(Undesired) automatic update to the latest available plugin version

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Hi everyone, I’m wondering if the ‘plugin manager/package manager’ behavior has changed in Rhino 8.

The problem: if I have multiple versions of the same plugin in my machine (in the “…\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\8.0\plugin-folder” folder) the “manifest” file inside the \plugin-folder is being updated automatically to the latest version right after Rhino starts – overriding the version I chose through PackageManager when I last used Rhino.

In our use case we have multiple in-house plugins being released constantly, and sometimes users identify a bug and have to fallback to a previous version - which leads to the problem stated above.
I know the uninstalling the plugin and re-installing only the desired version works, but is this “automatic version update” behavior something we really want? I don’t seem to get the same behavior while using Rhino 7

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Hi @pegiachini, you can stop Rhino 8 from checking for package updates automatically by going to Options > Advanced and setting Rhino.Options.PackageManager.CheckForUpdates to false.

Please see the Administrator-Enforced Settings help guide for ways in which this setting could be controlled/deployed for your co-workers.

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