Patches only?

[glacial apex]

Hello, can Shorebird be used only for patching the app without releasing it through Shorebird CLI?
I would like to have an option to push hot fixes quickly and without the review process, but I am not sure I want to release all the updates with Shorebird

[cedar forum]

Hey, recently we upgraded flutter version. Now we want to patch an older version which uses flutter 3.13.9 but how do i downgrade shorebird flutter version?

We have no new release made using the latest version.

I tried using

shorebird flutter versions use 3.13.9
Could not find a subcommand named "use" for "shorebird flutter versions".

but got the above error

[bitter solstice]

For a build to be able to recieve patches, it has to be released with shorebird

[glacial apex]

Thank you 🙂

[bitter solstice]

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[cedar forum]

That doesn't @bitter solstice , We had been using PaintingBinding.instance!.instantiateImageCodec(imageBytes) in older build which was depecrated in recent flutter release.

As per you, you mentioned it should automatically switch to the version that was used during the release (Which is 3.13.9).

But when we create patch we are getting following error:

shorebird patch android ./lib/main_production.dart --flavor production --staging
✓ Fetching apps (2.4s)
✗ Failed to build: You are applying Flutter's app_plugin_loader Gradle plugin imperatively using the apply script method, which is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Migrate to applying Gradle plugins with the declarative plugins block: https://flutter.dev/go/flutter-gradle-plugin-apply

You are applying Flutter's main Gradle plugin imperatively using the apply script method, which is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Migrate to applying Gradle plugins with the declarative plugins block: https://flutter.dev/go/flutter-gradle-plugin-apply

../../../../.pub-cache/git/story_view-7d273320a3b772eaf8cbbf17ffacae356924d9d4/lib/widgets/story_image.dart:49:35: Error: The method 'instantiateImageCodec' isn't defined for the class 'PaintingBinding'.
 - 'PaintingBinding' is from 'package:flutter/src/painting/binding.dart' ('../../../../.shorebird/bin/cache/flutter/25bc2b57a159f5b52385c4adb5c80f6ed25ae6d5/packages/flutter/lib/src/painting/binding.dart').
Try correcting the name to the name of an existing method, or defining a method named 'instantiateImageCodec'.
        PaintingBinding.instance!.instantiateImageCodec(imageBytes).then(
                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Target kernel_snapshot failed: Exception


FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Script '/Users/urvesh/.shorebird/bin/cache/flutter/25bc2b57a159f5b52385c4adb5c80f6ed25ae6d5/packages/flutter_tools/gradle/src/main/groovy/flutter.groovy' line: 1442

BUILD FAILED in 25s
Gradle task bundleProductionRelease failed with exit code 1

This tells that it is using new flutter version to create patch

[bitter solstice]

Alright, pinging @static delta to help you out when he's around