EssentialsX/Essentials 2.19.4

EssentialsX 2.19.4 - important fix for Trade signs

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⚠️ EssentialsX 2.19.4 fixes a critical issue with [Trade] signs from 2.19.3. You should upgrade to this release as soon as possible.

A massive thanks to our community members who have assisted countless people on GitHub and MOSS, including @triagonal, @JasonHorkles, @Evidentsinger14, @Chew, and many others.

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• AKP
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Supported server versions

EssentialsX officially supports the CraftBukkit, Spigot, and Paper server software.

EssentialsX is designed to work on the following Minecraft versions:

• ✅ 1.17.1 and 1.18.2 - EssentialsX actively develops against and supports these versions.
• ⚠️ 1.8.8, 1.9.4, 1.10.2, 1.11.2, 1.12.2, 1.13.2, 1.14.4, 1.15.2, and 1.16.5 - these versions are still supported, but are not a priority for us, and may be dropped in a future release.

We recommend using the latest version of Paper. EssentialsX includes significant improvements that require Paper, including:

• Paper's async chunk loading reduces lag spikes during player teleports.
  CraftBukkit and Spigot do not support async chunk loading from plugins.
• /anvil, /grindstone, /cartographytable, /loom, /smithingtable, /stonecutter are only supported on Paper.
  CraftBukkit and Spigot do not support the API needed for these.
• /recipe on 1.12+ requires Paper to avoid a dupe bug introduced by CraftBukkit and Spigot.
• Paper contains countless overall performance optimisations over CraftBukkit and Spigot.
• Paper supports all properly-written plugins for CraftBukkit and Spigot.

EssentialsX does not support the following Minecraft versions or server software:

• 🛑 "Ultra-performance" Paper forks including Akarin, Yatopia, and similar projects - these often perform non-standard behaviour and can break your worlds and installed plugins.
• 🛑 Mohist - The Mohist project is known to be sketchy, and has, in the past, tricked users into deleting official EssentialsX jars and installing an unofficial build. We cannot guarantee the safety or functionality of unofficial builds of EssentialsX; you should avoid using Mohist where possible.
• 🛑 Other Forge/Bukkit hybrid servers including Cauldron, Thermos, Magma, CatServer - EssentialsX is built for the Bukkit API, which does not properly support mods. For modded servers, use SpongeForge and Nucleus, or an alternative mod for Forge or Fabric.
• 🛑 1.7.10 or below.

Upgrading to 2.19.4

2.19.4 is a drop-in replacement for 2.19.3.

If you're upgrading from 2.19.2, you can keep your current EssentialsX config file. However, 2.19.4 adds some new options that you may want to configure, and to do so you'll need to either update your config or add the new settings to your existing config. See the 2.19.3 changelog for more details.

Upgrading from 2.19.2 or older versions of EssentialsX? See the previous update changelogs.

Known issues

Anchor charges deplete on Spigot even when EssentialsX Spawn overrides the spawn location

On CraftBukkit and Spigot, anchor charges will deplete regardless of the respawn-at-anchor due to an unfixed bug in CraftBukkit. This bug has been patched in Paper.

EssentialsX Discord hangs on single core systems on outdated versions of JDK 17

Due to a known bug in OpenJDK 17.0.1, EssentialsX Discord may hang during startup when running in a single-core environment. Due to the nature of the JDK bug, there is nothing EssentialsX can do directly to fix this.

You can fix this by updating your Java version to 17.0.2 or later. If you are unable to change your Java version, please contact your server host for help.

(You can alternatively add -Djava.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool.common.parallelism=1 to your startup flags to attempt to mitigate the issue. However, this should be used as a last resort only. OpenJDK 17.0.2 fixes this issue and should be used instead of this workaround.)

Bug fixes

Bugs fixed from 2.19.3 and older versions

These bugs existed in 2.19.3 and have been fixed in this release.

• IMPORTANT: after upgrading to 2.19.3, [Trade] signs would change owner when used. This has been fixed. (#4835)
• EssentialsX no longer spits out errors if the plugin shuts down while an update check is running. (#4839)

Regressions fixed from 2.19.4 dev builds

There are no known regressions in 2.19.4 dev builds.

For a full commit log, click here.