This update contains key bug fixes and performance improvements, as well as some minor additions/changes.

Additions:

• Script start and stop functions now optionally accept one parameter, the script object, which is passed to the functions by PySpigot when they are called
• Added support for relational placeholders in script PlaceholderAPI expansions
• Added a new function.py helper module, bundled into the PySpigot JAR file, that wraps Java functional inferfaces in a Python-friendly format
• Added Jython-specific options to the config.yml, including initialization on startup, Jython properties, and args/sys.argv

Changes:

• The pyspigot.py helper library is now precompiled and bundled into the /Lib folder within the PySpigot JAR file. It is no longer copied into the python-libs folder. You can safely delete the pyspigot.py and corresponding pyspigot$py.class files from the python-libs folder.
• The auto-pyspigot-lib-update-enabled was removed
• Jython is now initialized on server startup/plugin load by default, rather than when loading the first script, which increases performance in most cases
• Updated several example scripts to use the latest recommended PySpigot features
• Reformatted and removed some redudancy from script error messages in console
• The plugin prefix is now hard-coded (no longer defined in the config.yml), and the footer was removed from the /pyspigot help command
• Increased precision when reporting Java library load times
• A lot of code cleanup and miscellaneous improvements
• Updated several dependencies to their latest versions

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where Paper was unnecessarily relocating Jython internals, which resulted in diminished performance
• Fixed an issue where PySpigot managers were being shut down if they weren't initialized first
• The Database manager now specifies default HikariCP properties if none are explicitly defined

This release also contains a preliminary release for a BungeeCord-compatible version of PySpigot. This is not an official release because I have not comprehensively tested it. Download it here. Feel free to test it out and report issues on GitHub or Discord.

See the complete change log for this update here: https://github.com/magicmq/pyspigot/releases/tag/v0.8.0