LyttleEssentials

v2.5.7

This pull request consolidates and modernizes the project's CI/CD GitHub workflows, introduces a minor plugin version bump, improves chat message filtering, and migrates internal config handling to a new class. The main highlights are the unification of release workflows, enhancements to message sanitization, and a move to a new YamlConfig class for configuration management.

CI/CD Workflow Consolidation and Improvements:

• Replaces the separate .github/workflows/main.yml and .github/workflows/alpha.yml with a unified .github/workflows/release-and-publish.yml. The new workflow handles both main and alpha branches, automates tagging and release creation, and builds/releases artifacts to GitHub, Hangar, and Modrinth with dynamic channel selection. [1] [2] [3]

Codebase and Configuration Refactoring:

• Migrates all usage of the Config class to a new YamlConfig class in Configs.java, updating both config and default config fields and their instantiations.

Chat Message Filtering Improvements:

• Improves the filterMessage method in onPlayerChatListener.java to more thoroughly strip color codes (both § and & variants) and MiniMessage tags, both before and after MiniMessage serialization.

Version Bump:

• Increments the pluginVersion in gradle.properties from 2.5.6 to 2.5.7.