Nogtail submitted a new resource: Chameleon - An API for modifying tags and skins Read more about this resource...
No idea, I'm not sure how the protocol hack works but Chameleon modifies and creates player list packets which were changed in 1.8 so I suspect it would not.
Nogtail updated Chameleon with a new update entry: Fix Incorrect Dimension on Skin Reload Read the rest of this update entry...