Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ElsewhereArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.239,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Payload validation and salvage for remote managed settings moved into one shared helper, and a mock fetcher can force a failure, an empty result, or a payload from a JSON file or string.
Details
Mock results carry canned parse_error or unknown_error outcomes and the checksum "mock".
Active only when a mock source is configured; otherwise it returns nothing and the real fetch runs.
Evidence
mocked fetch failure
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
