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Glowstone 2021.7.0


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

Glowstone Test Server

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 improve some things, but took care to preserve functionality and form. As a static site, one of the more notable improvements you will see is faster load times, but there's also been some touch ups to the layout, styling and perhaps most importantly, we finally have our Javadocs back online!

As part of this infrastructure update, we have also taken the forums offline, due to low use, and possible security and maintenance issues. Worry not though! All our announcements from both the old site, and ones still stuck on the forums have been migrated to this one, and all content has been backed up in case anyone needs it.

We also have regenerated our test server's world (connect with 1.12.2 to mc.glowstone.net), and decorated it with a new spawn, which you can see here.

Now let's get on to the release notes, and then we'll close off with some project news and updates. Since we did not have a changelog for our prior release, 2018.9.0, we will be including its changes in here.

Additions

  • Added A* pathfinding utils (#924)
  • Added Linkstone, a compatibility layer for NMS and CraftBukkit (#952)
  • Added more i18n (#964, #966, #967, #981, #987, #988, #989, #999, #1000, #1001, #1003, #1004, #1005, #1026)
  • Implemented the substatistics system (#985)
  • Implemented statistics tracking for animal bred, jumps, fall distance, time since death, minecart distance, boat distance (#1021)
  • Added GitHub Actions CI
  • Added regional difficulty (#1019)
  • Improved animal feeding implementation (#1025)
  • Added Guardian/ElderGuardian API (#970)
  • Added block specific piston behavior (#1017)
  • Implemented getter and setters APIs for PlayerProfile (#980)
  • Implemented PlayerLevelChangeEvent (#983)
  • Implemented PlayerStatisticIncrementEvent (#984)
  • Implemented BroadcastMessageEvent, BlockPhysicsEvent, ProjectileHitEvent, PlayerExpChangeEvent (#986)
  • Implemented BlockPistonExtendEvent (#1013)
  • Implemented BlockRedstoneEvent, PlayerItemDamageEvent, VehicleExitEvent (#1018)
  • Implemented PlayerChangedMainHandEvent (#1088)
  • Implemented PlayerInitialSpawnEvent (#1051)
  • Implemented EntityRessurrectEvent (#1050)
  • Implemented EntityAddToWorldEvent (#1063)
  • Added GlowAdvancementDisplay flags (#1105)
  • Added GlowAdvancementDisplay background (#1093)
  • Added vine physics (#1107)
  • Written books (#1099)
  • Cauldron interactions (#1097)
  • Potion effects (#1098)
  • Beacons (#1092)
  • Added gravity to animals (#1084)
  • Added a common messages cache for localization (#1043)
  • Added getMetadata() to GlowHumanEntity
  • Implemented locale client setting (#1011)
  • Added support for building and running on Java 11
  • Implemented some broadcast server APIs (#1021)

Changes

  • Simplified prettyPrint(Entity[])
  • Improved UuidUtils usage (#961)
    • Fixed anti-virus false positive with UuidUtils by switching to FastUUID
    • Fixed a few missing uses of UuidUtils, improving performance
  • Made checkstyle less strict, to reduce contribution friction
  • Changed /banlist to use 1.13 i18n formatting (#991)
  • Fixed some Javadoc warnings and errors
  • Optimized liquid strength comparisons
  • Event calls are now skipped if there are no handlers
  • Async task executor now uses a backing LinkedBlockingDeque, so that tasks are not rejected when there are more tasks than threads
  • Physics updates are skipped while world is generated/initialized
  • Simplified horse growth amount computation
  • Refactored EnchantCommand
  • Some improvements to /glowstone (commit)
  • Optimized output streams by flushing them each tick rather than automatically
  • Fixed items not consuming on block place
  • Use constants for gamerule names (#1029)
  • Refactored experience splitting logic with a consumer (#1027)
  • Refactored epoll and kqueue transport initialization (#1028)
  • Refactored Validator to use Java Predicate (#1034)
  • Clean up to avoid unnecessary boxing (#1102)
  • Added support to specify an equipment slot for an inventory slot
  • Only run delombok in CI builds (#1068)
  • Use enum collections where appropriate (#1066)
  • Removed raw generic types (#1057)
  • Renamed Glowstone organization projects to use main instead of master
  • Updated dependencies
  • Updated Netty to 4.1.65.Final
  • Updated Glowkit to 1.12.2-R6.0
  • Updated Kotlin to 1.5.20
    • Previously updated to 1.3.50 in #1061
  • Updated checkstyle to 8.29
    • Fallout from this change is still being handled. We are open to help for getting parity to our prior 8.18 version.

