BREAKING CHANGES IN CONFIG.
DELETE YOUR PREVIOUS CONFIG.

Added new "extensions" API.
Added Sponge support.
Lots of improvements and fixes.

> Full list of changes

Added %litebans_removal_reason% and %litebans_removed_by_name% placeholders.

Fixed configuration bug introduced in release 2.7.3 affecting new BA installs.

Changes since last release

• Added %litebans_random_id% placeholder
• Added %player_uuid% placeholder for LibertyBans & AdvancedBan (previously it was only available for LiteBans).
• Added %date_*% placeholders for non-permanent punishment (previously it was only available on temporary punishments).

Allow other Discord channel types for announcing punishments.

Updated code to work with Spicord v5.

UPDATE SPICORD TOO. WILL NOT WORK WITH V4

Added the following new placeholders:

%player_uuid%
%litebans_server_scope%
%litebans_server_origin%

- LiteBans fix.

- Added Discord timestamp placeholders for embeds:

%date_[start/end]_[t/T/d/D/f/F/R]%

examples:
%date_start_R%
%date_start_f%
%date_end_d%
%date_end_t%
etc.

See https://discord.com/developers/docs/reference#message-formatting-timestamp-styles to know the meaning of each letter

(+) attempt to prevent duplicated messages on Discord, the suspected cause was the use of "/sp restart".

(+) "Automatic" text for LibertyBans & BetterJails for temp. punishment expiration

Changes in 2.6.1 (not officialy released) :
- Support for LiteBans on Velocity
- Support for Composite victims on LibertyBans
- Friendly warning when bot is not present instead of throwing an error

1. Fixed Essentials jail error.
2. Fixed initialization on Velocity. You must also update Spicord to 4.2.1 if you are using B.A. & Spicord on Velocity.

(Fix) MessageFormatter: scan arrays ( https://www.spigotmc.org/threads/banannouncer-discord.360501/page-7#post-4345984 )

(Fix) "false" value of jail-manager ( https://www.spigotmc.org/threads/banannouncer-discord.360501/page-7#post-4343972 )

Fix issue #72 : Jail managers not working

Added api-version.
Fixed error present on 2.5.0 and 2.5.1 that made the plugin break on spigot servers.

(2.3.0-1 Was not released on SpigotMC)
(2.4.0 Was not released on SpigotMC)

2.5.0
New:

• Added Velocity 3.0.0 support (requires Spicord 4.1.0 - https://github.com/Spicord/Spicord/releases/tag/4.1.0)
  
• LibertyBans support.

2.4.0
Fixes:

• (2.3.0-1) Fix #47
• Fix #54
• Refactored internal code, removed a lot of duplicated code and made it more readable and maintainable (I hope)
• Escaping of special characters that can break the JSON spec if used in punishment reasons. (thanks Bobcatsss from SpigotMC)

New:

• (Internal) Added "extensions", they are loaded at runtime from the "plugins/BanAnnouncer/extensions" folder.

IMPORTANT! Update to the latest Spicord version or this plugin wont work.

Changes since 2.1.0

• (2.1.0-2) Fix username fetch from LiteBans
  
• (2.2.0) Added support for Essentials Jails (untested) and for BetterJails (tested).
  
• (2.2.0) Added %id% placeholder for AdvancedBan and LiteBans punishments.
• (2.2.1) Added note/unnote support for AdvancedBan
  
• (2.3.0) Updated code to work with Spicord 4

• Removed the 5-second startup delay
• Performance improvements and bug fixes
• Now automatic-expired punishments will have the "(Automatic)" suffix, to prevent server owners from panicking

Note: this release wont work on Spicord versions previous 3.1.0

You will need to install Spicord 3.0.0 to use this version.

- Optimizations

Fix: configuration bug

If you didnt have an error, an update is not required

• Added support for: unban, unbanip, unwarn, unmute
• Improvements & bug fixes

Planned future changes:

• Add a reload command

Now the connection(s) will be released after fetching data from the database (using LiteBans).

I used a dev version of Spicord for this build. Some classes doesn't exists on the latest public release. (Sorry! I will update it later!)

Now the connection(s) will be released after fetching data from the database (using LiteBans).

Added LiteBans support and Embed messages support.

Fixed: Sorry, I uploaded a broken build...

Added:
- Kick, warn, tempwarn, banip, tempbanip, mute and tempmute messages

Fixed: The addon was registered after AdvancedBan starts on some servers, and Spicord loaded before the addon was registered.