Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
PluginsArea: what it touches
In DevelopmentKind: in v2.1.232,
In DevelopmentSection of the release
What
Loading the installed-plugins file gained an asynchronous path that goes through the v5 storage layer rather than reading from disk directly, upgrading old V1 registry files to V2 as it loads.
Details
Results are cached under an epoch counter so a concurrent synchronous load takes precedence.
Storage backend failures are mapped to a dedicated registry error, and a defensive error covers a read that completes without an outcome for its key.
Nothing in this build shows the new path replacing the existing synchronous load.
Evidence
installed plugins registry read settled without an outcome for its key
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
