Reporting a Cask that is showing incorrect version? (soundsource)

[brian163]

Output of brew config

HOMEBREW_VERSION: 5.0.16
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
HEAD: a0bd077aafa7dcdf3562fa39afd0eb70f36af08c
Last commit: 5 days ago
Branch: stable
Core tap JSON: 07 Mar 16:44 UTC
Core cask tap JSON: 07 Mar 16:44 UTC
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /opt/homebrew
HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: []
HOMEBREW_DOWNLOAD_CONCURRENCY: 28
HOMEBREW_FORBID_PACKAGES_FROM_PATHS: set
HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 14
Homebrew Ruby: 3.4.8 => /opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/portable-ruby/3.4.8/bin/ruby
CPU: 14-core 64-bit arm_brava
Clang: 17.0.0 build 1700
Git: 2.50.1 => /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/git
Curl: 8.7.1 => /usr/bin/curl
macOS: 26.3.1-arm64
CLT: 26.3.0.0.1.1771626560
Xcode: 26.3
Metal Toolchain: N/A
Rosetta 2: false

Output of brew doctor

Your system is ready to brew.

Description of issue

Apologies in advanced, I'm not entirely sure where one should report this.

soundsource [https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/c51f326463ba7b097e80c90883da1b0dc7000258/Casks/s/soundsource.rb] is reporting version 6.0.5. However, this has not been released according to Rogue Amoeba's own site as well as the download URL found within the .rb file.

The proper version is still 6.0.4. I'm not sure if this is related to the Cask "auto updating"?

Also, I noted the "livecheck" code appears to be pointing to a URL that loads as an RSS feed showing only an old version (3.x). This may be related to a Sparkle process I'm not familiar with but I thought I would point it out.

Relevant casks

soundsource

[SMillerDev]

soundsource is reporting version 6.0.5

So you mean that the application thinks its version is 6.0.5? Because brew has no control over that

[brian163]

Sorry, "The cask for ...". In my head, I wrote it (small caps) as the cask was named (and included the link).

[SMillerDev]

The automation detected a version 6.0.5 yesterday in the app's update API (sparkle feed). If that version is announced on the website is hard to tell for us, but when Homebrew/homebrew-cask#252657 was merged 6.0.5 was available.

[brian163]

I appreciate the reply. I assume this means the developer started to post the new version and then retracted it. (There is no mention of it on their site and the current download from the URL in the .rb file is still 6.0.4.) I also assume there is nothing for Homebrew to do in this case as whenever the 6.0.5 or a subsequent version is released, the cask will be either correct or updated.

I wasn't sure what the cause was so I thought to report it. Thanks for the clarification/confirmation.

[bevanjkay]

I assume this means the developer started to post the new version and then retracted it.

This is the likely scenario. Sometimes developers will release new versions in waves to a small amount of users, to pick up any bugs before pushing to everybody. In this case it looks like @BrewTestBot picked up the release when it was available. Usually these kind of version pulls are quickly replaced, but if that's not the case here you could open a PR to downgrade the Cask file back to 6.0.4.