EssentialsX provides several performance enhancements and fixes that are currently not available in Essentials and Spigot-Essentials, most notably mob spawner support for 1.8+ servers and buy/trade sign support for 1.9+ servers. It also retains compatibility for Minecraft 1.7.10. [See the wiki for details.](https://github.com/drtshock/Essentials/wiki)
EssentialsX is almost a completely drop-in replacement for Essentials. However, it has different requirements:
* **EssentialsX requires [Vault](http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/vault/) to enable chat prefix/suffixes and group support if you have a supported permissions plugin.**
* **If you have an unsupported permissions plugin but still wish to use wildcards, enable `use-bukkit-permissions` in the configuration. Otherwise, the plugin will fall back to config-based permissions.**
Because EssentialsX builds against the Spigot/CraftBukkit server software for legacy support, you need to run Spigot's BuildTools for several versions in order to get it to compile.
-`[Feature]`: Commits which are features should start with `[Feature]` and followed by a quick summary on the top line, followed by some extra details in the commit body.
-`[Fix]`: Commits which fix bugs, or minor improvements to existing features should start with `[Fix]` and followed by a quick summary on the top line, followed by some extra details in the commit body.
- Commits which fix bugs caused by previous commits (since last release), or otherwise make no functionality changes, should have no prefix. These will not be added to the project change log.
