FlipQueue release notes

This file is the player-facing changelog. It's what shows up on CurseForge and Wago project pages. Plain language, organized by what players see and do — no file paths, no internal terminology, no commit references.

The engineering-detail companion lives in CHANGELOG.md (commit-readerese — file:line, internal jargon, full alpha-by-alpha breakdown). When working on FlipQueue, update both: CHANGELOG.md for the engineering record, this file for the player surface.

v0.12.0

Public release. The big shifts since v0.11.x are the Auto / Manual / Disabled per-action settings model, the Manage my items / Manage my gold master switches, the live Auctionator buy-list sync, and the buy-task workflow labels in the mini overlay ([BUY] → [CHECK MAIL] → [DEPOSIT]). Plus a long arc of bag-taint hardening, the deposit-planner correctness pass, and the Generator-wizard chunked-parse fix so huge FlippingPal pastes don't freeze the client.

Generator wizard handles huge pastes without freezing

The earlier import-chunking work covered the dedicated Import page, but the Generator wizard's own paste box was still parsing synchronously. Pasting a full-region FlippingPal scan (a few thousand deals) into the wizard would freeze the client for several seconds. The wizard now routes large pastes through the same chunked parser the Import page uses, with a status line that ticks Parsing 1234 / 4509 items... so you can see progress instead of staring at a frozen screen.

Auctionator buy list now updates itself as you shop

Your FlipQueue buy list in Auctionator is now a living list. Open the auction house and FlipQueue maintains a single shopping list called FlipQueue - Buy that mirrors what your current character still needs to buy. As you make purchases and the items land in your bags, those items drop off the list automatically — no more wondering whether you've already bought enough.

How it works:

• One list per character session by default. Switch characters and reopen the AH; the list refreshes to show what that character needs.
• Auto-refresh on AH open and after every purchase, so the list always matches what's still outstanding.
• A manual Refresh button on the Auctionator page in case you want to force an update — handy if you've just imported new deals.

If you'd rather have the old behavior of one list per buy realm, that's still available — flip the One list per realm option on the Auctionator page. In that mode, when a realm's buy list goes empty FlipQueue cleans the empty list out of Auctionator's dropdown so old realms don't pile up.

Buy task labels follow the lifecycle

Buy tasks in the MiniView and the To-Do page now relabel themselves as you move through the workflow, so each row tells you what to do next instead of staying frozen on "[BUY]" the whole way through:

• [BUY] (cyan) — still need to click it in the auction house
• [CHECK MAIL] (yellow) — purchase confirmed, walk to the mailbox to collect
• [DEPOSIT] (orange) — item is in your bags, drop it in the warbank so the sell character can pick it up

The switch from [BUY] to [CHECK MAIL] happens the instant you click Buy — the same instant you hear the buyout sound — not when the item arrives in your bags. For items won by bid (mail-delivered hours later) this is a big difference: the row would previously stay stuck on "[BUY]" until you actually collected the mail.

The MiniView title at the top splits the same way: you'll see X to post, Y to buy, Z in mail, W to deposit so each physical action is countable independently.

The Auctionator shopping list reflects the same change — items drop off the list the moment you click Buy. This is especially useful for items won by bid where the old behavior would leave them on the shopping list indefinitely.

Wallet and warbank now know when you've already bought

Two follow-on fixes from the lifecycle work above. Previously, once you'd bought items but hadn't yet deposited them to the warbank:

• The auto-withdraw still pulled extra gold "to pay for" the items you'd just paid for — your wallet kept ballooning every time you opened the bank.
• Auto-deposit to the warbank silently skipped those items because the buy task itself was "claiming" them, so the cross-realm flip stalled at the deposit step indefinitely. You'd see a [DEPOSIT] row in the MiniView, open the warbank, and nothing would happen.

