BetterLANBroadcaster

Release focused on the Velocity port, multicast networking improvements, runtime reliability, configuration management, and expanded multi-language support.

✨ What's Changed

• Networking Improvements: Reworked the UDP multicast broadcaster for improved socket management, interface handling, and runtime reliability while preserving Minecraft's native LAN discovery protocol.
• Multiple Interfaces: Improved automatic and manual network interface selection, including support for multiple active interfaces and interface exclusions.
• Lifecycle Improvements: Improved plugin initialization, shutdown, start, stop, reload, and runtime reconfiguration handling.
• Thread & Socket Management: Added safer executor, scheduled task, and socket lifecycle management to prevent duplicate tasks, socket leaks, and broadcasts after shutdown.
• Configuration System: Reworked configuration loading, validation, persistence, and runtime updates using Configurate.
• Configuration Save Fixes: Removed redundant configuration save operations during command-based updates.
• Language System: Reworked language loading and fallback handling using Configurate YAML.
• Language Expansion: Expanded built-in localization from 8 to 18 supported languages.
• Translation Consistency: Standardized translation keys, placeholders, and language validation across all supported languages.
• MOTD Improvements: Improved {online} and {max} placeholder handling, Unicode support, UTF-8 encoding, control-character sanitization, and oversized MOTD handling.
• Command Improvements: Improved validation, autocomplete, permissions, runtime configuration commands, and administrative feedback.
• Status Command: Expanded /blb status with runtime information such as active interfaces, advertised port, multicast destination, broadcast statistics, and last broadcast information.
• Debug Logging: Improved debug logging and added rate limiting to prevent excessive console output during frequent broadcasts.
• Performance: Reduced unnecessary allocations, repeated interface discovery, configuration lookups, and resource creation during the broadcast loop.
• Error Handling: Improved handling of socket failures, unavailable interfaces, runtime reconfiguration errors, and invalid configuration values.
• Build System: Improved Maven configuration for Java 21, Velocity, Configurate, bStats, dependency shading, and relocation.
• bStats: Preserved and updated bStats integration for the Velocity implementation.
• Compatibility: Improved compatibility with Windows, Linux, VPNs, and virtual network adapters while retaining the original multicast discovery mechanism.
• Protocol Preservation: Minecraft's LAN discovery protocol remains unchanged: 224.0.2.60:4445, TTL 1, and [MOTD].../MOTDPORT[/AD].

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🌎 Supported Languages

• 🇺🇸 English (en)
• 🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese (br)
• 🇪🇸 Spanish (es)
• 🇩🇪 German (de)
• 🇫🇷 French (fr)
• 🇷🇺 Russian (ru)
• 🇯🇵 Japanese (ja)
• 🇨🇳 Simplified Chinese (zh)
• 🇮🇹 Italian (it)
• 🇰🇷 Korean (ko)
• 🇳🇱 Dutch (nl)
• 🇵🇱 Polish (pl)
• 🇹🇷 Turkish (tr)
• ✨ Ukrainian (uk)
• 🇻🇳 Vietnamese (vi)
• 🇮🇩 Indonesian (id)
• 🇨🇿 Czech (cs)
• 🇸🇪 Swedish (sv)

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📦 Installation & Upgrade

1. Download BetterLANBroadcaster-1.1.1.jar.
2. Place it inside your Velocity plugins/ directory.
3. Restart your Velocity server or run /blb reload.