this is cleaner than leaving the player hanging for 5 seconds (which they'll often timeout from anyway). Banning the IP without kicking the player can often look like "lag" and end up getting brushed off as a performance issue.
this dates back to the days where PM used to kill threads to stop them. Today we're more civilized and ask it to stop nicely, so this isn't necessary anymore.
These flags are not intended for network use, instead they are supposed to be used internally by the game. For network, we only need to care about the 0x02 flag (send to players) because that's necessary for the client to render the block.
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.
Previously every thread using the logger had to inherit runtime-defined INI entries in order for the timezone to be set correctly. This removes that requirement.
PhpStorm can't see constructor usages when the class name is dynamic. This causes maintenance problems because cross-referencing constructors called like this doesn't show up dynamic calls.
There's no implementation here yet, but that can come later. This lays the ground for allowing plugins to have an integrated method to send forms, as well as a solution to the ID conflict problem.
A built in implementation should not be a concretion and it should be able to be swapped for third party implementations. This enables the possiblity to do so.
openssl_digest() is TWICE as fast as hash() on my machine for the same data and same algorithm. I can only guess that OpenSSL is more optimized than PHP ext/standard :)
Async compression and broadcasts are now reliable and don't have race condition bugs.
This features improved performance and significantly reduced bandwidth wastage.
Reduce Level broadcast latency by ticking network after levels. This ensures that session buffers get flushed as soon as possible after level tick, if level broadcasts were done.
