NeuroLag

[1.5.2] — 2026-04-23 — Bug Fix & Safety Patch

Fixed — plugin.yml

• Critical: wrong api-version — api-version was set to 1.5.1 (the plugin version) instead of the required Bukkit API version 1.21. Paper rejects plugins with a non-standard api-version string, causing the plugin to either fail to load or log a persistent warning on every server start. Changed to api-version: 1.21.

Fixed — WebDashboard

• Token not generated when monitors.yml is deleted or web dashboard is disabled. ensureStrongToken() was only called after the if (!webDashboardEnabled) return guard, meaning servers that had the dashboard disabled (or whose monitors.yml was deleted and recreated by saveResource) would still have the default placeholder token the first time the dashboard was enabled — a silent security hole.
  • ensureStrongToken() now runs before the enabled check on every start() call.
  • If monitors.yml does not yet exist, saveResource() is called first to create the file structure before the generated token is written into it.

Fixed — LagEngine — Culling count wrong when protected zones are present

• Protected-zone mobs were counted toward targetRemoveCount but never actually removed, causing the cull pass to under-remove and leaving entity counts above maxEntities indefinitely on servers with active zone protection.
  • cull() now pre-filters protected mobs from the candidate pool before computing targetRemoveCount, so the removal math uses only the actually-cullable mob count.
  • The redundant zone check inside the removal loop is kept as a race-condition safety net.

Fixed — LagEngine — AI update scheduler saturation on very mob-dense worlds

• No upper bound on runTaskLater calls per tick — on worlds with thousands of entities, applyAiBatched() could schedule dozens of batch tasks in a single tick, queuing more work than the scheduler could drain, leading to compounding latency.
  • Added AI_UPDATE_PER_TICK_CAP = 80: at most 80 mob AI updates are scheduled per engine tick. The next monitor tick processes the remaining mobs, spreading load evenly.

Fixed — StressTestManager — Server crash on large spawns at low-chunk-count locations

• No per-chunk mob density check — spawning 2 000+ mobs at or near the world spawn could saturate loaded chunks and crash the server within seconds.
  • Before spawning, the manager now scans a 7×7 chunk area around the target location and compares the current entity count against stress-test.max-mobs-per-chunk (default: 80).
  • If the limit would be exceeded, the spawn count is automatically reduced to the safe maximum and a warning is logged. If the area is already at capacity, the command is rejected with a descriptive error message.
• New config key in systems.yml: stress-test.max-mobs-per-chunk: 80.

Fixed — MultiServerSync — MySQL reconnect attempt logged on every polling cycle

• When the MySQL database was down for an extended period, ensureConnected() logged "MySQL connection lost — reconnecting in Xs…" on every poll interval (default every 10 s), flooding the console with hundreds of lines.
  • Reconnect log messages are now gated behind the same power-of-2 streak filter already used for SQL error warnings (logs on streak 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 …), reducing noise by up to 95% during prolonged outages while still keeping the first occurrence visible.

Config changes

# systems.yml — new in 1.5.2
stress-test:
  max-mobs-per-chunk: 80   # NEW — per-chunk density safety cap for stress tests