Version 4.0 (Snapshot)

Highlights / Notes

New format for the map-data, resulting in a massive performance improvement when loading map-tiles in the browser!

This is a breaking change. You will need to purge and re-render all your maps when you update to this release!
Also don't forget to update your webapp.

!!! This is a SNAPSHOT and is not production-ready! Use at your own risk. !!!

Upgrading from 3.20

• replace your BlueMap.jar
• delete the <webroot>/index.html to update your webapp
• purge all maps

Changelog since 3.20

• Switched hires-model format from json to a custom binary format:
  prbm (slightly modified version of prwm)
  • Massive performance improvement when loading map-tiles in the browser
  • Slightly smaller on the storage
  • Slightly faster to render
• Refactored Chunk-Loading and World management
  • Added dimension config to the map configs
  • Removed world-sky-light config from the map configs
• Lots of performance improvements
• RAM usage improvements
• Added -m option to the cli which allows to specify certain maps that should be rendered
• Removed the pretty-printing from the settings.json to discourage editing it manually
• Logging improvements (thanks to @TechnicJelle)
• Updated Turkish translation (thanks to @birbkeks)
• Updated French translation (thanks to @Arkyoh)
• Updated zh_CN translation (thanks to @jhqwqmc)
• Updated Vite
• Dropped support for fabric 1.15-1.17
• Dropped support for forge 1.17
• Fixed corrupted cave-detection when rendering worlds with custom heights
• Fixed empty block-states having the wrong block-properties
• Fixed some spelling (thanks to @TechnicJelle)
• Fixed an error with self-healing when a textures file is corrupted
• Fixed unlisted markers being counted in the marker-set gui

Targets:

Java: 11
BlueMapAPI: 2.7.0

File	Target Version
BlueMap-4.0-cli.jar	CLI for Minecraft 1.13.2 - 1.20.4
BlueMap-4.0-spigot.jar	Spigot/Paper 1.16.5 - 1.20.4
BlueMap-4.0-paper.jar	Paper/Folia 1.20.1 - 1.20.4
BlueMap-4.0-fabric-1.20.jar	Fabric 1.20 - 1.20.4
BlueMap-4.0-fabric-1.19.4.jar	Fabric 1.19.4
BlueMap-4.0-fabric-1.18.jar	Fabric 1.18 - 1.18.2
BlueMap-4.0-forge-1.20.jar	Forge 1.20 - 1.20.4
BlueMap-4.0-forge-1.19.4.jar	Forge 1.19.4
BlueMap-4.0-forge-1.18.1.jar	Forge 1.18.1 - 1.18.2
BlueMap-4.0-neoforge-1.20.2.jar	NeoForge 1.20.2 - 1.20.4
BlueMap-4.0-sponge.jar	Sponge 8.2.0