CritMatic

[v6.2.1-release] - 05/15/2026

Fixed

• Locale parity for the new "Follow on X" row. v6.2.0 shipped the X link with English-only inline fallbacks, breaking the full-parity rule the BMAC and Discord rows have followed since v5.5.10. This release adds options_x_link and options_x_link_desc translations to all eleven locale files: deDE, enUS, esES, esMX, frFR, itIT, koKR, ptBR, ruRU, zhCN, zhTW. No behavior or UI changes beyond the localized strings; the URL itself (https://x.com/infiniteloopalc) is the same everywhere.

Static syntax check (luac -p) clean across every locale file before tagging.

[v6.2.0-release] - 05/15/2026

Added

• Follow on X link added to the Support / By section of the General Options tab. New 24x24 X (formerly Twitter) icon plus a full-width copyable input field pre-filled with https://x.com/infiniteloopalc. Mirrors the existing Buy Me A Coffee row: click the field, Ctrl+A / Cmd+A, copy, paste into a browser. No other settings changed; the Discord link, BMAC link, and the Infinite Loop Alchemist profile row above it are untouched.

Static syntax check (luac -p) clean before tagging.

[v6.1.0-release] - 05/10/2026

Changed

• TOC Interface line refreshed for every live Classic WoW client so the addon stops showing as "Out of Date" on launch. The multi-flavor list is now 50503, 40402, 38001, 20505, 11508, covering MoP Classic 5.5.3, Cataclysm, Wrath / Titan Reforged 3.8.1, TBC Anniversary 2.5.5, and Classic Era 1.15.8.
• Per-flavor BigWigs packager keys updated to match the new live builds.
  • ## Interface-Classic: 11508 (unchanged)
  • ## Interface-BCC: 20505 (added; was missing)
  • ## Interface-Wrath: 38001 (was 30403)
  • ## Interface-Cata: 40402 (added; was missing)
  • ## Interface-Mists: 50503 (added; was missing)
• Dropped the bogus ## Interface-Titan: 38000 line. That key isn't recognized by the BigWigs packager (it predates the official Wrath / Titan Reforged build); the Interface-Wrath slot is the right place for 38001 going forward.

Removed

• Retail / Mainline support dropped this release. Patch 12.0 ("Midnight") blocks unprivileged addons from registering COMBAT_LOG_EVENT_UNFILTERED, which is the entire mechanism CritMatic relies on to record crits. Ace3 maintainer nevcairiel confirmed in WowAce issue #697: "Blizzard blocked the ability to use the COMBAT_LOG_EVENT_UNFILTERED event." Without CLEU, every CritMatic feature (highest crit / normal recording, tooltip integration, chat broadcasts, log window, social ping) is non-functional. Shipping a retail-listed addon that can't perform its core function would mislead users, so retail is intentionally untargeted until Blizzard relaxes the restriction. Classic flavors are unaffected.

Static syntax check (luac -p) clean across every Lua module before tagging.

[v6.0.0-release] - 05/09/2026

Removed (breaking)

• Send to /say toggle and the SAY broadcast path are gone. /say is muted in instances by Blizzard, and combining it with the combat-end timing window made the broadcast unreliable. Removing the option entirely is cleaner than continuing to ship a half-working channel. Group channels (Party / Raid / Battlegrounds via INSTANCE_CHAT) and Guild remain. Existing social.canSendCritsToSay = true saved-vars are now silently ignored.

Changed

• Social broadcast is now Questie-style: one group channel + optional guild simulcast. Modeled on Questie's _QuestieAnnounce.GetChatMessageChannel. Inside a battleground sends to INSTANCE_CHAT (when in a group), in a raid sends RAID (or INSTANCE_CHAT for LFR), in a party sends PARTY (or INSTANCE_CHAT for LFG dungeons). GUILD is added as an additional simulcast when toggled and you're in a guild. No more "blast to SAY + GUILD + PARTY all at once."

Versioning

• Going forward CritMatic follows strict semver. The setting removal drives the MAJOR bump from 5.5.11 to 6.0.0. Past releases (5.5.x) stayed in the patch slot regardless of feature additions; that's the historical reason 6.0.0 looks like a big jump from a small change.

