U-API

- Promoted the Minecraft 26.2 port to a stable release after the beta line passed compatibility and lifecycle validation. - Added working project and issue-tracker links to the metadata shown by NeoForge mod lists. - Contains no API, gameplay or persisted-data changes from 3.0.0-beta.5. ## Compatibility - Minecraft: 26.2 - Loader: NeoForge - Java: 25

- Added working project and issue-tracker links to the metadata shown by NeoForge mod lists. - Added branch CI for release builds so patch artifacts are compiled and tested before tagging. ## Compatibility - Minecraft: 1.21.1 - Loader: NeoForge - Java: 21

- Made the Sophisticated Backpacks inventory tab equipment-aware: it updates live and is shown only for a backpack equipped in the chest armor, Curios or Accessories handlers, ignores backpacks carried in the regular inventory, and opens the exact equipped slot through the mod's native request. ## Compatibility - Minecraft: 26.2 - Loader: NeoForge - Java: 25

- Made the Sophisticated Backpacks inventory tab equipment-aware: it updates live and is shown only for a backpack equipped in the chest armor, Curios or Accessories handlers, ignores backpacks carried in the regular inventory, and opens the exact equipped slot through the mod's native request. ## Compatibility - Minecraft: 1.21.1 - Loader: NeoForge - Java: 21

- Added a native inventory tab for Sophisticated Backpacks that appears only when the optional mod is installed and opens the player's first available backpack through its standard network request. - Updated the native backpack request to NeoForge 26.2's client packet distributor after the unpublished beta.3 build exposed the API change. ## Compatibility - Minecraft: 26.2 - Loader: NeoForge - Java: 25

- Added a native inventory tab for Sophisticated Backpacks that appears only when the optional mod is installed and opens the player's first available backpack through its standard network request. - Extended neutral profile facets with bounded identity cards carrying rich components, optional source IDs, defensive `ItemStack` icons, and metadata for data-driven integrations. - Added retained UI rendering and a size-bounded wire codec for identity cards while preserving the existing audience/privacy contract. ## Compatibility - Minecraft: 1.21.1 - Loader: NeoForge - Java: 21

- Deferred HUD element dimension sampling until the render/layout phase so client lifecycle registrations cannot access an uninitialized Minecraft window. ## Compatibility - Minecraft: 26.2 - Loader: NeoForge - Java: 25

- Ported U-API to Minecraft 26.2, NeoForge 26.2.0.28-beta and Java 25. - Migrated identifiers, retained GUI extraction, input events, permissions and server reload events to their 26.2 APIs. - Migrated instance persistence to codec-backed `SavedDataType` storage. - Updated JEI compile-time integration to the Minecraft 26.2 line. - Added pull-request CI and updated tagged GitHub/Modrinth releases for prerelease versions. - This is a clean-install beta line; 1.21.1 worlds and configuration are not migrated. ## Compatibility - Minecraft: 26.2 - Loader: NeoForge - Java: 25

- Added lifecycle-scoped public service discovery without dependencies on consuming mods. - Added neutral social-group, ready-check, permission and bounded public-profile-facet contracts. - Added protocol negotiation, request correlation, bounded rate limiting and connection request tracking. - Added a retained client UI runtime with layouts, themes, focus, reusable controls, virtualization, modal/toast primitives and deterministic cleanup. - Unified first-party screens on the Soul-inspired `ARCANE` theme and fixed render ordering so vanilla blur cannot be applied over completed retained UI. - Added collision-aware HUD registration and bounded, interpolated, privacy-neutral world overlays. - Added bounded player-head caching and client connection cleanup. - Expanded opt-in diagnostics for services, UI, HUD, overlays, caches and packet rates. - Added common/server configuration for optional integrations, debug logging and network bounds. - Made 2.0 a breaking clean-install line: removed the migration API, required exact current versions for instance storage/sidebar JSON and dropped source-compatibility promises for 1.x. ## Compatibility - Minecraft: 1.21.1 - Loader: NeoForge - Java: 21

- Added JSON-driven container helper buttons in the fixed top-left screen corner. - Added built-in helper actions for gamemode survival/creative, weather clear/rain, morning and night. - Limited helper rendering to container screens so custom non-container UIs do not get overlapped. - Added optional JEI compatibility: helper buttons are offset below JEI's top-left bookmark controls and registered as a JEI extra GUI area. - Added per-button `permission_level` checks for server-safe helper commands. - Narrowed declared Minecraft/NeoForge support to the tested 1.21.1 / 21.1.x line. ## Compatibility - Minecraft: 1.21.1 - Loader: NeoForge - Java: 21