JoinLeaveNotifier

What's new for server owners

• Paper 26.2 / Java 25 — built against the current Paper API. Spigot is no longer supported; use Paper or a Paper fork (Purpur etc.).
• First-join messages — a new player-first-join-messages list is used the very first time a player joins, so newcomers don't get a "Welcome back!". Leave the list empty to reuse the normal join messages.
• PlaceholderAPI support — any PAPI placeholder (%player_displayname%, %vault_prefix%, …) works in messages when PlaceholderAPI is installed. %player% still works without it.
• Hex colors — &#rrggbb works alongside the usual &a codes.
• Silent join/leave permission — players with joinleavenotifier.silent join and leave without a broadcast. Handy for staff and alts without needing a vanish plugin.
• Vanish support actually works now — v1.0.2 advertised SuperVanish support, but the check was never wired to the join/leave events, so vanished players were still announced. Fixed. Also covers PremiumVanish, EssentialsX and any plugin that sets the standard vanished metadata.
• Toggle each side — join-enabled: false / leave-enabled: false silence join or leave messages entirely.
• Config upgrades itself — new keys are added to your existing config.yml with their defaults; nothing you've customised is touched.
• bStats — anonymous usage metrics, opt out globally in plugins/bStats/config.yml.

Changes (technical)

• Migrated from spigot-api 1.21.1 to paper-api 26.2.build.123-stable; api-version is now 26.2; Java 21 → 25
• Join/leave messages are now set via Paper's Adventure PlayerJoinEvent#joinMessage(Component) / PlayerQuitEvent#quitMessage(Component) instead of the deprecated String setters
• Removed the MCDevTools, Lombok and SuperVanish dependencies — replaced by Adventure's LegacyComponentSerializer (with hexColors()), a plain registerEvents call, and the metadata check respectively
• Collapsed ConfigLoader/ConfigProvider into JoinLeaveNotifier#loadConfig(), which uses Bukkit's copyDefaults(true) to backfill missing keys from the jar's config.yml; MessageProcessor reads config live so /jln reload is just reloadConfig()
• Merged PlayerJoinListener and PlayerQuitListener into JoinLeaveListener
• Added bstats-bukkit 1.8 (shaded and relocated) — plugin id is 0 (metrics disabled) until one is registered
• Added placeholderapi 2.12.3 as a provided dependency and softdepend
• Added a JUnit test for the no-repeat random message picker
• maven-shade-plugin bumped to 3.6.2 (3.6.0 cannot read Java 25 class files)
• Release workflow rewritten: manual workflow_dispatch (snapshot/release), release notes pulled from this file, publishes to GitHub Releases and Modrinth
• Bumped config version to 2