ROI Changes to Plugin Abilities?

[PhotovoltaicCell]

I read the release notes and they mentioned something about changing some of the things that plugins use. What changes did they do exactly? Does anyone know what (if any) new things that these changes will allow plugins to do?

I was really hoping for a plugin that could display the remaining time countdown for "writ of health" next to each fellowship member that you cast it on.

From what I understand, we currently do not have the ability to do that but I was wondering if any of the RoI changes would allow plugins to now do this.

I am kinda new to plugins but I was excited to see that RoI was doing something with LUA scripting and plugins. Wondering if this opens some new possibilities. (No I really don't know what LUA scripting is but I'm gonna research it.)