New "For Purchase" item doesn't show up in "What's New"

There are two bugs that I think are important enough to be fixed in 3.1 along with the introduction of ratings and reviews. Bug 639701 is one. This is the other. What's New" is one of the most noticable elements when USC is first launched, it's not doing what it claims to be doing, and it's quite possibly costing purchases.

Screenshot showing natty's test for-purchase app Hello X Adventure now showing up in What's New (taken while running the attached branch).

This bug was fixed in the package software-center - 3.1.21

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software-center (3.1.21) natty; urgency=low

  [ Aaron Peachey ]
  * lp:~aaronp/software-center/reviews-usefulness:
    - view/appdetailsview_gtk.py: string updates in line with spec
  * softwarecenter/view/softwarepane.py:
    - quick string fix to remove space between text and question marks
      in search result suggestion strings (LP: #725966)
  * softwarecenter/view/appdetailsview_gtk.py:
    - usefulness label updates (LP: #725679)
  * view/appdetailsview_gtk.py:
    - display name used for reviews instead of username (LP: #713013)

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * merged lp:~mvo/software-center/weblive that contians the remaining
    bit of the weblive support, this is disabled by default and you need
    to run software-center --with-weblive to enable it
  * utils/update-software-center:
    - fix typo in loghandler, thanks to Stephane Graber
  * merged lp:~gary-lasker/software-center/deauth_username, many thanks
  * softwarecenter/view/appdetailsview_gtk.py:
    - expose usefulness UI
  * softwarecenter/db/reviews.py:
    - deal properly with "Not modified" return value
  * merged lp:~mmcg069/software-center/detailsview-stuff

  [ Matthew McGowan ]
  * fix hang in appdetails view
  * improve presentation of the application details
  * reduce flickering in the detailsview

  [ Gary Lasker ]
  * softwarecenter/enums.py,
    softwarecenter/backend/aptd.py:
    - fix transaction-started for broken depends case (LP: #724321)
  * softwarecenter/db/database.py:
    - fix crash when deauthorizing computer (LP: #726876)
  * softwarecenter/db/update.py,
    test/test_appview.py,
    test/test_database.py:
    - track cataloged_time for items not in axi (e.g. for-purchase apps)
      so that they will show up in What's New, add/modify unit tests
      per the changes (LP: #684077)
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:51:34 +0100

Accepted software-center into maverick-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

I've verified the fix in maverick-proposed per the stated test procedure and all seems fine. Thanks!

This bug was fixed in the package software-center - 3.0.9

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software-center (3.0.9) maverick-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Gary Lasker ]
  * softwarecenter/db/update.py,
    test/test_appview.py,
    test/test_database.py:
    - track cataloged_time for items not in axi (e.g. for-purchase apps)
      so that they will show up in What's New, add/modify unit tests
      per the changes (LP: #684077)
    - fix icon display that have a "." in it (LP: #745942)
  * softwarecenter/db/update.py,
    softwarecenter/view/appdetailsview_gtk.py,
    test/test_downloader.py:
    - fix screenshot issues for apps for purchase and update unit
      test (LP: #791932)

  [ Olivier Tilloy ]
  * softwarecenter/apt/apthistory.py:
    - fix startup crash if the history file is corrupted (LP: #725186)
 -- Gary Lasker <email address hidden> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:35:43 -0400