We are aware that Minecraft 1.18.2 will be releasing soon, and our team will begin working on updating Paper as soon as we are able to. Thank you for your patience.
#❗-1-18-2
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night sapphire
We've gone through almost all patches and are now re-adding the last dozen more complex ones as well as fixing up a few issues. Reviewing the diff may take a bit longer than usual due to an incident https://clips.twitch.tv/ComfortableTrappedMilkTheRinger-s3tIeBPuu1tE-AJ_ - and despite little feature changes, 1.18.2 has a surprisingly large amount of internal refactoring
night sapphire
We're mostly done, there's just two smaller patches, one nasty issue, and some further testing left to do. No ETA tho 
night sapphire
Almost done, there is just one important thing left to look at. With that in mind, we still wouldn't recommend building and running the 1.18.2 dev branch, including forks that have been based on it, until that is done.
There will only be one API change: Due to larger internal changes, StructureLocateEvent will need changes and will likely end up getting replaced by a new event with the old one marked as deprecated for removal.
night sapphire
While you're waiting, another thing to get excited about is Paper finally shipping adventure-minimessage with adventure's 4.10.0 release, which means migrating off legacy text (using §/& symbols) should become more streamlined (at least for people not holding themselves back). See https://docs.adventure.kyori.net/minimessage/format.html for a taste of the future 🚈
To give you some perspective on why it has been taking to long: With the previous message we fixed an infinite loading screen issue and we are about to fix something a few times worse that has been the blocker. You can expect a release soon™️