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cjsailer

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11/10/2025 11:01 AM

Hello, I'm a bit confused by the Extensions screen where it shows all your installed extensions (with your current version) and also the upgrade versions available. Two extensions as an example, IFrame and Links I'm on version 8.1.3 and 8.0.2 respectively, and versions 9.1.3 and 8.2.0 are listed as available upgrades. However when I go to the GitHub repository DNN Community and look at both IFrame and Links master branch, the available version are 8.1.3 and 8.0.2, the versions that I'm currently on.

So what does the upgrade version mean here? Is there a different repository I should be looking at to get those versions?

Links module:

https://github.com/DNNCom...NN.Links/tree/master

IFrame module:

https://github.com/DNNCommunity/DNN.IFrame

Timo Breumelhof.

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11/10/2025 11:09 AM

Posted By cjsailer on 11/10/2025 4:01 PM
Hello, I'm a bit confused by the Extensions screen where it shows all your installed extensions (with your current version) and also the upgrade versions available. Two extensions as an example, IFrame and Links I'm on version 8.1.3 and 8.0.2 respectively, and versions 9.1.3 and 8.2.0 are listed as available upgrades. However when I go to the GitHub repository DNN Community and look at both IFrame and Links master branch, the available version are 8.1.3 and 8.0.2, the versions that I'm currently on.

So what does the upgrade version mean here? Is there a different repository I should be looking at to get those versions?

Links module:

https://github.com/DNNCom...NN.Links/tree/master

IFrame module:

https://github.com/DNNCommunity/DNN.IFrame

Yeah, it’s confusing.
From what I’ve heard, DNN lists the highest version number it has seen for a module name.
So if someone forks a module or creates one with the same name but a higher version number, that’s the version shown.

Mitchel Sellers

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11/10/2025 11:34 AM

Timo is correct, the upgrade process doesn't have a great method to truly identify versions that actually exist, so if someone customizes and doesn't change the name, it can influence the information reported.

When we are aware of items we can clear them out, which sometimes happens with 99.99.99 versions from somewhere.

In the future it would be great to have a more robust way to handle it, but we lack the centralized "source of truth" to actually be able to determine it any other way.

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