[v5.5.11-release] - 05/09/2026

Fixed

• Crit Log size now persists across /reload and relog: the window's user-resized width/height was being clobbered on every show by a hardcoded SetSize(300, 153) in Modules/CritLog.lua that ran AFTER ApplyStatus had restored the saved dimensions. The save path (the StopMovingOrSizing hook) was always working; the read path was just being overwritten one line later. Replaced with SetSize(sizePos.size_x or 700, sizePos.size_y or 500) so the saved dimensions survive.
• Right-click "Open Changelog" menu item on the CritMatic icon now actually opens the changelog: the menu was calling Critmatic:ShowChangeLog() (capital S) but the function is defined as Critmatic.showChangeLog (lowercase). The menu item was silently dead. One-character fix in Modules/CritLog.lua.

Changed

• In-game changelog popup now shows only the latest 3 releases: the popup (Modules/ChangeLogPopUp.lua) previously accumulated every version going back to v0.3.6.2.5 from late 2023, which made the auto-popup-on-upgrade dialog a wall of irrelevant ancient bullets. It now shows v5.5.11, v5.5.10, v5.5.9 only, plus a "For the full version history see CHANGE_LOG.md on GitHub or CurseForge." pointer. CHANGE_LOG.md keeps the full history for the CurseForge project page. Going forward each release prepends the new entry and drops the oldest so the popup stays at 3.

Added

• release.sh packager wrapper now lives in the repo (was an untracked helper at /tmp/critmatic-release.sh which macOS clears on reboot). Sources .env and execs the BigWigs packager. .env itself stays untracked.

[v5.5.10-release] - 05/08/2026

Added

• Buy Me A Coffee link in General settings: the General tab now has a Support group with the Discord link plus an optional Buy Me A Coffee link, and a By group showing the author. Same copy-only field pattern as the Discord link, completely optional.

Changed

• General tab reorganized into Support and By groups: Discord and Buy Me A Coffee live in the new Support group; the author credit lives in the new By group. The General toggles above are unchanged.
• Localization parity restored across all 11 locales: deDE, esES, esMX, frFR, itIT, koKR, ptBR, ruRU, zhCN, zhTW now translate every option string introduced in v5.5.8 / v5.5.9 / v5.5.10 (Send Crits to Say, Lock Crit Log Position, Buy Me A Coffee link, Support / By group headings). All 11 locale files now have 153 keys.

Fixed

• Send Crits to Say no longer broadcasts inside instances: the /say toggle is now gated on not inInstance, so dungeon, raid, battleground, and arena groups do not see your /say spam even if the toggle is on. Open-world / city /say is unchanged.
• critFormat / critHealFormat defaults switched from {star} to {rt1}: these AceDB defaults sat on {star} while the live broadcast in CritMatic.lua already hardcodes {rt1}. The defaults are not currently consumed by the broadcast, so user-visible behavior is unchanged, but the defaults now match the locale-safe convention so any future code path that reads them will not regress non-enUS clients.

Updated

• In-game changelog popup refreshed: the popup that opens on a fresh install / version bump (Modules/ChangeLogPopUp.lua) had been stuck at v0.4.3.0 since January and missed every v5.5.x release note. It now lists v5.5.0 through v5.5.10. The release skill (see ~/.claude/skills/critmatic-release/) is set up so future releases keep both this CHANGE_LOG.md and the in-game popup in sync.

[v5.5.9-release] - 05/08/2026

Added

• Lock Crit Log Position toggle (General tab): new option to lock the window so a normal click+drag is ignored. Hover the toggle for a tooltip explaining the override: when locked, hold Ctrl while dragging to move the window. Default off, so existing setups keep working unchanged.
• Full-width drag handle: the entire top strip of the Crit Log window is now a drag handle, not just the small text label. Click and drag anywhere along the header, the side borders, or the gold-ringed CritMatic icon to move the window.

