News
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 two first-time contributors, fionera and smcconke. Thank you for your time and effort!
Additions and Changes
- Updated to Glowkit 1.12.2-R2.1
- Added configuration validation for value types (#870) (#869)
- Implemented fire-damage for all entities, and proper bounding-box checks (#888) (smcconke)
- Implemented donkey, mule, and llama inventories (#872)
- Started work on i18n translations (#874) (#883)
- Refactored dependency management to use "compatibility bundles" (#879)
- Added shutdown message to
/stop [message...]command (#844) - Implemented slime-chunk formula (#894) (fionera)
- Add
generic.flyingspeedattribute (#878) (FlorentCarret) - Replaced a lot of reflective calls with Java 8 references, for optimization (#860)
- Added more unit tests for entities (#863)
- Added unit tests for boss bars
- A lot of refactoring to unit tests
Fixes
- Fixed an exception when spawning area-effect-clouds
- Fixed an exception when spawning an entity using the implementation classes (
GlowXYZ) - Fixed inconsistency with UUID lookups in player profiles (#881) (#882) (#886) (#891)
Coming Soon
We have a few more pull-requests in queue for review and merge. You may expect these to be ready for the next monthly release.
- Support for PaperServerListPingEvent and Glowkit upstream merge (#880)
- Adapt changes to dependency manager to allow for external libraries and conflict resolving (#889)
- Support for off-hand bow usage (#893)
- More refactoring and implementation for i18n support (#895)
- Enhanced entity physics (#897)
mastercoms is also currently working on updating Glowstone to jline 3.
Other News
As previously mentioned, we've all been quite busy with other endeavors in the past few weeks. However, we've been looking into a few para-development subjects such as registering as a not-for-profit organization (501(c)(3)) and other licensing issues.
I've personally developed a plugin for Glowstone to replace file-system world storage with a Redis solution, using our recent world-storage API created by Kyureki.
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, including some by a few new contributors: Kiulras, jtomlin12 and smcconke!
You can see all the commits and changes on GitHub, but here's a summary:
Additions and changes
- Attributes now support a minimum value (needed for luck)
- GlowSession is now thread safe
- Updated to Netty 4.1.21.Final
- KQueue support added for macOS and BSD native transport
- Improved network buffer management
- Fine tuned ender pearl behavior
- Migrated most unit tests to JUnit Jupiter
- Started fishing implementation
- Improved egg and snowball behavior
Bug fixes
- Client is now properly updated when an InventoryClickEvent is cancelled
- Fixed a case of jline disabling not working
- Fixed entities being able to pass through blocks that did not fully block light (by first time contributor Kuilras!)
- Fixed a memory leak with the chunk deflater stream
- Fixed some issues with CircleCI builds
- Fixed snow stacking placement (by first time contributor jtomlin!)
- Fire ticks are now reset after death (by first time contributor smcconke!)
- Fixed Glowstone crashing on startup for ARM devices
A download for this release can be found on our website. For those of you interested, the LTS release will be coming soon.
Thanks and we hope you enjoy all the changes that went into this release!
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 will release two updates every month: an official monthly release containing all of the bleeding-edge features from the last month, and a complementary LTS (long-term-support) release which backports bugfixes to the stable branch.
We also want to thank new contributors XuZhen86, Minecrell and HugoDaBoss for their valuable contributions this month!
