Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ElsewhereArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.242,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Fetching the manifest that drives installs and updates now requests the plain and compressed versions at the same time and continues with a logged reason when the compressed one is absent, replacing a serial retry loop.
Evidence
No compressed manifest for
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
