{"version":"2.1.283","anchor":"published-plugin-catalog-fetch-can-bypass-http-caches","canonical_anchor":"published-plugin-catalog-fetch-can-bypass-http-caches","heading":"Plugin catalog downloads can skip cached copies","tier":"internal","area":"Plugins","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.283\/e\/published-plugin-catalog-fetch-can-bypass-http-caches","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.283","markdown":"### Plugin catalog downloads can skip cached copies\n\nFetching the published plugin catalog and its signature file can now tell caches not to serve stored copies\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear when Claude Code actually asks to skip the cache.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code downloads a published plugin catalog along with a signature file used to check it. These downloads can now ask caches along the way to skip stored copies, on both the catalog and the signature file. Before, only the catalog request carried a cache hint, and a weaker one.\n\n**Why**\n\nIf the signature does not match, an outdated copy held by a cache can be bypassed.\n\n- Area: Plugins\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5"}