Changelog
This is the list of changes for both the release and LTS (2018.0.1 and 2018.1.0):
- UUID lookups in commands are now asynchronous (#111) (#814)
- Implemented
advanced.suggest-player-name-when-null-tab-completionsconfiguration option - The server icon file will now be imported automatically from a Vanilla server
- Implemented correct conditions for mob experience drops (#823) (XuZhen86)
- Implemented grass path block (#841)
- Implemented Zombie Villager NBT storage
- Cleaned-up the
ItemType.Contextenum - Fixed an error when loading Vanilla worlds containg Minecart-with-Chests
- Fixed an error when using command selectors with entities
- Fixed a concurrency error in chunk streaming
- Fixed incorrect fall damage when switching gamemodes (#820) (XuZhen86)
- Properly implemented
Player#getVirtualHost()andPlayer#getProtocolVersion()APIs (#824) (Minecrell) - Fixed SLF4J logging for plugins (#825) (Minecrell)
- Fixed item drops for cactus and dead bush (#832) (#833) (XuZhen86)
- Fixed an error when spawning wolves from spawn eggs
- Fixed NBT storage for Strays, Wither Skeletons and Husks not being bound
- Fixed incorrect anvil sounds when landing on several blocks (#827) (HugoDaBosss)
- Code style cleanup and lombokification
This is the list of changes for the monthly release only (2018.1.0):
- Implemented projectiles (#614)
- Thanks to Pr0methean for his continuous work on this PR for over a month
- Implemented
/testforblockscommand - Added checksum validation for library manager (#802)
- Revamped library manager to allow for customization by server owners (#808)
- Added configuration file validation (#809)
- Updated API to
1.12.2-R1.0- Implemented Paper's Profile API
- Implemented droppers (previously behaved like regular dispensers)
- Initial implementation for villager trading UI
- Implemented starvation damage modifier for different difficulties (#835) (XuZhen86)
- Added
--generate-configcommand-line option to generate config files without starting the server - Fixed incorrect ender pearl behaviour (#822) (XuZhen86)
- Moved building scripts to a separate directory
- Updated lombok and kotlin dependencies
Downloads
Download links for both the release and the LTS update can be found on our website.
Thanks!
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 and development reasons, we will not put extended effort into keeping our software compatible with pirated software (such as cracked clients). Our mission, on that front, is to stay at the same level of compatibility as Mojang's server software.
In addition, this new policy extends to the usage of illegally distributed or obtained products used with Glowstone (including plugins and libraries). In other words, we will not assist users if their support request implies the usage of cracked premium plugins or similar products. This also applies to the usage of cheating/hack clients in the context of a support request.
The policy document can be found in our GitHub repository.
Thank you for your comprehension. As always, feel free to communicate to us any concerns about this new policy.
The Glowstone Project.
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 commits, merges, bugs resolved and code written.
We'll start with a quick changelog of what has been done since the last release, 2017.11, then follow with a recap of the year!
Glowstone 2018.0.0
This month, we've pushed 138 commits consisting of 17,993 additions and 11,491 deletions in 938 files. There are a lot more changes than what I can list here, so you check check out the git diff if you want more details.
- Implemented
/clonecommand (#590) - Implemented Ender Pearls (#602)
- Added support for Java 9 (#649) (#652)
- Note that while Glowstone can run on Java 9, it can only be built on Java 8.
- Fixed a number of bugs with player interactions (#644)
- Fixed issues when shift-clicking in the crafting inventory
- Fixed an exception when joining a Glowstone server run from an IDE
- Fixed gravity not updating the location of items (#591)
- Fixed a number of bugs with fall damage
- Fixed the minimum food level to regenerate health from 19 to 18
- Fixed, rewrote and optimized chunk indices (Chunk.Key)
- Improved region file I/O, fixing some issues (#199) (#510)
- More details can be found in commits
98aeb19,34ce26b,3179cef
- More details can be found in commits
- Optimized chunk streaming to players
- Improved hanging entities (paintings, item frames) (#597)
- Fixed a number of bugs with Sign editor (#596)
- Fixed an exception when pinging the server behind a proxy (#599)
- Updated Netty from
4.1.0.CR7to4.1.17.Final - Improvements to network library, updated to Java 8
- Fixed inventory slots in HumanEntity spawn packet
- Rewrote ItemTable to use
Materialinstead of item IDs - Fixed inconsistencies with PlayerInteractEvent (#595)
- Fixed open inventory not being closed when player is teleported (#594)
- Partially implemented MapView/map rendering API (#572) (#605)
- Added slf4j back-end dependency (#612)
- Abstracted WorldStorageProvider to allow plugins to change how world data is saved and loaded
- Added log4j configuration
- Cleaned up chunk locks (#623)
- Implemented Fire Resistance potion
- Refactored EntityManager and BossBar management (#636) (#641) (#642)
- Fixed a concurrency exception when players switch worlds (#628)
- Implemented ItemSpawnEvent and ItemDespawnEvent (#643)
- Updated checkstyle
- Removed metrics
- Removed GlowClient and related dependencies
- A lot of code and documentation cleanup
- Updated Kotlin runtime to 1.2.0
- Updated CI to use CircleCI 2.0 on all branches, builds are now much faster
Whew, that was a lot of polishing. In addition of all these changes, we are also pleased to welcome 2 new developers as part of the team: Pr0methean and keanganxt.
