This is now self-maintaining and doesn't rely on the async pool to wipe its ass on task completion. Instead, the garbage collector will cause thread-local data to be automatically released when the async task is garbage-collected on the main thread.
This is problematic because child level providers can forget to override the provider name of their parents, and then override them by error. Instead, they should be used in a mapping fashion to make sure they are unique and not inherited.
Also, the old method did not permit registering multiple aliases for the same provider. This now makes that possible.
This is a major change to the way block metadata is handled within the PM core. This separates variant metadata (which really ought to be part of the ID) from state metadata, and in a couple of cases flattens separate states of blocks together.
The result of this is that invalid variants can be much more easily detected, and additionally state handling is much cleaner since meta is only needed at the serialize layer instead of throughout the code.
This brings two plugin-breaking changes: AsyncTask->onCompletion() and AsyncTask->onProgressUpdate() no longer accept Server parameters.
This now allows for the functionality of AsyncPool and AsyncTask to be tested outside of a Server.
I am eating my own words this once, because having the tester plugin as a separate repository makes no sense - it is just added barriers to writing proper tests with no actual benefit. Since the tester plugin is specifically intended for CI, it doesn't make sense for it to be in its own module.
The original regex almost completely failed at its objective, because it a) only worked if there was no value for the key, and b) did not prevent all such occurrences getting transformed, while quoting patterns that would not get transformed anyway.
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.
