Some of you may think “Well, why don’t you support 1.10.2 for a little bit longer? At least until 1.13 drops, or when larger modpacks are released for 1.12.2 or 1.13?” and my answer to that is simple: “It’s time to move on.” Bugs that are affected on older versions of Sponge are related to older systems (including the system formerly known as CauseTracker, now known as PhaseTracker) having certain limitations and stability requirements according to Minecraft’s development status. There is a lot of reasoning behind this, the largest reason is the direction of development and the time available to the development team towards resolving bugs to systems that have now been rewritten, refactored, improved, and replaced, since API 5 was introduced. What this will mean is that API 5 and 6 will no longer be supported, meaning Minecraft 1.10.2 and 1.11.2 will no longer be supported for API additions or bug fixes. I am pleased to say that API 7 now has a release date of December 31st, 2017. As of this writing, the Sponge team has been planning on dropping support for 1.11.2 for a while, at the very least when API 7 for Minecraft 1.12.x is officially released. As many of you may know by now, a lot of our development has increased to have support for 1.10.2 and 1.11.2 and 1.12.2, with some API development towards Minecraft 1.13.

Minecraft 1.11.2 update