Updating available options of enumeration preference

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At first, I had this in my device profile…

preferences:
  - name: presentation
    title: Presentation
    required: true
    preferenceType: enumeration
    definition:
      options:
        normal_multi_switch_v6: Normal
        switch_all_multi_switch_v6: Normal + Switch All
        custom_multi_switch_v6: Custom
      default: normal_multi_switch_v6

Then I decided to include a new option…

preferences:
  - name: presentation
    title: Presentation
    required: true
    preferenceType: enumeration
    definition:
      options:
        normal_multi_switch_v6: Normal
        switch_all_multi_switch_v6: Normal + Switch All
        custom_multi_switch_v6: Custom
        generic_ef00_v1: Generic # <-- this is the new option
      default: normal_multi_switch_v6

But the new option refused to show up in the list.

Then I decided to duplicate this preference and created presentation2 and magically the options list updated in both preferences (presentation and presentation2)

Then I just removed presentation2 and the options list of presentation returned to the initial 3 options.
I thought it could be cache, then I cleaned cache, removed driver, waited 24 hours and nothing changed.

So my question is: What do I need to do to update the options list of an old preference without having to create a new fake preference ?

EDIT: I added a description to the preference and it forced updating the options list.
So, probably, I will need to play with trailing spaces in order to force updating the preference.

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Try to restart the hub

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This issue is already reported, the other way to update it I’ve seen is when I delete the driver package completely, change its packageKey and package it again.
I don’t know if now changing the text of the description field would force a refresh as it already exists.

If you look at the device profile generated for the device (smartthings deviceprofiles profiled -y), it still has the previous configuration, so, it is not solved by clearing the app’s cache because it’s showing what is in the profile’s metadata.

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I just had to include another option and it didn’t show up.

Then I added a trailing space in the description and it worked!

Changed this:

description: Recommended only for testing whether your device is compatible or not with the ones already predefined.

To this:

description: "Recommended only for testing whether your device is compatible or not with the ones already predefined. "

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