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♻ RecyclePlugin — v3.0.1

🛠 Stability & Code Quality

Small follow-up to the v3.0.0 platform migration. No gameplay or config changes — internal robustness fixes only.

Fixed

• Potential NullPointerException when resolving the fallback sound key for a configured sound effect with no explicit sound entry
• Plugin startup looked up /recycle and /rpadmin commands twice instead of reusing the result, which could theoretically return inconsistent state between the two lookups

Improved

• Narrowed several overly broad catch (Exception e) blocks (sound/particle resolution, numeric config parsing) down to the exact exception type each call site can throw

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♻ RecyclePlugin — v3.0.0

🧱 PLATFORM MIGRATION — Paper 26.2 / MC 26.2 / JDK 25

This release migrates RecyclePlugin to the current Paper/Minecraft platform, following Mojang/Paper's switch to year-based versioning in 2026.

• 🔧 Build target bumped to JDK 25 (maven.compiler.release)
• 📦 paper-api dependency bumped from 1.21.11-R0.1-SNAPSHOT to 26.2.build.121-stable
• 📝 plugin.yml api-version bumped from 1.21 to 26.2
• ✅ Full codebase audit against the new API — no removed or deprecated methods found (verified via javac -Xlint:deprecation -Xlint:removal against the real paper-api-26.2 jar)
• 🚫 No gameplay or configuration logic changed — this is a platform compatibility release only

Why a major bump

This is a breaking compatibility change: builds targeting JDK 25 / Paper 26.2 will no longer run on older Paper/Minecraft servers (pre-26.2), so the major version reflects that boundary rather than new features.

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