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The 1.21.5/6/7 Update It's been a hot minute since the last post, but here we are! As always, backups are absolutely mandatory. After upgrading your world to 1.21.7, you cannot downgrade back to a lower version! We can also give you a pinky promise that it won't take this long to exit the...

After the release of the first builds for Minecraft 1.21.4, we are happy to share some even more exciting news with everyone. Following the successful rollout of our Mojang-mapped server in 1.20.5, we are taking a big next step for the project: Hard fork from our upstream Since the project's...

The 1.21.3 Update Paper and Velocity 1.21.3 builds are out of the experimental phase! As always, backups are absolutely mandatory. After upgrading your world to 1.21.3, you cannot downgrade back to a lower version! We would like to thank everyone that worked on this update: Gerrygames for his...

The 1.21 Update Stable Paper and Velocity 1.21 builds have been released! As always, backups are absolutely mandatory. After upgrading your world to 1.21, you cannot downgrade back to a lower version! We would like to thank everyone that worked on this update: 4drian3d and Gerrygames for their...

The 1.20.5/6 Update Stable Paper and Velocity 1.20.6 builds have been released! As always, backups are absolutely mandatory. After upgrading your world to 1.20.6, you cannot downgrade back to a lower version! The reason for the stable announcement arriving so late is that upstream's item...

Announcing the end of life of Waterfall As many of you might have noticed, Waterfall hasn't received much love from our team and the great contributor community in the past years. We have also seen less and less traffic in the support channels on Discord. Additionally, Mojang is making huge...

Future removal of CB package relocation + moving away from obfuscation at runtime If you are not a developer but a server owner, this might still be important for you. Check the bottom section on what action you might have to take. Update: This change has been put into effect in 1.20.5, make...

Happy New Year from PaperMC! Wishing you all a super happy New Year! It's been a big year at Paper! We've grown a lot and have some big changes on the horizon. Our team has yet again increased in size and become even more motivated to work towards our goal of hard forking. PaperMC is powered by...

Here are a few reminders of other important future changes CraftBukkit package relocation This is very important if you for whatever reason use reflection to either parse the relocated package version. call CB internals. At some point in the future, we will only provide jars without...

The 1.20.4 Update Stable Paper and Velocity 1.20.4 builds have been released! As always, backups are absolutely mandatory. After upgrading your world to 1.20.4, you cannot downgrade back to a lower version! We would like to thank everyone that worked on this update (a lot of people and work...

The 1.20.2 Update Stable Paper and Velocity 1.20.2 builds have been released! As always, backups are absolutely mandatory. After upgrading your world to 1.20.2, you cannot downgrade back to a lower version! We would like to thank everyone that worked on this update (a lot of people and work...

The 1.20(.1) Update We’re happy to announce that initial builds for Paper 1.20 have been released. As always, backups are absolutely mandatory. After upgrading your world to 1.20, you cannot downgrade back to a lower version! We would like to thank everyone that worked on this update: @Machine...

The 1.19.4 Update Paper 1.19.4 and Velocity with 1.19.4 support are now available on our website! As always, we recommend that you make a backup of your server before upgrading. Remember that you cannot downgrade your Paper server after doing the update. Despite only being a minor version, once...

The 1.19.3 Update Paper 1.19.3 and Velocity with 1.19.3 support are now available on our website! Even though Paper is deemed stable, we still recommend that you make a backup of your server before upgrading. Remember that you cannot downgrade your Paper server after doing the update. Despite...

PaperMC participates in DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest event. We accept meaningful contributions to almost all of our projects - just make sure the repository has the hacktoberfest topic set! You can use a query like https://github.com/search?q=org%3Apapermc+topic%3Ahacktoberfest to show all of...