{"version":"2.1.224","anchor":"plugins-can-be-installed-from-a-zip-archive","canonical_anchor":"plugins-can-be-installed-from-a-zip-archive","heading":"Plugins can be installed from a zip archive","tier":"use","area":"Plugins","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.224\/e\/plugins-can-be-installed-from-a-zip-archive","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.224","markdown":"### Plugins can be installed from a zip archive\n\nMarketplaces can offer plugins as zip downloads with an optional sha256 pin that doubles as the version.\n\n**What**\n\nA marketplace entry can now point at a plugin as an `archive`: an HTTPS URL for a zip file, with an optional `sha256` digest. The digest is checked on every download and also serves as the plugin's version identity, so a changed archive is a changed version. This source type is always available, not gated.\n\n**Details**\n\n- If the zip contains a single wrapping directory, it is stripped so the plugin's files land at the top level.\n- Archives must be served over HTTPS.\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`HTTPS URL of a zip archive containing the plugin.`\n\n- Area: Plugins\n- Names: `archive`, `sha256`\n- Tier: Use it now\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5"}