v26.3.0

• Target Minecraft 26.3 (Wilderness Bound) by building against spigot-api 26.3-R0.1-SNAPSHOT.
• Support the new year-based versioning scheme (26.1 - 26.3) alongside legacy 1.16 - 1.21.x.
• Fix version detection that disabled the plugin on 26.x servers and silently blocked pearl cooldown compensation.
• Report detected game versions like 26.3 instead of legacy 1_21_R0-style strings.
• Compile with Java 17 (modern JDKs can no longer emit Java 8 bytecode); Minecraft 26.x servers run on Java 25.
• Extend Modrinth game-version list through 26.3.

v26.2.0

• Add /gs ping so players can view their ping and compensation status.
• Add /gs toggle so players can opt their own compensation on or off.
• Make knockback compensation functional via knockback-multiplier, gated behind
  knockback.enabled (default false) so vanilla gameplay is unchanged out of the box.
• Add ping-update-interval config option to control how often ping is sampled.
• Refactor player data storage to use computeIfAbsent and drop a dead lookup.
• Remove unused knockback/velocity code paths and tidy PlayerData.

v26.1.2

• Update build metadata for GooseSync 26.1.2 and target Spigot API 1.21.2.
• Add safer configuration loading with bounded compensation values.
• Fix repeated action tick checks for consumption, pearls, and potion handling.
• Make combat velocity handling safer around damage event types and timing.
• Add /gs status and tab completion.
• Add Modrinth publish workflow that refuses to publish without a changelog.