D8 - Google Analytics 8.x-2.5 not compatible with Drupal 8.8.5 or lower

Issue

I recently move my Drupal 8 website to another webserver. When I tried to upgrade Google Analytics to version 8.x-2.5 from Drupal's user interface and got the following error message:

An AJAX HTTP error occurred.
HTTP Result Code: 500
Debugging information follows.
Path: /batch?id=53&op=do_nojs&op=do
StatusText: 500 Service unavailable (with message)
ResponseText: The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later.

Looking into the log messages, it showed the following error mesasge:

Drupal\Core\Extension\InfoParserException: The 'core' or the 'core_version_requirement' key must be present in temporary://update-extraction-a2517041/google_analytics/tests/modules/google_analytics_test/google_analytics_test.info.yml in Drupal\Core\Extension\InfoParserDynamic->parse() (line 68 of /var/www/theholidaybreak.com/public_html/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Extension/InfoParserDynamic.php).

Solution

I initially thought the issue was due to the permission set on my Temporary directory folder. I even set it to chmod 777 but in vain. I finally gave up and manually downloaded and extracted it over the old folder. Then, I logged in Drupal and navigate to admin/modules. It stated that version 8.x-2.5 is not compatible with my Drupal 8.8.1.

To resolve this issue, I upgraded my Drupal to 8.9.3.