Glowstone

Glowstone 2021.8.0

mastercoms — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Hello everyone! We delayed this update by a month so we could resync to publishing new releases at the end of each month, rather than the start of them. Hopefully it was worth the wait! We've got a lot to go through, so let's get to it.

Glowstone

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Glowstone 2021.7.0

mastercoms — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Hi y'all! Long time no see! This is the first Glowstone release in almost 3 years!

First of all, welcome to our new site! Despite the near identical look, we have switched over to a static site generator, Pelican, served by GitHub Pages. We used the opportunity to fix and …

Glowstone 2018.7.0

aramperes — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Hello everyone, today we are releasing Glowstone's July release, 2018.7.0.

This update is very small, as updating to 1.13 is our priority. You can follow 1.13 development on Pull Requests #957 and #958.

We recently moved our Maven repository to Sonatype Nexus. Old artifact versions are …

Glowstone 2018.6.0

mastercoms — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Hello everyone! Today we're releasing Glowstone's June release, Glowstone 2018.6.0.

It's one of our smaller releases, but there are some good fixes in here, along with support for more Bukkit events.

Additions and Changes

Slime splitting on death (with the SlimeSplitEvent)
Implemented some API events (#922)
- EntityRemoveFromWorldEvent (Jacob …

Glowstone 2018.5.0

aramperes — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Hi all,

We are releasing Glowstone 2018.5.0 today, which is the monthly release for May 2018.

Since the previous release, we have received contributions from 9 contributors, including 3 first-time contributors: Mystiflow, Jacob (jhg023), and aki-ks.

This brings the total of GitHub contributors to a whopping 100! We'd …

Glowstone 2018.4.0

aramperes — Thu, 03 May 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Hi all,

Today we're releasing Glowstone version 2018.4.0. The previous release, 2018.3.0, was a bit late into April, so this one is a little shorter than usual. Nevertheless, here is the changelog.

We received contributions from 6 community members, including 2 first-time contributors (jordanmurray and Muqsit …

Glowstone 2018.3.0

aramperes — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Hi all,

We are releasing Glowstone 2018.3.0 today, which is about two weeks behind our monthly schedule. Our team has been quite busy with other projects and work for most of April. Without further ado, this is the changelog since the beginning of March.

We've had contributions from …

Glowstone 2018.2.0

mastercoms — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Hello everyone, we've released a new monthly update for Glowstone. We are a few days late, but technically if February was just a normal month instead of having 28 days, we wouldn't be that late.

For this release, we had mostly bug fixes with some fine tuning here and there …

Glowstone 2018.1.0 and LTS 2018.0.1

aramperes — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Hi everyone. We are a few days behind schedule, but today we are releasing Glowstone 2018.1 and the complementary LTS update, 2018.0.1.

This month, we worked on a few major features and fixed a lot of bugs. As explained in the Year in Review news post, we …

Glowstone's Cheating and Illegal Behavior Policy

aramperes — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 02:14:00 +0000

Today, we are putting in place Glowstone's new Cheating and Illegal Behavior Policy. This is an effort to engage ourselves in our position against illegal piracy and behavior in the context of our project.

Although Glowstone will always keep the online-mode: false option functional in the server configuration for testing …

Glowstone 2018.0.0 & Year in Review

aramperes — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 12:00:00 +0000

As fireworks are let off for the end of 2017, we are releasing this year's final version: 2018.0.0. In the last month, we've been working hard on polishing Glowstone as much as we could, and this has resulted in one of our most productive months in terms of …

Maven Repository Issues

aramperes — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 05:25:00 +0000

On Sunday, we updated Archiva (our Maven repository) to a more recent version. During the upgrade, we unfortunately lost all our artifacts stored on the server. There was a major downtime in which we attempted to fix storage and deployment, but the artifacts could not be recovered.

Because we did …

Glowstone 2017.11

aramperes — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 12:00:00 +0000

It is the monthly blog post for Glowstone 2017.11, my Glowstoners. For December, we will be working on purging bugs from the server to provide a stable final version for this year. More details will follow soon!

Come say hi and ask questions on the Discord server <3

This …

Glowstone 2017.10

aramperes — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 12:00:00 +0000

For this monthly release of the Glowstone server, 2017.10, we now officially support 1.12.2. We also added some new features, optimized magic stuff in the background and worked on some new technical features.