Changed

• Tighter Crit Log row spacing: each spell row now sizes to its own content (count of visible stat lines) instead of a fixed 60 px. Damage-only and heal-only spells take roughly half the vertical space, hybrid spells with all four stat lines keep the room they need. Net effect is a much denser list.

Fixed

• Right-click menu / tooltip on the gold-ringed icon: with the new full-width drag handle the title strip overlapped the icon and intercepted some of its mouse events. The icon is now explicitly raised above the title-bar handle so right-click (Open Settings, Open Changelog, Lock / Unlock, Reset Position, Hide) and the hover tooltip work again.

[v5.5.8-release] - 05/07/2026

Added

• Track Crits Only option (General settings): opt-in toggle that records only critical hits and critical heals. Skips normal hits, normal heals, DoT/HoT ticks, and bandage ticks setting new highest values. Off by default.
• Full localization for every CurseForge-supported client: every locale file (deDE, esES, esMX, itIT, koKR, ptBR, ruRU, zhCN, zhTW) now ships a complete translation of all options and messages. Previously only enUS and frFR had real translations and the other 9 were stubs that fell back to English. frFR was also brought up to parity with the new options strings.

Fixed

• Battleground opt-out was bypassed: disabling Send Crits to Battlegrounds had no effect because IsPartyLFG() is true inside BGs and the next branch sent the message anyway. Each chat target now picks one channel and respects exactly one opt-out, no fallthrough.
• Raid opt-out fell through to PARTY: disabling Send Crits to Raid while in raid silently tried to send to PARTY chat (which goes nowhere when in a raid). Same restructure fixes this.
• Locale-safe chat broadcast: the social broadcast prefix changed from {star} (which only renders the gold star on enUS clients) to {rt1}, so the icon now shows correctly on every locale.
• Possible nil error in tooltip code: castTime > 0 could throw "attempt to compare nil with number" when GetSpellInfo returned nil castTime on certain Retail 11.x spells. Guarded with a nil check.
• Tooltip hooks now guarded: hooksecurefunc(GameTooltip, "SetSpellBookItem", ...) could error at load on Retail 11.x where the method may not exist. Both SetAction and SetSpellBookItem hooks now check for the method before installing.
• Version broadcast misuse: BroadcastVersion could call SendCommMessage with channel PARTY while not in a group at all (only guild was checked). Now gated on IsInGroup().
• GROUP_ROSTER_UPDATE comm spam: roster events fire frequently in any group activity; each fire used to broadcast immediately. Now coalesced to one broadcast per 5 seconds.
• Self-cast heals not tracked: destGUID ~= UnitGUID("player") filtered out every self-target event, so paladin/druid/priest self-heal crits never updated highest values. Self-heals are now recorded; self-damage stays excluded.
• Broken string fallback in version comparison: lexical compare of version strings ("0.5.10.0" > "0.5.9.0") returned wrong answers. Removed the dead fallback path; compareVersions is the single source of truth.
• compareVersions was a global: moved inside OnInitialize as a local function and reordered before its first use.
• /cmhelp lines used bare print: the first line used self:Print (with [CritMatic] prefix) and the rest used print (no prefix). All lines now use self:Print for consistent formatting.
• Packager bundled dev-only files into the upload: the BigWigs packager looks for .pkgmeta (no extension) or pkgmeta.yaml (no leading dot), not .pkgmeta.yaml. Renamed and added an ignore: block, so the addon ships only the user-facing files. Zip dropped from 2.3 MB to 1.3 MB.

[v5.5.7-release] - 04/22/2026

Fixed

• CritMatic icon rendering behind the Crit Log window: the three icon textures (black circle, CritMatic icon, gold ring) had SetParent(UIParent) calls — a workaround from the old BACKGROUND-strata days that lifted the textures above the window. With the window now at MEDIUM strata, those reparented textures ended up at UIParent's lower frame level and got covered by the window. Removed the reparenting so the textures inherit critmatic_icon_frame's strata/level (child of the main frame) and render above it normally.

