2026.1-compatible stable add-on releases can already be submitted

[CyrilleB79]

Issue

In latest NVDA alpha (alpha-52951,121c221f (2026.1.0.52951)), the following stable add-on is available in the add-on store:
Éditeur : aryan choudhary
ID : audio_themes_NG
Version minimale de NVDA : 2024.1
Dernière version NVDA testée : 2026.1
Version disponible : 8.1
Canal : Stables
Page web : https://github.com/aryanchoudharypro/audiothemesNG
Licence : GPL v2
URL de la Licence : https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
URL de téléchargement : https://github.com/aryanchoudharypro/audiothemesNG/releases/download/8.1/audio_themes_NG-8.1.nvda-addon
URL du code source : https://github.com/aryanchoudharypro/audiothemesNG
URL des avis : #6699
Date de publication : 04/10/2025
VirusTotal scan results: 0 out of 68 malware scanners detected this add-on as potentially malicious.
VirusTotal scan URL: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/a1f6daab9f46c9725784d0900a9abd3de34915396ad4a8562446611c7a6bfe02

Expected

Since no NVDA 2026.1 beta release has been published yet, add-ons compatible with 2026.1 should only be publishable in the dev channel, not beta or stable.

Cc @seanbudd

[seanbudd]

Strangely, I cannot reproduce this locally, yet the job says no validation issues

.\runvalidate.bat ..\addon-datastore\addons\audio_themes_NG\8.1.0.json ..\addon-datastore-transform\nvdaAPIVersions.json  --output ./validationErrors.md
Validating ..\addon-datastore\addons\audio_themes_NG\8.1.0.json
Last tested version error: 2026.1.0 is not stable yet. Please submit add-on using the beta or dev channel.
Validation errors for ..\addon-datastore\addons\audio_themes_NG\8.1.0.json in ./validationErrors.md
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code
  File "D:\addon-datastore-validation\_validate\validate.py", line 399, in <module>
    main()
    ~~~~^^
  File "D:\addon-datastore-validation\_validate\validate.py", line 393, in main
    raise ValueError(f"Validation errors for {args.filePathGlob} in {errorOutputFile}")
ValueError: Validation errors for ..\addon-datastore\addons\audio_themes_NG\8.1.0.json in ./validationErrors.md

[seanbudd]

Based on https://github.com/nvaccess/addon-datastore/actions/workflows/validateAllAddons.yml, this broke sometime after Oct 1

[seanbudd]

This is now resolved by 1e0c3c2 ca8564d b364424

[seanbudd]

This should avoid issues in future: nvaccess/addon-datastore-validation#50