A settings get no longer reads and parses settings.json each time. The
parsed settings are kept per plug-in folder and read again only when the
file's size or modified time changes. A set to the value a key already
has writes nothing, and every other change is written with an atomic
write before the call returns. plugin.remove drops the kept copy.
cacheBytes in plugin.list, plugin.info and plugin.install comes from a
total kept while the cache folder keeps its modified time, instead of a
listing of up to 8,192 items per call. A cache write still lists the
folder to enforce the caps.
docs/plugins.md states what a run counts and that a cache call moves a
whole entry in one step. docs/plugins.md and docs/mcp.md now say when a
later plugin.remove retries a leftover .removed folder.
The fuzz test for hostile host import arguments drew vc_log's level from every i32, so almost
every call stopped at the level check and never read memory. Levels are now also drawn from -1
to 4. The module docs, a test doc comment and docs/plugins.md now say that with an unknown total
each change of done is passed on.
A plug-in that changed its total while its share stayed the same had
every report passed on, up to the 2,000-report limit. Reports with a
known total are now compared by their tenth of a percent alone.
A plug-in whose manifest gives "api": 2 and lists the new `progress`
permission may import three host functions from module `env`:
vc_progress(done, total), vc_cancelled() -> i32 and
vc_log(level, ptr, len) -> i32. Installing checks every import and
refuses, by name, one the host doesn't offer, one with another type and
one the manifest doesn't allow.
- Progress is clamped and passed on once per tenth of a percent (past
2,000 reports, once per 1,000 changes). A heavy filter's progress
window and the export's progress window show it as a percentage bar,
and their Cancel makes vc_cancelled return 1. A live effect's progress
is not shown.
- A run cancelled before it returns ends as cancelled, and one that
returns after its time budget ran out ends at that budget, so what a
plug-in returns after it sees vc_cancelled changes nothing. This also
applies to a plug-in of API level 1 that finishes after a Cancel or
past its time budget.
- Log text must lie in the module's memory and be UTF-8. Lines go to the
app's log as "<id>: <text>" with hidden characters escaped, at most
1,024 characters a line, 200 lines and 32 KiB a run, and the host reads
at most 1 MiB of log text a run.
- plugin.list and plugin.info give the manifest's `api`; the install
prompt names the new permission in plain words.
Docs: docs/plugins.md, docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
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