# Plover Plugin Manager
> **⚠️ Important:** This standalone Plugin Manager is only required for **Plover v4**.
> Starting with **Plover v5** its functionality is built directly into Plover itself, so you
> do **not** need to install or update this package when running Plover v5 or later.
## Release history
### 0.7.9
* Remove debugging prints from previous tests
### 0.7.8
* Added debugging prints
### 0.7.7
* Burned during testing
### 0.7.6
* Burned during testing
### 0.7.5
* add workaround for different requests-cache versions
### 0.7.4
* fix plugin version parsing since pkginfo now returns packaging.version.Version objects instead of plain strings
* fix CachedSession.remove_expired_responses() error
* change caching from sqlite to memory since that's more robust
### 0.7.3
* burned this release number with a wrong upload to PyPi
### 0.7.2
* added button in UI to take Git url for installation
### 0.7.1
* fix editable installation (ensure UI files are properly generated)
### 0.7.0
* tweak custom info widget's API for reuse in other plugins
### 0.6.3
* fix Python packaging
### 0.6.2
* fix compatibility with `requests-cache>=0.8.0`
### 0.6.1
* minor tweaks to make packaging for AUR easier
### 0.6.0
* warn users about the security risk when installing plugins
* fix plugin install/removal when running in a Python virtual environment
### 0.5.16
* stop using PyPI's (disabled) XMLRPC search endpoint, and switch to a self-hosted registry of
available plugins (maintained at <https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover_plugins_registry>).
### 0.5.15
* fix support for cancelling an install/update/removal operation on Windows.
### 0.5.14
* drop the use of pip's internal APIs
* drop the dependency on PyQt5 WebEngine
* improve and simplify cache handling: persistently cache all network
requests (with a 10 minutes expiration date)
* support for Python 3.8
### 0.5.13
* add support for `pip>=18.0`
* add support for `PyQt5>=5.11`
* add support for Markdown plugin descriptions
### 0.5.12
* improve handling of plugins when user site is disabled: always list the
version for the user installed plugin (even if it's older than the system
package version and user site packages are disabled)
* disable pip version check
* add support for `pip>=10.0`
### 0.5.11
* plugins are now handled even if they can't be loaded by Plover
(so it's possible to update/uninstall broken plugins)
### 0.5.10
* fix #5: open all links externally
### 0.5.9
* refresh PyPI metadata in the background
* cache PyPI metadata for 10 minutes
* do not crash if connection to PyPI fails
## Credits
Icons made by [Freepik][] from [www.flaticon.com][] and Yusuke Kamiyamane.
[Freepik]: http://www.freepik.com/
[www.flaticon.com]: http://www.flaticon.com/
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