Mara’s chest tightened. Her codebase was simple, audited. She’d run tests; her extensions didn’t phone home, didn’t harvest data. Still, the reports clustered around a narrow time window—03:17 on Tuesday—and around versions rolled out simultaneously after the ExtensionStore update. The marketplace had changed one layer beneath extensions: a new indexing agent, the update had noted. Metadata normalization. “Stability improvements.”
ExtensionStore v3.1 is the third major revision (point release) of the ExtensionStore platform, focused on extension packaging, discovery, distribution, and developer tools. This chronicle summarizes its goals, timeline, feature set, architecture, developer/partner impacts, migration guidance, security/privacy changes, and observable ecosystem effects.
: The "Auto-update" and "Enable/Disable" features eliminate the manual labor of tracking version numbers and moving files between folders. Better Organization
: The tool tracks installed versions and notifies users when a developer releases a patch or new feature. Common Installation Confusion