hChat

[1.4.0] 2026-09-20

Added

🎨 Chat & formatting

• MiniMessage support — new chat.format-mode global option with three parsing modes:
  • legacy — classic & codes + &#RRGGBB hex (default, fully backwards compatible).
  • minimessage — MiniMessage tags (<red>, <gradient:red:blue>, <#RRGGBB>, hover/click, transitions…); classic & codes and &#RRGGBB hex are still translated so existing formats keep working.
  • auto — legacy when the string contains & codes, MiniMessage otherwise.
• Per-channel format-mode override — every channel under channels.<id> can set its own format-mode (e.g. a legacy global and a MiniMessage staff channel can coexist).
• Injection-safe player messages — under MiniMessage modes, player-typed text is escaped before rendering: players keep their & colors but can no longer inject MiniMessage tags, click or hover events into chat.

⚙️ Configuration

• Config v10 — new chat.format-mode, per-channel channels.<id>.format-mode and update-checker.project keys; the automatic migration merges them into existing configs and removes the obsolete metrics section (your other settings are always kept).

Changed

• Update checker now uses Modrinth — the startup and /hchat update checks query the Modrinth API instead of GitHub Releases. The project is configurable via the new update-checker.project key (a Modrinth slug or a full modrinth.com project URL; default hchat). Alpha and beta versions are skipped, so admins are only notified about stable releases.
• LuckPerms is now a soft dependency — moved from depend to softdepend in plugin.yml. Detection happens at runtime and every feature degrades gracefully; servers using another permissions plugin can now run hChat.
• Metrics: bStats → faststats.dev — anonymous usage metrics are now sent to faststats.dev. They are always on and need no configuration. The library is shaded and relocated (dev.hauch.hchat.lib.faststats) to avoid classpath collisions.

Removed

• bStats — the org.bstats dependency, metrics.enabled toggle wiring in the entry point and the bStats shading/relocation rules are gone.