5.4 DEV build 1611

5.4 DEV build 1611

This dev release contains beginning of Frontend BETA and small fixes.

Special thanks to Kopo for contributions to this update.

Change log

Frontend BETA (Opt-in)

Frontend is being rewritten in React one page at a time. This is to have more control over what is displayed on the website, since a lot of requested features will require more interaction or hiding features partially. - While doable with vanilla javascript, code would quickly become unmaintainable.

The goal is to get feature parity with the current frontend implementation by rewriting one page at a time and then switch over completely.

Some features will not use React frontend until everything is complete.

• To Opt-in set Plugin.Frontend_BETA to true
• Player page has been rewritten in React, other pages still use previous implementation.
• Html Customization is currently incompatible with the beta and is disabled automatically.
• Export is currently incompatible with the beta and old pages continue to be exported even if beta is enabled.
• Automated browser testing was improved a lot and all pages are now tested for basic javascript errors.

Config

• Default Player head image address was changed from cravatar to crafatar. Remove the current value and reload if you wish to use the new setting.

Locale

Kopo did a massive locale system improvement in order to support translations on the frontend side, implementing yml conversion, namespacing all of the existing locale keys and writing json endpoints for frontend to load locale - as well as the code responsible for loading those using i18next.

• Locale files now use .yml format. Any locale files you may be using are converted automatically.
• The new React Frontend allows changing language on the frontend on a per-user basis with a dropdown menu - This is currently only available on the rewritten pages (player page)
  

Export

• Players page is now exported more frequently
• Exported pages should no longer show the Logout button

Extensions

• Essentials Economy was split from Essentials Extension. Now there are 2 extensions managed separately. This was done since the economy calls were triggering updates too frequently. If you have disabled Essentials Extension you may need to disable EssentialsEco Extension separately
• Fixed NPE related to LuckPerms extension
• Fixed issues with KingdomsX Extension when using newer version of KingdomsX (They changed names of some of their packages)

Bugfixes

• Fixed negative register dates in player dat files breaking the database
• Fixed ConcurrentModificationException related to AFK tracker
• Prevented use of incorrectly formatted WorldAlias regex settings

5.4 build 1583 - Hotfix for MySQL issues

5.4 build 1583 - Hotfix for MySQL issue

This release contains a hotfix for MySQL driver unloading issues on disable/reload, causing the plugin to spew a really long error message and failing to reload when using MySQL.
Driver is no longer unloaded during reload to avoid any issues.

This bug was introduced in dev build 1536 on January 6th, but it was not caught or reported.

5.4 build 1581 - Bugfixes

5.4 build 1581 - Bugfixes

This build contains a heck of a lot of bugfixes and a bunch of small features.
Special thanks to HexedHero and Kopo for contributions to this update & thanks to everyone who has been reporting issues!

Change log

Data gathering

• Kopo fixed not logging deaths on fabric when killer was not a player

Config

• Throw more detailed error when Unit of setting is incorrect
• Added Display_options.Player_head_img_url config setting for the player page head image

Stability

• Fixed SpongeForge crashing with Plan on enable. This was caused by a bug in SQLite.
• Possibly fixed OutOfMemory crash where server ran out of threads. Amount of tasks registered by Plan over time was reduced.
• Possibly fixed error on server shutdown related to class loading ("zip file closed")
• Possibly fixed duplicate servers being stored in the database when database is busy during enable.

Website

• Added Join address to /player pages
• Fixed player pages with 2 different UUIDs showing same player's data when both players had same name (In cases where offline and online UUIDs are present due to user error)
• Fixed ISO code for South Korea and North Korea so that they show up properly on the map
• Internal error web pages now have error context
• Added support for Hex color codes in player display names on the website
• Fixed Query page 'to main page' link on reverse-proxy setups using subdirectory
• Fixed performance tab not loading on /network page if locale was not English

Extensions

• Fixed ArithmeticException related to Libertybans extension
• Fixed wrong block count for netherrack in Logblock extension
• Fixed "Connected from same IP" data from Litebans not including player names that had the same IP
• Kopo fixed Litebans extension not getting new data when there were over 5000 rows of specific punishments.
• Disabled Litebans extension automatically on game servers if it is already installed on Proxy to avoid duplicate data
• Clean up data of extension disabled in the config when plugin is reloaded to avoid confusion when a plugin does not disappear from the website after disabling them.
• Luckperms extension now updates its data when player's group is changed / group is deleted even if the player is not online.