Both flows are now lifecycle-aware:

• The withdraw target only counts gold for buys still ahead of you (browse / buy step). Items already in your bags don't double-charge.
• The deposit planner stops letting the buy task block its own item — once you reach the warbank, the bought item moves over for the sell character to retrieve, and the buy task progresses to completion.
• The deposit planner now also fires off the buy task itself when a paired sell task is missing or unassigned. Previously the deposit step relied entirely on the sell-side task being present; if there was no sell character configured for the target realm, your bought item would sit in your bags indefinitely with the To-Do list stuck at "deposit". Now the buy task drives its own deposit so the warbank handoff completes either way.
• When you have a post task for an item AND another character also has a task for the same item that you're meant to source for them, the deposit planner now keeps only the units you actually need to post. Surplus stacks flow to the warbank for the other character on the same trip, instead of all of it staying behind because "this char also needs some" — the partial-stack overlap that left units stranded in bags is gone.

Auctionator search results: better matches by default

The shopping list FlipQueue creates now searches more loosely on quality and crafting tier. Several testers reported items being on the AH at or below their target price but not appearing in the FlipQueue list — the most common cause was an item carrying bonus IDs that bumped its quality to a higher bracket than the deal record knew about, which caused Auctionator's exact-match filter to skip it.

The new defaults match on item name and price ceiling only, so those listings now show up. If you want strict matching back, two new toggles on the Auctionator settings page let you opt in:

• Match exact quality — useful when you only want one specific bracket.
• Match exact crafting tier — useful for crafted reagents where tier 1/2/3 are very different items.

New: Auto / Manual / Disabled for every managed action

The settings model has been rebuilt around three states per action instead of the prior on/off + master-switch combination:

• Auto — runs on bank open, button still works manually
• Manual — button works, doesn't auto-fire (so opening the bank doesn't surprise you)
• Disabled — action is hidden everywhere (no drawer button, no popup section, no auto-fire)

Items have three independent action classes: Tasks (pull + deposit-to-do paired), Extras, and Reagents (split out from extras into its own group so you can auto-deposit your gear/glyph leftovers without sending crafting mats too). Gold has two: Withdraw and Deposit.

Practical consequence: the behavior the alpha13 testers hit where "the per-character toggles were off but I still wanted to click the buttons manually" works correctly now. Manual access stays available unless you explicitly pick Disabled, regardless of whether auto-fire is on.

The Pause Automation drawer button does what its name says now — it pauses auto-fire on bank open. Drawer buttons stay visible and clickable while paused, so you can still pull or deposit on demand. Previously, pausing also disabled all the manual access, which was the wrong thing.

The Deposit Tasks drawer button (renamed from "Deposit Items" so it's clear it deposits the items routed to your other characters via the to-do list) sits next to a new Deposit Reagents button.

Existing setups migrate silently: anything that was auto-firing keeps firing; anything that was off becomes Manual (button still works, just no auto-fire on bank open). One chat line on first load explains where to find the new controls. If you actually wanted an action to disappear entirely, set it to Disabled from Settings or click a character row on the Characters page for the per-character override.

New: Manage my items / Manage my gold master switches

The Settings page now opens with two big switches: Manage my items and Manage my gold. Each one decides whether FlipQueue is allowed to move that resource for a given character. Per-character overrides on the Characters page take precedence — useful for letting FlipQueue handle items globally but turning it off for a specific alt without touching anything else. When a master is off, the corresponding drawer buttons hide, the bank popup skips that section entirely, and the related sub-settings dim to make it clear they're inactive.

The Characters page's defaults bar got the same treatment — renamed to Character Defaults, with the Items group on a blue background and the Gold group on a gold background, each with its own master switch. When you turn a master off, its sub-checkboxes hide and a (disabled) label appears in their place. The bar header is now distinct from the broader Settings page so they aren't conflated.

Existing setups migrate silently — your current behavior is preserved, with a single chat line on first load explaining where to find the new switches. Behind the scenes, the planner and executor now share a single source of truth for "is FlipQueue allowed to move this?" — which closes a long-standing class of bugs where deposit operations would silently skip without explanation (toeknee's repeating "deposit completed but didn't actually move anything" report).

Settings menu reorganized

The settings page now reads top-down as General → Item Management → Gold Management → (existing sections). Item Management collects the master switch plus reagent / overflow / batch-size controls. Gold Management collects the master switch plus Warband Miser integration / withdrawal / max-cap / deposit / default-gold-to-keep. The old "Bank & Warbank" section is gone — its contents redistributed under the two management sections.

