StreamGuard 1.0.0

The first complete StreamGuard release.

Highlights

• Configurable stream-gated survival enforcement for Paper and Spigot 1.20.1+.
• Twitch and YouTube verification with an optional in-game setup flow.
• Persistent and temporary administrator bypasses.
• English and Spanish message catalogs with MiniMessage formatting.
• An optional live feed API for companion web walls, including provider metadata when available.
• Batched provider verification: scheduled checks deduplicate players by stream link before calling provider APIs.
• Separate configurable caches for live and offline results; transient provider errors are not cached as offline denials.
• A configurable maximum age prevents stale provider observations from granting access indefinitely while manual administrator verification remains durable.
• Coalesced concurrent cache misses for the same stream link.
• Cache lifetimes begin when provider work completes, and scheduled verification passes cannot overlap.
• Cached YouTube handle resolution and batched checks for direct live/watch URLs.
• Protection against slow checks overwriting a newer stream link or administrator state.
• Conditional persistence makes that stale-result protection atomic at the data boundary.
• Shaded and relocated Adventure runtime classes so MiniMessage colors survive legacy string rendering across the supported server range.

Compatibility

• Paper or Spigot 1.20.1 and newer
• Java 17 and newer
• Twitch Helix credentials for Twitch verification
• A YouTube Data API key for YouTube verification

Both providers are disabled by default. An enabled provider with incomplete credentials is excluded until its configuration is complete.

Upgrade Notes

This release replaces the planned 1.0.0-beta.2 identifier. Servers upgrading from 1.0.0-beta.1 can keep their existing data and configuration; review the new verification.cache settings if provider request volume needs tuning.

The live feed now defaults to disabled. Enable it explicitly after configuring its loopback listener and reverse proxy. /streamguard verify <player> [reason] now records an explicitly manual verification; the former optional provider label was ambiguous and has been removed. Legacy language-selection, global movement/chat, and bypass-logging keys that were parsed but never applied have also been removed from the bundled defaults; stale copies in an existing file are ignored.

StreamGuard verifies public live status but does not authenticate ownership of a linked Twitch or YouTube channel. Communities that cannot rely on an honor system should verify ownership through an administrator-controlled process.