Changes:
- This update adds support for 1.14 and 1.15

While I'm at it I want to give @stifflered (who initially created the plugin)
a big shout out for letting me maintain his plugin

Bug Fix: Permission state for Messages (Enabled/Disabled) were not saving properly, causing all Messages to have their permissions to be disabled. This is fixed.

Summary: Support for MySQL - Backup your ParrotAnnouncer plugin folder before updating.

• Update: Added new MySQL storage option under Settings (Stone Pickaxe button on bottom row of GUI)
• Update: Upon initializing the MySQL connection, existing messages will migrate to the MySQL database.

Today's Parrot Fact: "Almost all parrots are sedentary, that is, they reside in an established range throughout the year. There are two parrot species, however, that do migrate in the truest sense of the word — the swift parrot (Lathamus discolor) and the orange-bellied parrot (Neophema chrysogaster)." source

Summary: Malware checker and bug fix. See "Why did I add a malware checker" below.

• Update: Plugin now checks if any known malicious plugins are installed on the server and alerts the admin, giving them the ability to learn more about the exploit and delete the plugin instantly.
• Bug Fix: Console dump caused by Message Sets GUI for some servers

Today's Parrot Fact: The Hill Myna Parrot is known for astounding imitation ability of human voices.

Why did I add a malware checker?

"A few reasons, mostly tied to this: https://snapshotmc.com/2019/02/06/m...loped-spigot-plugins-include-forceop-exploit/

It's a simple, lightweight checker to see if users have installed known malicious plugins. I am using my platform as a developer to alert my users to the issue IF they have installed those plugins. It won't be useful for 99% of my users, and it won't even show anything if you're clean, but there could come a day when someone has a bad plugin installed that gets exploited.

I could release it as a separate plugin, and the 900+ users who have installed Parrot Announcer, whom I care for the welfare of, may never know if they've installed a bad plugin. Most people won't bother installing malware protection plugins. This is just a simple way to help people out who don't know best practices for installing good plugins."

Resolved an issue with an error being thrown in the console. Thanks for the report, @Zethrus!

Yet another quick bug fix for a problem with lines being out of order after converting to the new storage system using version 2.4 and 2.4.1.

This should be the last one for today.

Quick bug fix relating to the storage converter introduced in version 2.4.

Summary: Make a backup of your messages in the plugin folder before upgrading, just in case. Behind the scenes changes and cleanup

• Update: Rewritten storage engine
• Update: Reorganized code structure
• Update: Removed unnecessary code (and "Thank You" GUI)

Today's Parrot Fact: "Not all parrots like warm weather, though. Some parrots like to live in snowy climates. A few cold-weather parrots are maroon-fronted parrots, thick-billed parrots and keas."

Summary: GUI update and bug fixes

• Update: Completely rewrote the GUI core code to prepare for future updates and give us a little more flexibility for new features.
• Bug Fixes: Various minor issues and errors resolved.

Today's Parrot Fact: Parrots actually have 4 toes instead of the usual 3 found in other bird species. This is known as Zygodactyl and gives the Parrot extra mobility and usage.

• Bug: Fixed an issue where Messages that were a part of a Set that get deleted would throw an error.

Shout-out to @SlipperySpelunky on reviewing the plugin in a recent video!

Delete your StyleFile.yml

• Fix: Internal GUI Upgrades
• New: More Userfriendly StyleFile.yml

Next Update: Randomize Message Sets

Please delete your StyleFile.yml before updating the plugin.

• Spigot Compatibility Layer dropped
• Full 1.13.1 Support

Next Update: Randomize Message Sets

• New: You can now create and manage Message Sets, which allow grouping different Messages together in a single schedule.
  • Example: Add three individual Messages to a single Set with a schedule of 3 hours, and watch as those Messages are displayed, one after another, every 3 hours. Message 1 can send at 1:00, Message 2 can send at 4:00, and Message 3 can send at 7:00.
  • You can change the schedule for any Set to adjust how often each individual Message is broadcast to your players.
• New: Message Sets can have a permission enabled so that only players with a specific permission will see the Messages in that Set.
  • A player with the permission to view a Message Set, but no permission to view a specific Message within that Set, will see all other Messages EXCEPT the one they do not have the permission for.
  • A player with the permission to view a Message, but no permission to view a Message Set, will still see the Message when it is broadcast using other means (not using the Set feature).

