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# RDQ 6.0.0 Beta Build 4 Update Notes

Release artifact version: `6.0.0-BETA-Build-4`

Last updated: `2026-11-07`

This build integrates quest kill objectives with RCore's managed entities and improves compatibility with older server APIs. Back up the RDQ database and custom content before upgrading.

## Changes since Beta Build 3

- Added attributed quest kill credit from RCore's confirmed managed-entity death events. RDQ skips the corresponding native death event so one managed death advances the objective once. A managed death without player attribution does not grant player progress; ordinary native kills keep their existing path.
- Preserved tab-name formatting on engines without the newer player-list ordering API. Those engines retain native ordering instead of failing the rank-tablist update or its cleanup.
- Updated bounty menus and names, machine items and menus, quest sidebars, command feedback, and titles to use the shared Adventure compatibility helpers.
- Made additive command-route upgrades tolerate engines without YAML comment-parsing support while retaining the existing root validation, backup, and merge behavior.
- Added Java 17 compatibility packaging and shared fixes for menu creation, plugin metadata, dependency downloads, and Paper/Folia command registration. Refreshed shared database/runtime dependencies and dependency security minimums. Free and Premium remain separate edition JARs.

## Upgrade notes

- Install RCore `2.0.0-BETA-Build-4` before RDQ and keep exactly one RDQ edition JAR installed. Restart after replacing artifacts. Use the Java version required by your Minecraft server; the adapted release JAR's Java 17 baseline does not lower the server's own requirement. See the [Suite support and artifact contract](https://github.com/Antimatter-Zone/RaindropSuite/blob/956c4e38a9bac86000d66556fc5f276600915797/docs/SUITE_SUPPORT_MATRIX.md).
- Keep the RDQ database, custom quests, rank paths, command files, and command backups. Build 3's reward-recovery and command migration guidance still applies when upgrading from an earlier build; see the [Beta Build 3 notes](https://github.com/Antimatter-Zone/RaindropSuite/blob/956c4e38a9bac86000d66556fc5f276600915797/RDQ/release-notes/6.0.0-BETA-Build-3.md).
- Existing entity-kill objectives can receive matching managed-entity kills without a new objective type. RCore supplies the entity service; do not install a separate REntity plugin. Managed cleanup and deaths without confirmed player credit do not provide quest progress.
- On older engines, expect native tab ordering when the list-order API is unavailable. Rank-name formatting remains active according to your tablist configuration.
- Validate a normal kill and a managed kill against your custom objectives, and check bounty, machine, and quest menus on your chosen server version before rollout. Server-specific entities and APIs remain subject to native capability limits.

## Source commits

The [changes since the Beta Build 3 notes](https://github.com/Antimatter-Zone/RaindropSuite/compare/81178c3d80eecfc36b872643fb0ec56a65e0da0d...956c4e38a9bac86000d66556fc5f276600915797) cover 19 Suite commits through `956c4e38`, including shared dependencies and packaging. Promotion squash and merge duplicates are counted once in the change list above.

- [98699ee0](https://github.com/Antimatter-Zone/RaindropSuite/commit/98699ee057d5f1e308cde590a79e887f87aa7ca9) — managed kill progression, tab-order fallback, Adventure and command-upgrade compatibility, and Java 17 packaging.
- [6ec131ae](https://github.com/Antimatter-Zone/RaindropSuite/commit/6ec131ae4405340c7a72028a9b8ecd323e53f9c1) and [c14c2718](https://github.com/Antimatter-Zone/RaindropSuite/commit/c14c2718f966275eb6383fd20a74017ecc15927f) — dependency security and production server API compatibility.
- [7700d04f](https://github.com/Antimatter-Zone/RaindropSuite/commit/7700d04f769fec6293b6a896b8736fdbc1ad22de) — compatibility helper namespaces.
- [956c4e38](https://github.com/Antimatter-Zone/RaindropSuite/commit/956c4e38a9bac86000d66556fc5f276600915797) — Beta Build 4 versions and artifact contract.