All current releases of Prison will always be supported. If you are having problems, or discover an issue, try upgrading to the latest release to see if its been addressed, or contact our support team on our Prison Discord Server (see below).

If an issue is found, old releases will not be fixed. The issues will be included in all future releases. We are unable to re-release old versions.

NOTE 1 : Versions prior to v3.2 predate our working knowledge. All efforts were made with v3.2.x to remain compatible with pre v3.2 releases, but upgrading to v3.2 first should be tested prior to upgrading to something newer.

Prison, our support staff, and our developers, cannot be held liable for any issues encounterd during updates or usage of our software. We strongly suggest regular backups of your server, data, and plugins. We strongly suggest that any changes are first tested on a test server, and not a production enviornment to see how everything will work on your setup.

Upgrading from a very old release of prison should go smoothly, but since the v3.3.0-alpha releases, there have been some changes that may need to be addressed in configs, changes in plugins, or other actions. Always backup your server and all plugin data before updating. It is strongly urged that you test updates on a test server, and not your primary production server first.

Support can help address and answer questions about some of thse concerns.

If you find a security vulnrability, or an exploitable weakness, please report this to Prison's Discord server. Please review the #alpha-versions channel to see if any recent releases have been published there.

Prison's Discord Server

If it's a serious issue, and you do not want it to be shared publically on the discord server, then request permission to DM an admin or a current developer. Do not randomly DM any of the staff without permission, some may perm ban you since it is against the rules. You have permission to always DM the primary developer: RoyalBlueRanger.

RoyalBlueRanger is usually able to provide fixes within a few hours, IRL permitting. If it's not a major issue, then the fix will be released to the Prison Discord Server's #alpha-versions channel. Critical issues will result in new releases on the supporting distribution websites, such as SpigotMC.org, polymmart.org, and curseforge.com, but they can take a few hours of prep work to issue.

Types of vulnerabilities include:

• Internal Prison Sources - Bugs in code, or new features in Spigot that are not handled in Prison yet.

• Third Party Libraries - Prison uses a few third-party libraries to provide greater flexibility in supporting the wide range of Spigot releases.

• Unsupported Platforms - Prison is developed only to support Spigot, but indirectly we support almost all platforms that are built off of Spigot. If you find an vulnerability caused by an unsupported platform, we reserve the right to not support that platform, or to state that we cannot provide a fix, or work on finding a fix for the issue. We will, within our best abilities, try to help address the unsupported platform, but we have limiations and will recognize when those limitation may prevent us from being successful.

• Conflicts with other plugins - We will strive to provide support for any plugin that could be having troubles with Prison, but within limits. Any plugin that has already been deemed as unsuportable cannot be supported; we cannot force other plugins to change what they do.

• Other plugins may release updates that could break compatibility with Prison - If a plugin update breaks something in prison, or another aspect of a server's functionality, we will try to support it and make the needed changes in Prison, especially if prior version of the other plugins worked well with Prison. But we reserve the right to not provide support if we are unable to properly support the newer releases of the plugin. Some examples could include not being able to get the newer versions of API support jars for compiling prison (premium plugins may prevent our access to api jars).

• Other issues - There are numerous possibilities that could result in varous security vulnerabilities, exploits, or other bugs. We reserve the right to be able to address each of these as needed, with valid solutions being that it's not fixable, or we cannot support another plugin or platform.

We will try our best to address all issues that are brought to our attenttion, but there may be limitations that could prevent an ideal solution to address the issues.