• Bug fix to remove some potential lag issues.

Next Update: Message Sets!

• New: Select sound effects for individual messages when they are delivered.
• Change: Settings will now allow you to set the default Sound Effect to play for all future-created Messages

• New: Send the /announcer <id> <reset> command from the Console

You can use this to send messages when a player purchases an item from your store, when a new player joins your server, or any other triggering event from third-party plugins that allow you to send additional commands (like Hydra).

• New: Send a message using a command via chat.
  • /announcer <message-id> <reset>
    
  • Type "reset" at the end for the option to restart the schedule for that message back to the full length.
• New: View the Message ID in the lore for the Message
• New: Added Italian translation to the plugin description. Thanks, GABRYCA!
  
  

Please DELETE your StyleFile.yml in order to see the "ID: " text in the Message lore.

• Minor update changing some of the text in the GUI to clarify the features.

Please DELETE your StyleFile.yml to see these changes take effect.

• New: Right-click to preview a sound effect before setting it to play when Messages are broadcast to players.
• New: Added a Spanish translation of the plugin features to the resource page. Thanks, SlipperySpelunky!

See previous update for the features added

• New: Sound Effect selector. No longer limited to just the Arrow sound!

• New: Settings Menu in /announcer will allow more global options and features to be added in the future.
• New: The first global setting is a Sound Effect. You can enable a sound to play every time a message is sent (currently arrow launching)

• Bug: Messages were sometimes being reset after server restart
• Bug: Message Lines were displayed out of order in the GUI Lore
• Bug: Other minor bugs fixed

There is no way around this, unfortunately, because of how vastly different the database structuring is, and since this is a free plugin I can't bother spending the time creating a conversion tool. Sorry.

Now, to the update:

• New: Fresh look to the GUI. No more keyboard shortcuts for managing your messages, now you can just click the buttons and manage your messages with ease.
• New: Send your Messages manually with the click of a button.
• Feature Change: Edit the individual lines of each message (instead of just deleting and re-creating)
• Feature Change: Delete your Messages, Enable Permissions, and Change the Repeat Delay with the click of a button (instead of needing to delete and re-create)
• Feature Change: Center your messages with Hover + Q instead of adding [c] to the start of a line.
• Bug Fix: Better message centering.

There is no way around this, unfortunately, because of how vastly different the database structuring is, and since this is a free plugin I can't bother spending the time creating a conversion tool. Sorry.

Now, to the update:

• New: Fresh look to the GUI. No more keyboard shortcuts for managing your messages, now you can just click the buttons and manage your messages with ease.
• New: Send your Messages manually with the click of a button.
• Feature Change: Edit the individual lines of each message (instead of just deleting and re-creating)
• Feature Change: Delete your Messages, Enable Permissions, and Change the Repeat Delay with the click of a button (instead of needing to delete and re-create)
• Feature Change: Center your messages with Hover + Q instead of adding [c] to the start of a line.
• Bug Fix: Better message centering.

• NEW: You can now center your text on individual lines by including "[c]" at the start of a line.

Next Update - Create Message Sets OR Send Messages Per World

It is recommended that you delete your StyleFile.yml before updating as it will show you some changes to the GUI.

• New: Full GUI rewrite. Now much smoother.
• Feature Change: Activate the permission with Hover + Q (hover your cursor over the message and tapping "Q" on your keyboard), for those of you who don't have mouses with a middle button.
• Bug Fix: Multi-line messages now display lines in the correct order.
• Bug Fix: Messages no longer flash the animation with random characters and white text
• Bug Fix: Messages are no longer displayed in an order that corresponds to which message will be sent next - they are ordered alphabetically.

Tiny typo and had the wrong version number.

New time management GUI for the delay between each repeated message.

• Set the delay by the second, minute, hour, or day.
• Made a mistake? Remove however much time you'd like with the buttons on the left side.
• Bypasses the chat input so that this plugin doesn't conflict with your custom chat plugins.

You can now enable unique permissions on a per-message basis by middle-clicking on the message in the GUI.

By default, the permissions for each message are set to "None", which means that all of your players will see the related message.

When you middle-click to enable the permissions for a message, you'll see "announcer.ID" in the lore for each message. Now, only players or groups with that permission will see the message.

It is recommended to delete your StyleFile.yml in the /plugins/Announcer/ folder on your server so that you can see the new options.