Password verification failed while generating signed bundle for my android app

Question

Now I need to enter key store password and key password every time I generate a signed bundle even with a checked "Remember passwords". It seems to appear with my new configuration of Android Studio 4.2 and Gradle 4.2.0

With the remembered passwords, I now got as the result of generating bundle "Password verification failed" With re-entering the passwords, the generation goes fine.

What went wrong ?

Update : new version 4.2.1 of Android Studio. Still I can't build two releases in a row :

21:29   Executing tasks: [:app:bundleRelease] in project D:\Android Studio Projects\Acme

21:30   Gradle build finished in 52 s 8 ms

21:30   Generate Signed Bundle
            App bundle(s) generated successfully for module 'Acme.app' with 1 build variant:
            Build variant 'release': locate or analyze the app bundle.

21:30   Executing tasks: [:app:bundleRelease] in project D:\Android Studio Projects\Acme

21:31   Gradle build failed in 34 s 262 ms

21:31   Generate Signed Bundle: Errors while building Bundle file. You can find the errors in the 'Messages' view.

Execution failed for task ':app:signReleaseBundle'. A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.FinalizeBundleTask$BundleToolRunnable Failed to read key acme_alias_name from store "D:\Android Studio Projects\acme\app\my-release-key.keystore": Keystore was tampered with, or password was incorrect

Answer 1

It's a bug introduced in the last studio version. Worked fine for years, with this version after generating a signed APK changing projects or modules results in this error on the next APK generation. They're corrupting the passwords, it's nothing to do with the file name.