• Refreshed /rg help and /rg history with clearer sections, stable record numbering, and improved clickable pagination.
• Fixed bare /rg and /rulegems commands opening the player GUI consistently across command backends.
• Added optional proximity-based gem displays, using BlockDisplay entities on Minecraft 1.19.4+ and an ArmorStand fallback on older servers.
• Reworked gem escape behavior into a global cycle with configurable selection, local movement, retries, and fallback scattering.
• Preserved existing gem UUIDs during scatter operations while resetting locations, ownership, grants, and allowances.
• Improved compass navigation to avoid exposing exact gem coordinates through compass target packets.
• Strengthened gem custody protection, including crafting slots, off-hand inventory transfers, shulker boxes, bundles, and duplicate cleanup.
• Fixed LuckPerms permission node writes.
• Added QuickShop-Hikari purchase, sale, and shop-creation protection. RuleGems now refuses startup if QuickShop is detected but the required protection hooks cannot be registered.
• Improved YAML and SQLite persistence with stricter validation, safer saves, backups, and emergency recovery snapshots. Unreadable data is no longer treated as an empty server.
• Improved reload validation and cleanup, preserving active state when input validation fails and blocking reload when required saves fail.
• Fixed compatibility with persisted unlimited-use command counters using -1.
• Hardened optional economy transfers with compensation handling and persistent retry protection for uncertain outcomes.
• Added /rg transfer-review list and /rg transfer-review resolve for manual reconciliation of protected transfers.
• Improved persistence of appointments and revoke cooldowns, startup grant restoration, and history pagination.
• Updated SQLite JDBC to 3.53.2.0 and strengthened dependency verification and automated quality checks.

NOTE

• Stop the server and back up the complete RuleGems data directory, including any custom SQLite database path, before replacing the jar.
• Existing gem identities, counters, and core storage formats remain compatible. Default merging preserves custom settings.
• Built-in transfer: directives remain disabled by default. Review protected transfers before downgrading; older versions do not recognize the new retry guards.
• Review gem_escape.min_interval and max_interval: they now control a global cycle rather than individual gem timers.
• Run /rg doctor after upgrading and verify ownership, appointments, remaining uses, and economy behavior.
• RuleGems remains independently installable; CubeXLib is not required.