Fixes

  • Bed fixes (#963)
    • Fixed not being able to sleep during a thunderstorm
    • Added i18n to bed messages
    • Optimized monster check by using EntityManager iterator
  • Fixed invalid bed placement (#973)
  • Fixed block and boat placement duping in some cases (#976)
  • Fixed player profile not resolving UUID data (#978)
  • Fixed player profile not using resolved UUID data (#979)
    • This fixes skull data being invalid
  • Added configurable DNS servers, to avoid DNS resolution errors on some systems (#1044)
  • Fixed potion effects displaying to self (#1090)
  • Fixed source block creation running for lava
  • Fixed sugar cane decorator failing in cases where the target block
  • Default to server locale when player locale is null
  • Fixed empty drop related item lists using a redundant ItemStack list
  • Fixed some links not using HTTPS (#1039)
  • Fixed server port print using comma separation (#1043)
  • Fixed non-solid blocks supporting falling blocks (#1106)
  • Fixed wrong coordinates passed to isSnowy (#1075)
  • Fixed import spacing violations (#1086)
  • Fixed double chest erroring on open (#1072)
  • Fixed entity IDs (#1050)
  • Fixed error when removing more than 1 potion effect (#1050)
  • Cleaned up IO i18n (#962)
  • Fixed multi-sector region file writing (#965)
  • Implemented added fallbacks for getStorageContents() and setStorageContents() for generic inventories
  • Fixed possible NullPointerException for Inventory#setContents()
  • Updated compatibility libraries
  • Removed redundant CommandUtils#isNumeric, which used NumberUtils#isNumber directly
  • Fixed links to wiki instead of docs (#1083)

Sorry for the long wait for a new release! We've certainly had enough changes -- thanks to many contributors, including some first-timers: SHADOWDANCH, Kyureki (who has joined the admin team), tsao-chi, PayDevD, Arthasasyan, hazae41, clabe45, kashike (from Paper!), heisluft, creatorfromhell, cedwe, j1o1h1n, crashdemons, x4e, KisaragiEffective, Muqsit and emreozcan! We also saw a few familiar faces return: VaiTon, aki-ks, socram8888, Postremus, FlorentClarret, plexus and astei! We even saw deathcap, founder of Glowstone++, poke in with a retrospective of their work. plexus also created witchcraft, which is a Clojure repl that can be used for some programmatic fun. PRs are welcome.

Despite the steady progress, a combination of 1.13 work, and lack of availability prevented us from making a new release for a while. Things are definitely looking up for Glowstone project maintenance now, though, and modern Minecraft support is closer than ever. Since we began our 1.13+ efforts 3 years ago, a lot has happened. To focus our efforts and improve organization, a separate 1.13 board was created and Aternos has graciously provided a total of $1000 in bounties for these tasks.

To resolve the new block data tasks, we have created Redstone Transformer, led by Kyureki. This is a library which reads in generated data (like block data, recipes, tags and more!) from Minecraft server reports, and provides dependencies we can use in Glowstone. With this valuable work from Kyureki, we can start to provide implementations for Bukkit's new data interfaces, handle flattened materials, and get rid of a lot of hand-made data resources.

Thanks to changes based on Birbe's work, we have recently also gotten the server starting by updating material references and versions. Getting to this point means that we can finally debug IO and networking integration issues properly, and make a lot faster progress on protocol and chunk format.

With all of this progress, we have finally merged back into the main dev branch, so we can do more active work and handle contributions better. The 1.12 server continues to live on the 1.12 branch.

Our path is clear, and we are starting to get velocity again on our work. We are currently targeting 1.16.5 and would love your contributions in this area, in any way you can help! Join our Discord to chat with the team for more info.

And finally, we'd like to announce that we are investigating ways to service lobby users better with a more minimal, low overhead version of Glowstone specifically designed for this purpose. We will have more updates in the future, but we are excited about this new opportunity to deliver Glowstone as a usable and valuable product to many users. Our hope is that it will spark further activity and interest in the whole Glowstone project, and accelerate our efforts to provide a complete reimplementation of the vanilla Minecraft server.

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