AetherPermissions 1.0.0 – Initial Release

The first public release of AetherPermissions: a modern, visual permission engine for Paper 1.21+ (including 26.x).

Features

• Groups & inheritance – create groups with weights, prefixes and suffixes, and let groups inherit from each other (loop-safe).
• Temporary & per-world permissions – e.g. aether.fly for 1 day, or a rank only in world_nether. Expired nodes are removed automatically.
• In-game GUI (/ap gui) – manage groups, players, ranks and permission nodes from a chest menu, with live search and per-plugin category filtering.
• Hosted Web Editor (/ap editor) – edit everything with drag & drop in your browser. No open port, proxy or domain needed on your server, and all traffic is end-to-end encrypted.
• Live Sync – every change (GUI, web editor, commands) applies to online players instantly, without a reload or restart. On MySQL, changes sync automatically across all servers in your network.
• Fast by design – permissions are resolved in advance and cached per player, so hasPermission() adds no main-thread lag.
• Vault support – Permission & Chat providers, so Essentials, TAB, chat plugins and others pick up ranks and prefixes automatically.
• Storage – SQLite (zero setup) or MySQL with HikariCP connection pooling.
• Wildcards – essentials.* and * are supported.
• **Prefixes – MiniMessage (<gold>[VIP]) and & color codes are both supported.

Commands

/ap (aliases /aetherperms, /perms) – gui, editor, reload, groups, user <player> ..., group <group> ... Permission: aether.admin

Requirements

• Paper 1.21 or newer (including 26.x)
• Java 21
• Optional: Vault