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9 Years of SpigotMC | Spigot & BungeeCord 1.18-1.18.2 Release

Discussion in 'News and Announcements' started by md_5, Nov 22, 2021.

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jonagamerpro1234

Thanks

#21 jonagamerpro1234, Nov 22, 2021

NoChanceSD

Nice, thank you for your work

#22 NoChanceSD, Nov 22, 2021
Rezz
Happy birthday!

#23 Rezz, Nov 22, 2021
Agree x 1
Maxx_Qc

Nice work to the whole spigotmc and everyone who contributed/still do to the development of this huge api!

#24 Maxx_Qc, Nov 22, 2021
Hydrogen92

thank you md five

#25 Hydrogen92, Nov 22, 2021
Momshroom
md_5 said: ↑

Dear All

As we mark the 9-year anniversary of SpigotMC.org, it is my pleasure to announce that development/preview builds of Spigot for Minecraft 1.18-pre5 are now available. Owing to the shorter interval between 1.17 and 1.18 this is a smaller update than previous major releases. There are however still some significant changes, particularly around world generation and biomes, so some initial caution is advised.

Plugin Updates
With the exception of plugins referencing removed biomes/particles and changes to third-party libraries (especially MySQL), there are no breakages expected. As a server owner, if a plugin is breaking on Minecraft updates, you should be encouraging developers to code their plugin in a way that it does not break (read: use the API). Doing this once is much more efficient than depending on an update every release. As a developer you should use the API wherever possible — a stable API is what distinguishes plugins from mods. If you cannot use the API, then you should contribute one, or at least open a feature request stating the API desired and why you need it. This will prevent you needing to update your plugin each release and will cumulatively save server owners and the community thousands of hours each year. You should consider it your duty to the community to do this.

Java Version
Mojang has decided to make Minecraft 1.18 require Java 17 or later. You can install this from a third party such as Azul Zulu or your Linux package manager. Please note that the --illegal-access=permit workaround is no longer possible on this version. Please also note that current versions of Java 17 have a bug which may affect users on single-core systems. If you have such a system consider adding -Djava.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool.common.parallelism=1 as a Java argument.

Backups
Please make sure you have recent and tested backups for your server before upgrading. As always it is not possible to downgrade your server to an earlier version. This is especially important for this release due to the permanent alterations to older worlds. Please note that Mojang does not officially support upgrades from snapshot versions (including pre-releases) to release versions. If you do not restore your world to a 1.17 version before upgrading to 1.18 when it releases, you may miss out on recent additions or experience bugs.

World Upgrading
Although upgrades from between any two version pairs are technically possible, it is recommended that all upgrades are conducted from 1.17.x. This means that you should first upgrade your world completely on 1.17.x using the --forceUpgrade server argument, and then do the same on 1.18.

Bug Reports
If you are reporting a bug to JIRA, please make sure that you read the guidelines and have compared the results between Vanilla & Spigot, and also the 1.17.1 versions before reporting — this speeds up the process for us immensely and ensures more bugs get fixed more quickly. Please report bugs, or issues you think might be bugs, to JIRA and not in this thread. We prefer good quality but uncertain reports over no reports at all.

Developers
Please see the below post(s).

Pre-release Version
Remember that this is a pre-release version. Significant changes may occur before release and upgrades to other pre-releases should not be expected.

Downloading / Installing
Instructions are not available at the pre-release stage. They will be made available once 1.18 releases.

Closing Notes
Each release represents the culmination of hundreds of hours of effort, so if SpigotMC has helped you in any way, shape, or form we encourage you to leave a donation, contribution, or nice message. If nothing else, at least please make sure that any bug reports you may open are polite, clear, specific, and have been tested thoroughly both without plugins and on Vanilla.

Enjoy,
~Spigot Team

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Thank you!

#26 Momshroom, Nov 22, 2021
Friendly x 1
Confirmsssss

Nice work！Thank you!

#27 Confirmsssss, Nov 22, 2021

OnyxianSoul

Awesome, so happy for the upcoming enum changes ! Thanks for your hard work!

#28 OnyxianSoul, Nov 22, 2021
Tofpu

Keep up the good work <3

#29 Tofpu, Nov 22, 2021
BrettPlayMC

Thanks md, as always.

#30 BrettPlayMC, Nov 22, 2021
buoobuoo

awh ye

#31 buoobuoo, Nov 22, 2021
Olzie-12

Wowieeeeee, thanks

#32 Olzie-12, Nov 22, 2021
RedaAM

Thanks, and happy 9 year

#33 RedaAM, Nov 22, 2021
marcoonline

Thanks MD_5 and the rest of the SpigotMC team for your hard work.

#34 marcoonline, Nov 22, 2021

dreeam123

\1.18/ \1.18/ \1.18/ \1.18/ \1.18/

#35 dreeam123, Nov 22, 2021
drives_a_ford
Moderator

Damn these Aussies posting in the middle of the night!

Great job as always!

#36 drives_a_ford, Nov 22, 2021
ysl3000

Thanks for the work and the enum change consideration.

#37 ysl3000, Nov 22, 2021
TNTUP

Just for the laughs, dumped all my current 1.17.1 plugins I'm using on the prod server to the 1.18-pre5, 20 of 72 plugins failed xD. Keep the good work md_5 and plugin devs !!

#38 TNTUP, Nov 22, 2021
imBuzz
Thank you!!

#39 imBuzz, Nov 22, 2021
Useful x 1
booksaw123

thanks for the amount of effort you put in

#40 booksaw123, Nov 22, 2021

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