Did anyone get their snap store revert back to the old GNOME software fork? I noticed when I installed a software this weekend that it back to the old one 
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Same issue here. I think it was just reverted to the old Gnome Software application on my system after rebooting. There was a notification about a system update.
Yes, the latest/stable/ubuntu-23.10 channel seems to have been reverted back to 41.3-71-g709398e at some point yesterday.
I don’t see anything that would obviously indicate a major regression in the new App Center via their recent commits - perhaps something was going wonky between it and gnome-shell 45.1? Not sure where to check on that activity though.
Yes now I have Ubuntu-software on Ubuntu 23.10 and 24.04.
This has been fixed now, anyone tracking latest/stable/ubuntu-23.10 should get the correct version on the next refresh
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If you type snap info snap-store, what does the tracking: line say? If it says latest/stable/ubuntu-23.10, then you should be able to sudo snap refresh to make sure it pulls down the App Center version.
If you run snap refresh snap-store --channel=latest/stable/ubuntu-23.10 that should get you back on the right track.
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Thank you that worked.
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Hello! My flutter-based snap store was reverted to the old Gnome Software fork. I tried to change the channel to latest/stable/ubuntu-23.10, but the “bug” persisted.
Any ideas on how to get the old-new store back?
Hello hello @danielbmeireles , the way to get it back and avoid future reversions is to run
snap refresh snap-store --channel=2/stable
Or if you upgrade your release (as 23.10 is now out of support) it will migrate automatically as part of the upgrade process.
For more context… latest/stable is the original Ubuntu Software app and in previous releases, the new App Center was carried as a branch specific build for each release (eg /ubuntu-23.10)
Because Ubuntu 23.10 is end of life that 23.10 branch expired and moved you onto latest/stable by default.
To more clearly separate the apps we’ve split them into two tracks with 2/stable carrying the Flutter App Center and seeded on the distro going forward. I wrote about this in one of my dev cycle updates if you want to know more: Ubuntu Desktop’s 24.10 Dev Cycle - Part 4: August Update
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Wow, great explanation! Thank you so much for posting the answer!
BTW, I was able to revert to the Flutter-based store 
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So, will latest/stable ever point to new store app, on 24.04 onwards at least? Right now, when you “snap install snap-store” on 24.04, you will get old store. I found it a little weird, because on default 24.04 installation when you do:
snap remove snap-store
snap install snap-store
you get two different appplications before and after
Hey @marecki good and relevant questions, there are two components to this solution:
- Now that we are carrying the two variants in dedicated tracks rather than branches we can set
2/stableas the default channel so thatsnap install snap-storedefaults to the App Center for everyone, this change is being applied now. latest/stablewill need to stay as Ubuntu Software for the foreseeable future due to the risk of regression in older LTS’s where Ubuntu Software is still needed for firmware update management and wherelatest/stableis the default seed. Our current plan is to retroactively update those users to1/stable(the dedicated track for Ubuntu Software) but this needs careful messaging to the user that we are simply pointing to a new track rather than changing the snap binary itself (which is identical in both locations). This is something we want to discuss internally before rolling out to avoid confusion.
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