1.8 is out

[LennyLen]

Time to update the server

[Tom]

Speaking of such things.. I just went to check to see if Bukkit or Spigot has even a dev version for 1.8, (obviously no) but theres some strange news. One of the main devs quit (announced he's shutting down the project), then mojang took over the forums, and code. (They bought it ages ago so legally its fine). So bukkit will be updated to 1.8, but it looks like its under new management (Grum, Jeb, and Dinnerbone).

[Lazybones]

Some drama one of the no exBukkit devs tried the nuke the site via DMCA take down.

http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/bukkit-1-8-eula-wolvereness-dmca-claim.309376/

[Tom]

Some drama one of the no exBukkit devs tried the nuke the site via DMCA take down.

http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/bukkit-1-8-eula-wolvereness-dmca-claim.309376/

That's only part of it. That happened after Mojang started taking over the project after the "shut down" post was made.

It's thought that that guy is upset that he didn't know mojang owned bukkit (I've known about it for quite some time and I'm not even a bukkit dev...), and once they took it over, he filed a DMCA claim cause his /gpl/ code is still in bukkit which isn't GPL compatible (it includes mojang's minecraft server code, so it can't possibly be gpl compatible till that code is made gpl compatible).

Some people are (dumbly) arguing that any code ever submitted to a project is now owned by the project, but that is false. Projects actually need to set up a legal contributor license agreement, where by the copyright is transferred to the project (which means it also has to be a legal entity, bukkit wasn't, at least before being bought by mojang).

The guy does probably have a leg to stand on, unless he did sign onto a CLA assigning copyright of his submissions to bukkit/mojang.

I think mojang can just rip out his code and call it a day.

[Mr. Analog]

So can we has 1.7.10

[Tom]

So can we has 1.7.10

I'm hoping bukkit 1.8 comes out sooner rather than later

[Mr. Analog]

Arrgh!

[Tom]

Arrgh!

Well if jeb/grum/dinnerbone are working on it now, maybe it'll happen!


I can dream can't i?

[Mr. Analog]

Given that 1.7.2 is almost a year old I dream of a time when we can upgrade off of it...

[Tom]

Given that 1.7.2 is almost a year old I dream of a time when we can upgrade off of it...

How about off of 1.6.4? that's gotta be two+ years old :-x

[Mr. Analog]

Given that 1.7.2 is almost a year old I dream of a time when we can upgrade off of it...

How about off of 1.6.4? that's gotta be two+ years old :-x

July 8, 2013, just over a year

http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Version_history#1.6

[Tom]

Given that 1.7.2 is almost a year old I dream of a time when we can upgrade off of it...

How about off of 1.6.4? that's gotta be two+ years old :-x

July 8, 2013, just over a year

http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Version_history#1.6

Huh, I expected it to be a lot older than 1.7.2.

[Mr. Analog]

Given that 1.7.2 is almost a year old I dream of a time when we can upgrade off of it...

How about off of 1.6.4? that's gotta be two+ years old :-x

July 8, 2013, just over a year

http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Version_history#1.6

Huh, I expected it to be a lot older than 1.7.2.

In the last couple of years MC development cycle has been a lot faster, so, not so surprising any more. There was ~1 month between 1.6.4 and 1.7.2

April this year saw 4 minor versions alone.

Like I say, I'm keen to get onto 1.7.10 because after having played it at Fraga I was really impressed with how well it played, even when some of us were doing really (usually) laggy things

[Tom]

Yeah, I'll attempt to work on the upgrade soon. The planetbob update wont be much work, but the usamot update will be interesting.

[Mr. Analog]

One of the 1.7.x updates made updating from 1.6 easier (supposedly)

But yeah, it would be cool to play in both worlds again.

...which reminds me, with everything going on last week I didn't get a chance to push up a test server for the maps I've made B'OH