Paradigm 2.4.0b

This beta is a major update focused on the new Discord integration, richer chat, safer live configuration changes, and reliability across storage, permissions, moderation, and all supported loaders.

New

• Added a first beta version of Discord integration module:
  • Two-way chat between Minecraft and Discord, with configurable formatting, Discord role colors in Minecraft, replies, attachments, embeds, stickers, message edits, and deletion notices.
  • Optional webhook mode gives relayed players their own name and skin head instead of using one shared bot identity.
  • Notifications for server starts and stops, restarts, joins and leaves, deaths, advancements, and moderation actions.
  • Separate channels can be configured for chat, notifications, server events, deaths, advancements, command logs, and console output.
  • A live Discord console can show colorized server logs and optionally accept server commands. The /console slash command includes autocomplete based on commands currently available on the Minecraft server.
  • Executed commands can be logged to Discord, with configurable filters and automatic protection for commands containing passwords or private messages.
  • Configurable bot presence can show the current online player count.
  • ANSI colors can be used for clearer Discord chat, notifications, and console messages.
  • Webhook messages can optionally be relayed into Minecraft, while Paradigm always ignores its own webhook to prevent loops.
• Added configurable hover cards for player names in chat. They can show the player's group, world, ping, or any other supported placeholder.
• Added configurable click actions for player names, including suggesting commands such as /msg <player>.
• Added permission-based player-name hover variants for staff and other groups.
• Added {player_world}, {player_dimension}, and {player_ping} placeholders.
• Added a Player Name section to the dashboard Chat Editor, including hover lines, click actions, placeholder selection, validation, and a live preview.
• Added /groupchat cancelreq <group> so players can withdraw pending group join requests.
• Added network-aware dashboard management for MySQL-backed Paradigm networks. Servers sharing the same network can be viewed and configured from one dashboard, with separate network and server scopes, inheritance, status tracking, and safer revision-based synchronization.

Changes

• Command and module toggles now update the live command tree. Disabling a command such as /fly no longer requires a restart, and Paradigm only releases command names it actually owns so vanilla and other mods remain untouched.
• Custom commands reload more predictably and no longer take command names already used by another provider. Simultaneous dashboard edits are also serialized to prevent one update from overwriting another.
• Chat rendering is now shared across all supported Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge versions for more consistent behavior.
• Configuration and player-data files are saved more safely. Damaged JSON files are preserved before Paradigm creates a replacement.
• Telemetry, update checks, dashboard operations, and database-backed command suggestions now keep slow work away from the Minecraft tick thread.
• Home and warp autocomplete uses a short-lived background cache instead of querying remote storage whenever a player presses TAB.
• Teleport warmups now resolve the player again and re-check access before completing homes, /back, spawn, warps, RTP, and teleport requests.
• Stale mention data and group join requests are cleaned up when players leave or groups are removed.
• Discord delivery, presence updates, console handling, reloads, and shutdowns are more resilient.

Fixes

• Fixed /sudo executing commands with console authority instead of the selected player's real permissions.
• Fixed legacy playerdata.json being imported again after a successful migration and potentially replacing newer player data.
• Fixed player chat disappearing from the Minecraft console when custom chat formatting was enabled.
• Fixed muted messages reaching Discord even though they were blocked in Minecraft, and fixed mute bypasses through routed chat channels.
• Fixed player-supplied formatting tags being interpreted in public chat, private messages, SocialSpy, group chat, and mention notifications.
• Fixed mention cooldowns being bypassed by some permission holders.
• Fixed permission checks occasionally reading partially updated data while permissions were being changed.
• Fixed permission resets and group deletion leaving hidden assignments behind that could return after a restart or after recreating a group.
• Fixed SQL storage rejecting multiple assignments of the same group when their context or expiry differed.
• Fixed interrupted MySQL and MariaDB schema upgrades becoming stuck on the next server start.
• Fixed punishment cache refreshes briefly exposing empty or outdated ban, mute, jail, or IP-ban data.
• Fixed several jail, unjail, unmute, and punishment-history consistency problems, including safer rollback when saving or teleporting fails.
• Fixed several moderation and punishment-history commands doing storage work directly on the server thread.
• Fixed dashboard moderation actions accessing live Minecraft player state from a dashboard worker thread.
• Fixed dashboard login tokens being redeemable twice during simultaneous requests and strengthened request-size, origin, localhost, and rate-limit handling.
• Fixed Discord worker reloads potentially losing queued messages or starting a second worker before the previous one stopped.
• Fixed telemetry network requests potentially freezing the Minecraft thread for several seconds.
• Fixed shutdown races that could run storage work after its resources had already closed.
• Fixed one malformed audit-log line making the remaining valid history unreadable.
• Fixed JSON repair occasionally leaving a character from a removed block comment behind.
• Fixed unloaded holograms bypassing their normal cleanup path.
• Internal event-listener failures are now reported instead of being silently ignored.

Compatibility

• Existing configuration files remain supported. New settings are added with safe defaults when their configuration is loaded.
• The Discord module is disabled until it is configured, and optional notification types remain off by default where appropriate.
• Discord server and restart messages fall back to the general notification channel unless a dedicated server channel is configured.
• If Discord webhook permissions are unavailable, chat automatically falls back to the normal bot identity without taking over unrelated webhooks.
• Existing chat formatting remains unchanged when player-name hover and click actions are disabled.