[v5.5.6-release] - 04/22/2026

Fixed

• Right-click menu rendered behind the Crit Log window (retail 11.0): v5.5.5 left the widget at FULLSCREEN_DIALOG strata (set by the AceGUI constructor), but MenuUtil.CreateContextMenu creates menus at DIALOG, so the menu was stacking underneath the window. Lowered the widget to MEDIUM strata (standard addon default) so context menus, tooltips, and popups render above it.
• Inner scroll area not following the outer frame on resize: the ScrollFrame was hardcoded to SetSize(250, 120) and anchored only TOPLEFT, so resizing the window left the spell list stuck at a fixed size. The scroll container is now anchored to both TOPLEFT and BOTTOMRIGHT (with room for the sizer and scrollbar), and the scroll child width tracks the container via OnSizeChanged. Spell rows now anchor TOPLEFT + TOPRIGHT, so they span the full available width at any frame size.

[v5.5.5-release] - 04/22/2026

Fixed

• Crit Log window not movable/resizable on retail 11.0 (#22 follow-up): the frame was forced to the BACKGROUND strata and then :Lower()-ed at the end of setup, which put it behind Blizzard's default UI. Overlapping default frames intercepted mouse input, so RegisterForDrag and the corner/edge sizers never received clicks. Removed the override; the widget now stays at the strata the Constructor set and drag + resize work again.

[v5.5.4-release] - 04/17/2026

Fixed

• Retail 11.0 context menus and hover (#22): right-click context menus on spell rows and the CritMatic icon no longer error with EasyMenu (a nil value); they now use MenuUtil.CreateContextMenu on retail with an EasyMenu fallback for Classic/TBC/Wrath. Spell-row hover highlight no longer errors with SetBackdrop (a nil value) — the row frame now uses BackdropTemplate.
• Open Settings menu item: switched to Settings.OpenToCategory with an InterfaceOptionsFrame_OpenToCategory fallback so the menu entry works on retail 11.0+.

[v5.5.3-release] - 04/13/2026

Fixed

• frFR typo: corrected valeures → valeurs in the Change Log font reset description (confirmed by @Surfingnet on #21).

[v5.5.2-release] - 04/13/2026

Added

• French (frFR) localization contributed by @Surfingnet (#21) — full translation of all 134 strings, including the v5.5.0 additions (ignored spells panel, right-click context menus).

[v5.5.1-release] - 04/13/2026

Fixed

• Login crash on Crit Log creation (#20): removed stray RegisterForClicks calls on non-Button frames introduced in v5.5.0. Right-click context menus on spell rows and the CritMatic icon continue to work via OnMouseUp as before.

[v5.5.0-release] - 04/12/2026

Added

• Spell icons in alert notifications: the "New Crit!" popup now shows the spell icon with a matching bounce animation.
• Resizable Crit Log: drag the corner/edge to resize the Crit Log widget.
• Right-click context menus: right-click any spell in the Crit Log to Ignore it or Delete its data. Right-click the CritMatic icon for quick access to Settings, Lock/Unlock, Reset Position, and Hide.
• Ignored Spells settings panel: manage ignored spells from /cm options instead of slash commands — select from a dropdown, remove individual spells, or clear all.
• Hover highlights: spell entries in the Crit Log highlight on mouseover.

Improved

• Tooltip performance: per-spell max values are now cached instead of rescanning all data on every tooltip hover.
• Spell icon accuracy: icons are stored at record time, fixing wrong-icon display for spells with shared names across ranks.

[v5.4.1-release] - 04/12/2026

Added

• Crit Log toggle in options panel: You can now show/hide the live Crit Log widget from /cm General Settings instead of needing the /cmcritlog slash command.

[v5.4.0-release] - 04/12/2026

Changed

• License changed to All Rights Reserved. CritMatic is now proprietary software. No part of this addon may be copied, modified, or redistributed without express written permission from the copyright holder.
• Updated README with current feature list, macro tooltip support, and license notice.

