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 v2.1.247,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Auto-connecting to an IDE no longer writes the MCP entry itself; it passes the connection descriptor to a callback and returns the install state, moving ownership of that entry to the caller. The entry is still recorded as scope: "dynamic".
Evidence
scope: "dynamic"
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.