v4.8-HF1: Alt-System Data Integrity Hotfix

This is a critical hotfix that resolves a data cross-contamination issue within the Alternate Account tracking system. All users are strongly advised to update.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [CRITICAL] Alt Cross-Contamination: Fixed an issue where punishing offline players or having a misconfigured proxy (broken IP-forwarding) would log placeholder IPs (such as 0.0.0.0 or 127.0.0.1) into the history table. The Alt GUI previously treated these as valid IPs, falsely linking unrelated players together as alts.
• The system now utilizes a strict quarantine filter that completely ignores local, loopback, and placeholder IPs when calculating alternate accounts.

Note: No database reset is required. The plugin will automatically ignore any bad IP data already existing in your database, instantly fixing the /alts GUI upon restart.

v4.8: Shadow Mutes, Staff Rollbacks & Smart AutoMod

This update introduces highly requested enterprise-grade moderation tools and automated background maintenance to keep your server safe and fast.

✨ New Features

• Shadow Mutes (/shadowmute <player>): The ultimate anti-troll weapon. Shadow-muted players can still type in chat and see their own messages, but their messages are completely hidden from everyone else. They are silently ignored without realizing they have been punished.
• Staff Rollbacks (/cb rollback <staff> <time>): Protect your network from compromised or rogue staff accounts. Instantly revert every action a specific staff member took within a given timeframe (e.g., /cb rollback RogueMod 1h).
• Expanded AutoMod: Added asynchronous Anti-Spam (prevents message flooding and duplicate messages) and Anti-Caps (automatically converts ALL CAPS messages into lowercase text, reducing player friction).

🛠️ Optimizations & Maintenance

• Automated Database Janitor: Added a silent background thread that runs once every 24 hours. It safely purges temporary punishments that expired more than 30 days ago, preventing long-term database bloat and keeping queries lightning fast.
• Config Auto-Updater: The plugin will automatically append the new AutoMod configuration sections to your existing config.yml without overwriting your current settings.

Note: To use the new commands, ensure you assign the controlbans.shadowmute and controlbans.admin.rollback permissions to your administrators.

https://tawnye.github.io/ControlBansWeb/updates.html

There's a lot of stuff that has changed, and I cannot remember 90% of it, but I have done a few things. I reworked the database and how it works entirely, so you may have to actually reload the database entirely. But you can always save it in the JSON thing or the export command, and it should work completely fine. The messages have been updated for each of languages. There's a few things that I just cannot remember, so there may be some edge cases in this version. I'm not going to come back fully, but I will every now and then try to update the plugin as needed and or emergency updates. So sorry for the long wait. Oh, and a few things. This version has support for Bungie and Velocity. Now you don't need multiple plugins to do one simple thing. But if you have any issues with that, you can always contact me on Discord.

You can find the update(log) here:

https://tawnye.github.io/ControlBansWeb/updates.html