The old version of this plugin used a permission to determine whether or not the person is a noob to the server.
The new version uses a data file, but the new version did no conversion on the permissions to database, therefore ALLplayers that join after installing the new version are a noob again (according to this plugin).

I had to roll back to the previous version because of the way I have it set up I don't want all of my players getting the noob message again.

Is there a way for your new version to convert the permissions to the new data file? Or add an option to the config to use the old permission method?

from version 2.0.1 to version 2.0.2 there wasn't anything code wise that changed.

Version 2.0.0 & 2.0.1 have been out for well over a year.