[4.4.0] - 2026-07-20

Added

• Added verified Velocity 4.0.0 support while retaining the Java 17 bytecode and Velocity 3.4 API baseline used by Velocity 3.4.x and 3.5.x installations. A Java 25/API 4/Adventure 5 compatibility build and a Velocity 4.0.0 startup smoke test now guard the same JAR in CI.
• Added optional per-server display_name values in gui.toml. A name such as lobby1 in velocity.toml can now appear as Main Lobby 1 in the Java inventory, Java chat selector, and Bedrock form.
• Added optional per-server description, menu_order, and show_in_menu values. Descriptions are available through {description}, explicit menu order is shared by all selectors, and hidden entries remain eligible for automatic routing.
• Added selector placeholders for presentation and diagnostics: {server} and {display_name} resolve to the configured alias, {server_id} exposes the raw Velocity server ID, and {description} resolves to the shared menu description.
• Added /vn menu validate to audit selector server IDs, duplicate display names, slots, material-identifier syntax, and curly-brace placeholders before players open a menu.
• Added global Java inventory styles for [states.full], [states.draining], [states.offline], and [states.in_game], each with optional material, name, and lore overrides.

Changed

• Inventory navigation controls are now kept in the reserved bottom row for every supported layout.rows value. This prevents an automatic server item from occupying a custom control slot and silently hiding that control.
• Bedrock sort_mode = "name" now sorts by the displayed alias instead of the raw server ID.
• Explicit nonnegative menu_order values are the primary order in Java inventory, Java chat, and Bedrock selectors. Unset values keep the existing candidate order; Bedrock uses its configured sort_mode to resolve equal ordering values.
• show_in_menu = false removes a server from all three selectors without draining it or removing it from automatic routing.
• Blank or missing aliases fall back to the raw server ID. Selector changes are applied by /vn reload; no proxy restart or navigator.toml schema migration is required.
• Display aliases are presentation-only. Inventory targets, one-time token allowlists, chat callbacks, Bedrock response mapping, health lookups, and connection requests continue to use the raw registered server ID.
• Java inventory state styles are applied after availability is resolved. A per-server name or lore remains final; otherwise the matching state template is used before the localized default. For unavailable entries, a per-server unavailable_material remains final, followed by the state material and global unavailable fallback. Healthy entries keep their per-server/global normal material.
• gui.toml now uses config_version = 2; navigator.toml remains at config version 8.

Not included

• Localized per-language display names are not part of 4.4.0. Existing language packs still control shared selector templates and status text.