Misc EMC Changes

Only spawn 1 ocelot ever from eggs.
Load custom permissions before plugins
Proper colors in console
Unload plugins after everything else
Fix boat wood gen exploit
Remove CraftBukkit "Feature" of ItemStack's having infinite use if less than 0 stack size.
Mob Spawning Events

Add 2 events for better control of mob spawning (Natural and Spawners) This allows us a much more powerful control over spawning and improve performance
PlayerUseItem Event

This lets us control when an item is consumed and change the item.
EMC Anvil Tweaks

Make Items not have a repair cost increase due to Anvil usage. Renaming is only 5 levels, combines include free renames.
Use 1.4.5 Dig Speed

1.4.7 Client is still expecting 1.4.5 Dig Speed
Reduce compression to save CPU time
Fix map in itemframes lag
Enable Improved ping sending
Metrics is not severe
Fix livingentity collision reduction
Color name tags to match list
Timings improvements
Entity Activation Range

This feature gives 3 new configurable ranges that if an entity of the matching type is outside of this radius of any player, will tick at 5% of its normal rate.

This will drastically cut down on tick timings for entities that are not in range of a user to actually be "used".
This change can have dramatic impact on gameplay if configured too low. Balance according to your servers desired gameplay.
Reduce Entity Tracking Ranges

This will let you configure how far to track entities in range from players, so that the entity does not render on the client if out of this range.
This has multiple benefits:

1) Less bandwidth. Not sending update packets for entities that are not even close to a player, or even close enough to clearly see.
2) Less lag by maps in item frames - Default range is 160 blocks... Many players can track that item frame and cause lag and not even see it.
3) Less lag in general - Less work for the server to do
4) Less client lag - Not trying to render distant item frames and paintings and entities will reduce entity count on the client, which is major for shop/town worlds which may use tons of item frames.
Improved tile entity lookup for chunk sending

Instead of scanning the entire worlds tile entities to find out what tile entities are in the chunk... just use the arraylist of tile entities we already have.
This results in a good reduction of time spent in player ticking.
Optimize getTileEntities

Avoid traversing tile entities for every loaded chunk
New Old Network Manager

Not ready to move to netty yet, and want to test some things.
Hidden Item Meta

This adds the ability to store hidden metadata in item lore.

Simply set a line to "&&::META" and every blank line before, that line, and every line after will be hidden from view on the client.

for example, you can set &&::META on line 20, and there will not be 19 blank lines before it.
Then you can store Data on 21+