5.3 Changelog

This page lists all major changes introduced in AuthMe 5.3. It's a summarized list of all closed issues in the 5.3 milestone. To see which changes may require an action on your side, please refer to Breaking Changes.

5.3.2: Bug fixes

• You can now use the same JAR for all Minecraft versions (too much confusion around our different JAR's)
• Fix players sometimes losing their speed on logout (#1238)
• Add regex support for restricted users (#1227)
• Group switching feature removes all groups instead of only the primary one (#1265)
• Repair 'mySQLUseSSL' option not working on some DB engines (#1261)

5.3.1: Argon2 removal

We removed Argon2 in 5.3.1 due to some limitations of the devbukkit download page. We are sorry.

5.3 Release

New features and changes

• Save yaw & pitch in last location in database (#815)
• Add support for Argon2 (hash algorithm) (#1150)
• Fix dynamic permission groups based on auth status (#761)
• Improve email recovery: allow to set password in-game after correct code (#1109)
• Prevent players from spamming emails (#1073)
• Add onSessionLogin, onLogout and onUnregister to commands.yml (#1090, #1218, #923)
• Add more replaceable tags for commands.yml (#1026)
• Convert from LoginSecurity (#1023)
• Create /authme debug: Various debug functions to view data & troubleshoot issues (#1034)
• Create /authme purgeplayer: command to purge a specific player (#923)
• Create /authme backup: create a backup of the AuthMe data (#1180)
• Email sending: allow to disable TLS for port 25 (#1075)
• Create Wiki page for converters (#1146)
• Bug fix: /changepassword's aliases not hidden from log (#1104)
• Captcha code expires after configurable amount of time (#949)
• Don't log warnings when help translations are missing (#1085)
• Add specific messages when email commands are used with wrong arguments (#1116)
• Bug fix: casing from converted data is wrong (#1120)

Pre-login properties handling improvements (a.k.a. limbo player)

• Allow to configure how limbo players are saved (#1125, #1147, #1113, #880)
• For each property, allow to configure how it should be restored (#1036)
• Create documentation about the limbo player feature (#1139)
• Handle read errors more gracefully (#1070)

API changes

• Add v3 API and delete the old API.java class (#1162)
• Fire cancelable RestoreSessionEvent before session login (#620)
• Fire FailedLoginEvent on wrong password (#857)
• Fire AbstractUnregisterEvent when a player unregisters (#1169)

Technical

• Switch to bStats (#1098)
• Performance: don't get player country if not required (#1015)
• Improve performance of restricted user handling (#1005)
• Improve technical layout of registration process (#1037)
• Improve efficiency of MessageTask (#1112)
• Avoid creating EncryptionMethods excessively (#1188)