seanhowarthdev/Roam-Control v0.9.2-preview-build.60

Roam Control 0.9.2 Preview – Build 60

on GitHub

Build 60 – Background session redesign

Build 60 contains significant changes aimed at fixing location-session startup failures seen on some SideStore-resigned installations.

What was happening

SideStore can change Roam Control's bundle identifier when resigning the app.

On affected installations, the runtime bundle identifier could therefore differ from the background-task identifiers contained in the IPA. iOS could reject Roam Control's location BGTaskScheduler registration as a result.

In previous builds, that registration failure could prevent a fixed or walking session from starting.

What changed in Build 60

• Location BGTaskScheduler registration is now diagnostic only and no longer blocks location-session startup.
• Fixed and walking sessions now use an independent Core Location keep-alive while active.
• Location sessions no longer depend on successful BGTaskScheduler registration.
• Scheduler mismatches and registration failures are still retained in diagnostics and optional anonymous telemetry.
• Background keep-alive state is now included in Connection Health diagnostics.
• Stop & Restore, session completion and failures explicitly stop the keep-alive.
• Late permission callbacks after a session has stopped cannot restart it.
• Pairing, LocalDevVPN routing, RPPairing/DVT location simulation and walking calculations are otherwise unchanged.

Testing completed

Build 60 has been tested successfully on-device with:

• Fixed location simulation
• Walking simulation
• Backgrounding Roam Control
• Locking the device during an active session
• Returning to the app with the simulated location still active
• Stop & Restore and return to the real location
• Repeated session lifecycle handling
• Background keep-alive telemetry reaching receivingUpdates and stopping cleanly

The updated self-hosted telemetry ingestion, database fields, dashboard and CSV export have also been tested successfully with Build 60 events.

Automated tests covering scheduler independence, Core Location keep-alive lifecycle, failure handling, telemetry/privacy behaviour and release invariants also pass.

Why this is a pre-release

Build 60 is being published as a pre-release while we confirm the fix on SideStore installations that previously reproduced the bundle-identifier/BGTaskScheduler failure.

If you previously received “iOS cannot prepare the location session”, please test this build using the same SideStore setup.

If the problem remains, go to:

Settings → Connection Health → Copy Diagnostics

and include the copied diagnostics with your report.

Download

Install the attached RoamControl-0.9.2-build60.ipa through SideStore as normal.

SHA-256:

3667fef9a4c4bacda65e33691a6107c20febb93c229743230e01cb54c9856d14