Summary

Update-HveCoreAllCollection in PluginHelpers.psm1 produces non-deterministic YAML output for the display section of collection manifests. The featured and ordering keys appear in inconsistent order across runs because ConvertTo-Yaml (from the powershell-yaml module) serializes regular hashtables with non-deterministic key iteration order.

Expected Behavior

The display section in hve-core-all.collection.yml should always serialize featured before ordering:

display:
  featured: true
  ordering: alpha

Actual Behavior

Key order varies between runs, sometimes producing ordering before featured:

display:
  ordering: alpha
  featured: true

This causes unnecessary diffs and non-reproducible output.

Root Cause

The display property is stored as a regular PowerShell hashtable. ConvertTo-Yaml iterates hashtable keys in undefined order. The fix is to rebuild the display section as [ordered]@{} with explicit key insertion order before serialization.

Fix

Rebuild the display section as an ordered hashtable with featured inserted before ordering in Update-HveCoreAllCollection.

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