Bukkit

• Prevent /home bed, if the bed was later destroyed.
  
• Fixing Kill/suicide in creative mode.
  
• New craftbukkit
  CB 1840, B 1208
  
• Optional second argument to /tpaccept, it will only accept the request if the sender matched that string.
  
• Switch /near priority to check for int first.
  Test #1269
  
• Make sure player is online when sending a /reply.
  
• Prevent disabled sign creation (if any of essentials signs are enabled)
  
• Disable all signs by default.
  
• Added options to enable each sign type
  
• Only list bed home if it is set.
  
• Allow space as well as : in /delhome
  
• Stop users from using /sethome bed
  
• If bed home is set, give priority when spawning.
  
• Check bed still exist, for bed homes.
  
• If vault throws an exception, it should not be enabled.
  
• Adding translation keys for [L] and [Spy]
  
• Check shout/question messages are longer than 1 character.
  
• Fix EssChat displayname error.
  
• Compiled regex is faster.
  
• Reduce duplicate calls in EssentialsChat
  Should cut the time down a little.
  
• Stripping vanilla colour from /helpop and /mail
  Adding support for &k in EssChat
  Adding support for colour in /msg and /r - New perm: essentials.msg.color
  
• Stripping vanilla colours from /msg
  
• Adding support for Vault as a fallback economy method.
  
• Allowing use of aliases in help/info/motd, for command suggestions.
  Test #1441
  
• Fixing double charges on /home
  Test #1426
  
• Adjusting default spawn behavior.
  Moving option in config file.
  
• Fix players retaining permissions when demoted.
• fix for an iterator error if there is only one element in the array.
• Cache MessageFormats for Chat
  
• Shorter names for enchantment signs.
  
• Fix /nick command colors
  
• Strip colors from chat, if the user does not have the permission.
  
• Optimize TextInput to cache motd and info textfiles.
  
• Optimize Break in Protect
  
• Speed improvements for Move and Interact Event.
  
• Reload less
  
• Temporary fix for Spawns and Jails when Worlds are loaded after Essentials.
  
  This will be replaced by BetterLocation fix in 3.0 branch
• Add new eggs to items.csv
  
• Added the new Enchantments
  
• Only info not a warning if a file is missing
  
• Correctly match release and non release versions of bukkit.
  
• Fix sending our player object to other plugins.
  
• Fix double names in /balancetop and show display name in balancetop
  
• Don't try to spawn users who have disconnected before we have a chance to spawn them
  
• Add new permission essentials.protect.alerts.notrigger
  
  If user has this permisson they do not trigger EssProtect block alerts
  
• No sending to all players, must specify target.
• i18n added to command nuke
  

Useless warning in server log, if using itemspawn blacklists. (Can be ignored).