Changes:

• Added smelting for clay blocks
• Added LOOK direction to BOOST effect
• Improved spawner stacking handling with explosions
• Improved HELD checks when switching item to offhand
• Added AdvancedChests support

Changes:

• Added support for baby guards! Use baby version of mobs in GUARD effect now! Format is `BABY_ENTITYTYPE`, e.g. BABY_ZOMBIE
• Updated internal metadata used for plugin block breaks. This adds support for VeinMiner plugin by 2008Choco
• now saved to locale folder automatically
• Fixed error in console about wrong YamlFile class

Changes:

• Added `matchesregex` to conditions for matching regex in variables
• https://wiki.advancedplugins.net/abilities/conditions/condition-comparison
• Absorption hearts are now taken away first with damage effects
• Improvements and updates with internal code
• Updated conditions parsing for better format support
• Added mcmmo's herbalism support for effects

1.8.9

Changes:

• Re-added item glowing effect
• Fixed KEEP_ON_DEATH with ADD_ENCHANT effects
• McMMO's treefeller ability is now fully supported
• Updated EFFECT_STATIC trigger for skulls
• Updated item formatting to support base64 skins
• Updated damage effects to work with mythicmobs' mobs
• Some internal upgrades / updates and cleanups

Changes:

• Updated mob part animation pre-calculation on startup
• Fixed small issue with conditions tags
• Some internal upgrades / updates and cleanups

Changes:

• Updated how spawner data is saved - it's now much more optimized.
• Updated consistency of mobs between server restarts
• Added SCREEN_FREEZE:<TICKS> effect to give the frozen effect for player, also slow them down
  
• Added ENTITY_EFFECT:<EFFECT> effect to run entity effect's on player, e.g. hurt https://hub.spigotmc.org/javadocs/spigot/org/bukkit/EntityEffect.html

Changes:

• Blocks broken by effects are now added to Player's Minecraft Stats
• Added %block tags% placeholder/condition
• WATER_WALKER now ignores lilypads
• Fixed spawner upgrade beyond max inventory size

Changes:

• Updated how experience is dropped by abilities from mining multiple blocks (Spigot by default combines all EXP orbs into one)
• Added FactionsKore support for land protection
• Updated trigger description with editor
• Fixed issue with oraxen and effects
• Updated land protection handling
• Improvements to block break performance

Changes:

• Improvements to abilities system for bosses
• Few internal improvements with mob movement
• Fixed couple of issues with spawners