This update marks a change in the way we do releases, as some of you may have noticed, Kenny these days does the majority of changes in ViaVersion, it's a long process that takes many hours with no direct compensation.
Releases supporting new versions of Minecraft will be delayed by few days in the future, if you depend on ViaVersion I would highly suggest subscribing to Kenny's GitHub to support him directly and get early access. While this change won't please everyone, it is vital to keep people like Kenny who have put 1000s of hours into ViaVersion (for free) motivated so we can keep the project going as it's clear it has become a staple for Minecraft updates.

Changelog:

• Added sanity checks to item reading across all versions (by KennyTV)
• Fixed written books in 1.20.2->1.20.3 (by KennyTV)
• Fixed 1.20->1.20.2 tag handling (by KennyTV)
• Fixed exceptions during client leave on older servers (by KennyTV)
• Fixed various component conversion issues in multiple versions (by KennyTV)
• Fixed issues with skins and permanent loading screens on Velocity (by Aeltumn)

Be sure to ensure you're running the latest of other Via* plugins too