EssentialsChat | 'group-formats' not working

Hello there!
I hope you can help me with this issue I have on my server.

I have encountered an issue where the 'group-formats' in the Essentials config is not working.
Currently, I am trying to change the chat color per rank that I have setup using Luckperms.

Current Config:
format: '{DISPLAYNAME}&8: &7{MESSAGE}'
#format: '&7[{GROUP}]&r {DISPLAYNAME}&7:&r {MESSAGE}'
#format: '&7{PREFIX}&r {DISPLAYNAME}&r &7{SUFFIX}&r: {MESSAGE}'

group-formats:
default: '{DISPLAYNAME}&8: &7{MESSAGE}'
admin: '{DISPLAYNAME}&8: &c{MESSAGE}'
sr.mod: '{DISPLAYNAME}&8: &b{MESSAGE}'
helper: '{DISPLAYNAME}&8: &b{MESSAGE}'
moderator: '{DISPLAYNAME}&8: &b{MESSAGE}'

This is how it looks ingame when having the admin rank set as &c in for the chat message.



If we add an hashtag before the 'format:' line, it looks like this:

Hope someone can help!

additional info:

i have the latest luckperms and essentials versions
i have checked and no other plugins is affecting this what i can see
things are the same after an full server restart

 

i got it working! was just the spaces before all the groups.