A major update focused on smarter search, safer migrations, better upgrade flow, and much cleaner startup/runtime behavior.

Highlights

Smart Search V1
Searching in the auction house is now much more useful and much more natural:

• smarter search matching
• better result scoring
• cleaner search flow in chat and GUI
• improved relevance when browsing auctions

Full Update Checker
The update checker has been fully implemented and cleaned up:

• version check at startup and in background
• player join notification when an update is available
• cleaner separation between Free and Premium update links
• multilingual messages and cleaner overall behavior

Free -> Premium Migration Tool
Upgrading from Free to Premium is now much safer:

• automatic detection of a Free installation
• migration of config.yml
• migration of items-gui.yml
• migration of items-categories.yml
• migration of all lang/*.yml
• migration of old SQLite auction data from Free to Premium
• migrated files are backed up to avoid duplicate imports
• clear console guidance after migration

Storage Transfer System (Premium)
Premium now supports storage transfer between both backends:

• SQLite -> MySQL transfer
• MySQL -> SQLite transfer
• automatic backfill of missing DB fields used by newer versions
• duplicate protection with request IDs
• better safety when source DBs come from older plugin versions
• improved compatibility with older Minecraft / older MySQL environments

Language & YAML Migration Improvements
A lot of work went into config/resource migration:

• missing language keys are generated automatically
• all bundled language files are kept in sync
• old keys are migrated when needed
• items-gui.yml legacy paths are migrated automatically
• better ordering and cleaner sections in language files
• new users get cleaner, more organized generated files

Logging & Diagnostics
Console output is now much more precise and much easier to understand:

• more detailed migration logs
• multilingual logs
• better SQL/storage error messages
• better missing key / missing section diagnostics
• fewer hardcoded messages in code

Fixes & Stability
This release also includes many fixes and internal improvements:

• startup flow is safer
• async work was cleaned up in several places
• less risk of startup crashes during migration
• better handling of old databases and old generated files
• fixed several GUI/config path issues
• fixed storage-transfer settings leaking into Free
• improved DB initialization and migration safety
• improved compatibility across older server versions

Editions

Free

• Smart Search V1
• Update Checker
• multilingual/logging improvements
• language and YAML migration improvements
• many bug fixes and stability improvements

Premium
Everything in Free, plus:

• Free -> Premium automatic migration
• SQLite <-> MySQL storage transfer

Recommended After Updating

• restart the server fully after updating
• let the plugin finish generating/migrating files once
• if you use Premium with MySQL, verify your storage.mysql settings before first startup
• if you upgraded from Free to Premium, check the migration logs once before removing the old folder