MS-Teams messaging extension versioning

Question

Hi there,
we are developing a messaging extension for MS-Teams. So we have a manifest file and a web-app (backend).
At the risk that this is a very ridiculous question, is it allowed (e.g. for store submission) to have a manifest-version which is different to the backend-version or must they be always equal?
For example, having a backend running on version 1.12.0 and a manifest version which runs on 1.3.0?

Thanks in advance
Andreas

Answer 1

@Andreas Zirngibl

This scenario is possible.
We don't have to provide a new manifest file (for store submission) every time we want to update our web-app service. We can simply update the web-app service and let the submitted manifest file untouched if we doesn't need any changes in this manifest file.

Ref Doc:

1. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/concepts/deploy-and-publish/appsource/prepare/submission-checklist
2. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/store/add-in-submission-guide?toc=%2Fmicrosoftteams%2Fplatform%2Ftoc.json&bc=%2Fmicrosoftteams%2Fplatform%2Fbreadcrumb%2Ftoc.json

Thanks,
Nivedipa

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