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Changelog

What changed in each Watchtower version — new features and fixes that affect you as a server owner.

Full downloads: GitHub Releases · Maintainer copy: CHANGELOG.md

Unreleased

  • Documentation audit — setup wizard copy, Settings → Security paths, HTTP API (Insights, Spark, onboarding), README and contributor doc fixes; DR viewer marked as early preview

[1.0.0] — First public release — 2026-06-24

Artifacts: watchtower-neoforge-1.0.0+mc1.21.jar · watchtower-cli-1.0.0.jar

Watchtower 1.0.0 is the complete ops toolkit for NeoForge 1.21.x Linux servers:

Core

  • Live dashboard at :8787 with login + optional 2FA
  • Scheduled health reports (default twice daily) with plain-English brief + facts JSON
  • Disaster recovery CLI + browser DR viewer when the server will not boot
  • GPL-3.0-or-later · one mod JAR for Minecraft 1.21.1 through latest 1.21.x (+mc1.21)

Dashboard tabs

  • Overview — vitals, server health peek, performance insights teaser, setup resume card
  • Live — TPS, MSPT, CPU, RAM, disk, network charts with linked time range
  • Insights — busy/quiet hours, lag patterns, mod changes, storage trends, CSV export
  • Issues — prioritized fix list from reports + live lag/mod peek
  • Crashes — crash review with pre-crash context
  • Mods — full mod list, log errors, conflict guidance
  • Backups — folder inventory + panel/cloud heartbeat tracking
  • Activity — live event ledger and lag spike incidents
  • Session — roster, peak players, search/sort, copy UUID
  • Spark — profiler workflow, profile picker, five detail sub-tabs
  • Sources — freshness matrix for live vs scan vs report data
  • Docs — full operator wiki built into the dashboard

Operator tools

  • Setup wizard — first-run audit, backups, schedule, optional 2FA (?setup=1 to reopen)
  • Settings → Backups — 2-step panel backup setup with test heartbeat
  • Settings → Monitoring — read-only poll intervals and retention
  • Always-on background scan (~60s) for logs, crashes, mod errors, and activity
  • Version chip + update banner (GitHub / Modrinth check)
  • Hosted-panel metrics honesty (cgroup labels, trust badges)

Commands

/watchtower run, brief, status, issues, schedule, diagnostics, url, pin, dashboard reset-password

Links

Watchtower · GitHub · Releases · Modrinth · Contributing · GPL-3.0-or-later

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