* The example above removes the observer only inside the closure and since the token is used as a local variable you don’t have access to it in any other part of your class. The result is that the closure will continue to be registered even after the instance has been deallocated and it will deregister itself only after the first notification has been received. The main issue is that in the example we used a local variable to capture the token. In this way we lost access to the token and it made it impossible to deregister it before the object is deallocated. On top of that, if you call the function more than once you will register multiple one-time tokens without deregister the ones already registered. To solve this, the easiest way (not the cleanest) is to change your code like this: ``` class MyClass { private var token: NSObjectProtocol? deinit { if let token = self.token { NotificationCenter.default.removeObserver(token) } } func registerOneTimeAction() { let center = NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter() let mainQueue = NSOperationQueue.mainQueue() if let token = token { center.removeObserver(token) } token = center.addObserverForName("OneTimeNotification", object: nil, queue: mainQueue) { [[weak self] \_ in print("Re…[truncated] <title>Do you have to manually unregister block-based NotificationCenter observers? – Ole Begemann</title> https://oleb.net/blog/2018/01/notificationcenter-removeobserver/ Do you have to manually unregister block-based NotificationCenter observers? – Ole Begemann tl;dr: yes. (Tested on iOS 11.2.) A few weeks ago, I asked this question on Twitter: In iOS 11, is it still necessary to unregister block-based notification center observers? Apple docs are ambiguous: docs for addObserver(forName:object:queue:using:) say yes; removeObserver(_:) docs say it’s no longer necessary for iOS 9+. I received a lot of conflicting replies. The yes/no split was pretty close to 50/50. So let’s test what happens. # The problem The block-based API I’m talking about is NotificationCenter.​addObserver​(forName:​object:​queue:​using:). We register a function with the notification center that gets called when a matching notification comes in. The return value is an opaque token that represents the observation: ``` class MyObserver { var observation: Any? = nil init() { observation = NotificationCenter.default.addObserver( forName: myNotification, object: nil, queue: nil) { notification in print("Received \(notification.name.rawValue)") } } } ``` And the question is: will the notification center discard the block and stop notifying us when the`observation` token is destroyed (i.e. when the`MyObserver` instance is deallocated)? The new KeyPath-based KVO API works like this, so it would be somewhat understandable to expect notifications to work the same way. Or do we have to manually call NotificationCenter.​removeObserver(_:)(e.g. in`MyObserver`’s deinit)? # What the documentation says The selector-based observation API addObserver(_:​selector:​name:​object:) made manual unregistering optional in iOS 9/OS X 10.11. When that change was made, the Foundation release notes stated explicitly that the block-based observers still required manual work: Block based observers via the`-[NSNotificationCenter addObserver​ForName:​object:​queue:​usingBlock:]` method still need to be un-registered when no longer in use since the system still holds a strong reference to these observers. Has anything changed since then? The addObserver(forName:​object:​queue:​using:) documentation is also very clear that unregistering is required: You must invoke removeObserver(_:) or removeObserver(_:​name:​object:) before any object specified by`addObserver(forName:​object:​queue:​using:)` is deallocated. However, the removeObserver(_:) docs seem to contradict this: If your app targets iOS 9.0 and later or macOS 10.11 and later, you don’t need to unregister an observer in its`dealloc` method. This doesn’t make any distinction between the block-based and the selector-based API. # The test app I wrote a test app that allows you to inspect the behavior (via Xcode’s console) for various scenarios. The code is available on GitHub. Here’s what I found: Yes, you still have to unregister block-based observations manually (as of iOS 11.2). The documentation for`removeObserver(_:)` is at least misleading if not wrong. If you don’t unregister, the notification center will retain the observer block forever and keep invoking it for every incoming notification. Whether this will wreak havoc with your app depends on what you do in the block (and what objects the block has captured). If you do the unregistering in`deinit`, you must make sure not to capture`self` in your observer block. If you do, your`deinit` will never get called because the block retains`self`(preventing its destruction) and the notification center holds a strong reference to the block. Your object will live forever. # Automating unregistering What’s the best way to deal with this inconvenience? I suggest you write a small wrapper class for the observation token the notification center returns to you. The wrapper object stores the token and waits to be deallocated. Its only task is to call`removeObserver(_:)` in its own deinitializer: ``` /// Wraps the observer token received from /// NotificationCenter.addObserver(forName:object:queue:using:) /// and unregisters it in deinit. fi…[truncated] <title>What is a Notification Center token? Investigating a memory leak</title> https://thoughtsandcode.com/2021/03/14/what-is-a-notification-center-token-investigating-a-memory-leak/ What is a Notification Center token? Investigating a memory leak – Thoughts & Code Skip to content Thoughts & Code Menu # What is a Notification Center token? Investigating a memoryleak Luigi ParpinelSenza categoria14 March 20213 Minutes In a previous postI wrote about a potential misleading use of the block-based Notification Center observer API. In this article, I want to dig into the token returned by that API and investigate the possible reason why it generates a memory leak in certain conditions. I started this investigation because I found a memory leak due to the code provided inApple’s documentationas an example of a one-time notification observer. This is the leak in instruments: The code was looking like this: ``` func registerOneTimeAction() { let center = NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter() let mainQueue = NSOperationQueue.mainQueue() var token: NSObjectProtocol? token = center.addObserverForName("OneTimeNotification", object: nil, queue: mainQueue) { \_ in print("Received the notification!") center.removeObserver(token!) } } ``` I started wondering what could have been wrong since it looked quite straightforward. The first place where I usually look for more detailed information is Apple’s documentation and I found something interesting about the returned valueaddObserver(forName:object:queue:using:): *An opaque object to act as the observer. Notification center strongly holds this return value until you remove the observer registration.