Backported security fix

A security issue with JSON chat formatting was found. The fix was backported for 2.3, since 2.4 is not stable yet.

• Fixed a security issue with chat styles (closes #2198)
• Backported other minor bugfixes
• Updated the aliases
• Disabled FAWE hook; it cannot currently be compiled

A security release

A new alpha release for 2.4 is out a bit sooner than expected. A security issue was noticed, so you should update as soon as possible.

• Added support for checking if all entities are 'dead'
• Added (hopefully) functional support for 1.14 cats
• Added support for clearing block drops for 1.14 (closes #659)
• Fixed inventory titles not working on 1.13 and older versions; still doesn't work on 1.14 (thanks @ShaneBeee)
• Fixed a broken documentation link (thanks @MrScopes)
• Fixed leash holder throwing exceptions (closes #2157, thanks @Blueyescat)
• Fixed chat codes being case sensitive (closes #2152)
• Fixed bugs in tablist modification expression (closes #2130)
• Fixed a security issue with chat styles (closes #2198)
• Fixed spectator target support not being available (closes #2201)
• Triggers are now called events in docs

Critical error on 1.12 and older

• Fixed a bug that caused Skript not to load on Minecraft 1.12 and older (closes #2137)

Moving forward with 2.4

Second test release of 2.4 brings bug fixes, new features and improved Minecraft 1.14 support.

• Added support most 1.14 entities and particles (closes #2064)
• Added most of the missing visual effects that affect entities
• Added effects for enabling and disabling (other) scripts (closes #822, thanks @JRoy)
• Fixed a warning related to color serializer (closes #2072)
• Fixed patterns for new villager professions (closes #2065)
• Fixed a regression with enchantment type parsing (closes #2063)
• Fixed drowned being treated as zombies (closes #2087, thanks @ShaneBeee)
• Fixed sending block changes ignoring block data on Minecraft 1.13 and newer versions (closes #2039, thanks @ShaneBeee)
• Fixed a bug that duplicated placed stairs and trap doors (closes #1977, thanks @ShaneBeee)
• Added a condition for checking if materials are blocks (thanks @ShaneBeee)
• Fixed a bug which caused dropping items or experience from a list variable not to work (closes #1917, thanks @ShaneBeee)
• Fixed entity click events ignoring held item (closes #2084)

In addition to these user-facing changes, Spigot's nullness annotations are now accounted for.

1.14.1 Alpha Release

First experimental release of Skript 2.4 is finally here. While smaller than 2.3, this is a large release. Don't use this on a production server before testing extensively.

Once things are starting to look stable, a beta release will be published. Consider waiting for it unless you're especially interested in reporting bugs. Alternatively, use latest stable release (2.3.6) available below.

• Added an effect to break blocks naturally (thanks @ShaneBeee)
• Added support for getting colors of beds (closes #1972)
• Added missing event-values to vehicle events
• Added support for playing multiple sounds in multiple locations (thanks @Blueyescat)
• Added support for specifying sound category (thanks @Blueyescat)
• Added support for playing sounds at players without specifying locations (thanks @Blueyescat)
• Added an effect to stop sounds (closes #1921, thanks @Blueyescat)
• Added experimental support for Minecraft (Spigot, Paper) 1.14.1
• Fixed some expressions being treated as singulars, even though they are not
• Fixed 'indices' expression not being available
• Fixed minor issues with inventory expressions
• Fixed using enchanted items in variable names not working (closes #1987)
• Fixed a bug that caused aliases contain too much whitespace
• Fixed removing enchantments ignoring their levels
• Fixed click events not working reliably on villagers (#1927)
• Fixed armor stand click events not working at all
• Fixed entity click events not working with high verbosity settings (closes #1938)
• Fixed built-in calcExperience function not working reliably (closes #2040, thanks @Matocolotoe)
• Fixed playing sounds sometimes throwing exceptions (closes #1914, thanks @Blueyescat)
• Fixed an issue with material registry updates sometimes corrupting the registry
• Fixed getting command arguments crashing with alternative syntax (closes #2050)
• Improved vector implementation (thanks @Blueyescat)
• Improved documentation of play sound effect (thanks @Blueyescat)
• Reworked how enchantments are serialized
• Reworked parts of aliases system; fixed many comparison issues, improved performance, slightly reduced memory usage
• Removed FAWE support; it was contributed in a pull request, but broke due to their Maven server changes

Bug fixes to you!

2.3 continues to receive bug fixes.

• Fixed opening and closing doors not working (closes #1897)
• Fixed sorting some lists not working (closes #1904)
• Fixed setting all items of an inventory to a list ignoring some items (closes #1906)
• Fixed aliases with upper-case letters not being usable (closes #1907)
• Fixed falling blocks causing exceptions on 1.12 and older (closes #1909)
• Fixed setting blocks sometimes causing exceptions on 1.12 and older (closes #1902)
• Fixed some cases of click events not working on 1.12 and older (closes #1916)
• Fixed changes to items in variables also affecting items in inventories (closes #1813)
• Fixed insertion chat style not working (closes #1378)
• Improved performance of removing all items from an inventory (related #772)

101th release

Too bad it is nothing major. Last week's release had a few regressions that needed to be fixed ASAP.

