You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
PluginsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.224,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
A plugin whose cache directory is a 12-character hex name used to be treated as tracking a git ref, which meant it was re-fetched on every load. That check now also requires the plugin to come from a git source, so zip-archive plugins, whose cache directory is the first 12 hex characters of the archive digest, keep their pinned version.
Evidence
sourceHasPinnedSha
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
