You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
PluginsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.246,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
When a plugin has no git commit to report as its version, the loader now falls back to the commit recorded in the marketplace snapshot it was installed from, using the first 12 characters and logging that it did so. Only if that is also missing does it report "unknown".
Evidence
Using marketplace snapshot SHA for
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.