The plugin marketplace sorts plugin versions according to release date and not according to version, is there a plan to support Semantic versioning of plugins as stated here:
As of now, the main benefit to turn on the SemVer option is the ability to upload an update with minor fixes without changing the information on the plugin page. In the nearest future we will start sorting updates of the plugins with SemVer enabled by their version. As of now, the updates are sorted by upload timestamp.
The Marketplace supports semantic versioning by default for new plugins. You can always turn on/off it in the plugin admin page in General Information.
Once you check the checkbox the latest version should be the one with greater semver and not the one the was last published?
I think it is not working as expected for me
I think there are two subjects:
This can be affected by the semantic versioning. For that, I think everything works correctly.
Example: version 2.0.0 is more recent than version 1.2.4, even if 1.2.4 has been published after 2.0.0 (per example, because you maintain two branches: 2.x and 1.2x). The IDE should update your plugin to 2.0.0, not to 1.2.4.
I think the marketplace (and the plugin manager, but NOT how it downloads updates) should order plugins by the validation date, but this is not the case.
For now, they’re ordered by their release date (release-date in plugin.xml). That means if a plugin is validated late (because the plugin validator shows some orange/red flags), it won’t appear in the “New and Updated” category, simply because other plugins have been validated faster, even if they have been submitted later.
Example: I submit my plugin update today, and the release date is set to 2025-05-08 in plugin.xml. It’s validated two days later. While that, some other plugins have been validated instantly.
So, two days later (2025/05/10), the “New and Updated” category will display plugins that have been validated faster. I can see my plugin update, but I have to scroll a lot, even though it was validated just a few minutes ago.
