This may also improve performance for the block place/break events. If
the world claims disable is permanent, server owners can use the new
/DeleteClaimsInWorld command to conveniently delete all of them.
Mostly these are deprecations from the Spigot team which I believe
shouldn't be deprecated. For example, players refer to each other by
name, not UUID - so there will always be a need for player lookup by
name. Also the block IDs are a well-documented standard that everyone
understands, even if they're not very human-friendly. Plugins use those
IDs and data values to specify block types for example in config files.
As for the rest of the ignores, I either decided the warnings are just
noise based on the situation, or that I'm comfortable with the risks.
Possibly for the first time in 5 years of dev work on this plugin, I
just compiled without any warnings. :)
Cost to check a claim for inactivity greatly reduced. Increased
frequency of checks to make inactive claims disappear closer to their
expiration times. Enabled claim expiration for all servers (can be
disabled), added configurable exclusions with generous defaults for
players who've been playing on the server a long time and/or have
somehow earned a significant amount of bonus claim blocks.
Optional radius parameter. Does not require golden shovel unless player
has exactly one land claim and is in survival mode. Even the first use
of /claim now requires the player to have enough available claim blocks
to claim the area.
Not defined in the config indicates the world wasn't loaded at GP boot,
which will cause a claim loading problem on next boot. Better to block
their creation than to have players get griefed because the claim
experiences a loading problem later.
Was previously always not protecting pets in PvP worlds. That is still
the default, but added an option to protect them (except wolves which
can attack players) in those worlds.
Whisper and chat slash command lists now auto-fill themselves with all
possible aliases. So if you put /tell in your whisper commands list, GP
will be smart enough to also add /minecraft:tell (and similarly for
plugins, including all aliases registered via plugin.yml for those
commands by those plugins).
Unless disabled in the config, new players will get a book which tells
them which tools the server uses for land claims, lists common commands
for reference, and provides a hyperlink to more help.