✨ New features

• Prejoin verification (DiscordSRV-style) — optional. Unregistered players are kicked with a one-time code; they run +confirm <code> (or /confirm) on Discord and reconnect. Already-registered players get a DM with Approve / Deny buttons. AuthMe is integrated — the password is DM'd and applied on next join.
• FastLogin premium bypass — verified Mojang account owners skip the Discord flow. Secure at the protocol level (cannot be spoofed by name).
• Multi-language — set language: es in config to load lang_es.yml. Spanish bundled out of the box; any locale supported via lang_<code>.yml.
• Auto-updating server status embed in a Discord channel — online players, MOTD, TPS, uptime. Edits the same message every N seconds, no spam.
• Whitelist gate — admins approve / deny join requests directly from a Discord embed with buttons.
• Welcome DM sent once on first successful registration. Configurable.
• Config auto-merge — upgrades append new keys to your config.yml without regenerating it. Your values are preserved.
• Cross-server identity — multiple Bukkit servers can share a single MySQL DB. A player registered on server A is recognised on server B without re-linking Discord.
• Configurable bot activity — PLAYING, WATCHING, LISTENING, COMPETING, STREAMING with live placeholders (%minecraft_players%, %minecraft_max_players%, %minecraft_motd%, %server_name%).
• Limbo mode (opt-in) — players awaiting verification go to spectator + invisible + chat-muted so they cannot disrupt other players.

Stability & security

• Critical CVE in MySQL connector patched (mysql-connector-j 8.4.0)
• JDA bumped to stable 5.0.2
• Real HikariCP connection pool for MySQL and SQLite (with WAL on SQLite)
• Discord token auto-redacted in logs ([REDACTED_DISCORD_TOKEN])
• Anti-DoS rate limit on prejoin verification (5 attempts / IP / minute, 1000-entry hard cap)
• Schema version guard prevents an older plugin from corrupting a DB already migrated by a newer one
• Eager config validation at startup — lists every missing required key in one pass
• Clean JDA shutdown on plugin disable (no more "zip file closed" errors)
• JDA classes shaded under di.shaded.jda — no more conflicts with Vixio, DiscordSRV or other plugins that bundle their own JDA copy
• DM coordinator coalesces Discord DMs per recipient to avoid hitting per-user rate limits

Bug fixes

• Roles not granted after registration (giveRole did not handle null role and queue() had no error handler)
• Cascading "zip file closed" errors when the config was incomplete
• "Server is not fully started" when using FastLogin (DILogin now registers as FastLogin's auth-plugin via reflection)
• Click-to-copy on the register message did not work on MC 1.18+ (version parser only knew up to 1.17)
• NullPointerException in TmpCache during PlayerJoinEvent (ConcurrentHashMap rejects null values — sentinel pattern now)
• SQLite pool starvation at startup caused by an initial connection leak
• Race conditions in concurrent caches
• Connection leaks in the DAO (missing try-with-resources)
• "Users" header in +userlist was not translatable — now lives in lang.yml

⚙️ Developer experience

• bStats integration (Spigot ID 31219, Bungee ID 31220)
• 22 unit tests run in CI
• PR validation workflow runs mvn verify on every pull request
• /confirm slash command in addition to +confirm
• api-version: '1.13' in plugin.yml — silences the "Legacy plugin" warning
• release-please automates the changelog and release pipeline

Installation
Drop the following jars into your server's plugins/ folder:

• DICore-4.5.0.jar — default. Bundles SLF4J + log4j so JDA logs work out of the box.
• DICore-4.5.0-noslf4j.jar — use if your server already exposes SLF4J (modern Paper, Velocity, hybrid). Loading two SLF4J copies would cause LinkageError.
• DILogin-4.5.0.jar — registration & login system.
• DILitebansLogs-4.5.0.jar — optional, sends LiteBans punishments to Discord.

Direct upgrade from 4.4.0 — config auto-merge appends the new keys for you without touching your existing values. No manual migration needed.
Links

• GitHub release: https://github.com/Alhxe/Discord-Integration/releases/tag/v4.5.0
• Issues / suggestions: https://github.com/Alhxe/Discord-Integration/issues

Enjoy!