AutoServer

This update includes numerous improvements to local commands, providing significantly more control over how they are executed. These enhancements also extend to remote servers. Additionally, communication between Velocity and backend servers now utilizes HMAC to enhance connection security.

Changes:

• Added command /autoserver start <server> to manually start a server.
• Added command /autoserver stop <server> to manually stop a local server (remote support planned).
• Added command /autoserver version to get the current running version.
• Added automatic update checking for AutoServer velocity plugin on initialization.
• Some commands did not have help text those are now added.
• Added new setting shutdownDelay which is the time in seconds to wait before checking if a server has successfully shutdown.
• Local commands now handle strange white spacing and respect quotes.
• Added new setting preserveQuotes which enables or disabled the removal of surrounding quotes from local commands.
• Added new setting workingDirectory which is where local commands are executed.
• Added new setting logging.level which allows user to set log level.
• Added new setting security which allows enabling or disabling the use of HMAC for remote servers.

Changes for Remote:

• Added CLI support for BootListener.
• Switched to yaml for configuration settings to improve readability.
• Paper plugin added new command /autoserver reload to reload the config file on Paper backend.

Release Warning: Remote Compatibility Update

This release introduces changes to our remote communication protocol that require an update to your backend plugin/mod. If you are currently running the older backend plugin/mod version (< 1.4.0), please update to version 1.4.0 or later immediately to ensure full functionality with the new Velocity plugin.

Note: A temporary legacy compatibility mode is available via the communicationVersion setting (1 for legacy, 2 for new). However, this mode is only a short-term solution and will be deprecated in future releases. Example legacy remote config:

[servers.lobby]
remote = true
security = false
communicationVersion = 1