As seen here on older versions of minecraft, the AnvilGUI will throw an error due to this patch not accounting for itemstacks not existing on specific server versions that require it. This patch simply just goes through all the versions that it may effect (this was only tested on 1_8_R3) and seeks to rectify it.
Once this patch is made, the problem is resolved and I can open the AnvilGUIs on 1.8 again, the library's version was bumped to accommodate this.
As seen here on older versions of minecraft, the AnvilGUI will throw an error due to this patch not accounting for itemstacks not existing on specific server versions that require it. This patch simply just goes through all the versions that it may effect (this was only tested on 1_8_R3) and seeks to rectify it.
Once this patch is made, the problem is resolved and I can open the AnvilGUIs on 1.8 again, the library's version was bumped to accommodate this.