* Ok, thinking about the object graph I can see that the Notification Center is a singleton that’s retaining the closure and the closure captures the token local variable. But to understand better the relationship between the different objects I need first to clarify what the token really is. To understand more about the token, I checked its class and I discovered that it is a`\_\_NSObserver`. Since it starts with`\_\_`we know it is a private class, so to dig more into it I looked for its header that can be foundhere on GitHub As you can see, it is a subclass of NSObject. The most relevant part to understand the issue is the`block`ivar: `id /\* block \*/ block;` I immediately thought that the`block`ivar could have been a reference to the block that is registered as the closure on the notification center. To verify my hypothesis I had to play with pointers, dangerous casting and KVC. Please don’t try this at home 😆(I mean.. in production). This is the code I used: ``` // This specifies interoperability between Swift and C. typealias ObserverClosure = `@convention`(block) (Notification) ->> Void func actionRegisterObserver(\_ sender: UIButton) { let center = NotificationCenter.default let mainQueue = OperationQueue.main var token: NSObjectProtocol? token = center.addObserver(forName: notificationName, object: nil, queue: mainQueue) { \_ in print(“Received the notification!”) center.removeObserver(token!) } let t = token as! NSObject // Take the value of the ivar called "block" using KVC let block = t.value(forKey: “block”) // Cast the pointer to a closure let blockPtr = UnsafeRawPointer(Unmanaged<<AnyObject>>.passUnretained(block as AnyObject).toOpaque()) let closure = unsafeBitCast(blockPtr, to: ObserverClosure.self) // Create the notification to be passed as closure argument let notification = Notification(name: notificationName) // Call the closure closure(notification) } ``` The result of the above code is that “Received the notification!” was printed in the console (I double checked with breakpoint as well) as soon as`closure(notification)`was executed. Now the object graph is more clear and it looks a bit more complicated: * the Notification Center retains the block * the token retains the block too * the block has a reference to the token, so it retains it. The problem here is that the token and the closure have a reference to each other and this is causing a retain cycle because both are reference types. The …[truncated] <title>Retain cycles when using addObserverForName:object:queue:usingBlock:</title> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27250524/retain-cycles-when-using-addobserverfornameobjectqueueusingblock # Retain cycles when using addObserverForName:object:queue:usingBlock: Tags: ios, objective-c, cocoa, objective-c-blocks - Score: 1 - Views: 1130 - Answers: 1 - Asked by: dreamhome (11 rep) - Asked: 2014-12-02 - Edited: 2017-05-23 - Site: stackoverflow ## Question I am new to programming with block. I have following code (not using arc) in my Listener class: - (void)someBlock:((void)^(NSDictionary *)myDictionary)myBlock { __block Listener *weakSelf = self; weakSelf = [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserverForName:@"MyNotification" object:nil queue:nil usingBlock:^(NSNotification *note) { //--- Here have the retain cycles myBlock(note.userInfo); [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:weakSelf name:@"MyNotification"]; }]; } and in my DoMyStuff class: ... some code Listener *myListener = [[[Listener alloc] init] autorelease]; [myListener someBlock:((void)^(NSDictionary *)myDictionary)myBlock{ [self.someProperty doSomething:myDictionary]; }]; Can anyone tell me the right direction to solve the retain cycles? I have checked these two questions "Correct management of addObserverForName:object:queue:usingBlock:" "Why doesn&`#39`;t Remove Observer from NSNotificationCenter:addObserverForName:usingBlock get called" but they did not use block inside another block, so, the solutions there don&`#39`;t work for me. ## Answers ### Answer by Timur Kuchkarov (score: -1) The problem here is that you are using [self.someProperty doSomething:myDictionary]; inside block thus retaining self. Note that using ivars will lead to retain cycles as it&`#39`;s the same as self-ivar. Usually it looks like this (__weak/__unsafe_unretained is for ARC, __block for MRR) __weak ClassName *weakSelf = self; [SomeClass someMethodWithBlock:^{ // use weakSelf here; if you want to make sure that self is alive throughout whole block, do something like ClassName *strongSelf = weakSelf; }]; There is nice library https://github.com/jspahrsummers/libextobjc which has `@weakify/`@strongify macroses for this(probably ARC only). Also you should use ARC if possible(it is available from iOS 4, if I remember correctly and has __weak from iOS 5, which should be fine these days).

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Clear the observer token after removal.

token is a captured local variable. The observer token retains the block, and the block retains the captured token storage. Set the captured variable to nil after removing the observer to break this cycle.

if let observerToken = token {
    NotificationCenter.default.removeObserver(observerToken)
    token = nil
}
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In `@ios/Capacitor/Capacitor/CAPSceneDelegateProxy.swift` at line 24, Update the
.capacitorViewDidAppear observer callback to set the captured token variable to
nil immediately after removing the observer, using the existing token cleanup
flow to break the retain cycle.

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