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
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.242,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
The marketplace manager, the plugin install, enable and uninstall flows and the plugin config screens now take credentials from context and pass them to every plugin-store read, write and cache invalidation. Groundwork for authenticated plugin storage; no visible change yet.
Evidence
credentials
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.