Patch documentation to come
Issues with the old system that are fixed now:
- World generation does not scale with cpu cores effectively.
- Relies on the main thread for scheduling and maintaining chunk state, dropping chunk load/generate rates at lower tps.
- Unreliable prioritisation of chunk gen/load calls that block the main thread.
- Shutdown logic is utterly unreliable, as it has to wait for all chunks to unload - is it guaranteed that the chunk system is in a state on shutdown that it can reliably do this? Watchdog shutdown also typically failed due to thread checks, which is now resolved.
- Saving of data is not unified (i.e can save chunk data without saving entity data, poses problems for desync if shutdown is really abnormal.
- Entities are not loaded with chunks. This caused quite a bit of headache for Chunk#getEntities API, but now the new chunk system loads entities with chunks so that they are ready whenever the chunk loads in. Effectively brings the behavior back to 1.16 era, but still storing entities in their own separate regionfiles.
The above list is not complete. The patch documentation will complete it.
New chunk system hard relies on starlight and dataconverter, and most importantly the new concurrent utilities in ConcurrentUtil.
Some of the old async chunk i/o interface (i.e the old file io thread reroutes _some_ calls to the new file io thread) is kept for plugin compat reasons. It will be removed in the next major version of minecraft.
The old legacy chunk system patches have been moved to the removed folder in case we need them again.
Upstream has released updates that appear to apply and compile correctly.
This update has not been tested by PaperMC and as with ANY update, please do your own testing
Bukkit Changes:
d25437bc Update to Minecraft 1.18-pre8
CraftBukkit Changes:
5a39a236 Update to Minecraft 1.18-pre8
Spigot Changes:
7840c2af Update to Minecraft 1.18-pre8
Upstream has released updates that appear to apply and compile correctly.
This update has not been tested by PaperMC and as with ANY update, please do your own testing
Bukkit Changes:
c9a46ebf #653: Add World#spawn with randomizeData parameter
e49c2e3a Damageable should extend ItemMeta
01ff04f4 SPIGOT-5880, SPIGOT-5567: New ChunkGenerator API
ca5b4b1a SPIGOT-6697: Deprecate generateTree with BlockChangeDelegate as it does not handle tiles
CraftBukkit Changes:
7c8bbcbe SPIGOT-6716: Preserve the order of stored enchantments of enchanted books.
18027d02 #914: Add World#spawn with randomizeData parameter
3cad0316 SPIGOT-6714: Don't fire PlayerBucketEvent when empty
8c6d60cf Fix server crash with BlockPopulator when entities are at a negative chunk border
4f6bcc84 SPIGOT-5880, SPIGOT-5567: New ChunkGenerator API
78d5b35b SPIGOT-6697: Restore generateTree with BlockChangeDelegate behaviour
15792f0d Rebuild patch
c949675e SPIGOT-6713: Cancelling EntityTransformEvent Causes Deceased Slimes To Not Despawn
a955f15c Fix issues with new ChunkGenerator API
a0a37f41 SPIGOT-6630: Replacing an enchantment on an item creates a conflict error
Spigot Changes:
b166a49b Rebuild patches
3c1fc60a SPIGOT-6693: Composters only take in one item at custom hopper speeds
