Bukkit

This is the first release for which a public binary has been made available for a significant amount of time. An abridged list of changes is included below, but I cannot guarantee its accuracy due to the amount of time since the last public release.

• Overall
  • The way modules are loaded and unloaded has been changed considerably
  • The command system is now working as intended in 1.7
  • The internal package hierarchy has been reorganized
  • The server should now shutdown gracefully if a SQL connection cannot be made when starting the server
  • Several systems have had more caching added to improve performance
  • Fixed several modules' listeners not unloading properly and spewing errors
  • GoldenApple commands can now be executed by command blocks
  • Added performance logging and a command for debugging
  • Some commands will now accept partial usernames
• Antigrief
  • The system has had several advanced features temporarily removed due to incompatibilities with 1.7
  • Fire protection is now implemented and working
  • Added a configuration option to disable the ability to spawn Withers
• Chat
  • Chat colors and prefixes are no longer shown when using /me
  • The /tell command has been overriden and now allows admins to listen to private messages
  • A /reply command has been added to quickly reply to the last user that sent you a message
  • Fixed the chat module refusing to start if any players were already connected to the server
  • Added a /afk command that marks users as AFK in the list of connected players
• Locks
  • Added the following blocks as lockable: Trapped chest, fence gate, trapdoor, dispenser, dropper, hopper, brewing stand, enchantment table, anvil, beacon, jukebox
  • Hopper item movement is now allowed if both blocks are locked to the same owner, even if external interaction is disabled
  • By default, administrators must now explicitly enable lock overrides before they are allowed to access other players' locked blocks
  • The "allow redstone" setting should now persist properly
  • The lock system will no longer attempt to look up non-lockable blocks that the player interacts with
  • Fixed a major bug causing hopper minecarts to be able to remove items from locked blocks
• Punishment
  • System is now actually usable
  • Per-channel and global mutes now implemented
  • Banning is now working as intended
  • Experimental support for detecting and kicking users using chat clients such as MineChat has been added
• Permissions
  • Fixed an issue with group creation causing a SQLException
  • Prefixes and chat colors can be changed without manually sending commands to the SQL server
  • Fixed certain permissions not registering properly with the Bukkit permissions system
  • Users are no longer unloaded from the cache before the cache limit is reached
• Warps
  • The world to which /spawn will point by default is now configurable
  • Named warps have been implemented
  • Teleportation can now have cooldowns applied
  • Fixed the warp listener causing User objects to persist after the user has logged off

• The antigrief module has temporarily had some of its more advanced features disabled due to glitchiness with MC 1.7.
• This version is still using usernames for user lookups. This will be changed to UUIDs shortly.