Theme component update always installs old version (via rake or manually) (solved)

[Moin]

The compatibility file installs a specific version for Discourse installs below 3.6.

.discourse-compatibility

Pinning plugin and theme versions for older Discourse installs (d-compat branches)

Background Theme and plugin developers generally want to target the latest release of Discourse, without worrying about backwards compatibility. But sites running older Discourse releases still need a version of the theme/plugin that works for them. To bridge that gap, Discourse can be told to check out an older ‘pinned’ version of the theme/plugin. There are two mechanisms for this, checked in order: d-compat/<YYYY>.<M> git branches in the theme/plugin repository (the primary met…