Autopsy 4.23.0 start always in Developer mode

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Since upgrading (clean install) to Autopsy 4.23.0, the application always starts in Developer Mode.
This was not the case with version 4.22.1
I have install autopsy-4.23.0-64bit..msi from https://github.com/sleuthkit/autopsy/releases/download/autopsy-4.23.0/autopsy-4.23.0-64bit.msi

% shasum -a 256 autopsy-4.23.0-64bit.msi cebc637497eee96b43b23390292b7aba9723ac71e63e8f442e9a13ab1de20580 autopsy-4.23.0-64bit.msi

Autopsy_4.23.0._developermode
Autopsy_4.23.0._developermode1794×1342 140 KB

What I tested:
Clean install of Autopsy 4.23.0 on multiple Windows systems

  • Removed %APPDATA%\Autopsy completely before restarting

  • Verified no special shortcuts or startup flags (no --dev)

  • Started directly via autopsy64.exe

  • Same behavior on all Windows 11 tested systems

Autopsy always starts in Developer Mode, regardless of configuration or clean install.

Is this a known issue in 4.23.0, or is there a way to disable Developer Mode?

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@Homeuser76 thanks for bringing this to our attention. It has been addressed in the new release

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In Autopsy 4.23.1, Python plugins are being loaded from the dev directory on the Windows file system.

I don’t think this is the expected behavior. I’m not sure whether this is a programming bug or if there is a configuration setting that needs to be changed.

Could you please let me know why this is happening and how I can configure Autopsy to load the Python plugins from the correct directory?