You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
PluginsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.251,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
Migrating the installed-plugins file now sweeps the plugin cache root and deletes cache directories no longer referenced by any installed plugin, reclaiming disk space left by earlier versions.
Details
Aware of WSL companion paths, so a directory still reachable through a different view of the same volume is not deleted.
Cleanup is skipped entirely when the cache root volume cannot be read.
Evidence
Cleaned up legacy cache directory:
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
