🚀 The Features Release

[TheLimeGlass]

Skript 2.7.0-beta1

After many delays, we are excited to finally publish the first beta for Skript 2.7. With numerous new features, countless bug fixes, and amazing API overhauls, 2.7 has shaped up to be one of our biggest releases ever. We are seeing incredible growth in new contributors, and we want to thank all of you for your continued support. The future of the project has never looked brighter. So, without further ado, we present our first beta for 2.7!
- SkriptLang Team

⚠ BETA Release Warning

This is a BETA release, which means it is not yet meant for production servers. It may contain bugs or unexpected behaviors in its current state.
We recommend you extensively test this release on a local server before taking the risk of using it on a production server (if you truly wish to).
We do have many tests in place to ensure the integrity of Skript remains stable to some degree.

⚠ Compatibility Warning

Due to the major API changes within this update, some addons may no longer work properly. Please be patient as addon developers work to update their addons. We expect to publish a new release of our AddonPatcher in the near future, but be aware that it cannot fix all issues.

📢 End of 1.12.2 Support

As mentioned in the previous releases, we have decided to drop support for 1.12 and lower (legacy versions).
This means that this version will only work on versions 1.13 and higher.
Only critical fixes will be backported to 2.6.X.

🚀 Documentation Website Rework

Documentation website has been reworked and redesigned with countless additions and fixes (#4319).
In addition to that, Skript documentation files has been moved to a new repository skript-docs where it will be maintained there separately.
Make sure to check the docs site out and report issues on the new issue tracker.

⭐️ 2.7.0-beta1 Changelog

Click here to view the full list of commits made since 2.6.4

There are so many contributions in this release, the changelog needs its own link!
Click here to view the entire changelog for this release.

Thanks @Romitou, @3meraldK, @Nicofisi, @Zabujca997, @CJYKK, @faketuna, @rilyhugu, @kiip1, @sovdeeth, @Ankoki, @UnderscoreTud, @AbeTGT, @D4isDAVID, @hotpocket184, @DelayedGaming, @GodModed, @colton-boi, @cooffeeRequired, @ShaneBeee and @Fusezion for contributing!

Aliases

• Changed how shulker boxes are handled to now properly point to all boxes.

normal shulker box = that purple undyed box
down facing shulker box = same as above just in a direction
any shulker box = any coloured shulker box including the uncoloured one
all shulker boxes = all shulker boxes and the uncoloured one, no duplicates

• Added beetroot
• Fixed ores not working
• Changed lapis having two s = lapiss to not.

Skript API (Addon developers)

• Added a utility class called EnumClassInfo which is targeted at enums, it automatically creates a language node for the enum, a parser, serializer, default expression and usage for the type, which should make it less tedious to make enum classinfos. (thanks @UnderscoreTud)
  You can look at BukkitClasses.class for examples, enum classinfos got converted.
• Added support for arrays in event values.
• Added a new method for registering a property expression where the type is optional to allow for default expression property

+ PropertyExpression#registerDefault(Class<? extends Expression<T>>, Class<T>, String, String);
property [of %types%]
and
%types%'[s] property

• The Converters and Comparators systems have been completely rewritten and relocated. The old classes will continue to function but have been deprecated. Please see their javadoc for details on replacement methods.
• ScriptLoader has seen major overhauls, along with ParserInstance. Some methods may no longer be available, but most have replacements that can be determined from deprecation javadocs. Please see Structure API #4108 for more details. Also feel free to ask questions in any of the Discord guilds linked in our README.
• This update adds the Structure API, a way for addon developers to finally create top-level elements (like commands, functions, and more). We are working hard to bring some tutorials to our website, but please feel free to ask any questions in the Discord guilds linked in our README.
• SelfRegisteringSkriptEvent has been deprecated now that the Structure API exists (it is essentially a replacement).

📝 Help Us Test

We have an official Discord community for beta testing Skript's new features and releases.

⭐️ Thank You

We saw a large increase in new contributors recently, and we just wanted to thank all who have contributed to this version of Skript. Lots of issues and suggestions arise and we could not have made it here without the help of the community.

As always, if you encounter any issues or have some minor suggestions, please report them at https://github.com/SkriptLang/Skript/issues.
If you have any bigger ideas or input for the future of Skript, you can share those too at https://github.com/SkriptLang/Skript/discussions.

🎉 Team Changes

@ShaneBeee has decided to leave the SkriptLang team. We are sad to see him go, but we also want to appreciate all of his contributions over the years. This project would not be where it is today without his dedication, and we are forever thankful.

Please welcome @UnderscoreTud to the SkriptLang team! Their recent contributions have helped us deliver this massive update and we look forward to working with them at a closer level.

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