Paradigm 2.5.3

New Features

• Added NeoForge support for Minecraft 26.1.2, with its own Java 25 build target.
• Added native /workbench and /enderchest commands, with /craft and /ec aliases. Commands use existing permission checks and toggles; the Ender Chest opens the player's actual inventory.
• Replaced player /invsee and /endersee chat listings with live, read-only native inventory GUIs across all maintained loaders. Inspected items retain native metadata, NBT and data components; console inspection keeps its text output.
• Resynchronized the viewer's own equipment after blocked inspection clicks and creative inventory packets to prevent client-side offhand ghost items.
• Added safe, persistent player nicknames with /nick <nickname>, /nick off, staff /nick set and /nick reset, /nick list, and /realname lookup.
• Added {display_name}, {nickname}, and {real_name} placeholders. Nicknames appear in custom chat and supported TAB display names without changing account names, UUIDs, permissions, or moderation targets.
• Added nickname information to /whois and Dashboard moderation player details.
• Added /paradigm rank display <group|auto> and a Dashboard setting for choosing an active directly assigned group for presentation only. Unavailable or expired selections fall back to automatic group selection.
• Added optional per-group chatNameFormat and chatMessageFormat overrides, including existing hex colors, gradients, and bold formatting, with Dashboard editing and previews.
• Added per-server playtime accounting and tools for importing historical playtime statistics.
• Added configurable item checks and consumption, group assignment/removal actions, broadcast actions, and transaction workflows for menus and custom commands.
• Added legacy item metadata support to item requirements and menu icons.

Dashboard

• Fixed formatting previews showing literal gradient tags. Shared previews now render multi-color gradients with nested styles, including group prefixes and suffixes.
• Rebuilt the Dashboard interface with improved navigation, responsive layouts, and consistent editors for configuration, permissions, menus, custom commands, holograms, tickets, and storage.
• Improved permission group and track editors, including member pagination, staged changes, formatting previews, and explanations of weights, display selection, promotion order, and inheritance.
• Preserved staged permission edits through discard operations and partial failures, and improved validation of menu, custom command, and action editor requests.
• Added central Dashboard login for shared-server setups and improved reverse-proxy support, including prefixed URLs and session cookie paths.
• Improved the distinction between page access and mutation permissions, server-scoped operations, and validation of remotely copied configuration.
• Added persisted server runtime telemetry and clearer stale, missing, and unavailable metric states.
• Improved ticket management and enforced category access for imported web tickets, including denying handling when an imported category is unavailable.

Permissions, Chat, and TAB

• Applied the group's username format to TAB as well as chat, so gradients can be configured per group while keeping {prefix}{player_name}{suffix} in the global TAB layout. Explicit group formats take priority over trailing prefix colors.
• Allowed deleting built-in admin and default groups without recreating them on reload or restart. Deleting the active default group removes its implicit membership.
• Added /paradigm group rename <group> <new-name> and staged group renaming in the Dashboard. Renames preserve permission and membership IDs, expiry, inheritance, tracks, presentation settings, and the default-group role across shared SQL servers.
• Unified trailing color resolution with the existing message parser, so chat and TAB share its handling of color tags and resets.
• Made active trailing group prefix colors override player-name colors in both chat and TAB, and trailing suffix colors override message colors from chat.json, even when {suffix} is omitted. Explicit group chatNameFormat and chatMessageFormat overrides retain priority; absent or reset colors use the configured defaults.
• Fixed Forge and NeoForge TAB display-name updates that could leave connected clients showing stale account names or colors.
• Made automatic display-group selection deterministic: the highest-weight active group wins, with alphabetical group-name ordering for equal weights.
• Applied current player world/dimension contexts and temporary assignment expiry to presentation metadata.
• Unified chat, TAB, and group placeholder metadata selection so internal permissions configuration takes precedence over the mere presence of LuckPerms classes.
• Refreshed internal TAB metadata without reusing stale context or expiry results, allowing rank, weight, and displayed-group changes to appear without relogging on the next TAB refresh.
• Corrected reversed native TAB ordering on Fabric 1.21.11, Forge 1.21.11, and NeoForge 26.1.2. Added ordering fallbacks for the older supported versions, including Fabric 1.21.1 and Forge 1.7.10. Failed display/order updates remain eligible for retry.
• Preserved group prefixes, suffixes, username styling, and existing hover/click behavior when displaying nicknames. Account-name placeholders in configured click commands remain canonical.
• Restricted nicknames to 3–16 ASCII letters, digits, or underscores; reserved command keywords, rejected case-insensitive conflicts and known account names, and suppressed nicknames that later conflict with a known real account.
• Improved synchronization of shared SQL permission definitions and user assignments across servers without overwriting unrelated remote changes.
• Required acknowledged persistence before reporting success for paid rank assignments.
• Kept displayed-group preferences separate from permission evaluation, explicit denials, OP fallback, inheritance, and promotion/demotion logic.

Reliability and Compatibility

• Improved shutdown ordering so modules stop producing work before storage and scheduler cleanup, with final playtime measurements retained in the journal.
• Preserved playtime recovery state through SQL outages and added storage-identity checks and clearer recovery diagnostics.
• Improved handling of rejected storage work, transaction conflicts, and uncertain persistence outcomes.
• Preserved SQL authority during MySQL outages by default, and rejected invalid storage configuration instead of silently selecting another backend.
• Fixed cross-dimension Vanish tracking and visibility refresh behavior.
• Improved registered-world and dimension resolution, including legacy stored locations and modded worlds.
• Fixed Forge 1.7.10/Crucible command permission integration and custom chat formatting, while preserving standard Forge behavior.
• Preserved foreign scoreboard-team ownership and complete rank-prefix formatting in legacy TAB handling.
• Isolated bundled Gson on legacy Forge to avoid runtime library conflicts.
• Made /home select the only available home automatically and show a compact clickable selection when multiple homes exist.
• Fixed menu placeholder refresh and restricted Fabric item consumption to the intended main-inventory and hotbar slots.