What do i have to change when 1.8 comes out?

The title Say it!

 

I believe the only major thing you'll have to change is from player names to the UUID system.

 

Depends on what they've broken so far as well as what your plugin(s) do.

 

Ok a plugin like it bans xp:
@EventHandler
public void onEntityDeath(EntityDeathEvent e) {
e.setDroppedExp(0);
Garris0n Mayoz

 

You don't have to update anything if that's all it does.

 

Schaakmatth
Like Mayoz I think the only major thing you will have to consider is the way in which you store the players data long term.. The XP ban plugin should still work...

 

Nothing in 1.8 that we know of so far, you should be changing it for 1.7.9 if you use player names for long term storage.

 

And something like getName() ? Alshain01 TGRHavoc Garris0n Garris0n Mayoz

 

getName() is fine if you don't store it after the player has logged out.

 

Schaakmatth
The getName() method is deprecated to raise awareness of the change to UUID, I think the deprecation will be removed in the 1.8 Bukkit build... (In short, getName() still works)

 

player.getUUID() I think is the method for getting UUIDs. Use that instead of getName() for long-term storage

 

getUniqueId, and you should use it for all storage.