It's been almost two whole years and over 15,000 plugin downloads since the last 1.X update, with being busy studying for exams, unfortunately, EMF has been on the back burner, but the support from the excellent community - sarhatabaot and FireML as two key people I must mention, has meant the plugin can carry on existing on servers. This long list of fixes & improvements is as follows:

• Improved the command system, more information on the changes can be seen on the official pull request.
• Added support for 1.20.5 and 1.20.6.
  
• Added PlayerPoints integration as a reward. This looks like so:
  
  Code (Text):

  Salmon:
    catch-event:
      "PLAYER_POINTS:100"
• Added {type} to competitions bossbar
  
  
• Added /emf next, this shows the time of the next competition.
  
  
• Added permission reward type
  
  Code (Text):

  rewards:
    1:
      - "PERMISSION:emf.shop"
• Added the ability to run commands when the event starts up.
  
  Code (Text):

  mainCompetition:
      start-commands:
        - "broadcast This is a competition start command"
        - "broadcast This is another competition start command"
• Added config option
  
• Added limit for minimum competition length to 1 minute.
• Added config option to set broadcast range, this defaults to 100.
• Added really cool /emf admin rewardtypes command, this shows all available reward types for the config
  
• Added to the API to allow third-party plugins to add custom rewards. More info in the official pull request.
• Added the ability to fire events when fish are sold in the /emf shop.
  
  Code (Text):

  fish:
    Common:
      Warm Frog:
        sell-event:
          - "COMMAND:cmi msg {player} You sold a Warm Frog!"
• Added support for AuraSkills (formerly AureliumSkills)
• Added placeholders about the fish to the catch, sold and eat event for fish.
  
  Code (Text):

  Warm Frog:
      displayname: "&dWarmest of Frogs"
      catch-event:
          - "COMMAND:cmi msg {player} Caught a {rarity} {displayname}&r ({name}) at {length}cm."
  
  
  
• Fixed illegal stack limits sometimes being given as rewards.
  
• Fixed startup issues on 1.20.3/4 servers
  
• Fixed a few exceptions the plugin would sometimes throw.
• Fixed the competition's minimum players count accounting for vanished players (can be changed via config option)
  Note: this only affects servers using either CMI or Essentials for their vanish system.

As well as various other bug fixes not mentioned to smoothen out the experience for admins and players using the plugin. As always, if you need support then the discord server is the best place to ask for help.