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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Hi @local-optimum, the issue still happened on Ubuntu 25.04.
I did snap refresh and the app center reverted to ubuntu software even though it says tracking ‘latest/stable/ubuntu-25.04’ .
sv@plucky-vbox:~$ snap info snap-store
name: snap-store
summary: Snap Store is a graphical desktop application for discovering, installing and managing
snaps on Linux.
publisher: Canonical✓
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/snap-store
contact: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snap-store/
license: unset
description: |
Snap Store showcases featured and popular applications with useful descriptions, ratings, reviews
and screenshots.
Applications can be found either through browsing categories or by searching.
Snap Store can also be used to switch channels, view and alter snap permissions and view and
submit reviews and ratings.
Snap Store is based on GNOME Software, optimized for the Snap experience.
commands:
- snap-store
- snap-store.ubuntu-software
- snap-store.ubuntu-software-local-file
snap-id: gjf3IPXoRiipCu9K0kVu52f0H56fIksg
tracking: latest/stable/ubuntu-25.04
refresh-date: yesterday at 22:36 IST
channels:
2/stable: 0+git.90575829 2025-04-02 (1270) 11MB -
2/candidate: ↑
2/beta: ↑
2/edge: 0+git.506cb2c3 2025-04-24 (1279) 11MB -
latest/stable: 41.3-72-g80e7130 2024-09-22 (1216) 12MB -
latest/candidate: ↑
latest/beta: ↑
latest/edge: 0+git.506cb2c3 2025-04-24 (1279) 11MB -
preview/stable: –
preview/candidate: 0.2.7-alpha 2023-02-02 (864) 10MB -
preview/beta: ↑
preview/edge: 0.3.0-alpha 2023-08-14 (1017) 11MB -
1/stable: 41.3-72-g80e7130 2024-09-22 (1216) 12MB -
1/candidate: ↑
1/beta: ↑
1/edge: 41.3-72-g80e7130 2024-09-16 (1216) 12MB -
installed: 41.3-72-g80e7130 (1216) 12MB -
I did sudo snap refresh --channel=2/stable snap-store and the new software center is back.
sv@plucky-vbox:~$ snap info snap-store
name: snap-store
summary: Snap Store is a graphical desktop application for discovering, installing and managing
snaps on Linux.
publisher: Canonical✓
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/snap-store
contact: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snap-store/
license: unset
description: |
Snap Store showcases featured and popular applications with useful descriptions, ratings, reviews
and screenshots.
Applications can be found either through browsing categories or by searching.
Snap Store can also be used to switch channels, view and alter snap permissions and view and
submit reviews and ratings.
Snap Store is based on GNOME Software, optimized for the Snap experience.
commands:
- snap-store.show-updates
- snap-store
snap-id: gjf3IPXoRiipCu9K0kVu52f0H56fIksg
tracking: 2/stable
refresh-date: today at 08:09 IST
channels:
2/stable: 0+git.90575829 2025-04-02 (1270) 11MB -
2/candidate: ↑
2/beta: ↑
2/edge: 0+git.506cb2c3 2025-04-24 (1279) 11MB -
latest/stable: 41.3-72-g80e7130 2024-09-22 (1216) 12MB -
latest/candidate: ↑
latest/beta: ↑
latest/edge: 0+git.506cb2c3 2025-04-24 (1279) 11MB -
preview/stable: –
preview/candidate: 0.2.7-alpha 2023-02-02 (864) 10MB -
preview/beta: ↑
preview/edge: 0.3.0-alpha 2023-08-14 (1017) 11MB -
1/stable: 41.3-72-g80e7130 2024-09-22 (1216) 12MB -
1/candidate: ↑
1/beta: ↑
1/edge: 41.3-72-g80e7130 2024-09-16 (1216) 12MB -
installed: 0+git.90575829 (1270) 11MB -
Shouldn’t ‘2/stable’ be the default tracking for new releases? Or is it already, and issue was on my side?
I must add that I installed 25.04 via Ubuntu-MATE iso and then installed ‘ubuntu-desktop’ afterwards. But UM also had the newer app center (tracking ‘latest/stable/ubuntu-25.04’), not the old version.