App publishing temporarily on hold - Init

<body> <h1>App publishing temporarily on hold</h1> <p>Since August 3 we’ve been deploying the Windows Phone Dev Center, which includes a completely rebuilt backend infrastructure. In an <a href="http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2012/07/30/app-hub-maintenance-starts-friday-portal-downtime-planned-august-6.aspx">earlier post</a>, I mentioned the possibility that we might encounter some hiccups during this complex rollout and changeover. Today we did. </p> <p>This week we discovered an issue with our new digital certificates that’s caused us to temporarily stop publishing new apps. As my colleague Mazhar mentions in his <a href="http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2012/08/14/can-t-download-an-app-here-s-why.aspx" target="_blank">related post</a>, the issue impacts only phones that upgraded to Windows Phone 7.5 from an earlier version of the operating system and only apps published in the last couple of days.</p> <p>Some customers who try to download a new app may see an error message. If they’re attempting to update an existing app, they see a prompt to retry the update. We don’t recommend that people uninstall these apps because they might not be able to download and use them again until we deploy our fix.</p> <p>We’ve already identified the problem and are working to resolve it and resume certifying and publishing apps as quickly as possible. I apologize for any inconvenience caused by the publishing downtime and will update you when I have more news. We’ve also created a <a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/wpsubmit/thread/c8130598-715e-4277-918f-438a14111134" target="_blank">new thread</a> in our MSDN forums for your questions.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://windowsteamblog.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=585088" width="1" height="1" /> </body>