Update to Minecraft 26.2

[craftycorvid]

Ports ImprovedSigns from 26.1.2 to Minecraft 26.2, following the Fabric 26.2 blog and verifying every API change against the decompiled 26.2 source (no guesses).

Versions

	old	new
Minecraft	26.1.2	26.2
Fabric Loader	0.19.1	0.19.3
Fabric API	0.145.4+26.1.2	0.152.2+26.2
Loom	1.15-SNAPSHOT	1.17-SNAPSHOT
Gradle	9.4.0	9.5.1

Java stays 25. fabric.mod.json depends bumped to minecraft ~26.2, fabricloader >=0.19.3 (the old ~26.1.2 would have refused to load on 26.2).

API changes

• ChatFormatting.X.getColor() removed — ChatFormatting is now a bare enum. Switched to TextColor.X.getValue().
• InventoryChangeTrigger moved package: net.minecraft.advancements.criterion → net.minecraft.advancements.triggers.
• All four mixin string-targets confirmed unchanged in 26.2 (Block.popResource, ItemFrame.interact/removeFramedMap, SignItem.updateCustomBlockEntityTag, SignBlock.openTextEdit).

Loot datagen fix (sign-retain-on-break)

LootTableDatagen was calling copyData(EntityTarget.TARGET_ENTITY), which serializes source: "target_entity" — it reads an entity, which is wrong for block drops and would break the mod's retain-text-on-break feature (the committed JSON was stale-but-correct from older code).

26.2 adds LootContext.BlockEntityTarget.BLOCK_ENTITY, but CopyCustomDataFunction.copyData has no block-entity overload and exposes no public block-entity NbtProvider factory. Fixed by building the provider from BLOCK_ENTITY's serialized name through the public ContextNbtProvider.INLINE_CODEC. Regenerated loot tables now correctly emit source: "block_entity" and also pick up the 26.2 datagen format cleanups (dropped default bonus_rolls/count/category).

copyData(NbtProvider) is deprecated in 26.2, but it's the only public overload that can copy from a block entity, so the deprecation is knowingly accepted (scoped @SuppressWarnings).

Release workflow

publish.yml RELEASE_NAME and CHANGE_LOG bumped to 26.2. Mod version stays 1.6.0, matching the convention for pure MC ports (it carried unchanged through the 1.21.9 / 1.21.11 / 26.1.2 ports).

Verification

• ./gradlew build ✅
• ./gradlew runDatagen ✅ (mod loads, registers, mixins init; loot tables emit block_entity)

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Ports ImprovedSigns to the Minecraft 26.2 / Fabric 26.2 ecosystem by updating build metadata, dependency versions, and adjusting a couple of Mojang API/package changes needed for compilation/runtime.

Changes:

• Bumped Minecraft/Fabric Loader/Fabric API/Loom/Gradle versions and updated fabric.mod.json dependency constraints accordingly.
• Updated chat color usage to match the 26.2 ChatFormatting API change (now a bare enum).
• Updated InventoryChangeTrigger import to its new package.

Reviewed changes

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Show a summary per file

File	Description
src/main/resources/fabric.mod.json	Updates loader and Minecraft dependency constraints for 26.2 compatibility.
src/main/java/com/craftycorvid/improvedSigns/ImprovedSignsUtils.java	Replaces removed ChatFormatting#getColor() usage with TextColor#getValue() equivalents.
src/main/java/com/craftycorvid/improvedSigns/datagen/RecipeDatagen.java	Updates InventoryChangeTrigger import to new package location.
gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties	Bumps Gradle wrapper to 9.5.1.
gradle.properties	Updates Minecraft/loader/Fabric API version properties to 26.2-era versions.
build.gradle	Bumps Fabric Loom plugin version to 1.17-SNAPSHOT.
.github/workflows/publish.yml	Updates release name/changelog text to refer to Minecraft 26.2.

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