Flutter Version Management

When Shorebird CLI is installed, it pulls down the latest stable version of Shorebird’s Flutter. In this section, we’ll take a look at how to list and change the Flutter version used by Shorebird CLI.

Supported Flutter Versions

Note

Shorebird currently focuses our efforts on support for the latest stable version of Flutter. When we make changes to Shorebird we do not currently backport those changes to previous release of Flutter.

Shorebird supports creating a release with older versions of Flutter (back to 3.10.0 for Android or 3.22.3 for iOS), a release created with one of these versions may not contain all of the most recent Shorebird features. Because of this, we recommend using the latest stable version of Flutter whenever possible.

List Flutter Versions

To list all Flutter versions Shorebird has published, use the shorebird flutter versions list command:

$ shorebird flutter versions list
📦 Flutter Versions
✓ 3.22.3
  3.22.2
  3.22.1
  3.22.0
  3.19.6
  3.19.5
  3.19.4
  3.19.3
  3.19.2
  3.19.1
  3.19.0-0.4.pre
  3.19.0
  3.16.9
  3.16.7
  3.16.5
  3.16.4
  3.16.3
  3.13.9
  3.13.8
  3.13.7
  3.13.6
  3.13.5
  3.13.4
  3.13.3
  3.13.2
  3.13.1
  3.13.0
  3.10.6
  3.10.5
  3.10.4
  3.10.3
  3.10.2
  3.10.1
  3.10.0

Note

The Flutter version used by shorebird release by default is marked with a ✓.

Tip

Another way to see the current Flutter version is by running shorebird --version.

Use a Different Flutter Versions

By default, Shorebird will use the latest stable version of Flutter. If you need to create a release with a different version of Flutter, you can use the --flutter-version option with the shorebird release command:

shorebird release android --flutter-version=3.10.6

Any patches created with this release will be built with the version of Flutter used by the release.

Note

Only the release command supports the --flutter-version option. Patches will always be built with the version of Flutter used by the release.

Supported Functionality

At this time, not all functionality is supported for each Flutter version.

Android requires Flutter 3.10.0 or later.

package:shorebird_code_push requires Flutter 3.10.6 or later.

iOS requires Flutter 3.22.3 or later.

Disabled Flutter Versions

June, 11, 2024: Disabled releasing and patching for iOS 3.19.5 - 3.22.1 due to a bug where “try/catch” clauses would not always run the “catch” block after an exception was thrown. This bug only affected iOS apps after patching.

April 8, 2024: Disabled releasing for iOS 3.10.6 - 3.19.4 due to various crashers found in previous iOS releases. Patching continues to be supported.