Require poll answer, cancel, and question-data packets to match the poll configured on the caller's current room. Previously a crafted packet could target any loaded poll id and submit the final question directly, including badge-reward polls, without being in a room where that poll was active.
Keep word quiz handling null-safe and add a contract test covering current-room poll scoping for all poll handlers.
Guard RoomTradeManager.startTrade while holding the activeTrades lock so concurrent trade starts cannot register the same participant in multiple active trades before room status updates settle.
Add a contract test covering the lock-scoped participant guard and keep the existing trade safety tests green.
Reject client-supplied room ids for self-moderation packets unless they match the caller's current room. This prevents users with saved rights or ownership in another room from muting, banning, or unbanning users remotely via crafted packets.
RoomUserBanEvent now also ignores invalid ban type values instead of letting valueOf throw through the message handler.
Add a contract test covering ban, mute, and unban current-room scoping.
Route console log level and logger columns through custom Logback converters so terminals with ANSI support get colored severity badges and compact colored class names.
Keep the same habbo.console.style auto/ansi/plain behavior as the startup splash, including plain fallback for non-interactive output, NO_COLOR, and legacy Windows console paths.
The file appenders keep their existing verbose patterns unchanged, so debug/error log files remain plain and grep-friendly.
Cover the level formatter, logger formatter, override behavior, and Logback pattern wiring with tests.
Add an auto-detected styled startup splash for terminals that support ANSI colors, including Windows Terminal, ANSICON, ConEmu ANSI, and common TERM-based consoles.
Keep the default and redirected-output path plain text so legacy CMD, logs, and service wrappers remain readable. The style can also be forced with -Dhabbo.console.style=ansi or disabled with -Dhabbo.console.style=plain.
Cover the styled splash, Windows Terminal detection, non-interactive fallback, and forced plain mode with startup console tests.
Keep the Morningstar ASCII logo while using a structured plain-text startup card that works in CMD, Windows Terminal, and other consoles without ANSI support.
Compact the Logback console pattern to use simple class names, clean separators, and a wider message column so startup logs do not wrap as aggressively. Simplify Infostand startup output to a one-line asset count while preserving category breakdown at DEBUG level.
Also normalize generic server start/stop messages so Game Server and RCON Server are labeled correctly instead of being glued to host:port output.
Replace the temporary ASCII-art banner with a structured startup splash that uses plain ASCII, aligned fields, and no ANSI or terminal-specific features. This keeps the emulator startup readable across CMD, PowerShell, Linux terminals, Docker logs, CI output, and copied log files. Add a contract test to keep the splash universal.
Add a clean ASCII startup banner for the emulator CMD window and use it instead of the legacy wide block logo. The new banner stays ASCII-only for Windows console compatibility and keeps the Morningstar identity visible before the startup logs.
Shorten the infostand background startup message into a compact asset summary and print the project/version/build details as a single ASCII startup card instead of several timestamped log lines. Add a small contract test for the compact infostand summary format.
PacketNames reflects public static final packet constants and warns when two names share the same header. RequestCatalogIndexEvent is a legacy alias for the active Builders Club catalog index header, and InClientLinkComposer shares the NUX link payload/header. Keep those aliases available to existing code while removing them from the reflected packet-name set, and add a contract test so future public final packet names stay unique.
MarketPlace.getCredits previously removed sold offers from memory and granted credits before knowing whether marketplace_items.user_id had been detached in the database. If that update failed, the same sold offer could be loaded as claimable again later. Make removeUser report success, keep the offer claimable on failure, and only grant credits after the database detach succeeds.
RoomTrade previously caught SQLException during ownership updates but continued into the in-memory inventory and credit transfer path. That could desynchronize or duplicate trade results if the database batch failed while the live session still completed the exchange. Keep item owner mutations after the successful batch, return offered items on failed completion, and add a contract test that prevents SQL failures from falling through to the transfer path.
Expose whether a marketplace offer was persisted before mutating inventory state, refuse sells whose database insert failed, and synchronize the sold timestamp into the online seller's in-memory offer when present. This keeps failed or racing marketplace operations from desynchronizing credits/items.
Use executeUpdate with generated keys for offline ban inserts, return an empty result when an offline target cannot be loaded, and make ban commands handle empty results instead of indexing blindly. Modtool chatlog requests now guard missing users instead of dereferencing null.
Add a forced dispose path for bans, RCON disconnects, logout/account endpoints, plugin-cancelled login, duplicate login replacement, and late MAC-ban enforcement. Soft channel closes still park a session for reconnect, while security-driven closes now bypass session resume. Also null-guard client/channel disposal and cover the contract with focused tests.