The "Show Tutorial Again" and "Run Setup Wizard" buttons moved from the bottom of the settings page into the General section so they sit with the rest of the account-level controls. The in-settings "About FlipQueue" link is gone — see the new About sidebar tab below.

New: About page in the sidebar

A standalone About page in the main FlipQueue window (between Settings and Tutorial in the sidebar) now shows your installed version prominently, along with the embedded Cogworks-1.0 library version and current WoW build. Plus credits, links to GitHub / Discord / CurseForge / Wago, and a one-click Copy diagnostics button that bundles version + relevant addon list into a clipboard-ready block for bug reports.

/fq version is a new chat command that prints FlipQueue v0.12.0-alpha11 (Cogworks-1.0 MINOR …) in one line, useful for confirming your installed version when reporting bugs. Every /fq debug * output now starts with that same version line, and the in-game debug console window's title bar shows it too — so screenshots / pastes self-identify which build they came from.

German EU buy tasks with prices like 2.000g: parser handles hidden characters

A long-tail follow-up to the earlier fix that taught FlipQueue to read German-locale prices (2.000g → 2000g, dot as thousands separator). The fix worked for most players, but at least one tester kept seeing buy tasks skipped with (no price) even after updating. Cause was a non-breaking space character that some web pages — including FlippingPal's — invisibly insert between the digits and the g suffix on EU locales. Copy-paste preserves the byte, but it doesn't render, so it looked like a bare 2.000g to anyone reading the log.

The parser now strips invisible whitespace and zero-width characters before matching the number, covering the realistic candidates (non-breaking space, narrow non-breaking space, zero-width space / joiner / LRM / RLM, byte-order mark). German EU buy tasks should resolve cleanly across all tested input sources.

Mini-view restore after instance: doesn't override your manual hide

Alpha17's new "Hide mini view in raids and dungeons" setting had a small logic bug: if you'd manually closed the mini (close button) before zoning into an instance, the mini would reappear after you zoned out — even though you hadn't asked for it back. The hide-tracker was claiming responsibility for hides it hadn't actually performed. Now it only restores the mini if it was actually the one that hid it.

Only triggered if you'd turned the new instance-hide toggle on (default is off), so most players didn't see it.

Bag clicks broken in raids / after pet battles: hardened

If you've ever seen the bag UI go dead after a raid pull or a pet battle — items refusing to right-click, pet bandages or knowledge tomes silently failing, the game menu or logout broken until /reload — multiple paths were contributing, and this build closes the rest of them.

Each previous alpha closed one path:

• Earlier in the v0.12 line: FlipQueue's bank queue learned to pause when combat or a pet battle starts, and resume when it clears. Cursor state is defensively cleared between every move so nothing carries forward.
• A Cogworks library bump (the shared core FlipQueue ships with) closed an ESCAPE-key handler that interfered with Blizzard's secure game-menu path.
• A second Cogworks bump closed a related issue specific to right-click on items that prompt a confirmation popup (knowledge tomes were the most visible victim).

This alpha adds another layer:

• The bank queue's batched flow — the path used by auto-deposit of extras, reagents, and to-do tasks — now pauses on combat the same way the simpler paths already did. A queue that started cleanly and then ran into a raid pull no longer leaks the issue through to your bag UI.
• The protected container calls themselves now refuse to fire if combat starts at the wrong moment, regardless of which code path led to them. Belt-and-suspenders.
• A new Pause bank ops in raids and dungeons setting (default on) holds auto-deposit and auto-pull while you're inside a raid, dungeon, battleground, arena, or scenario. Resumes automatically when you leave. Banks aren't reachable inside an instance anyway, so this is purely defensive.
• A new Hide mini view in raids and dungeons setting (default off) lets you keep the mini overlay during open-world play but hide it for cleaner raid frames. Works alongside the existing combat-hide toggle — turn either or both on.
• A new internal listener catches any future taint event blamed on FlipQueue and writes a short snapshot for diagnosis. If you ever see this issue again on a future build, your bug report lands with hard evidence already attached.

If you've been seeing this in any flavor, this build should close it.

