Xcode 14.3 distribution fails after successful archive

What's happened to Xcode 14.3 on M1 Macs? Distributing Enterprise and Ad Hoc apps is broken!

I can successfully archive an app, as usual, but when I come to distribute it I see an unhelpful error message:

"The operation couldn’t be completed. (AppThinning.StubError error 1.)"

Digging around in the logs reveals this in IDEDistribution.verbose.log:

023-04-17 12:16:50 +0000  Output: ruby 2.6.10p210 (2022-04-12 revision 67958) [universal.arm64e-darwin22]
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/SharedFrameworks/AppThinning.framework/Resources/ipatool:4135: warning: assigned but unused variable - prev
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/CFPropertyList-3.0.5/lib/cfpropertylist/rbCFPropertyList.rb:83: warning: assigned but unused variable - temp
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:65:in `require': dlopen(/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/date-3.2.2/lib/date_core.bundle, 0x0009): tried: '/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/date-3.2.2/lib/date_core.bundle' (mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have 'x86_64', need 'arm64')), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/date-3.2.2/lib/date_core.bundle' (no such file), '/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/date-3.2.2/lib/date_core.bundle' (mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have 'x86_64', need 'arm64')) - /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/date-3.2.2/lib/date_core.bundle (LoadError)
	from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:65:in `require'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/date-3.2.2/lib/date.rb:4:in `<top (required)>'
	from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:65:in `require'
	from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:65:in `require'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/CFPropertyList-3.0.5/lib/cfpropertylist/rbCFPropertyList.rb:4:in `<top (required)>'
	from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:65:in `require'
	from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:65:in `require'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/CFPropertyList-3.0.5/lib/cfpropertylist.rb:3:in `<top (required)>'
	from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:130:in `require'
	from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:130:in `rescue in require'
	from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:34:in `require'
	from /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/SharedFrameworks/AppThinning.framework/Resources/ipatool:15:in `<main>'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require': cannot load such file -- cfpropertylist (LoadError)
	from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require'
	from /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/SharedFrameworks/AppThinning.framework/Resources/ipatool:15:in `<main>'
2023-04-17 12:16:50 +0000  JSON: error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=260 "The file “ipatool.json” couldn’t be opened because there is no such file." UserInfo={NSFilePath=/var/folders/m9/3l7lxg4n67q9q9fmg_bdmj080000gn/T/IPATool.rg7VXjk/ipatool.json, NSUnderlyingError=0x60000bf48fc0 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=2 "No such file or directory"}}

It looks like at least one of the Ruby Gems (date_core.bundle) is missing the 'arm64' architecture, but as we can no longer open Xcode 14.3 under Rosetta, it means this tool is now broken...?

Anyone else seen this issue?

Somebody from Apple can help us?

Yes. I too face the same issue when trying to build adhoc apps through fastlane

Same problem here, but with intel mac and 14.2 xcode.

having the same issue, cannot build for development and ad hoc but can build for app store connect

I am getting same error in XCode 15.0.1, is there anyone finds solution for this?

$ gem install CFPropertyList
$ gem install sqlite3

More details here.

Xcode 14.3 distribution fails after successful archive
 
 
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