• Fixed WorldGuard+FAWE not working on 1.12 (closes #1875)
• Fixed item comparison issues caused by fixing other item comparison issues (closes #1871)

Hotfix release 2.3.5:

• Fixed a major regression caused by fixing other regressions (closes #1888)
• Fixed a module build issue (closes #1887, #1891)

More bug fixes!

1.12 aliases have been a bit unstable; they should be better now. For users of 1.13, we have a few other bug fixes available.

• Added FAWE WorldGuard support (thanks @Pugabyte, closes #1821)
• Fixed 'starts with' not working (closes #1864)
• Fixed block and item names ignoring data values on 1.12 and below (closes #1799)
• Fixed item parsing messing up the data values on 1.12 and below (closes #1850)
• Fixed alias comparison issues on 1.12 and below (closes #1739)
• Fixed bed block aliases not working on 1.12 (closes #1856)
• Fixed right click events not always working with items in off hand (closes #1808)
• Removed old potion item expression (closes #1866)

Bug fixes

Skript 2.3.1 has been relatively stable. Still, bugs exist and now we have fixed some of them. Since no new features were added, hopefully nothing broke this time.

• Fixed a documentation issue with open inventory effect (closes #1826)
• Fixed time span parsing sometimes throwing exceptions (closes #1829)
• Fixed getting and setting display names of items not working reliably (closes #1807)
• Fixed parse expression not working with optional parts (closes #1222)
• Fixed issues with setting items to slots (closes #1822)
• Fixed feed effect setting food level instead of increasing it
• Changed Skript not to send script command names to clients when they have not been changed; improves performance on 1.13 when there are many players online

A (not so?) stable release

A first stable release of Skript for years is here!

Main good news since Skript 2.2:

• Added support for Minecraft 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12 and 1.13 (latest revisions only)
• Rewrote item and block alias system and the aliases
• Reworked Skript documentation, since Njol's docs website was not open source
• Added vector support (was previously an addon)
• Added support for advanced chat formatting features (known as "JSON chat")
• Added support for particles (not just legacy effects)
• Added support for playing sounds
• Added ability to place function calls before function definitions
• ⭐ Added item with lore expression
  • You have probably used the with lore expression from skQuery addon, now it is added to Skript itself, but it uses text lists instead of || for new lines. So you will have to update your scripts using this format. The same goes for the item lore expression, so it returns a text list.

     a diamond sword named "name" with lore "lore"
     a diamond sword with lore "line 1" and "line 2"
     a diamond sword with lore "line 1", "" and "line 3"
    
     set {_lore::*} to the lore of player's tool
    

• Fixed some ancient bugs

Additions / Improvements

Note: some additions may be missing from the list below. Please read the docs
for complete reference of Skript features.

General

⭐ Vector support

• Vector arithmetics expression
• Rotate vector around effect
• Rotate vector around XYZ effect
• Location from vector expression
• Location offset by vector expression
• Angle between vectors expression
• Vector between locations expression
• Cross product between vectors expression
• Dot product between vectors expression
• New cylindrical vector expression
• New spherical vector expression
• Vector from X, Y, Z expression
• Vector from yaw, pitch expression
• Vector length expression
• Normalized vector expression
• Vector from location expression
• Random vector expression
• Squared vector length expression
• Vector coordinates expression
• Vector yaw, pitch expression
• Entity velocity expression (changeable)

⭐ Full server list control

Now you can fully modify info of the server in the server list, but some of these features requires Paper 1.12.2 or newer

• Server list ping event
• Changeable MOTD expression
• Max players expession (changeable in the ping event)
• Online players count expression (changeable in the ping event)
• Changeable protocol version expression
• Changeable version string expression
• Changeable hover list expression
• Load server icon from file effect
• Last loaded server icon expression
• Server icon expression (changeable in the ping event)
• Hide/show player info in server list effect
• Hide player from server list effect
• Ability to the get IP address of the pinger in the server ping event

⭐ Easy to use command cooldown system

These entries can be used in command creations:

cooldown: <timespan>
cooldown message:
cooldown bypass: <permission>
cooldown storage: <variable>

⭐ Player visibility controls

• Effect to hide specified players from the other specified players
• Effect to reveal specified players to the other specified players
• Expression to get hidden players of a player
• Condition to check whether specified players can see the other specified players

