MeowCraft Network Compression, maintenance release 2026-10-02.
Derived from Syncanid/ZSTD_Compresser (original author Furryaxw), AGPL-3.0.
Client base commit 924c698bd9a1f2d5234a4798a489f57c487aeb47.
Velocity base commit d5e3e1c9bac79ef411f6300989182d3ae1805895.
This is a modified, independently maintained MeowCraft branch.
All Java source, resources, build scripts and license are provided together.

Additional code reviewed (no classes copied into this release):
Krypton: https://github.com/astei/krypton
  bc08466ff900d97b27bfabcde92005b4774717e8, LGPL-3.0.
  Native compressor lifecycle, one framing layer, obeying normal flush boundaries.
Hassium: https://github.com/limuqy/Hassium
  c589088a59946ef9dc704dd7cc970e410912e2ea, GPL-3.0.
  Resolve login capability decisions before completing login; vanilla fallback on timeout.
ZstdNet Velocity: https://github.com/wish131400/zstdnet-Velocity
  8b546f8b7482cf147e1aa5869a2318e2ea41db97, MIT.
  Packet framing and stream flushing reviewed. Its separate bridge port and authentication
  changes were not adopted. This release keeps normal Velocity ports and authentication.
The new negotiation, commit, batch body validation, promises, bounded measurement,
cleanup and 26.3 hooks were implemented in this maintenance branch.
Dependencies retain their original licenses: zstd-jni 1.5.5-11 and SnakeYAML 2.4.