Auction house scanning and posting works smoothly with TSM

Players running FlipQueue alongside TradeSkillMaster reported that the auction house felt sluggish — scans took tens of seconds to start, posts occasionally got skipped from TSM's queue, and the slowness scaled with how many items were in the bag. The root cause was FlipQueue doing its own work in parallel with TSM and competing for Blizzard's auction house rate limits.

The fix is layered:

• FlipQueue's auto-scan-on-AH-open is now opt-in. With TradeSkillMaster or Auctionator installed, the setting defaults to off, so FlipQueue stops issuing its own price queries in parallel with theirs. Manual Scan To-Do and Scan All buttons in the AH drawer remain as on-demand triggers when fresh prices are wanted. (Re-enable the auto-scan from Settings → Auction House if the old behavior is preferred.)
• The auction window opens immediately instead of pausing while FlipQueue refreshes its task list. The refresh runs a fraction of a second later in the background.
• Posting bursts (during a TSM Post Scan) no longer cause repeated bag-state rescans on FlipQueue's side.
• TSM's post queue no longer occasionally skips items when FlipQueue is loaded. (FlipQueue used to refresh its owned-auctions view after every post regardless of who initiated it; now only after FlipQueue's own posts.)
• Cross-account inventory broadcasts only fire when something actually changed.

Bank operations: progress feedback and reliability

The bank operations popup that drives Pull, Deposit, and Pull Saleable used to look frozen during long bursts and didn't always tell players what failed. Several improvements:

• A countdown timer between moves replaces the prior cycling animation. Each step says what it's waiting for ("Verifying moves", "Waiting for bag update", "Retrying 4 failed moves") with a definite duration.
• The deposit phase ticks per move instead of jumping in batches.
• Long pulls (80+ items) no longer report "1 pull failed" for items that actually moved — the verify-race that caused tail items to look stuck has been fixed.
• After a session ends with a failed pull, the next bank reopen automatically retries instead of skipping straight to deposit. A yellow banner explains what's happening.
• Failed items show by name in the completion summary instead of just an error count.
• The bank operations popup no longer plans "Deposit Extras" ops when that setting is turned off. Previously these ghost ops left the popup's progress bar showing wrong-looking "complete" states with items still in the bag.

Right-click on profession knowledge tomes works again

A taint bug in the shared Cogworks library blocked right-click "use" on items that prompt a Blizzard confirmation popup — the most visible victims being TWW Midnight profession knowledge tomes (Glimmer / Flicker of Midnight Jewelcrafting / Blacksmithing / etc. Knowledge). Equipment, tradegoods, and most other items were unaffected. If you saw AddOn 'cogworks' tried to call the protected function 'UNKNOWN()' after right-clicking one of these consumables, this was the cause. Fix landed in Cogworks v0.13.2 and is bundled into this build.

Gold withdraw no longer pulls wildly inflated amounts

Players using TradeSkillMaster Auctioning groups with high posting caps (the typical setup for high-volume trade goods like ore, ink, and enchanting scrolls) saw FlipQueue try to withdraw enormous amounts from the warbank — 150k or more for a handful of items, in extreme cases 300k+ for two items. The estimate was reading TSM's "post cap" (a ceiling on total quantity ever posted) as if it were the per-task quantity to charge listing fees against, so a 50,000-cap on enchanting scrolls produced a 75,000g fee estimate per scroll instead of a couple of gold.

The fix: the cap is now used as a cap (the actual quantity is clamped against it) instead of replacing the actual quantity. Posting fee estimates now match what TSM would actually charge.

If you have a maximum-withdraw safety cap configured, this fix matters less — the cap was clipping the bogus number to whatever you'd set. If you don't have a cap, this is the difference between FlipQueue pulling a few gold for fees vs. emptying a meaningful chunk of your warbank.

Per-character gold management overrides

Each character now has independent Withdraw Gold and Deposit Gold toggles on the Characters page, mirroring the existing Pull / Deposit / Deposit All toggles. Defaults to "use global" — no behavior change unless explicitly overridden. Useful for letting FlipQueue manage gold globally but turning it off for one alt without touching account-wide settings.

Logging into a new character is faster

Switching characters used to cause a noticeable hitch as FlipQueue refreshed its view of every alt's bags. The refresh now spreads across multiple frames, and the Characters page shows a progress banner so it's clear what's loading instead of looking blank.