The Nitro renderer sends the UniqueID (machine fingerprint) packet right AFTER the SSOTicket, so Habbo.connect() ran before the machineId was set and returned false on the empty machineId — silently disposing the client (WS closed with Netty's default "Bye"), so login never completed and no SecureLoginOK was sent.
- Habbo.connect(): only set machineID + run the MAC-ban check when the fingerprint is already present; never reject the login solely for a missing machineId (also drop a duplicated MAC/IP-ban block).
- MachineIDEvent: enforce the MAC ban when the fingerprint arrives after login, preserving the ban check that connect() now defers.
Add commented examples for the config keys introduced by this PR so operators
can discover and tune them (defaults apply if unset):
- ws.ip.header.trusted (trusted reverse-proxy gate for the forwarded-IP header)
- io.packet.handler.threads (game packet-handler pool, off the Netty I/O loop)
- auth.http.pool.size (dedicated /api/auth/* worker pool)
- io.netty.allocator.pooled (opt-in pooled ByteBuf allocator)
Modernization following the dependency upgrades:
- Joda-Time was used in exactly one place (ModToolSanctionInfoComposer, to
subtract probation days from a Date). Migrated to java.time
(Instant/ZoneId.systemDefault, calendar-accurate like the old Joda call) and
removed the joda-time dependency entirely — confirmed gone from the shaded jar.
- Make string<->bytes conversions explicitly UTF-8 instead of relying on the
platform default. Most importantly the wire codec (ClientMessage.readString /
ServerMessage.appendString) — both sides now pinned to UTF-8 so international
characters are robust regardless of -Dfile.encoding. Also RCONServerHandler,
PluginManager and the WS origin-forbidden response.
Verified: clean compile, 15/15 tests, shaded jar.
Netty 4.2 deprecates NioEventLoopGroup in favour of the generic
MultiThreadIoEventLoopGroup driven by an IoHandlerFactory. Server.java now
builds its boss/worker groups with MultiThreadIoEventLoopGroup(..,
NioIoHandler.newFactory()) — functionally equivalent, and the codebase now
compiles with zero deprecation warnings. Verified: compile, 15/15 tests, shaded
jar.
Major-version upgrades of the three the previous bump deliberately held back.
Verified: clean compile, all 15 tests run green (surefire 3.5.2 drives the JUnit 6
platform fine — no extra launcher dep needed), and the shaded jar assembles.
- io.netty:netty-all 4.1.135.Final -> 4.2.15.Final
- com.zaxxer:HikariCP 6.3.3 -> 7.0.2
- org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter 5.14.4 -> 6.1.0
Notes:
- Stayed on Netty 4.2 (GA), not 5.0 which is still Alpha. No source changes
needed; the channel ALLOCATOR is set explicitly so 4.2's new default adaptive
allocator doesn't apply. NioEventLoopGroup is deprecated in 4.2 but still
functions as before (left as-is to avoid an event-loop behavioural change).
netty-all 4.2 pulls more transitive modules, so the fat jar grows (~20->32 MB).
- HikariCP 7.x baselines Java 17; our HikariConfig usage is unchanged.
#2 — tunable thread pools (sensible defaults kept):
- io.packet.handler.threads overrides the packet-handler EventExecutorGroup size
(default max(16, 2x cores)).
- auth.http.pool.size overrides the auth HTTP pool max threads (default 16).
#5 — Netty buffer pooling:
- Make the crypto handlers pool-safe: GameByteEncryption/GameByteDecryption no
longer call ByteBuf.array() on a readBytes-derived buffer (whose arrayOffset is
non-zero under a pooled allocator, which would have read/encrypted the wrong
region). They now copy the readable region into a plain byte[] (offset-safe)
and wrap the result — also drops one intermediate buffer allocation. This is
correct for the current unpooled allocator too. (ServerMessage uses its own
Unpooled buffer, and ClientMessage reads via buffer methods, so both are
already offset-safe.)
- Add a shared channel allocator selected by io.netty.allocator.pooled
(default false = unpooled-heap, unchanged). Set true for a pooled HEAP
allocator (preferDirect=false, so array-backed paths keep working) to cut
per-packet alloc/GC churn. Opt-in until validated under load with the Netty
leak detector, since unreleased pooled buffers accumulate rather than being
GC-reclaimed.
New optional config keys (insert into emulator_settings to set/silence the
"key not found" notice): io.packet.handler.threads, auth.http.pool.size,
io.netty.allocator.pooled.
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