version 2.0.0

major updates:

• Added the possibility to display personalized frozen image
• Added the possibility to check for updates
• Improved instructions in readme file
• Reorganized code functions into meaningful groups to improve readability
• Correction of multiple bug

minor updates

• Added configuration for custom info (hibernation-warmup)
• Added possibility to specify windows server.jar folder
• Added check for java/screen/server.jar installation
• Added title to the application
• Added online/max players in info message
• Improved comments in code
• Improved interruptListener() function

version 9.12

release date: 14 Oct 2020

GO version (updated to v3.6):

• version v3.6
• entangled packet recognition when client sends join request

PYTHON version (updated to v6.6):

• version v6.6
• python version will become deprecated and won't receive updates any time soon. This is to focus on maintaining the go version which I will keep improving. For users using the python version, binaries will be released (for Windows and Linux) in each release.

COMMON updates:

• bug correction in server version recognition
• changed start stop Linux commands
• added comments
• answerPingReq() moved to bottom of: if buffer[dataLen-1] == 0 || buffer[dataLen-1] == 1{ ... }
• buildMessage() simplified header addition with addHeader()
• setServerStatusOnline() is now launched from updateTimeleft()
• minor changes

REPOSITORY updates:

• changed title from "minecraft-vanilla-server-hibernation" to "minecraft-server-hibernation" since the scripts support minecraft vanilla and modded
• since this is the last release for python version, the versioning system will be updated to follow industry standards. Next release version will be v2.0.0

version 7.9

release date: 2 Sep 2020

GO version (updated to v2.4):

• version v2.4
• now the script can respond when the client asks for info and ping (func buildMessage and answerPingReq)
• func answerPingReq: new
• added data for server icon
• func buildMessage is now enhanced for both cases: txt and info
• func forwardSync: added "use of closed network connection" error handling
• func forwardSync: when debug is active and server is online, the script automatically recognize serverVersion and serverProtocol
• func handleClientSocket: not executed as a thread but as a normal function
• moved setServerStatusOnline and updateTimeleft in startMinecraftServer (as py version)
• bug: moved net.Listen outside of the for loop in main
• bug: correct typo in timeLeftUntilUp

PYTHON version (unchanged):

• version v5.5
• moved logging.basicConfig in py specific section
• func handleClientSocket: not executed as a thread but as a normal function
• func buildMessage: renamed messageJson to messageJSON
• func answerPingReq: renamed res to req

version 6.9

release date: 25 Aug 2020

GO version (unchanged):

• version v1.4

PYTHON version (updated to v5.5):

• version v5.5
• added server status motd
• added server status icon
• added ping time functionality
  (the script is now able to simulate completely a standard response from a minecraft server so that it's more user friendly)

version 5.9

release date: 20 Aug 2020

GO version (updated to v1.4):

• version v1.4
• removed FindPattern function since it worked only for some specific player name cases (of lenght 9)
• removed not useful functions

PYTHON version (updated to v4.5):

• version v4.5
• added more in depth visualization of data usage (in function printDataUsage)
• replaced _thread with threading module
• build message feature to better interface with the clients

COMMON updates:

• renamed variables for better readability
• more easily readable program layout
• added logger
• build message feature to better interface with the clients

version 5.7

release date: 14 Aug 2020

GO version (updated to v1.3):

• version v1.3
• added 1.16.2 "server starting message" compatibility
• added windows compatibility

PYTHON version (updated to v4.4):

• version v4.4
• added1.16.2 "server starting message" compatibility

version 5.4

release date: 14 Aug 2020

GO version (unchanged):

• version v1.1

PYTHON version (updated to v4.3):

• version v4.3
• added windows compatibility

version 5.3

release date: 7 Apr 2020

GO version (updated to v1.1):

• version v1.1
• improved the function StopEmptyMinecraftServer() so that now it effectively stops the server (after the specified amount of time) only after the last player has left

PYTHON version (updated to v4.2):

• version v4.2
• printdatausage() is now thread-safe
• improved the function stop_empty_minecraft_server() so that now it effectively stops the server (after the specified amount of time) only after the last player has left

version 5.1

release date: 30 Mar 2020

GO version (new v1.0):

• version v1.0
• added the translation to go (improves velocity and efficiency for bigger servers)
• added a better recognition system for incoming connections (now 100% of "connect me" and "info request" packets are recognized)
• added log time (now it is written when somthing happens)
• improved the debug option for visualize traffic data (data to-clients and to-server)

PYTHON version (unchanged):

• version v4.1

version 4.1

release date: 20 Mar 2020

• Improvements in the recognition of player's name trying to join

• The logic is completely inverted: first is analyzed what the client is requesting (server info or join world) then the server status is considered (offline/starting/online)