Apex Network Optimizer - Update v1.3.3

This update focuses on stability and robustness, specifically hardening the new compression and packing features to ensure a crash-free experience on all server environments.

Key Improvements

• Zstd Engine Upgrade: Bumped the Zstd-jni version to 1.5.7-7. This latest iteration provides better throughput and more efficient dictionary handling for our small-packet compression layer.
• Bit-Packing Stability: Protocol bit-packing is now defaulted to false and marked as Experimental. This prevents unexpected desyncs on complex modpacks while allowing users to opt-in for testing.
• Robust Network Decoding: Implemented a new length-prefixed frame system for custom packed packets. This adds a layer of validation that prevents "Invalid Packet" disconnects during high-latency events.
• Safe Metadata Packing: Restructured how entity data is handled to focus strictly on boolean flags, eliminating issues where registry-heavy metadata (like custom items) could cause client-side errors.
• Auto-Recovery Logic: Added a fallback mechanism to the networking pipeline; if the decoder detects a magic number mismatch, it gracefully skips the custom frame instead of dropping the connection.
• Traffic Shaper Refinement: Improved the adaptive traffic shaper to better handle sudden bursts of data, ensuring the "Smoothing" feature doesn't introduce artificial lag during entity spawn-ins.

📈 What to Expect

• Maximum Stability: Better protection against packet corruption and malformed custom frames.
• Modern Compression: Faster encoding/decoding cycles thanks to the 1.5.7-7 engine update.
• Safe Defaults: Servers will run with the most stable features active by default, requiring manual opt-in for experimental bit-packing.
• Improved Logging: More descriptive errors if the dictionary or packing layers encounter unexpected data.