Minecraft - v1.4 Bukkit Support
Apr 01 2011 23:44:38 by Killing
We just wanted to give you an update on the state of play.
We're currently still working through all the 200+ bukkit plugins, checking for issues, upgrading ones that can be updated, making notes of ones which the authors are currently working on fixes, as well as listing those that don't seem to be actively supported any more.
This could have been a relatively simple and quick process but unfortunately there where some changes a little while back in the Bukkit API which basically broke pretty much every plugin out there. This is also why we haven't updated Bukkit in a while as we where waiting for plugin authors to have chance to fix their plugins to work against the updated API.
The release of 1.4 is pretty much forcing the issue, as everyone wants to be on the latest version so plugin authors are working hard to update their plugins.
Once we have done a startup test on every single plugin and are happy that all the key plugins are now compatible with 1.4 we will push out a big update for you.
So you are aware there are currently there are a number of what we determine as "key" plugins, as they are used by a vast number of customers, which haven't been updated to work with the 1.4 compatible Bukkit server. We are monitoring the state of these and will make the call, likely some time this weekend, as to if we will update Bukkit to 1.4 before they are fixed or if we will wait for them.
Please be aware that both Bukkit and all the plugins are created by members of the community in their spare time, to make Minecraft more fun to play, they all deserve our respect and thanks for this so please try to be patient.
Finally I would like to give a big shout out to the core Bukkit developers who got a 1.4 compatible update out so quickly, respect guys and well done
For more information and to keep up to date checkout the Support for v1.4 Bukkit forum thread