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Added support for:

• Hao's Nick API (This includes HaoNick etc.) (Thanks to @MetallicGoat )
• Plan

Added feature:

• Added feature to avoid players exploiting stats
  • Comes with various new configs

Config changes:

• Added
  • lobby-exbar-animation
  • spectator-permit-other-player-view
    
  • "commands-as-console" to lobby-hotbar.yml and spectator-hotbar.yml
    
  • fireball-max-knockback-y
    
  • fireball-max-knockback-xz
    
  • explosive-max-knockback-y
    
  • explosive-max-knockback-xz
    
  • fireball-fly-speed-constant
    
  • itemspawner-auto-center (Thanks to @MetallicGoat )
    
  • stats-antiabuse-enabled
    
  • stats-antiabuse-count-round-min-duration
    
  • stats-antiabuse-count-wins-count
• Added special condition for drop type special name "%VANILLA%", to not apply a custom name
  
• It is now possibly to apply a "DisplayName" (using NBT) for drop type items
  
• Added {missing-name} and {missing-amount} placeholders to "TooFew_Materials" and "UpgradeShop_TooFew_Materials" messages
  
• Removed config arenavoting-enabled
  
• regeneration-region-efficient is now enabled by default and out of beta
  
• Sound changes
  • Removed sounds from long-removed features
    
  • Added sounds to the setup gui
    
  • ArenasGUI optional click sound (Thanks to @MetallicGoat )

Performance improvements:

• Reduced amount of short-term threads created
  
• Rewrote commonly used algorithms to be more efficient
• Fixed syncer overloading (reduces odds of micro-lags)
  
• Now using javaluator instead of Nashorn for parsing expressions to reduce memory footprint

Improvements:

• Redyed blue, light blue, and cyan team ChatColors more appropriately
  
• Updated "hypixel" template
  
• Auto turn namespaces (for enchantments) to lowercase to avoid errors
• Added hint with command when warning appears that you must disable/enable the arena first
  
• Disabling an arena with a running match now "gracefully" stops the match (it regenerates it)
  
• Removed "old-fishing-knockback" warning for OldCombatMechanics compatibility when using 2.0 or newer
  
• Removed concurrency world regeneration to avoid server freezes (now only for regions)
  
• Now hiding item attributes for arena icons (eveywhere where it is being displayed) and items within setup GUI
• The arena voting system has been completely rewritten
  • Removes arena issues: MUST_JOIN_VOTING and VOTING_MUST_JOIN_NORMAL
    
  • Added arena issue: VOTING_PARTICIPATING
    
  • Various API & config changes
• Added new rejoin warning in case you haven't joined any match yet. Previously it'd instead show that the previous match isn't active anymore
  
• Immediately end rounds if there is only one team left online (even if solo-rejoin is enabled) (Thanks to @MetallicGoat )
  
• Improvements to fireball & TNT jumping
  • Various new configs
  • Velocity calculations more accurately use the locations of explosive & player
    
  • Modified default configs to improve the feeling
• Optimized creation time of region cloned arenas

API changes:

• Including API sources to allow javadoc integration withing IDE's
  
• Added events
  • PlayerUseSpecialItemFireballEvent
    
  • PlayerShopProductGivingDetermineEvent
    
  • PlayerArenaVoteEvent
    
  • ArenaVotingPoolUpdateEvent
• Added misc
  • ShopPrice#getMissingAmount(player, inv)
    
  • ShopPrice#getMissingAmount(player)
    
  • BukkitEntitySkin class for hologram API
    
  • BukkitEntitySkin class for hologram API
    
  • GameAPI#useSpecialItem(item, player, arena, holdingItem)
  • Helper#playSound(location, sound, volume, pitch)
    
  • Helper#playSound(player, location, sound, volume, pitch)
    
  • Helper#playCustomSound(location, sound, volume, pitch)
    