[v0.5.3.2-release] - 04/11/2026

Fixed

• Macro tooltips (issue #19): CritMatic's crit/hit lines now appear on action-bar macros that cast a tracked spell. The tooltip hook previously bailed out whenever GetActionInfo returned "macro" instead of "spell"; it now resolves the macro to its current spell via GetMacroSpell(slot) and proceeds normally. Cast-sequence and conditional macros (/cast [mod:shift] X; Y) reflect whichever spell would fire next. Thanks @Alessandro-Barbieri.

[v0.5.3.1-release] - 04/10/2026

Fixed

• Interface directive now uses comma-separated multi-version format (110207, 38000, 20505, 11508) so the BigWigs packager correctly tags the CurseForge release with all four game flavors (Retail, Titan Reforged, TBC, Classic Era). The v0.5.3.0 upload was only tagged as 11.2.7 because the space-separated form tripped the packager's parser.

[v0.5.3.0-release] - 04/10/2026

Fixed

• Tooltip overflow with StatWeightsClassic (issue #17): CritMatic's crit/hit lines no longer render outside the spell tooltip frame when used alongside other tooltip addons. Show() is now called exactly once per render, and only when CritMatic actually added lines.
• Silent data loss for large crits: raised MAX_HIT ceiling from 40000 to 1e9 so Wrath/Retail endgame crits are recorded instead of silently dropped.
• Operator-precedence bug in combat log handler: player-sourced events were bypassing the destGUID, eventType, and amount > 0 filters due to missing parentheses around the or clause.
• Nil crashes in combat log handler: added guards for baseSpellName, destGUID, and amount to prevent errors on unusual event shapes.
• RANGE_DAMAGE events are now properly tracked (were in the outer filter but had no extraction branch).
• Reset buttons in options panels no longer pollute the shared defaults table by reference. All Reset*ToDefault functions now use CopyTable against Critmatic.db.defaults.

Changed

• Optimized ignored-spells/targets filtering from O(N) per combat event to O(1) hash lookups.
• Added compatibility shims for C_Spell.GetSpellCooldown and GetSpellBookItemInfo (Retail 11.x).
• Unregistered PLAYER_LOGIN and GROUP_JOINED events (registered but never handled).
• Raw-source installs now load cleanly on Classic Era, TBC, and Wrath/Titan clients without the "out of date" warning (main ## Interface: directive now lists 110207 38000 20505 11508). Thanks @Alessandro-Barbieri (#18).

Removed

• Dead function IsSpellInSpellbook (zero callers).
• Dead DB field dataCleared.

[v0.5.2.1-release] - 04/09/2026

Fixed

• Split Wrath Classic (30403) and Titan Reforged (38000) into separate TOC interface directives so the BigWigs packager can build both flavors

[v0.5.2.0-release] - 04/09/2026

Added

• X/Y percentage sliders for alert text position (configurable in Alert settings, with Reset and Test buttons)

[v0.5.1.0-release] - 01/17/2026

Fixed

• update interface versions to current (Classic Era 11508, Wrath 38000)

[v0.5.0.0-release] - 01/16/2026

Added

• missing localization line

Fixed

• TBC fix's
• invalid Interface-Wrath version (38000 -> 30403)

Changed

• Wrath titan version to 38000

[v0.4.3.0-release] - 01/14/2026

Updated:

• Updated the in-game changelog popup to show recent release notes.

[v0.4.2.9-release] - 01/12/2026

Fixed:

• Fixed tooltip conflict with StatWeightsClassic - Removed redundant tooltip Show() call that caused CritMatic tooltip info to disappear when used alongside StatWeightsClassic addon.

• Fixed WoW 11.0 compatibility - Removed deprecated InterfaceOptionsList_DisplayPanel hook that was causing errors in modern WoW clients.

[v0.4.2.8-release] - 12/25/2023

[v0.4.2.7.5-release] - 12/25/2023

[v0.4.2.7.4-release] - 12/16/2023

[v0.4.2.7.1-release] - 12/10/2023

[v0.4.2.7-release] - 12/6/2023

Added:

• Added options for maxMessages, startDelay, and fadeTime settings also a way to reset them.

[v0.4.2.5-release] - 12/6/2023

Added:

• Added alert notification preview feature in options under Alert

• Chat customization is coming next.