# Ann: SWI-Prolog 9.2.0 (stable) and 9.3.0 (new devel series)

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**Created:** [February 1, 2024, 9:05am UTC](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/ann-swi-prolog-9-2-0-stable-and-9-3-0-new-devel-series/7214 "2024-02-01T09:05:34Z")\
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Found it. Finally. I am not 100% sure, though.

My theory says: It’s the coexisting, “normal”, Windows installation that happens to be on my system. Upon initialization, MSYS2 swipl correctly searches for packs in the msys2 folders; later, it also looks into the Windows folders. As it finds some packs there, the Windows folders are added to file\_search\_path(pack, X).\* The problem disappeared after I removed c:\users\matth\appdata\local\swi-prolog.

\*which, probably by the way absolute\_file\_name/3 works with pack(.), puts the windows folders in the beginning of the “pack” search path.

One way to solve it would be to change the behavior of prolog flag xdg:

\definition{Flag is not defined}  
First search the Windows directories, then the XDG directories. This is the default for the Windows binaries.  
\definition{Flag is \const{true}}  
First search the XDG directories, then the Windows directories. This is the default on MSYS2 and Conda.  
 → change to Search the XDG directories only.  
\definition{Flag is \const{false}}  
Search the Windows directories only.

I should add that I may not see all the implications of this patch.

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