🚀 Version 2026.2.2

🛠 Core Improvements & Cleanup

• General Refactor: Cleaned up multiple aspects of the codebase and removed several unused aspects to improve maintainability.
• Paper Optimization: Migrated chunk loading to utilize getChunkAtAsync for better server performance and reduced main-thread hitching.
• Configuration Logic: * Implemented "Smart Configuration" updates that preserve user comments during config merges.
  • Bumped internal config-version and messages-version.

🛡 Entity & Stacking Logic

• Stacking Fix: Prevented stacking logic from erroneously affecting players.
• Behavior Update: Adjusted default behavior for stacked entities (protect-stacked-entities now defaults to false).
• Entity Limits: Removed default chunk limits for ARMOR_STAND, ITEM_FRAME, and GLOW_ITEM_FRAME to prevent unintended despawning of decorative items.

Changelog

• Code clean-up and optimization

ClearLaggEnhanced v2026.2

This update brings highly requested external integrations and improves the internal stability of the plugin during server stops.

✨ New Features

• PlaceholderAPI Support: Added ClearLaggEnhancedExpansion. You can now use ClearLaggEnhanced placeholders in scoreboards, tab lists, and chat plugins.
• bStats Integration: Added metrics tracking to help visualize plugin usage and performance across servers.

🛠 Technical Improvements & Refactoring

• Improved Shutdown Logic:
  • Added a dedicated shutdown method to the NotificationManager.
  • Updated the main ClearLaggEnhanced shutdown flow to properly utilize this new method, ensuring a centralized and clean cleanup process when the server stops.
• Simplified Task Management: Replaced legacy scheduler.cancelTask calls with the direct cancel method on WrappedTask for cleaner and more efficient code.

🚀 CLE Beta-v2.3

Config Version: 5

New Features

✨ New Features

• Added new entity-clearing configuration options:
  • protect-stacked-entities
  • whitelist-all-mobs
• Added dynamic GUI toggles for:
  • Entity-clearing settings
  • Lag-prevention settings
• GUI now updates dynamically when settings are toggled, improving responsiveness and usability.

Improvements

🔧 Improvements

• Refactored entity-clearing logic to properly respect:
  • Stacked entity protections
  • Whitelisted mobs and items
• Consolidated and simplified protection checks within shouldClearEntity.
• Improved stacked entity handling in:
  • RoseStackerHook
  • WildStackerHook
• Ensured proper stack removal with robust fallback logic for invalid or partially-stacked entities.
• Improved stacking API validation and removed redundant code paths.
• Simplified configuration by reducing mob and item whitelists for cleaner management.
• Improved config and message handling by safely merging defaults with user-defined settings.
• Optimized performance and reduced redundancy across entity-clearing and event handling logic.

Maintenance

🧹 Maintenance & Cleanup

• Fixed a potential memory leak related to notification handling.
• Resolved scheduling issues and improved task cleanup.
• General cleanup and internal refactoring.

Depend Updates

📚 Dependency Updates

• Updated RoseStacker to the latest version.
• Added WildStacker and updated to latest version.
• Updated Adventure to modern baselines (older 4.26.0 no longer compiled correctly).

Bug Fixes

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Fixed cases where stacked entities were not properly removed or validated.
• Improved fallback behavior for invalid stacked entities.
• Fixed desync issues between GUI toggles and internal entity-clearing / lag-prevention states.

Removed

🗑️ Removed

• Removed debug.entity-clearing configuration option.
• Removed all related debug logging across entity-clearing logic and stacking hooks.
• Updated README and config.yml to reflect the removal of debug settings.

💡 Note: This update introduces a new config version (5).
Existing configurations will be automatically merged with new defaults.

Changes:

• Added more than one notification feature. (Can have all 3 notification methods enabled if you so wish.)
• Code cleanup
• Changed config version to #4 (Should auto update when you run the new update)