As always, we remind you that the easiest way to chat with us to …

Glowstone 2017.9

aramperes — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Hello everyone, we are releasing Glowstone 2017.9. This is the last release to support 1.12.1, as 2017.10 will support 1.12.2.

Additions

Implemented /enchant command (#560)
Implement Enderman carried block (#561)
Added a new API for Villager Careers (#563 and Glowkit #13)
Added a new …

Glowstone 2017.8.1

aramperes — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Hi everyone, we are releasing Glowstone 2017.8.1, which is the first official release to support 1.12.1. Not much has happened since 2017.8.0, but here's the changelog nonetheless:

Additions

Added support for 1.12.1
Implemented Experience Orbs
Implemented Leashes (#538)
Implemented /effect command (#555 …

Glowstone 2017.8.0

aramperes — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Hello again. Today we are releasing Glowstone 2017.8.0, which is the last release to support Minecraft 1.12. Since 1.12.1 was released, we will now bump our version to 2017.8.1 which will be released at the end of August (unless Mojang pushes another protocol …

Glowstone 2017.7.0

aramperes — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Hello again! The time has come for us to publish this month's release for Glowstone, 2017.7.0. We have plenty of new features this time around, including boats and paintings, as well as many bug fixes since 2017.6.1.

There has been a total of 40 commits by …

Intrusion Report (Forums)

gdude2002 — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 09:03:00 +0000

This is a post to notify everyone of a possible intrusion relating to the forum. I have provided a full report in an effort to be as transparent as possible.

Report

Tuesday, 25th July 2017

Momo noticed that the forums were down. I was asleep at the time, and did …

Glowstone 2017.6.1

aramperes — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Hello! We are releasing Glowstone 2017.6.1 today, the first release which officially supports Minecraft 1.12. This release consists mostly of the update to 1.12, some extra fixes to the server software and some community updates.

1.12

API and networking updates
Implementation of some new features …

We now have a CLA

gdude2002 — Sat, 24 Jun 2017 17:37:00 +0000

This is an announcement to let everyone know that we have come up with a CLA, otherwise known as a Contributor License Agreement. It's something we've been thinking about doing for a while, but decided that it deserved extra attention in light of the swift movement on Bountysource.

CLAs can …

New Site (Beta)

gdude2002 — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 12:57:00 +0000

Hello, fellow Glowstone... ers...?

Welcome to the beta version of the new site! We've decided that the site could use a small facelift and the addition of some much-needed functionality, and this is a preview of what's to come. Some of the things you can look forward to include:

Better …

Glowstone 2017.6.0 and 1.12

aramperes — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 05:32:00 +0000

Hello again! We released Glowstone 2017.6.0 today, which is the final release to support Minecraft 1.11.2. This release is pretty light compared to the previous one, 2017.5, which we published only a week ago.

Changes

Updated default start script
Optimizations to world loading and saving …

Glowstone 2017.5

mastercoms — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 02:35:00 +0000

Yay, another Glowstone release, 2017.5! This month was dedicated to squashing bugs and implementing a few missing features. However, even with that being our focus, this is one of our biggest releases yet. In 73 commits, we changed 125 files with 2,040 additions and 1,138 deletions.

Unfortunately …

The Road to 1.12

mastercoms — Wed, 17 May 2017 13:34:00 +0000

Hello everyone! After Mojang released Minecraft 1.12-pre2 on May 11, 2017, we updated our 1.12-snapshots branch to add protocol support for this latest version. Then on May 13, Spigot announced their 1.12-pre2 Bukkit version, the first in history a pre-release version has been released for Bukkit. There …

Documentation Updates Coming Soon

mastercoms — Mon, 08 May 2017 10:08:00 +0000

Hello everyone! After releasing our new code of conduct, we've gone on to improve our entire documentation, including our README, contributing docs, plugin dev docs and usage docs! This is a huge undertaking so I hope everyone is ok with this update coming out a bit later. But when these …

New Code of Conduct

mastercoms — Tue, 02 May 2017 21:17:00 +0000

Hello, as part of our initiative to improve the Glowstone Project, we've released our first draft of our new Code of Conduct. I personally feel that we have outgrown our previous code of conduct, and I'm happy for it. Hopefully this new code of conduct will help grow our community …

Glowstone 2017.4

mastercoms — Sun, 30 Apr 2017 09:35:00 +0000

And so we come to April's release, Glowstone 2017.4, the Intelligence Update. Our goal for this month was to get AI implemented. We didn't exactly get to our goal, but since May's release was already planned to be a light one, we've decided to shift some of the AI …

The Glowstone Project

mastercoms — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 15:32:00 +0000

Hi. You've probably seen countless announcements about all the projects under the Glowstone family, like the Glowstone server, Glowkit and more, but we've never really talked about the project as a whole. This is mostly because we've been focusing on polishing and advancing Glowstone in terms of code, and not …

Why reinvent the wheel? (April Fools)

aramperes — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 21:42:00 +0000

Hello everyone! So we've heard your critism and concerns about no longer planning to support Sponge on our server platform. Well, turn that frown upside down, because we are now dumping Bukkit plugins in favor of Sponge plugins!