Note that we now use the dev branch for ongoing work, while the master branch will be deleted. We have decided to try a new release format for 2018. We have updated our download section to reflect these changes.
We created a long-term support branch (LTS), 2018.0.x. While we will be continuing ongoing development on the dev branch, we will backport fixes into the 2018.0.x branch continuously. At the end of each month, there will be 2 releases, one tagged on each branch. For example, in one month, we will release both 2018.1.0 (like before) and 2018.0.1, the latter containing all the bug fixes from January, without the unstable/ongoing features.
As for protocol updates (1.13+), we will be backporting them to the long-term support branch one month after they are released on the dev branch.
2017 in Review
Let's take a step back and look at what we have accomplished in 2017. 590 commits have been pushed to the master/dev branch, consisting of 35,242 additions and 12,287 deletions. We have released a total of 13 releases (including today's), which can be summed up to these key points:
- We are sponsored by Aternos <3
- We have a brand new website, with goodies like news posts and users
- Our team grew by 5 developers! Welcome, PickNChew, Postremus, Kyureki, Pr0methean, and kaenganxt
- In total, we received code contributions from 24 users
- ProtocolSupport natively supports Glowstone
- We now have a CLA and a new Code of Conduct
- Glowstone is much more stable, polished and optimized
- A lot more features have been implemented
- Entities are much, much better and complete
- Implemented Boats, Ender Crystals, Paintings, Parrots, XP Orbs, Leashes, Ender Pearls, complex entities (Ender Dragon)
- Entity physics
- Ambient and hurt sounds
- Basic entity AI tasking
- Custom entities for plugins
- Basic piston implementation
- Rewrote most commands, including multiple tools to parse and implement new commands
- And a lot, lot more.
So thank you, everyone, for such a wonderful year. Here's to another solid, productive and joyful new year for all of you.
See you next time, and thanks for all the (498) stars this year,
The Glowstone Project.
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 not have backups for the Maven repository, (that would take a lot of space, considering each snapshot is ~19MB) we had to re-deploy the latest snapshots manually.
Deployment now works and further builds will be added to the repository. Note that any artifact older than 2018.0.0-SNAPSHOT (including the latest release, 2017.11) will cause 404 errors in your builds.
Furthermore, only the latest Glowkit version (1.12.2-R0.1-SNAPSHOT) is on the repository, and older artifacts will also 404.
Due to an issue with how Archiva indexes the Browse tool, you will still see metadata version about all previous artifacts that were on the repository prior to the upgrade. We have contacted Archiva for a fix to reset the search indexing to what we have now.
We are very sorry for the inconvenience the downtime and artifact loss may have caused. If there are more issues, please contact us on Discord.
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 month, we did things:
Additions
- Added
/setblockcommand. - ... yeah so that's it.
...
Just kidding!
Changes and Fixes
- Repealed and Replaced chunk key optimization to a system that isn't broken (#586) (Kyureki)
- Fixed a concurrency crash with the Entity AI task manager (#584) (Microsamp)
- Fixed fire not being updated on tick (#435) (kumpelblase2)
- Fixed tools not being damaged when using them
- Cleaned-up and fixed bugs with world borders
- Various code cleanup-ing
- Updated Kotlin to version
1.1.51
Other Updates
mastercoms has been working on a new "block/item functions" for a few weeks. It removes the ItemType/BlockType hierarchy which led to multiple issues, and will be replaced by a new system. It will be extendable by plugins to add their new items/blocks with custom functionality. More info can be found in the PR.
I was testing ProtocolSupport with the latest version of Glowstone and it was broken. So I fixed things. So now you can seamlessly use 1.4.7-to-1.12 clients on Glowstone using the plugin, with build 182 and above!