Placeholders

• Added new placeholders
  • %plan_server_players_registered_{total/day/week/month}%
  • %plan_network_players_registered_{total/day/week/month}%
  • %plan_server_players_unique_{total/day/week/month}%
  • %plan_network_players_unique_{total/day/week/month}%
  • %plan_player_is_afk%, output true/false
  • %plan_player_is_afk_badge%, output 'AFK'/''
  • %plan_top_{category}_{time}_{n}_value%, output the value giving the player their top spot
• Fixed group by error related to top category placeholder queries
• Placeholders in the Plan config are now refreshed more often and earlier during login to improve chance they are displayed when the other plugin uses server thread for placeholders.

Export

• Hid refresh buttons on exported web files since refreshing does not update data on exported files

Commands

• Fixed fabric specific command issues
  • Fixed /plan reload
  • Fixed commands requiring confirmation expiring the confirmation immediately
  • Fixed console getting wrong kind of messages from command output

Other

• Cleaned up extra error messages from browser dev tools console
• Fixed index out of bounds exception related to trying to log errors after it failed previously (leaving behind empty file)
• Reduced log level of "Webserver disabled (disabled in config)" from warning to info
• HexedHero added more instructions to SQLite exception when temp directory is out of space for when user is using Pterodactyl

5.4 DEV build 1575 Release Candidate

5.4 DEV build 1575 Release Candidate

Changes from DEV build 1555

• Hid refresh buttons on exported web files since refreshing does not update data on exported files
• Disabled Litebans extension automatically on game servers if it is already installed on Proxy to avoid duplicate data
• Clean up data of extension disabled in the config when plugin is reloaded to avoid confusion when a plugin does not disappear from the website after disabling them.
• Added placeholders
  • %plan_player_is_afk%, output true/false
  • %plan_player_is_afk_badge%, output 'AFK'/''
  • %plan_top_{category}{time}{n}_value%, output the value giving the player their top spot
• Internal error web pages now have error context
• Fixed SpongeForge crashing with Plan
• Added Display_options.Player_head_img_url config setting for the player page head image
• Added support for Hex color codes in player display names on the website
• Fix Query page 'to main page' link on reverse-proxy setups using subdirectory
• Possibly fixed error on server shutdown related to class loading ("zip file closed")
• Possibly fixed duplicate servers being stored in the database when database is busy during enable.

5.4 DEV build 1555

5.4 DEV build 1555

Changes from DEV build 1542

• Fixed cookies expiring immediately, leading to data not loading at all if login was enabled (Bug introduced in build 1536)
• Fixed player pages with 2 different UUIDs showing same player's data when both players had same name (In cases where offline and online UUIDs are present due to user error)
• Fixed ISO code for South Korea and North Korea so that they show up properly on the map
• Added Join address to Player pages

5.4 DEV Build 1542

5.4 DEV Build 1542

Changes from dev build 1536

• Fixed top category placeholder queries exception and off-by-one error
• Fixed fabric specific command issues
  • Fixed /plan reload
  • Fixed commands requiring confirmation expiring the confirmation immediately
  • Fixed console getting wrong kind of messages from command output
• Kopo fixed Litebans extension not getting new data when there were over 5000 rows of specific punishments.
• Reduced log level of "Webserver disabled (disabled in config)" from warning to info

5.4 DEV build 1536

5.4 DEV build 1536

Changes from dev build 1526

• Possibly fixed OutOfMemory crash where server ran out of threads by reducing amount of tasks registered by Plan over time
• Cleaned up extra error messages from browser dev tools console
• Fixed index out of bounds exception related to trying to log errors after it failed previously (leaving behind empty file)

5.4 DEV build 1526

5.4 DEV build 1526

This release contains bugfixes.

Special thanks to Kopo for contributions to this update

Change log

Placeholders

• Added new placeholders for some player counts
  • %plan_server_players_registered_{total/day/week/month}%
  • %plan_network_players_registered_{total/day/week/month}%
  • %plan_server_players_unique_{total/day/week/month}%
  • %plan_network_players_unique_{total/day/week/month}%
• Fixed group by error related to top category placeholder queries

Other Bugfixes

• Throw more detailed error when Unit of setting is incorrect
• Kopo fixed not logging deaths on fabric when killer was not a player
• Fixed ArithmeticException related to Libertybans extension
• Fixed wrong block count for netherrack in Logblock extension
• Fixed "Connected from same IP" data from Litebans not including player names that had the same IP

5.4 build 1516 - Year in review

5.4 build 1516 - Year-in-review

Hello! So, today marks 5 years since Plan development started. That's a pretty long time to be honest. As has become customary, there's a survey and a year-in-review post below this updates change log. Thanks for being awesome!