  • Helper#playCustomSound(player, location, sound, volume, pitch)
    
  • KickReason#ARENA_STOP
    
  • WorldStorage#getNearbyHolograms(location, radius)
    
  • PlayerDataAPI#getStatSet(id)
  • RejoinedPlayerIssue#NOT_PARTICIPATING
    
  • HolographicHologramSkin$PlayerSpecificLinesSupplier.of(Message)
    
  • HolographicHologramSkin$PlayerSpecificLinesSupplier.of(List<Message>)
    
  • Helper#evaluateString(string)
    
  • PlayerBuyInShopEvent#getClonedItem()
    
  • PlayerDataAPI#getAchievementTypeById(String)
    
  • PlayerDataAPI#getRegisteredAchievementTypes()
    
  • PlayerDataAPI#getRegisteredAchievementTypes()
    
  • LobbyItem#isCommandsAsConsole()
    
  • LobbyItem#setCommandsAsConsole(boolean)
    
  • SpectatorItem#isCommandsAsConsole()
    
  • SpectatorItem#setCommandsAsConsole(boolean)
    
  • VarSound class
    
  • ShopOpenCause#isInitial()
    
  • UpgradeShopOpenCause#isInitial()
    
  • Arena#getVoting()
    
  • Arena#getParticipatingVotingPool()
• Breaking changes
  • Removed NMSHelper#showTitle(player, text, subText, stayTime)
    
  • Renamed parameters within NMSHelper#showTitle method
    
  • Swapped order of fadeIn and stayTime parameters within NMSHelper#showTitle (to be more consistent with Bukkit API)
    
  • HolographicHologramSkin$PlayerSpecificLinesSupplier#getLines(...) now expects a List instead of a Collection
    
  • DropType#getSpawnSound() now returns the new VarSound class instead of Bukkit's sound
    
  • DropType#setSpawnSound(sound) now expects the new VarSound class instead of Bukkit's sound
    
  • DamageableSkin #getDamageSound() and #getDeathSound() now return the new VarSound class instead of Bukkit's sound
• Fixed it not being possible to modify the page within ShopOpenEvent

Fixed bugs:

• Fixed some upgrades or traps not working (due to failing to find nearby entities async) (Thanks to @MetallicGoat )
  
• Fixed potential ConcurrentModificationException with BungeecordManager
  
• Fixed typo with CrashMessage_LowerCornerOutOfBounds
  
• Fixed potential error with missing hub pos and auto join
  
• Fixed MongoDB not working
  
• Fixed being able to interact with signs ingame even if it was disabled in config.yml (Thanks to @MetallicGoat )
• Fixed not starting on 1.17.1
  
• Fixed issues caused by Paper removing constructor on EntityDamageEvent (Thanks to @MetallicGoat )
  
• Fixed not receiving feedback when regenerating an arena while it had a match
  
• Fixed not being able to modify blocks at the edge of a region arena
  
• Fixed Guard Dogs sometimes target spectators (Thanks to @MetallicGoat )
  
• Fixed item attributes not being hidden as intended on 1.14+
  
• Fixed Setup GUI not updating (issue not disappearing) when setting lobby or updating game area
  
• Fixed "next page" item staying in configure page for voting arena, even though it's already the last page
  
• Fixed player colors staying when leaving the arena
  
• Fixed "Object not supported" error with newer ASWM versions
  
• Fixed UnknownWorldException with SWM
  
• Fixed problems related to lobby world existence verification
  
• Fixed "/bw arena spawner give" not returning the exact drops
  
• Fixed conflict with CarbonSpigot
  
• Fixed a few sounds not working as intended
  
• Fixed potential errors with wolves teleporting whose owner isn't a player
  
• Fixed auto cloning creating a new world for every region arena
  
• Fixed auto cloning sometimes not purging old world folders
  
• Fixed auto clone issue: Some region arenas are not getting generated properly if regeneration-region-efficient was enabled