Version 6.0.0-rc.3

release: version 6.0.0-rc.3

Version 6.0.0-rc.2

release: version 6.0.0-rc.2

Version 6.0.0-rc.1

release: version 6.0.0-rc.1

Version 5.5.4

Changes

• Add a check for Minecraft version to prevent run on Minecraft 1.20.5 or later
  • If you want to use Minecraft 1.20.5 or later, please update to v6.x.x

Version 5.5.3

Improvements

• Catch all exceptions from CoreProtect to prevent item duplication on picking items

Version 5.5.2

New Features

• Added support for Minecraft 1.20.3/4

Improvements

• Optimize tab completions of items/players

API Changes

#257 (comment)

Version 5.5.1

Fixes

• Cannot initialize default items when running Paper 1.20.2 that includes PotionType changes by Spigot

API Changes

• Rework UserManager
  • Add methods createBoxUser with uuid and name (optional), loadBoxUser, and searchByName
  • Make old loadUser, saveUser, saveUserIfNotExists, and search method deprecated for removal

Version 5.5.0

New Feature

Support for Minecraft 1.20.2

Box works fine in Minecraft 1.20.2.

Click the item in the inventory to open its category menu

When the Box menu is open, clicking on an item in the player's inventory now opens the category menu to which that item belongs.

Add --page (-pa) argument for /box gui

For example, run /box gui --category stones --page 2 to open the stone category on page 2.

Accordingly, clickable category buttons in /box iteminfo will now take you to the page with the item.

API Changes

#257 (comment)

Notice of Box v6

We are planning to further improve performance/stability and to change the internal structure for it. The release date is not yet scheduled, but it will come in the not-distant future.

Background and For Developers

It has already been two years since our last major overhaul (Version 4.0.0). During these two years, Box has been running on our servers without any problems and still stores hundreds of millions of items.

Plugin development is entering a new era. First, the latest LTS version, Java 21, was recently released, adding several new features since Java 17 that are worth applying to Box. Second, PaperMC announced Folia, a multi-threaded server software in March. Box is experimentally supporting Folia, but there is still room for improvement. Finally, there are major changes planned for the widely used Bukkit API. This will provide backward compatibility, but in the medium to long term, Box will also be forced to make changes.

In addition to these environmental factors, my knowledge has grown over the past two years. The current Box implementation has good enough performance and stability, but we can improve them further. There are also a few headaches caused by the two-year-old design. These may not need to be resolved now, but will weigh heavily as technical debt as time goes on.

For these reasons, several branches are undergoing modifications for Box v6. It will include some breaking API changes. Developers of projects that depend on the Box API should check the API change notices in Box v5.5.x. In Box v5.5.x, APIs that will be changed or removed in v6 are marked with annotations such as @Deprecated, and some alternate APIs are also provided. This helps distribute the breaking changes made from v5 to v6 as much as possible.

Full Changelog: 5.4.2...5.5.0

Version 5.4.2

New Features

• Add checking Bolt protection when depositing (withdrawing) to (from) blocks

Improvements

• Remove unnecessary getSelected call in IngredientHolder#select
• Use ConcurrentHashMap in several places

Fixes

• Entity task does not run correctly (TaskFactory#runEntityTask)

Version 5.4.1

Changes

• Re-add support for Folia
• Update Gradle to 8.2 and dependencies