Summary: There will be releases supporting 1.8.8 and releases supporting recent (currently 1.20.4+). Changes in this release listed at the bottom of the post. Take a backup of faction data before updating - a one-way conversion of data happens on launch.

After more than half a year of notice, FactionsUUID is dropping support for a lot of versions that are largely unused (with good reason). The version bump is to mark the support change - it shouldn't break plugin support.

This release supports Minecraft 1.20.4, 1.20.6, and 1.21 - all on Java 21.

There will be a subsequent legacy release for Minecraft 1.8.8, which will not be losing total support, along with further releases for modern Minecraft.

Version 1.6.9.5-U0.6.40-b344 is the last version to support 1.9.0 through 1.19.4.

Changes in this release:

• Improved claim management code for significant memory footprint reduction.
• Fix teleport-on-join detection of wilderness/safezone/warzone by adding three new configuration values to main.conf.
• Update internal tracking of farmland/soil to better detect stomping on crops.
• Fix the internal ID placeholder when using it in territory mode.
• Update to Java 21.
• Drastically reduce jar size (yay).
• Remove legacy code support not needed when running only 1.20.4+.
• Modified storage of faction and user data. One-way conversion automatically applied.