Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
PluginsArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.224,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Loading a plugin manifest now reports success, and reports failures separately for an unreadable file, invalid JSON and a manifest that does not match the expected shape. Success is not reported when the caller is only probing for a manifest.
Evidence
plugin_load_manifest_schema_invalid
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.