BetterLANBroadcaster-Velocity 1.0.2

This release focuses on stabilizing the Velocity port, improving multicast networking, configuration handling, commands, translations, and runtime lifecycle management.

✨ Added

• Added native Velocity implementation and integration
• Added configurable network interface selection
• Added automatic network interface detection
• Added support for multiple multicast-capable network interfaces
• Added /blb setinterface
• Added /blb debug
• Added /blb reload
• Added runtime broadcaster reconfiguration
• Added {online} and {max} MOTD placeholders
• Added English, Brazilian Portuguese, and Chinese translations
• Added English fallback for missing translations
• Added configurable broadcast port
• Added configurable broadcast interval
• Added extensive configuration validation

🔧 Improved

• Improved UDP multicast broadcasting
• Improved multicast socket lifecycle management
• Improved broadcaster start/stop handling
• Improved configuration reload behavior
• Improved handling of multiple network adapters
• Improved error handling and logging
• Improved command handling and argument validation
• Improved MOTD formatting and placeholder handling
• Improved plugin lifecycle integration with Velocity
• Updated the project to Java 21
• Updated the project to Velocity API 3.4.0

🐛 Fixed

• Fixed broadcaster startup when automatic broadcasting is disabled
• Fixed broadcaster shutdown and resource cleanup
• Fixed runtime configuration changes not being applied correctly
• Fixed language fallback behavior
• Fixed missing translation handling
• Fixed debug mode messages
• Fixed network interface selection and multicast initialization
• Fixed configuration validation for invalid ports and delays
• Fixed various lifecycle and error-handling issues

📡 Networking

BetterLANBroadcaster-Velocity uses Minecraft's native LAN discovery protocol:

• Multicast address: 224.0.2.60
• UDP port: 4445
• Encoding: UTF-8

The advertised server port can now be automatically detected from the Velocity proxy or configured manually.

📚 Documentation

• Added a new Velocity-focused README
• Added configuration documentation
• Added command documentation
• Added networking and troubleshooting documentation
• Added project origin and original project credits