Also, we are welcoming Kyureki (a.k.a. smartboyathome on GitHub) on our developer team! He recently implemented the /clone command, which is currently under review.
Finally, I just wanted to point out that we had a high increase in traffic on the website and GitHub because we got voted up to the top on Hacker News and the front-page of /r/Minecraft. That's very cool! It wasn't us who posted them, I promise. Thanks for all the stars and love <3
I think I have used all possible variations of "thanks for reading" in the previous posts, so I'm just going to say:
Thanks for reading! :)
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 ask questions or support is on our Discord server.
Additions
- Added support for 1.12.2 (#566)
- Dropped 1.12.1 support
- Added pistons (#577) (PickNChew)
- Added
/testforcommand (#573) (Kyureki) - Added
/testforblockcommand (#579) - Added technical API for block state parsing in commands (#579)
- Added some missing entity NBT tags
TagsandPortalCooldownfor all entitiesColorfor shulkers
- Added despawning of out-of-range hostile mobs
- Added chorus flower, plant and fruit (#582) (kaenganxt)
Changes and Fixes
- Ameliorated entity knockback considerably
- Optimized memory usage of chunk keys (#569)
- Fixed an exception when running Glowstone in an IDE (#568) (Z750)
- Fixed
@rrandom selector (#575) (kaenganxt) - Fixed some food features and updated food saturation values (#578) (kaenganxt)
- Replaced
Randominstances byThreadLocalRandom(#581) (PickNChew) - Changed
GlowServer.getVersion()to match the format in other Vanilla wrappers - Replaced duplicates of
BlockFacearrays in block types into one array (#583) (kaenganxt)
Other Updates
We also fixed an issue with ProtocolSupport which prevented it from loading on Glowstone 2017.10 snapshots. Make sure you use the latest version of ProtocolSupport with Glowstone!
We are also welcoming PickNChew in our developer team. He previously implemented particles, revamped the entity registry system, and implemented rails and pistons.
We have also been working on some more technical features this month. mastercoms has been working on a new "block function" system for a little while now, and we hope to see this completed and merged for the next release. I have also worked on a little side project with annotated NBT, so we will see where that goes as well.
That's it for now, we'll see you in the next release.
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
/enchantcommand (#560) - Implement Enderman carried block (#561)
- Added a new API for Villager Careers (#563 and Glowkit #13)
- Added a new API for Entity Animations (#564 and Glowkit #14)
- Implemented critical hits and damage enchantments (#564)
- Implemented
/effectcommand (#555) - Implemented the
pvpsetting in the server configuration
Changes and Fixes
- Fixed the
/effectcommand not accepting Vanilla IDs (#558) - Fixed certain entities which couldn’t be spawned using
/summon(#541) - Fixed incorrect Enderman ‘carried block’ metadata
Other Updates
After a few months of work, we have merged the beta site into production. We have dropped our Github pages site in favor of the Site software written in Python by gdude. Please let us know of any problems with the site on Discord or in the repository’s issues.
That’s it for now, see you all again in the next release!
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
/effectcommand (#555) - Added ambient and death sounds for Ender Dragon
- Added network code for Craft Recipe Response and Crafting Book Data packets
- Started implementation of the Recipe Book, including I/O and network code
- Implemented API methods related to Lightning (#546)
- Added burn-time for all burnable items
- Added option to verify and validate incoming connections (#553)
Changes and Fixes
- Fixed animals not spawning at all due to a mistake
- Optimized function storage using Map instead of List (#537)
- Fixed some issues with library management, and updated some libraries (#540 and #544)
- Fixed an issue with player head-rotation not being sent (#551)
- Fixed an issue with
/tp player toplayernot doing anything (#554) - Fixed shift-clicking in containers, again (#557)
Other Updates
We've had a slow schedule this month, mostly due to everyone being busier than usual.
I have personally stepped down as project lead and have given this responsibility back to mastercoms because I will have much less time to give to this project due to college and other stuff.
Also, I'd like to welcome Postremus to our development team. He has been working a lot on this project recently and has implemented a lot of major features, including leashes this month.
That's it for now, we'll see you guys later! :^)