Special thanks to zax71, KairyByte & OLEGSHA for contributions to this update!

Change log

• Updated HighCharts to newer version since they have fixed performance issue, in addition I removed ordinal: false workaround in Plan that was used to avoid the performance issue. If you liked the odd gaps in your data that may have been present due to the workaround, you can set Display_options.Graphs.Show_gaps_in_data to true in the Plan config to have them visible.
• Fixed NPE related to null gamemode on some platforms
• Kairubyte added version number to javascript file loading addresses so that they are no longer cached by cloudflare between updates. (Which caused issues in the past)
• zax71 and OLEGSHA added some missing plugin dependencies to softdepend in plugin.yml

Survey

Here's a link to this year's survey: https://forms.gle/cpc6trn6wfJCpg8E9

Read on below for a look back on what has been going on with Plan this year & what's in store in the future.

Year-in-review: Year 5

This year I started working as a full-time developer so the updates have been less frequent. Non-the-less, surprising to me, the development speed has not really slowed that much. Thanks to the past years of structuring the code, it is still easy to maintain and add new features to Plan.

Here are the "main" features that landed in the last year.

• The Query page
• Player join address gathering
• 15+ new Extensions
• Fabric support
• Network performance tab
• Server uptime
• Database driver downloading

In terms of features I'd say this year has been very good compared to previous years. I can't claim all the credit, since a lot of this has been made possible by the numerous contributors!
I decided to list all the contributors from 2021 (in order of appearance) here, thank you to: Guinness_Akihiko, galexrt, QuakyCZ, MrFriggo, vacoup, Kopo, Creeperface01, WolverStones, hallo1142, Aurelien30000, BruilsiozPro, WolverStones, BrainStone, AppleMacOS, 4drian3d, EyuphanMandiraci, 10935336, 洛伊, Sander0542, portlek, rymiel, mbax, untuned, PerchunPak, Shadowhackercz, HexedHero, Vankka, DrexHD, zisunny104, SkipM4, MAXOUXAX, adhg6 and BratishkaErik, zax71, KairyByte and OLEGSHA.

This year in numbers

• From build 1062 to 1515: 457 commits released as updates
• From #8 to #11 in top spigot plugins by rating: The reduced update frequency has likely impacted relative score compared to other plugins
• From 2500 servers to over 4000 servers
• From 49k lines to 59k lines of code (not counting extensions or web files)
• From 43,7% test coverage to 51.3% coverage

Last year around this time I thought there was a storm brewing in terms of maintainability, but this year has been rather smooth sailing - probably thanks to the reduced update frequency allowing longer testing times for dev builds catching more bugs before they end up in a main release.

Even though a bunch of tickets get closed all the time (260 tickets closed this year), they never run out. Luckily the new project tracker has turned out to be successful in reducing the ticket mass to manageable chunks that can be worked on whenever I have the extra energy to do so.

To turn towards the future, and adding a slight personal note, I have found a functional balance where things progress, but in bit smaller chunks than before. That said, I don't have nearly as much time for Plan as I used to before I got a job (25h/week vs ~3h/week now), so larger features take quite a long time. In an ideal world I would love to work on Plan full-time, but since Plan covers 1.5% of my monthly living expenses, it is simply not feasible.
Right now I'm also writing a Master's thesis, so Plan development will likely stay on the a backseat at least until I have finished that endeavor. Don't worry though - as you can see from the releases this year, being on the backseat has not really slowed things down :)

Thanks for reading, and for using Plan! I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and Happy new year!

5.4 build 1494 - Hotfix to previous build

5.4 build 1494 - Hotfix to previous build

• Fixed plugins using MySQL that started after Plan from breaking due to Plan unregistering the MySQL driver (Thanks for the fix Vankka!)

There were three things that lead to this issue not being caught:

• The driver unregistering previously dealt with other plugins using Plan driver was forgotten when writing driver download code
• The driver downloading changed so that the mysql driver was not relocated to plan.com.mysql.driver.Driver which caused the main MySQL driver to be unregistered instead
• There was no test environment in which a plugin using MySQL started after Plan

Sorry for any trouble this may have caused.