mWL Updated - UUID based whitelisting

This is a major update. mWL now exposes a public addon API, runs on Spigot and Bukkit in addition to Paper, and drops offline/cracked UUID support in favor of always resolving the real Mojang UUID. Several bugs found during live testing have also been fixed.

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• Offline-mode (cracked UUID) support has been removed. The whitelist.mode config option no longer exists. Your server must run in online-mode.
• Existing entries created under OFFLINE mode are migrated automatically on read, but since offline UUIDs are name-derived, they may no longer match a player once resolved against their real Mojang UUID. Check /mwl list after upgrading if you previously ran offline.

✨ What's Changed

🧩 Public Addon API

• Added WhitelistAPI / WhitelistAPIImpl (me.truec0der.mwhitelist.api) so other plugins can add, remove, and query whitelist entries without touching internal services
• Exposed via MWhitelist.getAPI() and registered through Bukkit's ServicesManager
• New custom events for addons to hook into: PlayerWhitelistAddEvent, PlayerWhitelistRemoveEvent, PlayerWhitelistExpiredEvent, WhitelistStatusChangeEvent

🖥️ Spigot & Bukkit Compatibility

• Compiles against spigot-api instead of paper-api, so mWL now runs on Spigot and Bukkit, not just Paper
• Adventure is bundled and relocated into the jar, since only Paper natively exposes Adventure Component overloads for sendMessage and PlayerLoginEvent#disallow
• All messages now go through a shared serializer that converts to a legacy hex-color string, so colors render identically on Spigot, Bukkit, and Paper

🔄 Online-mode Only

• Player UUIDs are now always resolved as the real Mojang UUID instead of a name-derived offline hash
• A player's stored nickname refreshes automatically on join and on periodic check instead of going stale after a rename
• Legacy {offline, online} UUID entries are migrated automatically to the new flat format

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed hex chat colors (<#RRGGBB>) showing up as raw text (e.g. 1aeb71mWL) instead of actual color. The legacy serializer now emits the format vanilla clients understand
• Console output no longer contains leftover color-code artifacts, and multi-line messages are collapsed to a single console line
• Fixed the update checker calling a GitHub Pages URL that was never enabled. It now reads mWL.json directly from raw.githubusercontent.com

📥 Installation

Download mWL-3.0.0.jar and place it in your plugins folder.

Online-mode required: make sure online-mode=true in server.properties before upgrading.

🔄 Upgrading from v2.x

• Stop the server, replace the JAR, start the server
• Remove whitelist.mode from config.yml if present, it's no longer read
• If you previously ran in OFFLINE mode, verify /mwl list after the first restart
• No manual database migration needed, legacy entries are converted automatically