ViaRewind

ViaVersion addon to allow 1.8.x and 1.7.x clients on newer server versions.

ViaRewind

ViaVersion addon to allow 1.8.x and 1.7.x clients on newer server versions.
Runs on 1.9-latest servers or 1.8 clients and lower.

You can override the included version in ViaFabric or ViaProxy:

  • in ViaFabric, put ViaRewind into the mods folder
  • in ViaProxy, put ViaRewind into the jars folder

Requires Java 17. See here how to update your installed Java version. As a last resort, you can download Java 8 downgraded builds from our ci.

Requires ViaVersion and ViaBackwards to be installed..

Releases/Dev Builds

You can find releases in the following places:

Dev builds for all of our projects are on our Jenkins server:

Other Links

Maven: https://repo.viaversion.com/

Issue tracker: https://github.com/ViaVersion/ViaRewind/issues

List of contributors: https://github.com/ViaVersion/ViaRewind/graphs/contributors

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