This bundle is invalid. Apple is not currently accepting applications built with this version of the OS. (Mavericks)

Question

I start by saying that I've installed Mavericks, I was curious to see the new features... It was better to wait, because (apparently) there are no sensational changes.

Anyway, I'm trying to submit my app to the app store, but after a real hard fight with the code-signing, I have ended up with this message:

"This bundle is invalid. Apple is not currently accepting applications built with this version of the OS."

....From what I read, the only solution seems to uninstall Mavericks and go back to Mountain Lion, but I will be happy if someone else has got a alternative fix.

Answer 1

After some research on Internet I've found a fix for this problem.

1) Open "App Store" and leave it for now.

2) press cmd+shift+g on your desktop and go to /system/library/coreservices/

2) Copy SystemVersion.plist to your desktop, and duplicate the file

3) Open the file with the right name on your desktop, not the copy, and replace the old part with this:

<key>ProductBuildVersion</key>
<string>12E55</string>
<key>ProductCopyright</key>
<string>1983-2013 Apple Inc.</string>
<key>ProductName</key>
<string>Mac OS X</string>
<key>ProductUserVisibleVersion</key>
<string>10.8.4</string>
<key>ProductVersion</key>
<string>10.8.4</string>

4) Now copy this edited file to /system/library/coreservices, and go to "App store" application.

5) Download Xcode 4.6.3, now you can because your OsX is detected as Mountain Lion.

6) Once the download its finish, and Xcode installed, reboot.

7) Open your project in xcode 5 beta, if you have some .xib files, go in the file inspector, document versioning, and change development version to 4.6 instead of 5. Do this for each .xib, then close xcode 5

8) Open Xcode 4.6.3 and reopen your project. Check in the build settings that 10.9 is not present anywhere. Replace it with 10.8 or whatever you need.

9) Make clean, Build for archiving, Archive ... Cross your finger!

10) Your project should be validated now.

11) Once you uploaded your app, rename the SystemVersion.plist (copy) on your desktop, and copy it back to /system/library/coreservices. You don't need to reboot.

It's kinda a hack, but if you don't want to reinstall everything, it's the only way to go.

P.s: after replacing SystemVersion.plist, you will notice strange behaviors in the Os, like safari that isn't working and so on, that's why I suggested to duplicate the plist file, before changing the os version. Anyway if you can still use terminal and "vi" to restore everything, if for some reason you didn't copy the original.

Hope this will help someone. I've lost a day figuring out a solution ;)