[Solved] KiCAD 7.0.6: Plugin and Content Manager got crazy: no link available. All the plugins are CANCELLED. How to revert to 7.0.5?

After blinking several times this is what I got immediately after the update from 7.0.5 to 7.0.6

And at the end of the day, I got all the plugins removed … Nice …:

Can I immediately revert to 7.0.5 and do not update any longer till the 7.0.7 solves this issue :rage:?

GitLab, where the repository is stored, is down right now, so in 7.0.5 it’s same.

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/me remembers that I was going to add a caching layer to the service that serves the repository contents

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Damn … What a timing … few minutes before my update it was working. Then I discovered the 7.0.06 and i installed … and sbam … thank you for the hint. Now it seems it restarted

For the record, installing from the 7.0.5 installer on top of 7.0.6 should work if you really have to revert.
This only works within a major version as file format changes are not allowed. Going from 7.99 to 7 does not work

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If you do add caching make it atomic, both jsons should be switched together on update. So far we’ve been relying on atomic property of a git commit.

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Thank you for this hint.
Although I have not even clue where to find the 7.0.5 … (the old versions in general)

@ tormyvancool Here ?

https://downloads.kicad.org/kicad/windows/explore/stable

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thank you. I will keep it for any emergency fall back.

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