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
- Adjust look around task frequency for AI
- Use a parallel stream for sending entities to players
- Add new constructor for proxy data to allow for use with plugins
- Update Maven build settings
- Force-gamemode config option support
- Add tests for inventory utilities
- Better support for signed and unsigned player properties
- Add proper rail placement/connection
- Add subtitle and times subcommands to title
- Use Gson for title command
- Entity physics
And the bug fixes: * Default drop data to 0 instead of 1 * Skip pulsing entities if they aren't in a loaded chunk * Do not shade powermock in the JAR * Use equals instead of == for UUID checks in the Boss Bar manager * Do not try to shutdown the network server if it is not running * Use concurrent hash map for entities * Do not decorate oceans with animals * Prevent animals from being spawned in the air from decoration * Unload heightmap and entities from unloaded chunks * Remove unused legacy packets * Fix structure generation and properly rollback blocks on failed structure generation * Fix chunk compression issues * Fix fall damage logic somewhat * Use ConcurrentHashSet for chunk entities * Implement use item packet, fix item usage logic * Fix entity animations and player swinging * Fix title command * Do not allow movement or regeneration while dead * Do not check the scoreboard when getting display name if the scoreboard does not exist * Fix TextMessage#flatten() * Fix a null pointer exception in ip and port due to late bind * Various fixes for explosions
Also some other interesting news is that ProtocolSupport supports Glowstone natively. Go check it out! https://github.com/ProtocolSupport/ProtocolSupport
You can view the code changes for this release here: https://github.com/GlowstoneMC/Glowstone/compare/50d6f16b85fb1e523bfaf1a8402d7421b3f2bab2...d5e4e54029e1bd0ccd2102578c95a9827a5632cd
And the git release can be found here: https://github.com/GlowstoneMC/Glowstone/releases/tag/2017.2
Please note that this is a release to track our progress, not one that will be supported for a longer time. Only the latest version of Glowstone will receive support.
