Creating a new app version with iTMSTransporter

Question

I am writing a script that uses the iTMSTransporter command-line application to create and upload iOS application metadata for the iOS App Store. However, it's failing in the most bizarre way with little of any helpful information.

Apple's web service operation was not successful
Unable to authenticate the package: Benders.itmsp
ERROR ITMS-4157: "Version '2.1.10' is not valid for update or doesn't exist" at Software/SoftwareMetadata (MZItmspSoftwareMetadataPackage)

Of course version 2.1.10 doesn't exist--that's what I'm trying to create! Is there some kind of special flag that is needed to create new versions of an app at the command line? I've scoured the -help documentation in the tool itself, but can see no such argument.

I feel like I've just run into a brick wall. Googling has turned up nothing.

Answer 1

Does the version info you've submitted to Apple match what you've supplied in your package?

See:

• Submitting the App
• Replacing Your App with a New Version

Answer 2

As far as I'm concerned it is at the moment not possible to create new versions of your app with the command line tools (iTMSTransporter). You have to do this manually with iTunesconnect. Once the version exists on ITC, you can upload your data with iTMS.

That said the workflow is really bad here, because you cannot do all the important stuff with the command line tool and we are still depending on the moods of ITC.