The long awaited update is finally here!
Make sure to read the full changelog before updating, and read this guide!
A full configuration guide is also on the wiki, along with updated command and permission wikis.
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New Features:

• New Messages System:
  • Each language is now in own separate file, old messages.yml is no longer used
  • Per-player multi language support (/sk lang <language>)
  • Universal color code and newline support
  • ACF, Action Bar, Leveler, prefix, and more messages supported
  • Integrated with new configurable menus
  • Guide to the new system: https://github.com/Archy-X/AureliumSkills/wiki/Messages-Guide
• Configurable Menus:
  • All menus are now fully customizable in the new menus.yml fil
  • Change any item material, position, display name, and lore format
  • Change menu title, size, and fill item
  • Works with any language, as it is only to determine menu format, message placeholders are replaced with messages defined under the "menus" section of the new messages files
  • Items are used for single items, templates are used for repeating items
• Mana Abilities:
  • Moved abilities that cost mana separate from regular passive abilities and added new mana abilities
  • Mana Abilities now show separate in menus
  • Mana Abilities unlock at level 7 and level up every 7 levels
  • Using Mana Abilities gives Sorcery XP
  • New Mana Abilities:
    • Replenish (Farming) - Automatically replants crops when harvested
• New Abilities:
  • Valor (Foraging) - Grants strength while holding an axe
  • Stamina (Mining) - Grants toughness while holding a pickaxe
  • Light Fall (Agility) - Reduces all fall damage by a percentage
  • Jumper (Agility) - Earn more Agility XP
  • Sugar Rush (Agility) - Consumed and splashed speed and jump boost potions last longer
  • Fleeting (Agility) - Gain movement speed when under 20% health
  • Thunder Fall (Agility) - When sneaking during a fall, you have a chance to deal a percentage of the fall damage expected to mobs in a 3 block radius
• Added options to change skill max levels (UNLIMITED LEVELS!)
• Added leveler section to config:
  • Enable/disable the level up title, change fade in, stay, and fade out
  • Enable/disable the level up sound, change sound type, category, volume, and pitch
• Added Boss Bars:
  • Boss Bars can be enabled and configured in the "boss-bar" config section
  • "mode" option can be either "single" or "multi". Multi means multiple boss bars will display if gaining xp from different types of skills, single is only one at a time.
  • "stay-time" is how long the Boss Bar will stay up after not gaining xp, in ticks
  • "update-every" controls how often the boss bar should update when gaining xp consecutively, increase if having lag issues
  • If "round-xp" is enabled, the current xp will be rounded to an integer
  • The "format" list allows you to change the boss bar color and style for each skill:
    • Format: '<SKILL> <COLOR> <STYLE>'
    • Available colors are BLUE, GREEN, PINK, PURPLE, WHITE, RED, and YELLOW
    • Available styles are SOLID, SEGMENTED_6, SEGMENTED_10, SEGMENTED_12, and SEGMENTED_20
• Added "action-bar.round-xp" option to round current xp to an integer
• Added new placeholders:
  • "aureliumskills_hp_max" - Gets max hp with scaling
  • "aureliumskills_mana_max" - Gets max mana
  • "aureliumskills_hp_percent" - Gets percent hp as integer
  • "aureliumskills_lb_power_<place>" - Gets the entry of the power leaderboard at a specified place formatted as <name> - <value>
  • "aureliumskills_lb_power_<place>_name" - Gets the username at the specified place in the power leaderboard
  • "aureliumskills_lb_power_<place>_value" - Gets the value at the specified place in the power leaderboard
  • "aureliumskills_lb_<skill>_<place>" - Gets the entry of a skill leaderboard at a specified place formatted as <name> - <value>
  • "aureliumskills_lb_<skill>_<place>_name" - Gets the username at the specified place in a skill leaderboard
  • "aureliumskills_lb_<skill>_<place>_value" - Gets the value at the specified place in a skill leaderboard
• Added bStats
• Added Stat methods to the API
• Added Indonesion messages (id)
• Added Spanish messages (es)
• Added French messages (fr)
• Added Chinese Traditional messages (zh-TW)
• Added consuming golden apples and enchanted golden apples as a Healing XP source
• Added command support to loot tables:
  • Prefix an entry with "cmd:" with a command right after (no /)
  • Commands will be run through console, use {player} placeholder to replace player username
  • You cannot have both a command and an item in the same entry
• Added enchantment support for loot table items:
  • Add the "enchantments:" flag after the material name
  • Example: '1 1 ENCHANTED_BOOK enchantments: protection:3' (Without the space between : and p)
  • Generally any format of enchantment name is acceptable (in game names or bukkit names)
  • Multiple enchantments are seperated by a "|", for example: 'enchantments: protection:3|fire_aspect:2' (Also without the space between : and p)
• Added PlaceholderAPI support for action bar messages
• Added action-bar options to config:
  • "enabled" - Global action bar control (must be true to have action bar at all)
  • "idle" - Whether the idle action bar should be enabled
  • "xp" - Whether the action bar for gaining xp should be enabled
  • "maxed" - Whether the action bar for gaining xp in a maxed skill should be enabled
  • "update-period" - Same option as before, just moved locations
  • "placeholder-api" - Whether action bar should replace PlaceholderAPI placeholders, given PlacholderAPI is present
• Added tab completion for modifier names for /sk modifier remove
• Added "leveler.double-check-delay" option for the level up check speed for large xp gains
• Added "wisdom.allow-over-max-mana" option for whether current mana retains when wisdom stat decreases lower than current mana
• Added new leveler messages for mana abilities

Changes:

• New internal config system
• Players that have never gained any xp will no longer be saved and will be purged from data.yml file
• Improved menu and action bar performance using faster String replace method
• Health is now stored while in a disabled world and is set back when returning
• The aureliumskills.lang permission is now true by default
• Removed uncessary config options that have been moved to messages
• Items dropped from abilities now drop with less speed/distance
• Improved action bar performance
• Changed default "modifier.item.check-period" to 3
• A blank config will no longer be saved on server shutdown if the config was deleted

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed XpGainEvent calling without permission multipliers
• Treecapitator will no longer raise a wooden axe if WorldEdit is enabled
• Fixed extra health not being removed when entering a disabled world
• Fixed NPE in save command when switching to MySQL without restart
• Fixed abilities dropping wrong item if using silk touch
• Rank command no longer shows disabled skills
• Fixed andesite not giving xp and diorite giving wrong xp on 1.12
• Farming abilities now drop items from the center of the block (like all other abilities)
• Fixed Defense XP not giving during PVP if damage is less than 'defense.max'
• Fixed Forgaging XP not gaining for sideways oriented logs on 1.12
• Added "health.update-delay" and "health.force-base-health" options to fix some plugin compatibility issues related to world switches