Essential 5.45.1

Fixed a server-side crash when 1.26.40 clients (protocol 2168) completed the resource pack handshake.

Essential 5.45.0

Added support for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition 1.13.0 (protocol 388).

• Added block-state runtime palette mappings for protocol 388.
• Added item mappings and legacy item schema compatibility for 1.13.0 clients.
• Added legacy packet handling for pre-1.16.0 clients.
• Added legacy chunk serialization compatibility for 1.13.0 clients.
• Centralized the minimum supported Bedrock version in ProtocolInfo.
• Updated protocol support reporting and smoke tests.

Essential 5.44.0

Added support for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition 1.14.0 (protocol 389).

• Fixed legacy login data handling for 1.14.0 clients.
• Added block and item mappings for protocol 389.
• Added compatibility with the legacy skin data format.
• Fixed skin packet serialization and deserialization for older protocols.

Essential 5.43.0

Bedrock 1.14.60

Added support for Bedrock 1.14.60 (protocol 390). Blocks, items, inventory,
crafting and the creative menu work; movement uses the server-authoritative
path, same as newer clients.

Fixes affecting all versions

• UpdateSubChunkBlocksPacketEntry referenced an unimported ProtocolInfo,
  crashing the server whenever many blocks changed at once (e.g. an explosion)
• ActorFallPacket was never registered in PacketPool
• ContainerClosePacket read windowId unsigned, so the client's "close the
  current window" (-1) was never recognised
• UpdateSubChunkBlocksPacket is sent to clients that predate it (1.17.30),
  leaving phantom blocks; those now get individual block updates
• Item downgrade schema for 1.16.0/1.16.20 was one tier too high, dropping
  bucket variants and everything that depends on them
• PlayerAuthInputPacket and EmotePacket left typed properties uninitialised
• lcg_value() deprecation spam on PHP 8.4

Essential 5.42.0

Essential 5.42.0

• Fixed startup crash on Bedrock 1.26.45 (protocol 2169) caused by a missing item schema mapping.
• Added 1.26.40 compatibility mappings for block states and item dictionaries.
• Added protocol smoke tests covering every accepted protocol.
• Added the release-ready Essential.phar build.

Supported latest client: Minecraft Bedrock 1.26.45 (protocol 2169).

Essential 5.41.15

Essential 5.41.15

• Added Minecraft Bedrock 1.26.45 support (protocol 2169).
• Kept backward compatibility with 1.26.40.
• Updated SetScorePacket handling for the 1.26.45 optional field.

v5.41.14

Fixes

• Fixed the 1.26.40 ItemStackResponse format sent after inventory actions.
• Added the missing container-presence flags that caused the client to disconnect after receiving a valid inventory response.

v5.41.13

Fixes

• Fixed 1.26.40 ItemStackRequest decoding when moving items between inventory slots.
• Updated 1.26.40 stack request action IDs and slot stack IDs, preventing empty transactions and client disconnects.

v5.41.12

Fixes

• Ported Quark's low-latency combat feedback path for melee attacks and projectiles.
• Added
  etwork.combat-low-latency-feedback (enabled by default) to allow disabling the early feedback flush.

v5.41.11

Fixes

• Fixed 1.26.40 SetScorePacket remove entries: they must omit objectiveName.
• Prevents the client from disconnecting when FFA clears the lobby scoreboard during a world transfer.