PluginPulse

[0.9.0] - 2026-09-23

Tested on Paper 26.3 (build 35) and Spigot 26.3: update checks, downloads, installs on restart, installs without a restart, and the companion plugin.

Added

• Picks the download made for your server's Minecraft version. When a plugin publishes separate jars (for example 1.21, 26.1 and 26.3), PluginPulse takes the one Modrinth or Hangar lists for your server, with no track needed. Turn it off with match-server-version: false.
• Releases are built and published automatically when a version is tagged, with both companion jars attached.

Fixed

• Stopping the server during an update check no longer prints errors. It used to show a "nag the author" error, or a "zip file closed" error against the plugin that bundles PluginPulse.
• The companion plugin now manages plugins that start after it. Before, it skipped them with "Managing 0 plugin(s)", depending on the order the server enabled plugins.
• After an install without a restart, the update command works again. It kept talking to the old version and failed until the next restart.
• Installing without a restart works on Spigot. It used to fail halfway, leaving the plugin switched off with no commands until a restart.
• Installing without a restart no longer runs the plugin's startup step twice on Paper.
• Update notices on Spigot read cleanly. Part of the button text used to show up as raw markup.
• Installing without a restart now respects plugins that depend on it through paper-plugin.yml, not only plugin.yml.
• update status tells the truth before the first check and after a failed one. It used to say "up to date" in both cases.
• The self-registered update command now tells players they lack permission instead of saying nothing.
• A track that has no release never falls back to another track's jar on Modrinth. A plain version with no suffix is still accepted.
• Servers with a Turkish system language get the right default permission (plugin.update, not a dotless-i spelling).
• Version text from an update source can no longer change what a clickable message does.