ChatControl - Format & Filter Chat v12.1.5

Please update your BungeeControl and VelocityControl too.

• Fix | No longer crash with "FoException: Report: To enable global rules, remove import global from files in the rules/ folder." when global is listed under Rules.Apply_On in settings.yml - we now print a one-line warning and strip it automatically, keeping your other rule types intact.
• Improve | Reduced LiteBans mute polling from every 2 seconds to every 30 seconds to prevent "Connection pool exhaustion detected (open=100, max=100)" errors when multiple MineAcademy plugins run on the same server.
• Improve | Added a 5-minute back-off on LiteBans database failures instead of hammering the connection pool during an outage; cached mute data is preserved across failures.

Please update your BungeeControl and VelocityControl too.

• New | Added gradient color picker to the /chc color menu with 15 preconfigured gradients (Sunset, Ocean, Twilight, etc.). Also works via command: /chc color red-blue or /chc color #00C6FF-#0068E8. Permission: chatcontrol.guigradient.{name}
• Improve | Faster proxy message broadcasting on networks with many players
• Fix | Proxy rules now properly enforce delay and player delay operators
• Fix | Warning point action commands now log errors instead of silently failing

Please update your BungeeControl and VelocityControl too.

• Fix | Solved the + variable suffix (e.g. {vault_prefix+}) resetting colors in addition to decorations. Now only bold, italic, underline, strikethrough and obfuscated are cleared while the color is preserved
• Fix | Solved "Unrecognized operator 'player delay'" crash on VelocityControl/BungeeControl when using player delay in player messages

• Improve | Updated ProtocolLib integration for Paper 26.1
• Improve | Added 26.1 material, particle and sound names

Please update your BungeeControl and VelocityControl too.

• New | Compatible with Minecraft 26.1
• Improve | Migrate mail and logs database tables to new schema automatically on startup
• Improve | Better error message when Prefix key in Messages section of settings.yml has wrong format
• Fix | Solved race condition where player cache could be removed before async chat processing completes
• Fix | Pre-load player database cache during async login to eliminate gap between "player is online" and "cache is loaded"
• Fix | Solved join/leave/kick messages with legacy color codes causing vanilla client errors on modern servers
• Fix | Solved ad domain filter false-positive on NBT tags like 10b or 3.5d
• Fix | Solved "NullPointerException" in death messages when killer has no custom name
• Fix | No longer throw error on known Redis connectivity issues on proxy
• Fix | Solved \n in commands kicking players on Minecraft 26.1
• Fix | Solved ReDoS vulnerability in legacy-to-MiniMessage color conversion

Developer note: I hope you're enjoying the faster release cadence! No, I am not delegating stuff to AI. I received sponsorship from Microsoft for Startups so I am using Claude Opus 4.6 at maxed out settings through them to help out like most senior devs do nowadays, but I steer it properly and check everything. Also, we now auto-report crashes to GitHub (you can disable this in settings.yml), so it's gonna look as if the plugin has more bugs which is false - most people simply don't bother opening a ticket so I didn't even have a chance to fix these. We'll be patching these edge cases more often now. If you appreciated me stepping back in as a dev, please leave a nice review!

Please update your BungeeControl and VelocityControl too.

• Fix | Solved "ConcurrentModificationException" reported crash during timed broadcasts when proxy sync writes to SyncedCache collections while the main thread reads them
• Fix | Solved rare "NoClassDefFoundError: github/scarsz/discordsrv/dependencies/jda/api/JDA" crash when DiscordSRV classes become unavailable at runtime (corrupted jar, hot-swap)

• Fix | Solved "Cannot invoke PlayerCache.fromCached() because cache is null" when a player dies during an async spy event

• Fix | Solved "ClassCastException: class [Ljava.lang.Object; cannot be cast to class [Lnet.kyori.adventure.text.Component;" when opening books
• Fix | Fixed {killer} variable in death messages showing raw object instead of name