Usually pkcon and Discover handle flatpaks just fine, but lately I've been running into a few cases where both tools end up saying No Updates, yet the Updates plasma tray icon will correctly say there are still unhandled updates.

Demonstration of the problem:

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zebw@hostname:~$ sudo pkcon update -y; flatpak update
Getting updates               [=========================]         
Finished                      [=========================]         
No packages require updating to newer versions.
Looking for updates...
Updating in system:
org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/18.08                 flathub 5a03802b4550
org.freedesktop.Platform.Locale/x86_64/18.08          flathub 2b4e517a4a1a
org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/3.32                        flathub 871d8214cd0c
org.gnome.Platform.Locale/x86_64/3.32                 flathub 4358c87928c0
org.freedesktop.Platform.html5-codecs/x86_64/18.08    flathub dfca6ff90bc4
org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-340-107/x86_64/1.4 flathub 182c8421fd28
Is this ok [y/n]:

Anything I'm doing wrong, or bug?

Don't think you're doing anything wrong
The past few days discover/pkcon were not doing anything even though the update notification indicated updates
My update notification--a few minutes ago--said there were 7 updates
Discover only showed 4; I decided to do a konsole pkcon instead... and received 8 updates(!)
I'll wait and see how the next round of updates are handled

(pkcon is not a frontend for flatpak and has in fact nothing to do with flatpak in any form or fashion)

apachelogger wrote:pkcon is not a frontend for flatpak ...

That is true...
however I thought Discover did but so far it has yet to "discover" any flatpak updates
but a konsole flatpak update does the job just fine!

apachelogger wrote:(pkcon is not a frontend for flatpak and has in fact nothing to do with flatpak in any form or fashion)

Oh okay, I thought pkcon was simply the terminal counterpart to Discover. If not pkcon, is there any other wrapper for the terminal that can update distro, Flatpak and Snap all at the same time, like Discover can? That would be cool and consistent to have, I think.