'The Plugin Version I Expected is Not What I Found' Appears in Logs
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*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Symptoms
A stacktrace and a long series of unhappy messages in the logfile. A dialogue box with the following contents:
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The plugin version I expected is not what I found
Plugin Key: <plugin name>
Expected: <version number>
Found: <different version number>
Are you sure you would like to continue installing?
Cause
Plugin author forgot to update <version> within atlassian-plugin.xml.
Resolution
Notify the plugin author, and explain that they need to fix atlassian-plugin.xml for that version of that plugin.
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