Patch Release 2.8.5

[APickledWalrus]

Skript 2.8.5

Skript 2.8.5 is here with some more bug fixes and quality-of-life additions. There is also early support for 1.20.5/1.20.6 (Skript will run and some basic 1.20.5/1.20.6 features will work). Further support will come in the next releases. You can report any issues on our issue tracker.

Happy Skripting!

Changelog

Additions

• #6134 Added mushroom cow alias for mooshroom.
• #6163 Added tests for vector syntaxes.
• #6525 Added support for specifying charged creeper rather than powered creeper.
• #6526 Improved the documentation of the elements expression.
• #6528 Improved the documentation of the leash effect.
• #6628 The Skript artifact name now includes the plugin version (e.g. Skript-2.8.5.jar).
• #6632 Added basic support for the new Armadillo and Bogged entities.

Bug Fixes

• #6302 Removed the outdated Location to Chunk converter.
• #6523 Fixed an issue that could occur when attempting to spawn non-spawnable entities.
• #6561 Fix the move event's example.
• #6566 Removed redundant [the] in the hotbar expression.
• #6578 Fixed an error that could occur with the inventory click event.
• #6579 Fixed function parsing issues with ambiguous parameter lists.
• Fixes locations with no world causing an error:
  • #6590 Entity look at effect.
  • #6589 Blocks (below, above, etc.) expression.
  • #6588 Explode effect.
• #6591 Fixed an incorrect internal check that determined whether an expression was nullable.
• #6594/#6604 Improved the efficiency of element input pattern checks.
• #6595 Fixed incorrect coloring with some error messages.
• #6600 Fixed an error that could occur when setting the value of a variable.
• #6619 Fixed an issue that could occur when reloading a command on newer Paper versions.
• #6617/#6630 Fixed multiple issues that could occur when using Skript on 1.20.5/1.20.6.

Click here to view the full list of commits made since 2.8.4

Notices

Java 11

From Skript 2.9.0 onwards, we will be requiring a minimum Java version of 11 to run.

Help Us Test

We have an official Discord community for beta testing Skript's new features and releases.

Thank You

Special thanks to the contributors whose work was included in this version:

• @APickledWalrus
• @Asleeepp
• @Fusezion
• @Moderocky
• @NotSoDelayed
• @Phill310
• @ShaneBeee
• @sovdeeth
• @TheLimeGlass

As always, if you encounter any issues or have some minor suggestions, please report them at https://github.com/SkriptLang/Skript/issues.
If you have any bigger ideas or input for the future of Skript, you can share those too at https://github.com/SkriptLang/Skript/discussions.

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This discussion was created from the release Patch Release 2.8.5.

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Happy skripting