{"version":"2.1.251","anchor":"fewer-spurious-plugin-cache-in-use-failures","canonical_anchor":"fewer-spurious-plugin-cache-in-use-failures","heading":"Fewer spurious \"plugin cache in use\" failures","tier":"notice","area":"Plugins","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.251\/e\/fewer-spurious-plugin-cache-in-use-failures","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.251","markdown":"### Fewer spurious \"plugin cache in use\" failures\n\nBogus \"plugin cache in use\" markers no longer block your installs.\n\n**What**\n\nThe markers Claude Code writes to record that a plugin cache version is in use are now checked before being trusted. A stray file where a marker directory should be is removed with a warning instead of blocking the install, and pruning retries a bounded number of times.\n\n**Details**\n\n- After cleanup the affected version is treated as unpinned until a session marks it again.\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`Removed a non-directory ${Ou} at ${e}; the version reads unpinned until a session marks it again`\n\n- Area: Plugins\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5"}