AntiHealthIndicator Plugin v2.0.0

Introduction

We're excited to announce the release of AntiHealthIndicator version 2.0.0! This major update brings significant improvements and enhancements to the plugin.

1. Modular Architecture: Instead of a single module, we've split the logic into a common module and platform-specific implementations. This approach makes maintenance easier and sets the stage for future support of additional platforms like Velocity.

2. Dependency Shading: Removed Adventure, Gson, and BStats from the dependencies and moved PacketEvents to provided. The reason I choose to no longer shade PacketEvents myself is because the library is greatly growing in popularity and if each plugin shades their version of PacketEvents the server performance will be heavily impacted because of that. The total plugin size has been reduced from 2.9MB to 1.07MB! 😄

3. Platform Independence: Our goal was to be as platform-independent as possible. To achieve this, we've moved away from Bukkit Events and now rely solely on raw packets. This change ensures better compatibility across different server software.

4. Performance Boost: We've achieved extreme performance improvements and fixed memory leak issues throughout the codebase. The new CacheManager is much more efficient and reliable.

5. Enhanced Vehicle Bypass: Now, all ridable entities (not just horses) are excluded from being spoofed when a player rides them.

6. Players Only Option: You can now choose to hide health and other metadata only from other players, greatly reducing the cache size.

PacketEvents

Make sure that because we no longer shade PacketEvents ourselves you install the latest version found here: https://ci.codemc.io/job/retrooper/job/packetevents/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/spigot/build/libs/packetevents-spigot-2.2.1.jar

Changelog

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Bram1903/AntiHealthIndicator/compare/v1.1.3...v2.0.0

Credits

Big thanks to @Tofaa2 for making this release possible. He helped me with all my stupid questions and has contributed a lot to this project!