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@JeremyFail JeremyFail released this 22 Jan 07:32
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Overview

This alpha release updates MassiveCore and Factions to support Minecraft 1.21.4. This release is not compatible with prior versions of Minecraft, as there were numerous breaking changes made to both Spigot and Paper's APIs in recent Minecraft versions (including a hard fork of Paper from Spigot) which has resulted in needing to update the minimum API version to 1.21.4.

Bugs

The last release by magnusulf (v3.3.3 - available from Spigot at https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/factions3-for-1-13.63602/) is several years old, which has surprisingly survived a long time without many issues (though there are some known bugs). This particular release is not focused on fixing any existing bugs (though with some upgrades to internal libraries, it's possible some bugs have been fixed unknowingly). Rather, this release is simply focused on getting the plugin updated to run on the latest Minecraft version.

If you find bugs with this release, please submit an issue in this fork and I will take a look at it when I can. I am doing this as a side-project, but as time permits, I will work on issues where I can. If the bug was pre-existing to this release, please note that in the issue. Note that I have not done much testing and am looking for testers who can assist. Please reach out to me if you are willing to help out with testing.

Changelog

For anyone interested in technical details of what updates were made...

  • Recent Spigot versions no longer include the apache.commons project, meaning any plugins using the commons library broke when it was removed. MassiveCore and Factions used the commons library in several places. I have refactored all usage of apache.commons to private classes (I copied the Apache source in most cases for best compatibility).
  • Recent updates to Paper broke all usage of reflection that depended on specific Minecraft versions (starting with MC1.20.5). I updated the code where the versions were retrieved to something that will work for both Spigot and Paper (and hopefully should continue to work going forward).
  • Recent API changes to the Spigot API changed various Enums. These were not heavily used (and in some cases not used at all) by Factions or MassiveCore itself. Other plugins that may use MassiveCore (if there are any still active out there...) may need to check that they still function with this update.
  • Some APIs that MassiveCore was using have been removed from Spigot entirely in recent versions. I refactored a few of these to use new logic that should accomplish the same thing, however, there are still many deprecated methods and classes being referenced that should be updated in future releases as they will likely be removed from future releases of Spigot/Paper. The hard fork of Paper has made this challenging, so certain overall changes to the plugin may be needed in the future to support both Spigot and Paper.
  • With the API now looking at MC1.21.4 exclusively, I updated dependencies of integration plugins. If you experience any integration issues, please update to the lastest version of said integration for MC1.21.4 and if the issue still persists, please file a bug in the Issues tab.

Known Issues

  • This alpha release does not contain a version of CreativeGates. I plan to update that as well.

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER

This is an alpha release. I recommend exercising caution if considering running this in a production environment. Please test this in a test server before even considering deploying to your main production server! Also remember that bugs may exist - please file them in the Issues tab if you find them!

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