Hey all!

I've got some exciting news and news and changes this time! nothing too big, but it sheds some light on what's to come and where we're going.

The most important new announcements (expanding free voice chat licenses and jetstream) are made possible by our awesome Patreon supporters, they don't just help to keep the project online, but also letting us implement features and new systems we couldn't otherwise afford.

Changelog (sorted by topic) :

• Voice Chat Changes:
  • Added new in-game chat messages, seeking to replace the extremely spammy notifications. You'll now receive messages like "Mindgamesnl and 2 others appeared in voice range" instead of getting 3 separate messages for every player.
  • New way to try voice chat: just use "/oa voice claim" to claim a key from in game, its that easy!
  • You can now mute the microphone from in-game, without lifting a finger. Hitting shift+f (or whatever you have bound as your swap-items key) toggles your microphone, just like how /mm does.
  • added the voice chat subcommand, you can run "/oa voice" to check on the state of your voice chat server (how many slots you have, how many are in use, etc) and it shows installation instructions for new servers, giving a step-by-step guide on what you need to do for new admins.
  • The spatial voice rendering now is louder and clearer
  • Fixed some issues with audio playback
  • Free licenses automatically scale based on demand, so the days-long wait is a thing of the past, there's almost always a key available as of now.
• Media Changes:
  • Some features (like regions, speakers, and synchronization) are notorious for being extremely picky about sources and have weird behaviour with some streaming options. Jetsream is a new service build specifically for openaudiomc, and it basically acts as a streaming proxy/cdn to preload your content and adds required http headers, as well as handling byte-range streaming. This means that some of your sources will be cached for you, improving load times greatly and making music much more reliable! this is a big feature/improvement that I've been working on for quite a while and will monitor it over the coming weeks to see how it goes. Please contact me if you're having concerns or would like to blacklist your domain from being handled by jetstream.
  • Fixed issues causing weird behaviour with ambience sound.
• Web Client:
  • Added more languages
  • Improved performance on chrome
  • Fixed two bugs related to audio pre-loading
• Plugin/API:
  • Fixed some issues with Forge loaders like Magma and Mohistmc,
  • The core of OpenAudioMc got rewriting, favoring a scalable service loader with dependency injection over the old manual service registration and instancing. this WILL break plugins hooking into OpenAudioMc outside of the API, please contact me in the #support discord channel for help migrating your plugin before updating.
  • Implemented shared network events
  • Added more unit tests during plugin validation
• Accounts:
  • You no longer need to link your discord when claiming an addon through the web interface (but it's still recommended).
  • Slots are being reworked over the following weeks, FREE licenses will receive more slots, Patreon tiers will be changed and current patrons will automatically be upgraded. More details about this will be shared in our discord server as time goes on.