Forge for 1.16.1
The first Forge build for 1.16.1 is now live thanks to the hard work of: covers, illy, jd, garrett, giga, and the rest of the forge crew. With their help we were also able to release the updates to MCPConfig for 1.16 and 1.16.1 the same day that vanilla did. The Nether Update has brought a lot of changes to many systems, and as with any update there are likely to be bugs. We are still evaluating and working on some of the systems like dimensions and trees to come up with the best system to allow for modders to integrate with vanilla’s new dimension system. We are also expecting Mojang to release a 1.16.2 fairly shortly and are prepared to work on updating to it as soon as they do. As with every update, there are bugs and other minor things to be expected. Please report them responsibly and have fun with the new version!

Changes to the LTS
There are a couple changes happening to the Long Term Support system originally introduced here. We are moving the LTS from 1.14.4 to 1.15.2 to reflect the community being more active and also changing how we chose what version the LTS will be to be more maintainable. We are now going to be supporting the latest (n) and second latest (n - 1) versions, with the reservation of potentially having the LTS being n - 2 if something is Mojang ends up really making a mess of a particular version. That being said we still will be providing critical fixes for all possible versions. Do not worry about 1.14 being instantly dropped while we are still working on updating 1.16, as we have a customary grace period for while everything is still in flux before we start strictly enforcing the LTS rules.

New Team Members

We are happy to announce we've added a few new members to the Forge team officially. These people have been a part of the community for a while and have been helping out a lot. The first two are new members of the 'Toolchain' team. Which is responsible for some of the backend tools, like the decompiler, update scripts, gradle and other internals. The others are joining our ever growing list of Triage team members. Who are responsible for managing the issues and pull requests on our github. They are the front line of bug reports and feature requests, treat them with respect and listen to what they tell you!

 

Toolchain

• covers1624
• JDLogic

 

Triage

• AshersLab
• Curle
• OrionOnline
• pupnewfster
   

Thanks for the amazing work, it was such a fast release!