This has long been a waste of time and creativity, and that's only going to continue to be the case now that we're going to be properly versioning. New codenames every couple of months is not worth the bother.
This may raise a few eyebrows.
Does this mean that all the things that were planned for API 3.0.0 are done?
Not at all. The plans laid out in December 2016 for API 3.0.0 were far too ambitious, and as a result the ALPHA series dragged out forever (18 months now). This is a break away from those plans, to bring development and release flow back to some sort of sanity.
Does this mean that my plugins will stop breaking all the time now?
No, it does not! Development isn't going to stop, although breaking changes will be confined only to major API releases. It's anticipated that the major API version will be bumped as nearly as often as the ALPHA version was during the last 18 months. The reason for this return to 3.0.0 is to allow us to fine-tune our release flow so that plugin developers can get advantage of newer, non-breaking API features without having to bump the API in a breaking way.
What are the criteria for the API versions now?
- Major: This will be bumped for breaking changes, changes which will break plugins. it's expected that we'll roll out new major versions regularly.
- Minor: This will be bumped when non-breaking feature additions are made, such that API 3.0.0 plugins would still load on 3.1.0. However, plugins requiring 3.1.0 will not run on 3.0.0.
- Patch: This will be bumped for bugfix updates. Plugins requiring 3.0.0 will work on 3.0.1, but not vice versa.
TL;DR: This insanity has gone on far too long.
This features a near-total rewrite of PluginLoaders and some code associated with them.
Highlights:
- PluginManager->registerInterface() does not return anything, and now accepts a PluginLoader instance instead of a string.
- PluginLoader itself is drastically simplified. getPluginFilters(), enablePlugin() and disablePlugin() are now removed. loadPlugin() responsibilities are now solely confined to doing whatever is necessary to make the plugin's classes visible by the server, and does not emit log messages or check for data directories.
- PluginBase->init() and PluginBase->isInitialized() have been removed.
- Plugin interface now declares a signature for the constructor which implementations must comply with.
- Plugin interface now declares setEnabled().
This changes how the AsyncPool works so that it does not immediately always start all of the workers in the pool.
Instead, workers will be started only when an idle worker was not found.
This allows for significant memory footprint reductions while idle.
In effect the async-workers setting in pocketmine.yml now dictates a _maximum_ pool size, not a fixed pool size.
* Implemented InventoryEventProcessor, fixes#1986
Event processors can now be registered and unregistered at will. Entity inventory/armor change events are now handled by event processors instead of the inventories themselves, which allows enabling/disabling the calling of these events at will.
This now avoids stupid things happening when initializing inventory contents, since the callers for those events are now registered _after_ the contents are initialized.
