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
Bug FixesKind: in v2.1.228,
Bug FixesSection of the release
What
The routines that write, read and clear the orphan marker on cached plugins now stop early if the plugin path is a symbolic link. Development plugins linked into the cache are no longer flagged as orphaned or swept by cache cleanup.
Evidence
Failed to remove .orphaned_at
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.