Changelog

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[0.9.1] — 2026-06-25

Fixed

• CI now actually uploads releases to CurseForge. The release workflow passed the API token as CF_API_TOKEN, but the pinned BigWigsMods/packager@v2 reads it from CF_API_KEY, so it saw an empty token and silently skipped the CurseForge upload — v0.9.0 reached the GitHub Releases page but never appeared on CurseForge. The secret is now passed under both names. No in-game change.

[0.9.0] — 2026-06-25

Changed

• Graduated out of alpha. The addon is no longer labelled "alpha"; the README's "Something look wrong?" note drops the alpha disclaimer, and the bug-report template and packaging docs use a non-alpha version example. No in-game behaviour change.

[0.8.1] — 2026-06-23

Changed

• Set the addon's CurseForge project id (X-Curse-Project-ID); this is the first build published to CurseForge. No in-game changes since 0.8.0.
• Release CI now uses actions/checkout@v5 (Node 24), clearing a deprecation warning.

[0.8.0] — 2026-06-22

Added

• Automated releases: pushing a v* tag now runs a GitHub Actions workflow (.github/workflows/release.yml) that builds the package with the BigWigs packager, publishes a GitHub Release with the zip attached, and — once the CurseForge/Wago project IDs and API-token secrets are set — uploads there too (it safely skips those uploads until then). The workflow is publish-only; tests stay local (scripts/release.sh remains for dry-run builds).

Changed

• Bumped ## Interface: to 120007 for retail patch 12.0.7 so the addon loads without the "out of date" prompt.
• Moved the addon's loaded files (GearUpgradeCostTab.toc, Data.lua, Scanner.lua, UI.lua, UI.xml, Locales/*.lua) from the GearUpgradeCostTab/ subfolder to the repository root so the BigWigs packager can discover the .toc. The shipped zip is unchanged — .pkgmeta's package-as/ignore still produce a single GearUpgradeCostTab/ folder. No in-game behaviour change. See docs/packaging.md.
• Removed the non-working move-folders block from .pkgmeta (it does not point the packager at a nested .toc; root layout is the actual fix).

[0.7.0-alpha] — 2026-06-11

Added

• Crest footer pinned below the scrolling list (the list and its scroll bar are 26px shorter while it is shown): one cell per crest in ladder order, least rare on the left (Adventurer) to rarest on the right (Myth), each showing the warband's owned total next to the crest's icon. Totals come from C_CurrencyInfo.GetCurrencyInfo and refresh live on CURRENCY_DISPLAY_UPDATE; rendering reuses the cost columns' formatter (GetCurrencyString), so a still-unverified crest currency ID degrades to a muted dash rather than a phantom zero. Hovering a cell shows the currency tooltip (GameTooltip:SetCurrencyByID, the auto-generated counterpart of C_TooltipInfo.GetCurrencyByID — usage confirmed against Blizzard's own PVPHonorSystem/PVPMatchResults code, live branch 2026-06-11). The icon and number need no translation, and the dash reuses L.DASH.
• Show my crests checkbox (off by default) in the dropdown, below a second divider separating display options from the bag filters. Ticking it shows the crest footer and re-anchors the list's bottom edge (the scroll bar follows) to make room, refreshing the totals on every show, which covers currency changes that arrived while hidden (the CURRENCY_DISPLAY_UPDATE handler skips a hidden footer). Toggling re-anchors rather than rebuilding — the option changes panel chrome, not list contents. Label translated for all ten locales using each client's established crest term (SHOW_CRESTS); persists as showCrests in GearUpgradeCostTabDB.

[0.6.0-alpha] — 2026-06-11

Added

• Include Warbound items checkbox (off by default), joining the other bag-list filters in the dropdown. "Warbound until equipped" gear was previously always excluded from the In Bag sections; it can now be listed on demand. It stays hidden by default because upgrading a Warbound item causes it to become soulbound — the same warning the upgrade vendor shows (CONFIRM_UPGRADE_ITEM_BIND). Each locale's label and tooltip use the client's own Warbound/Soulbound vocabulary (ITEM_ACCOUNTBOUND / ITEM_SOULBOUND, verified against live GlobalStrings for all ten languages). The label deliberately does NOT reuse the quality checkboxes' "Include %s items" frame: several locales render that frame as "items of quality %s", which is wrong for a bind type.

Changed

• Warbound rows hidden by the new filter now count toward the "hidden by your filters" empty note, like every other filter; previously the warbound exclusion was invisible, so an empty section could claim there was nothing to upgrade while warbound upgradeables sat in the bags.