✨Mixed

• Client side weather support
  • Expression to get/change client weather of players
  • Condition to check whether a player has client weather
• Scoreboard tags support
  You can visit Minecraft Wiki for more info about scoreboard tags
  • Expression to get/change scoreboard tags of entities
  • Condition to check whether an entity has a scoreboard tag
• Support for more tree types
• A sample script for inventory clicks (equip anything.sk)
• Support for parsing UUID as player and offline player
• Support for Residence regions
• Support for PreciousStones regions
• Support for glowing and bad luck potion effects
• Support for multiple vehicle passengers
• Support for ambient and particle-less potion effects
• Used BStats for metrics
• Support for moved blocks in piston events
• A way to get documentation exported from Skript in JSON format
• A warning if some ridiculous function signatures are used
• A warning when used delays with less than 1 tick, as they have never worked
• Plants support for the grow event
• Support for multiple texts in the replace effect
• Possibility to replace items with another item in inventories
• Support for boat types
• direction event value in certain events
• Support for entity UUIDs
• Support for zero-argument functions
• world event value for the portal creation event
• Support for coloring potions and maps in Minecraft 1.11
• Condition to check if an entity is on ground
• Support for silverfish in the block form event
• Support for configuring variable storage table name
• Added configuration options to disable certain warnings
• Support for forcing players to fly
• A warning for unnecessary text conversions
• A function to calculate experience needed to achieve the given level in Minecraft.
• Support for using expressions in command permission message
• Support for looping an inventory, that means looping items in the inventory
• Support for manipulating balances of offline players
• Local variable type hints
• A warning for using only single : in a variable name
• Ability to change inventory names

Effects

• Effect to force players to respawn
• Ability to drop items without velocity
• Anvil support for the open inventory effect
• Make player start/stop flying effect
• continue effect which skips the current loop
• Effect for sending fake block changes to players
• Effect to force a player to say something
• Effect to execute another effect conditionally
• Effect to send action bars
• Effect to leash an entity to a leash holder entity
• Effect to suppress some warnings locally to the current script
• Effect to send titles and subtitles

Expressions

• ⭐ Default value expression
• ⭐ Ternary expression
• ⭐ List Filter
• Off hand tool expression
• Raw Minecraft item name expression
• Last damage cause expression
• Saturation expression
• Cursor slot expression
• Elytra gliding state expression (changeable)
• Unbreakable item expression
• Expressions to convert texts to lower/upper case
• Expression to get sorted and shuffled form of a list
  (Note: a sorted/shuffled variable list doesn’t keep its indexes)
• Expression to get the final damage in a damage event
• Expression to get amount of an item stack
• Glowing effect expression (can be set and reset)
• Ability to specify the fake damage cause for the damage effect
• Inventory support for the name expression
• Gravity expression for Minecraft 1.10+
• Inventory slot expression
• Inventory action expression
• Expression to get the currently open inventory of a player
• Expression to get the last dropped item
• Tamer expression for the tame event
• Chat message format expression for the chat event
• Book related expressions
• Unix timestamp expression
• ⭐ Expression to format dates
• Expression to get type of an inventory
• Expression to get all permissions of a player
• 'date ago/later' expression, which increments/reduces a date by the given timespan
• Expression to allow survival players to fly when they want to
• Expression to create custom chest inventories
• Expression to get holder, viewers and rows of an inventory
• Expression to get the highest block at a location
• Player exhaustion expression
• Expression to get all online and offline players
• World seed expression
• Block humidity expression
• Block temperature expression
• Expression to get item of an item frame or a dropped item
• Expression to get/change enchantments of an item
• Player ping expression
• Server TPS expression
• Player hotbar slot expression (changeable)
• ⭐ Metadata expression
• Expression to get Minecraft language of a player
• Spectator target expression
• ⭐ Expression to get the spawn reason in the spawn event
• ⭐ Expression to get the teleport cause in the teleport event
• Expression to get leash holder of an entity
• Expression to get/change difficulty of worlds

Conditions

• Is script is loaded condition
• Is block is solid condition
• Is block flammable condition
• Is block transparent condition
• Is item edible condition
• Text starts/ends with text condition
• Is chunk loaded condition
• Is world loaded condition
• Is slime chunk condition
• Is swimming condition

Events

• Prepare crafting event
• Inventory open and close events
• Inventory click event
• Entity mount/dismount events
• Elytra glide state change event (cancellable)
• Area effect cloud event
• Player world change event
• Resurrect event for 1.11+
• Item item despawn event
• Item merge event
• Flight toggle event
• Player language change event
• Jump event
• Hand item swap event
• Swim toggle event

Also, there are some breaking changes:

• Skript now requires Java 8
• Skript also requires Spigot/Paper and Minecraft 1.9 or newer
  • CraftBukkit does not work, Glowstone might work but is not tested
• Old aliases in scripts are not compatible
• Numeric item ids are not supported anymore
• Syntax for hashing was changed, MD5 is not a secure hashing algorithm. See the docs for the new syntax
  • Consider using SHA instead or better, not dealing with passwords with Skript
• Slots now work as specified in the documentation (i.e. they're not passed to variables)
• Some new bugs might break your scripts

For people updating from the previous beta release, a...