You may have noticed that there weren't any public update on neither Spigot nor MC-Market since almost 6 months. There are two reasons for that:

1. The version on those platforms (aka v4) is already pretty stable
2. We've been working on a HUGE update since over a year (aka v5)

We've been gradually testing all changes with the betas that are regularly being released in our Discord. Every buyer is allowed to test it and report and bugs he found. Additionally, we took the opportunity to make larger changes that we couldn't do otherwise.


What exactly is new with this update?

You may find all change logs right here:
Beta 6: https://pastebin.com/yEiuqKzT
Beta 5: https://pastebin.com/3EirV5FC
Beta 4: https://pastebin.com/aUvcQnei
Beta 3: Pastebin not available anymore, but was as equal as large. Changes include: Initial addition of arenas GUIs, the finalization of the new setup GUI, support for Java 12+, permission changes, performance & stability improvements, more additions to the API, support for Add-ons and more.
Beta 2: https://pastebin.com/qGfkT2fX
Beta 1: https://pastebin.com/sDPMbTdh

In a nutshell:

• 1.17 support
• Java 11+ support
• A new and more user friendly GUI system for managing and creating arenas (aka setup GUI)
• A massive API (https://javadocs.mbedwars.com/)
• Greatly improved performance (keep in mind that the current one is already fascinating!)
  
• Tons of systems have been rewritten and massively improved
• New setup GUI (used to be called simply "arenasgui" in v4)
• New modular arenas GUI for creating GUIs to access your arenas
• A start to move more config files from .cm2 to the more preferred .yml format
• Further improvements to the regeneration system
• It's now possible to spawn player heads for rankings (similar to stats rankings)
• Revamped command system with being more logical to use
• Renamed & combined permissions
• A new migration system to move from other plugins or systems (currently only Bedwars1058, more is planned)

Keep in mind that you are already able to access it! Simply visit our Discord and follow the instructions there. The plugin will automatically convert everything from v4 to v5. All you have to do is to replace the plugin's jar. Keep in mind that you won't be able to go back to v4, so you might want to create backups beforehand.
The final release is very soon and planned to be in less than a month. We're open to every suggestion and try to fix as many bugs as possible!