[1.0.0] - Official Release (Current)

Architectural Overhaul

• Node-Based Multi-Group Architecture: Deprecated the rigid single primary_group system. Groups are now dynamically resolved by looking for active personal permission nodes starting with group.<name>.
• Multi-Group Merging: If a player holds multiple groups (e.g., group.vip and group.mod), the engine seamlessly merges both groups and their inheritance trees, automatically prioritizing prefixes based on group weights.
• Contextual Groups: Full native support for Server-Specific groups and Temporary Ranks (all utilizing native permission node logic).

Performance Upgrades

• O(1) Permission Caching: Integrated a blazing-fast memory cache directly into the User model. Bukkit and Velocity now instantly resolve permission queries (hasPermission()) by checking the memory cache, completely bypassing expensive Regex evaluation and node parsing.
• Optimized Footprint: Reduced the compiled plugin JAR size by over 84% (from 17MB down to 2.8MB) by switching heavy SQLite and MariaDB drivers to compileOnly, leveraging the server's native runtime libraries instead.

Command Overhauls

• Group Management: Completely replaced the old /ola user <name> parent set <group> command suite with a far more powerful node-based command suite:
  • /ola user <name> group add <group> [duration] [server]
  • /ola user <name> group remove <group> [server]
  • /ola user <name> group list
• Quality of Life: Added deletion and inspection commands:
  • /ola group <name> delete
  • /ola track <name> delete
  • /ola group list
  • /ola track list
• Tab-Completer AI: Fully rewrote the auto-completion logic to guide users through the new Multi-Group syntax perfectly.

Developer API & Integrations

• Platform-Agnostic Event Bus: Engineered a comprehensive custom Event Bus into the OlaPermissionsAPI.
• 30 Granular Events: Developers can now listen to an unprecedented level of engine detail on both Paper and Velocity, including:
  • Track progression (UserPromoteEvent, UserDemoteEvent)
  • Node manipulation (NodeAddEvent, NodeRemoveEvent)
  • Cross-server networking (NetworkSyncEvent)
  • Context recalculations (ServerContextSwitchEvent, WorldContextSwitchEvent)
  • Infrastructure sweeps (MigrationCompleteEvent)
• OlaVaultChatProvider: Natively integrated Vault chat formatting hooks. External chat formatting plugins (like EssentialsChat) will now automatically traverse a user's multi-group inheritance tree to find and display the prefix with the highest weight.