Changes for Civtemp:

• Updated all plugins across the board to Java 8 along with our build server. Might need to re-tune the garbage collector settings before 3.0.

• Updated BetterShards

• Updated JukeAlert with some NPE fixes, should deliver messages better now.

• Updated Citadel with better logging targeted at recent issues

• Updated Factorymod with some recipe patches

• Updated Humbug with some sharding fixes

• Updated PrisonPearl with more improvements.

What needs testing:

• Keep an eye on PrisonPearl as it moves slowly to stability, try to report bugs here or on github instead of modmail if possible, helps us avoid duplicates. No we are not compensating any materials lost, this is a test server.

• Most everything else should be stable-ish report unexpected behavior, most of what we have to do is improvements and smoother operations.

Rambling:

PrisonPearl is by far our most complicated plugin to shard, the huge amount of communication that needs to be performed to make sure that all pearling rules are satisfied across all servers is hands down the greatest challenge for our 3.0 development run. Thanks for your patience while we get it sorted out.

It's easy to forget there where days during early 1.0 where PrisonPearl was untested and less stable, being our most important plugin its perhaps our most stable. Players have really come to take that for granted during late 1.0 and 2.0.