Protectcord

Platform Parity - All Platforms Now Feature-Complete

This release brings every platform (Paper, Spigot, Folia, BungeeCord, Velocity, Forge) to full feature parity. Every feature available on Paper is now available on all other platforms with their native APIs.

New Features

All Platforms

• Moderation Webhooks - Discord webhook notifications for all moderation actions: ban, unban, tempban, mute, tempmute, unmute, kick, warn, and player reports. Configure a separate alert-webhook-url for moderation events alongside the existing connection webhook.
• Dashboard Tracking - Player connection events (allowed/blocked) now reported to the ProtectCord dashboard on all platforms via dashboard.enabled and dashboard.api-url config options.
• Complete 25-Subcommand Set - All admin subcommands now available on every platform:
  • warn, warnings, clearwarnings, removewarning
  • ban, tempban, unban
  • mute, tempmute, unmute
  • kick, alts, check
  • whitelist, list
  • clear <warning|ban>, remove <warning|ban>
  • alerts, migrate, purge, stats, version, health, trustip, report
• Alert System Completed - Staff in-game alerts now fire for all action types including MUTE, UNMUTE, TEMPMUTE, TEMPBAN, and all AutoMod detection types (AUTOMOD_SWEAR, AUTOMOD_CAPS, AUTOMOD_FLOOD, AUTOMOD_UNICODE).

Forge

• MySQL Storage - Full HikariCP-backed MySQL database support for warnings, bans, mutes, IP tracking, and audit logs
• TOML Storage - NightConfig-based local TOML storage as the default backend (protectcord-warnings.toml, protectcord-ip-tracking.toml, protectcord-ip-bans.toml, protectcord-audit.toml)
• Storage Migration - /protectcord migrate <toml|mysql> to switch backends without data loss
• StorageProvider interface - Clean abstraction layer enabling future storage backends
• LuckPerms Integration - Group and permission lookups via LuckPerms API
• UpdateChecker - Automatic update notifications on startup and hourly
• AutoMod - Full 7-module AutoMod system: anti-advertising, anti-spam, anti-caps, anti-swear, anti-zalgo, anti-flood, anti-newline
• ReportManager - /report <player> <reason> command with cooldown support

Velocity

• /protectcord clear <warning|ban> <player> - Clear all warnings or the ban record for a player
• /protectcord remove <warning|ban> <player> [#] - Remove a specific warning or ban record
• Full tab completion for all new subcommands

Bug Fixes

• Fixed isReportNotifyStaffEnabled() reading wrong config key on Velocity (reports.notify-staff.enabled ? reports.notify-staff)
• Fixed getIPMaskFormat() using wrong config key on Forge (ip-masking.format ? ip-masking.mask-format)
• Fixed AutoMod swear detection on Forge using non-standard isAntiSwearRegexEnabled() flag instead of isAntiSwearWholeWordOnly()
• Fixed version string showing 1.2.1 in startup banner on Folia, Spigot, BungeeCord, and Velocity
• Fixed Velocity @Plugin annotation version mismatch

Technical

• BungeeCord dependency updated to 1.21-R0.4 from PaperMC repository (previous Sonatype snapshot no longer available)
• Forge: HikariCP 4.0.3 and mysql-connector-j 8.3.0 added as shaded dependencies
• Velocity: Annotation processor configured to generate velocity-plugin.json required for Modrinth validation