That's right, starting from today, Glowstone will permanently consist of patches to …

Glowstone 2017.3

mastercoms — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 06:53:00 +0000

Hello everyone! Today we present to you Glowstone 2017.3, after a month of hard work by our contributors. To everyone who makes Glowstone awesome, whether it is through bug reports, code contributions or admining, I'd like to say thank you for making this release possible. I'd also like to …

Glowstone 2017.2

mastercoms — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 09:03:00 +0000

Glowstone 2017.2's commit window has ended and has subsequently been released. Here are the changes:

Implemented new Bukkit API count methods in World
The server bootstrap channel is now accessible, for plugins
Add getter for sessions in message handlers, for plugins
Separate logic for player login and profile handling …

About Sponge...

mastercoms — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 21:06:00 +0000

EDIT: A lot has changed since this blog post, both in the goals of Glowstone, and Sponge's API in version 8. We aren't completely ruling out the possibility of using Sponge, and this post's strong language does not reflect the sentiment of the team.

So over time, we've found a …

Glowstone Update - 11

mastercoms — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Hello, welcome back to one of these updates on what we've been up to with the Glowstone project!

One of our developers, @momothereal, is giving the update this time around:

We haven't done one of these in the past weeks so I thought I would share what has been completed …

This Month in Glowstone - 10

mastercoms — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 12:00:00 +0000

Wow, already month 10. I can't believe it! Wait, what's that? We were a weekly blog before? No, that can't be true, we only have monthly blog posts on record. You must have gone crazy.

Speaking of crazy, we've been crazy busy on Glowstone. 16 commits and 1,137 additions …

This Week in Glowstone - 9

mastercoms — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 12:00:00 +0000

Almost ＬＩＴＥＲＡＬＬＹＮＯＴＨＩＮＧ. That's why we're moving permanently to a monthly progress blog. We just don't have enough developers to pump out a lot of interesting stuff every week. See you guys in 11 days.

This Week in Glowstone - 8: ME (Monthly Edition)

mastercoms — Sun, 18 Sep 2016 12:00:00 +0000

What comes after 2? 8, because we're bad at counting, except when it comes to commits. In this month (which is roughly a week), we've had 86 commits on master. Those commits added 1,901 lines and removed 794. You can read through all of those lines, or you can …

This Week In Glowstone - 2

mastercoms — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 12:00:00 +0000

So this week was quiet, too quiet, with only 127 additions and 4 deletions and 8 changed files. But that doesn't mean we weren't busy, nor does it mean that there's a trap. There have been some nice fixes here and there and legacy ping support, with more features and …

This Week in Glowstone - 1

mastercoms — Sun, 31 Jul 2016 12:00:00 +0000

Yep. We are now going to have one of those weekly blog posts where we spew a bunch of numbers at you: 33 commits. 809 additions. 304 deletions. But we have one special number to throw at you this week: 1.10.2. That's the latest version of Minecraft and …

About 1.11...

mastercoms — Sun, 31 Jul 2016 02:55:00 +0000

It's been almost two weeks since Mojang released 1.11, and just over a week since Spigot released their 1.11 API. So, what's happening at Glowstone and what's taking us so long?

Before I go into why it's been taking a relatively long time, let's talk about what we …

My Little Glowkit: Patching Is Magic

gdude2002 — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 14:07:00 +0000

As some of you may know, recently, Glowkit has moved to a patch-based system. We feel that it's going to be far easier to work with Glowkit on a development and compilation basis by adopting this method, and it also allows us to base upon much more recent Bukkit forks …

New forum

gdude2002 — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 16:05:00 +0000

Yep, that's right. We've moved from Flarum.

From a personal perspective, Flarum doesn't appear to be going anywhere fast. In its current early-beta state, it doesn't have many options, has questionable levels of security and is impossible to upgrade. As a result, we quickly outgrew it. It was time to …