Upstream has released updates that appears to apply and compile correctly.
This update has not been tested by PaperMC and as with ANY update, please do your own testing
Bukkit Changes:
6148fca7 SPIGOT-5484: Add more spawn tick settings
CraftBukkit Changes:
fc249340 SPIGOT-5484: Add more spawn tick settings
Spigot Changes:
6de3d4be Rebuild patches
* Optimise random block ticking
Massive performance improvement for random block ticking.
The performance increase comes from the fact that the vast
majority of attempted block ticks (~95% in my testing) fail
because the randomly selected block is not tickable.
Now only tickable blocks are targeted, however this means that
the maximum number of block ticks occurs per chunk. However,
not all chunks are going to be targeted. The percent chance
of a chunk being targeted is based on how many tickable blocks
are in the chunk.
This means that while block ticks are spread out less, the
total number of blocks ticked per world tick remains the same.
Therefore, the chance of a random tickable block being ticked
remains the same.