Chat Translation

Chat Translation 1.0.4

Added

• Minecraft 26.3 support — new 26.3/fabric project built with Gradle 9.6.0, Loom 1.17.21 and JDK 25, targeting Fabric Loader 0.19.5.
• Built-in free ai_free provider using deepseek-v4.1-flash on api.mcapple.top. Works out of the box with no API key to fill in, and is now the default translation service.
• Encrypted built-in credential — the bundled key is compiled into the JAR as AES-256-GCM ciphertext, with its passphrase stored obfuscated and reassembled at runtime. No plaintext key appears in the sources, config or logs.
• Configurable AI timeout (default 45s). Public endpoints can legitimately take tens of seconds to answer, so the previous hardcoded 20s deadline guaranteed failures on slower services.

Performance

• Translation cache — 512-entry LRU shared across providers. Repeated lines (greetings, server broadcasts) are served locally instead of hitting the network.
• Bounded concurrency with ordered display — up to 3 incoming requests run in parallel, and results are still shown in receive order. A single slow reply no longer stalls every message behind it.
• Shared HTTP client and worker pool — chat bursts reuse connections and keep-alive sockets instead of performing a fresh TLS handshake per line.
• Hot-path cleanups — removed regex replaceAll from message handling, cached the per-player name patterns instead of recompiling them per message, and rewrote placeholder restoration as a single pass with O(1) token lookup.
• Smarter retries — only 429, 408 and 5xx responses are retried. Previously any non-200 status was retried up to three times, which tripled the latency of permanent failures such as an invalid key or model.

Fixed

• Gradle Wrapper lost on fresh clones — the gradle/ ignore rule matches at any depth, so newly added projects had their wrapper excluded. Each project is now explicitly allowed, keeping gradlew usable after a clean checkout.
• 26.2 failed to build under JDK 21 — the project now pins JDK 25 through org.gradle.java.home, matching the other 26.x projects. Previously the build aborted with "release version 25 not supported".
• 1.21.11 wrapper pointed at a missing file — its distribution URL referenced a local gradle-8.14-bin.zip that was absent and excluded by .gitignore, so gradlew threw FileNotFoundException before ever reaching compilation.

Supported Versions

This release ships builds for 1.21.11, 26.1.2, 26.2 and 26.3. The 1.21.1, 1.21.4 and 1.21.8 sources are unchanged and remain at 1.0.3-fix1.

Dependencies

Fabric API and Cloth Config are required; Mod Menu is recommended for the graphical configuration screen.

For 26.3: Fabric Loader 0.19.5, Fabric API 0.156.0+26.3, Cloth Config 26.3.159, Mod Menu 21.0.0.