Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
PluginsArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.228,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Writing the record of which plugins are installed now goes through a read-modify-write on the storage backend when one is available, and falls back to the previous direct file write when there is none.
Details
The read accepts the older file shape and migrates it, or parses the current one directly.
A write that fails because a lock looks suspect is retried, honouring a retry delay supplied by the server.
File permissions come from the process umask, and load failures are reported separately from save failures.
Evidence
installed plugins registry update settled without an outcome
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
