Yes, we cleaned out the Marketplace and Plugin Version Matrix recently. What got cleaned out was everything below the current LTS.
When we release a new LTS, everything older is immediately unsupported, but we allow a “soft deprecation” period 6 months for people to transition.
After that 6 months, support for older versions is really over - including Marketplace support. What’s supposed to happen at that 6-month mark is that we clean out the Marketplace like just happened. The reality is that doesn’t always happen in a timely manner.
But let’s go back to the underlying “why” here: Once we release a new LTS, it’s best for everyone - you and us - if you upgrade to or beyond it.
So it doesn’t make sense for us to facilitate your installation / upgrade of plugins into these old versions. If you want new / better functionality, take the upgrade. You’ll find all the plugins once you get there.
Nonetheless it is removing information which (i presume) is important for people that [will not | can not | do not | are not able to] upgrade to the latest LTS.
Maybe you can find a place for this not harmful but useful to some info instead of voiding it? Hmmm … if “you” won’t bulge, at least we got smth starting from 8.9 now preserved
(also it wasnt me that took that snapshot! I do not have a telephone booth capable doin’ that. Wyld Stallyns)
P.S.: Is there a forumbadge for emoji-adhd?
P.P.S: I just spotted the mention of commit history. That is a really nice suggestion! Maybe someone could start adding tags there that correspond to SQ releases? Would probably make it a lot easier to find the version that one needs? Just a thought.
P.P.P.S: Just edited out the part about wayback-snapshot containing 10.4 … i was looking at the wronk page