Item variant data preserved everywhere

Posted auctions in the log used to lose their bonus-ID variant info, collapsing different versions of the same item (an ilvl 253 piece and a base-ilvl piece) into one row. Bag scans now preserve the full variant key going forward, and DealFinder shows correct per-variant pricing for items that come in ilvl variants. Tooltip rendering across every page now displays the right variant instead of falling back to base-form.

DealFinder per-realm pricing fix for ilvl variants

DealFinder was showing a single flat regional value for variant gear (most modern items with bonus IDs) instead of the actual per-realm prices. It now resolves real per-realm pricing for variant items, so a Greatlock Girdle ilvl 253 shows distinct prices on each realm instead of one synthetic value across all of them.

Auctionator and FlippingPal integrations work end-to-end

• Auctionator shopping lists generated from buy tasks now use a max-price ceiling that correctly captures items priced just below the next whole gold (a 200g target accepts up to 200g 99s 99c).
• The "Auctionator" output format on the Transform page now produces the actual Auctionator wire format that the addon can re-import.
• Auctionator-imported shopping lists now preserve their full per-item metadata (quantity, exact-match flag, ilvl filters, quality) instead of stripping everything except the name.
• Importing a very large to-do list (4,000+ items — full-region FlippingPal dumps in any of the supported formats: website copy-paste, downloadable CSV, the FP-extractor addon's semicolon export, or a tab-delimited table) no longer freezes the game. A progress message shows status during long imports. Earlier alphas only covered the website copy-paste path; this one covers the CSV / semicolon / tab-delimited paths too, including the regex-heavy line-classification pre-roll that ran before the per-item progress started ticking.
• FlippingPal prices in German EU client formats (1.500g, 2.000g) parse correctly to 1500g and 2000g respectively, instead of being misread as 500g and 0g.
• The Transform page's AAA JSON output now shows when items couldn't be included because their names hadn't been resolved to item IDs yet — instead of silently producing a smaller list than the source. With an Auctionator-imported source where the WoW item cache hasn't seen the names, the output prompts you to click the Deep Search button (which warms the cache from your TSM and Auctionator data) to resolve them.

DealFinder profit %: optional abbreviation

For very-cheap items where DealFinder finds extreme deal multiples (+12,500%), a new opt-in setting collapses 4-digit-plus values to 1.5k%, 25k%, 2.5M% form. Off by default; enable it in DealFinder's config if your sell list has lots of deep-value items.

Phantom expired-auction notifications resolved

The login message saying "N expired auctions to collect" sometimes fired when there were no expired items in the mailbox. Cancelled and expired auctions are now distinguished correctly, mail reconciliation handles empty mailboxes properly, and pet matching uses the species ID instead of the (always identical) "Pet Cage" item name.

Cogworks gear-border minimap

The minimap button now uses the brass gear-border styling shared across the Cogworks suite. Visual change only — click and drag behavior unchanged.

Support and diagnostic commands

When a player reports something off, several /fq debug commands help capture what's happening:

• /fq debug perf — bundles per-addon CPU/memory, FlipQueue's internal cache stats, and current settings into one copy-pasteable text dump. Use after /console scriptProfile 1 + /reload to capture an actual CPU profile.
• /fq debug gold — prints the gold-withdraw calculation for the current character. Per-task breakdown shows vendor sell price, posting quantity, auction duration, and the resulting deposit fee for every task on the to-do list, then the aggregate target balance and what would be withdrawn. The right command to run when a withdraw amount looks wrong.
• /fq debug pulls — toggles per-operation tracing during bank queue activity. Useful for diagnosing item-specific bank op failures.
• /fq debug parsegold — interactive gold-string parse trace plus a self-test covering EN/DE locale variants, k/m abbreviations, and color-coded strings. Lets US-locale testers verify EU client behavior without an EU account.
• /fq debug log <name or itemID> — dumps every entry the addon's log holds for a given item, with full sale / fee / status metadata. Useful when Item Research shows a sales count that doesn't match what the player remembers.
• /fq debug expired, /fq debug realms, /fq debug pricing, /fq debug bagprices — various diagnostic dumps for support investigations.

For previous public releases, see CHANGELOG.md in the source repository.