App Store Connect CLI 5.4.0 lands 68 changes for safer agent automation

rudrank · x · 2026-09-19

App Store Connect CLI 5.4.0 is out with 68 changes, focused on new workflows, safer automation, and fewer dead ends for agents. Highlights:

Ambiguous lookups are no longer dead ends: errors print a bounded candidate list with resource IDs and the exact flag to disambiguate, covering apps, versions, builds, TestFlight, subscriptions, IAPs, signing, analytics, and more.
Three common read workflows auto-select a version: asc validate, asc metadata pull, and asc localizations list prefer the newest editable version, then removed-from-sale, then live.
Web commands need less ceremony: omitting --apple-id falls back to ASCWEBAPPLEID, the last cached session, then the only cached session; multiple cached accounts still fail with a list of choices.
Sign in with Apple keys manageable from the terminal: asc web sign-in-keys list/view use your Developer Portal web session and show whether the one-time private-key download is still available; creating a key saves the P8 privately with mode 0600, never printed or overwritten.
App Store Server Notifications configurable via CLI: asc apps update sets production and sandbox subscription-status URLs (both V2) without opening App Store Connect.

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