"What if we staged it?" Aris offered, pulling up a holographic model. "Replace the plugins one by one. Start with non-critical systems—lighting, comms routing. Let the kernel adapt."
The plugin header file (e.g., obs-module.h ) defines the current version. When the host loads the DLL, it checks the plugin's declared version against its own compiled version. If the plugin is compiled against a newer header than the host binary, the loader rejects the plugin to prevent memory corruption. dll plugins require a new version