Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ElsewhereArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.229,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
The classifier deciding whether a file-tracking failure is routine dropped the overlong-filename error code. Only permission and environment errors, missing files and unexpectedly absent entries are now treated as expected, so path-length failures show up as real ones.
Evidence
e.telemetryCode === "UnexpectedAbsent"
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.