Courier

New:

• All Minecraft Creatures can now become Postmen, selectable in config. Only Enderman and Villager are officially supported though (ticket #13)
• New config setting to turn off the displaying of date in Letters (ticket #35)
• All user visible strings moved out into config.yml for translation purposes
  • Incomplete French and complete Swedish translations added (I'm having issues understanding what character sets work though)
• Courier will every 5 hours (configurable, 0 turns it off) check against dev.bukkit.org to see if there's a new version of Courier and if so display a message in the log
  • No auto-download is done and no information whatsoever is sent to me! It only checks towards the RSS-feed on BukkitDev

Fixes:

• Exceptions thrown when trying to view Letters with some character sets (ticket #34)
  • Note: This will NOT suddenly allow Courier to render new character sets, sorry. It's a limitation in Bukkit. Instead Courier will simply skip content it cannot render.
• In some circumstances upgrading to OpenJDK 7 would lose all messages (ticket #41)
  • If after upgrade Courier cannot start, downgrading to Java 6 is the only solution. This is due to the message database containing "special characters" that Yaml doesn't seem to support in OpenJDK 7
• Removed some of the Courier command aliases again due to conflicts with other plugins (ticket #37)
• Made non-Monster Postmen walking towards players configurable. (ticket #40)

Known caveats:

• Enderman-Postmen teleport away if out in open areas
  • The APIs needed to solve this are expected to be available in Bukkit 1.1-R4
  • You can select Villagers as Postmen instead in the meantime