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Is papermc/velocity the successor of papermc/waterfall?

papermc/velocity subject · successor candidate successor of? papermc/waterfall object · predecessor

velocity-waterfall-successor · status observed

Data verified at: 2026-11-14T17:00:41.164Z (UTC)

Conclusion status

No confirmed conclusion exists for this pair. The evidence below is presented for transparency; a relationship conclusion requires a human review that has not happened, or a previous decision no longer matches the current evidence.

No directional succession or fork claim was found; the current evidence does not establish the researched relationship.

Seed context: Research finding: PaperMC/Waterfall's README marks Waterfall end-of-life and recommends transitioning to PaperMC/Velocity. Waterfall GitHub ID 59162236; Velocity GitHub ID 142085119. Velocity is unarchived and its repository was pushed at 2026-10-28T09:44:44Z. Queue for normal collection and human review; this seed is not an approval. Sources: https://github.com/PaperMC/Waterfall/blob/master/README.md ; https://github.com/PaperMC/Velocity

Observed repository facts

As of the last verified collection. These are facts about the snapshots, not activity verdicts — a low number is not a claim that a project is inactive.

EndpointRepoStarsLast pushForkArchived
papermc/velocity PaperMC/Velocity 2291 2026-11-14T12:37:44Z no no
papermc/waterfall PaperMC/Waterfall 755 2026-09-22T14:11:22Z no no

Versions & deployment facts

Official release and package declarations, compared independently of the relationship verdict. These are not installation tests or a migration guarantee. Missing declarations mean unknown.

Version-scoped runtime comparison — literal declarations, not migration advice
papermc/velocitypapermc/waterfall

Unknown: no collected package runtime declaration.

Unknown: no collected package runtime declaration.

papermc/velocity

Release-pinned deployment declarations

Release commit · v4.3.1 · complete

Commit: 300f5d0823691c8c8bace0c91714c63ab52e0b77

Collection endpoint (may change) · Observed 2026-10-31T16:00:39.745Z

Observation is outside the freshness window. Immutable evidence is retained; current registry availability is unknown.

Response SHA-256: 26a21392d6de9198f469789677f608c6f7a694f9e0e3ff1f7848ab6a628d3e76

Release tree · v4.3.1 · complete

Commit: 300f5d0823691c8c8bace0c91714c63ab52e0b77

Collection endpoint (may change) · Observed 2026-10-31T16:00:39.745Z

Observation is outside the freshness window. Immutable evidence is retained; current registry availability is unknown.

File search coverage: selected_manifest_names. Only selected manifest filenames were searched; fixtures and vendored dependency directories are excluded. Unlisted declarations remain unknown.

Response SHA-256: 03d13d1875dafa9c1591df6600faf170b2d5f1e2b411209b8af54d32ed2ac186

GitHub release · v4.3.1 · not_modified

Official source

GitHub latest published non-prerelease (not a semantic-version ranking). Verified: 2026-11-15T02:00:57.995Z (UTC).

Listed release assets only. Asset names do not prove platform support or successful execution.

Runtime declarations
Not declared / unknown
Operating systems
Not declared / unknown
CPU architectures
Not declared / unknown
C libraries
Not declared / unknown
Direct dependency declarations
Not declared / unknown
Published artifacts (0)
    Provenance

    Parser: software-1

    First observed: 2026-10-31T15:01:55.491Z (UTC)

    Last checked: 2026-11-15T02:00:57.995Z (UTC)

    Source response SHA-256: 347684b86feda7d58050f0d3a577b39141f3e2cad9f722c79d866087da55d4f3

    papermc/waterfall

    Release-pinned deployment declarations

    Release commit · downloads · complete

    Commit: b52c1ae633eb7f7ed20b2c61be39f7884ded7461

    Collection endpoint (may change) · Observed 2026-10-31T16:00:39.745Z

    Observation is outside the freshness window. Immutable evidence is retained; current registry availability is unknown.

    Response SHA-256: a03f5870370305f19e71d07d3235e35e84011584fe479173f2150f14c5f6a6dd

    Release tree · downloads · complete

    Commit: b52c1ae633eb7f7ed20b2c61be39f7884ded7461

    Collection endpoint (may change) · Observed 2026-10-31T16:00:39.745Z

    Observation is outside the freshness window. Immutable evidence is retained; current registry availability is unknown.

    File search coverage: selected_manifest_names. Only selected manifest filenames were searched; fixtures and vendored dependency directories are excluded. Unlisted declarations remain unknown.

    Response SHA-256: 2de7a83cf50ed40787268d45e005fb2743cb23329dd18e4baf5d337faa3148f5

    GitHub release · downloads · not_modified

    Official source

    GitHub latest published non-prerelease (not a semantic-version ranking). Verified: 2026-11-15T03:00:58.015Z (UTC).

    Listed release assets only. Asset names do not prove platform support or successful execution.

    Runtime declarations
    Not declared / unknown
    Operating systems
    Not declared / unknown
    CPU architectures
    Not declared / unknown
    C libraries
    Not declared / unknown
    Direct dependency declarations
    Not declared / unknown
    Published artifacts (0)
      Provenance

      Parser: software-1

      First observed: 2026-10-31T15:01:55.491Z (UTC)

      Last checked: 2026-11-15T03:00:58.015Z (UTC)

      Source response SHA-256: 089d54d034600ce05d45d630edc921b918584c1a82315937ed108f0c3f8f8886

      Timeline

      “Event time” is an upstream timestamp when the source provides one; “first observed” is when this project saw it. They are deliberately separate columns.

      EventEvent timeFirst observedSource
      papermc/velocity metadata first observed — 2026-10-31T15:01:53.826Z link
      recent commit activity of papermc/velocity observed (5 commits in sampled window) 2026-10-28T09:22:25Z 2026-10-31T15:01:54.471Z link
      papermc/waterfall metadata first observed — 2026-10-31T15:01:54.821Z link
      recent commit activity of papermc/waterfall observed (5 commits in sampled window) 2026-09-22T14:11:22Z 2026-10-31T15:01:55.489Z link
      automatic evaluation -> insufficient_data — 2026-10-31T15:02:02.518Z —

      Decision and dispute history

      Review decisions are recorded privately with reasons that stay internal; this public history shows what happened and when, not why.

      KindWhen (UTC)
      automatic evaluation → insufficient_data2026-10-31T15:02:02.518Z

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      Snapshot taken at 2026-11-15T10:01:58.857Z (UTC).