[0.5.0-alpha] — 2026-06-10

Added

• Three bag-list filter checkboxes in the cost-mode dropdown, below a divider — the same radios-divider-checkboxes layout the Reputation tab's filter uses. All three persist in GearUpgradeCostTabDB:
  • Include Uncommon items and Include Rare items (both off by default): green and blue gear is now hidden from both In Bag sections unless opted in. The labels reuse Blizzard's localized ITEM_QUALITY2/3_DESC quality names, wrapped in their quality colors via ColorManager, so only the sentence frame needed translating.
  • Prioritise tier (on by default): hides bag items for any slot whose equipped item is a set ("tier") piece the player is actively upgrading, so the lists never suggest competing with a set bonus. There is no direct "is tier" API; detection is two in-game-verified legs: the equipped item belongs to an item set (C_Item.GetItemInfo return 16, setID) AND is itself on an upgrade track (the same tooltip parse the rest of the addon runs on). Truly-legacy tier has no current crest track and crafted "sets" recraft instead of using crests, so neither suppresses anything; the four "set look" off-slots carry no setID. Two stronger class-lock legs were rejected by in-game testing (2026-06-10): C_Item.IsItemSpecificToPlayerClass — Blizzard's own Great Vault class-set check — returned false for an equipped Druid tier helm passed as an item link (item 250024, db2-verified class-locked with AllowableClass=1024), and expansionID == LE_EXPANSION_LEVEL_CURRENT compares gear against a constant that tracks the client, not the item (flips at prepatch, rejects previous-season tier, deprecated family). Without a class leg, non-class sets on a crest track (e.g. PvP appearance sets) also protect their slots — consistent with the filter's intent. The heuristic lives in Data.lua (ns.IsSetItem) alongside the other verify-in-game facts; confirmed working in game 2026-06-10. Full post-mortem of the rejected approaches: docs/tier-detection.md.
• Filter-aware empty notes: when a bag section is empty only because the filters hid every upgradeable row, it now says so ("Upgradeable items here are hidden by your filters") instead of falsely claiming there is nothing to upgrade. The scanner runs the user filters last and reports what they hid per section.

Fixed

• Expanding a collapsed section now goes through the same item-data preload as every other rebuild path; previously the header click rebuilt immediately and could scan not-yet-cached items, making the new filters silently fail open until the next update.
• ns.BuildBagRows called without saved settings now applies the documented defaults (tier filter on); previously a nil options table produced a quality-filtered-but-tier-unfiltered mix matching neither the defaults nor unfiltered output.

[0.4.0-alpha] — 2026-06-10

Added

• Korean (koKR), Simplified Chinese (zhCN), and Traditional Chinese (zhTW) localization — the addon now covers every language the WoW client ships. Track and achievement names verified against the 12.0.5.67823 client db2. Blizzard's achievement naming is again non-parallel (koKR Champion is "여명의 용사" against the track's "챔피언"; zhTW Myth is "黎明傳奇" against the track's "神話"), and zhTW's legacy tooltip lines use "傳奇" for the Myth track where the live client says "神話" — all mapped.

Fixed

• The fallback tooltip parser now folds the fullwidth colon U+FF1A used by the Chinese clients' line prefixes ("升级：") and accepts zhTW's legacy fused name+rank shape ("等級提升：精兵1/8"). The fused form is only trusted when the name ends in a CJK character, so Latin or Cyrillic text glued to digits ("Veteran2/6") still can't false-match.

[0.3.0-alpha] — 2026-06-10

Added

• Localization for every European language WoW supports: German (deDE), French (frFR), Spanish (esES/esMX), Italian (itIT), Portuguese (ptBR/ptPT), and Russian (ruRU), with English (enUS/enGB) as the fallback for any untranslated string. Strings live in Locales/, one file per language; the "Equipped" header and the iLvl column reuse Blizzard's own localized EQUIPPED / ITEM_LEVEL_ABBR globals.
• Per-locale track-name maps (L.TRACK_NAMES): tooltips report upgrade tracks in the client language, and cost lookups now translate those back to the canonical track keys (previously every non-English client showed ? for all costs). Each map carries BOTH verified shapes from the 12.0.5.67823 client data: the runtime names (SharedString db2 — the strings the live format-string line renders) and the legacy baked tooltip lines (ItemNameDescription db2). The two differ in several locales: esES runtime names are capitalized while its baked lines are lowercase, and ruRU uses entirely different words at runtime ("Защитник", "Легенда") than in baked lines ("чемпион", "легендарный герой").
• Per-locale achievement-name maps (L.ACHIEVEMENT_NAMES), keyed by achievement ID so the lookup can't be orphaned by display-name edits. esMX gets its own override where it diverges from esES (Hero is "Adalid del alba"). If an achievement is earned but its name doesn't match our data, a one-time chat message says so instead of silently charging full price in discount-aware mode.
• The four missing discount achievement IDs, verified against the 12.0.5.67823 Achievement db2: Veteran 42767, Champion 42768, Hero 42769, Myth 42770 (Adventurer was already 61809).
• Localized addon descriptions (## Notes-xxYY) in the TOC.
• The equipped rows' track column is now two regions, so a long localized track name ("Искатель приключений") truncates with an ellipsis while the rank ("4/6") stays visible; the cost-mode dropdown width is a locale value (L.COST_MODE_WIDTH) because ruRU's labels need more than 130px.
• tests/run.lua: a locale regression harness that loads the addon's Lua with a mocked WoW environment. Track-name aliases are derived from the loaded locale files (they cannot drift from a hand-kept copy), every alias is checked through both parse paths (including no-break-space prefixes), the format-string-derived parser is proven in isolation with an unknown track name, and a broken fixtures file fails the run loudly. Run with any Lua ≥ 5.1: lua tests/run.lua.

Fixed

• The tooltip-parsing fallback (used when a line doesn't match ITEM_UPGRADE_TOOLTIP_FORMAT_STRING, e.g. deDE's legacy "Aufwertungsgrad:" lines) matched ASCII letters only, so it could never match track names like "Campeón" or "Ветеран"; it now accepts any text and keeps the known-track guard against false matches. It is also anchored and prefiltered (the old unanchored lazy pattern made every non-matching tooltip line an O(n²) scan — measured 58x slower), requires whitespace before the rank (so "Veteran2/6"-shaped text can't false-match), and folds no-break spaces before matching.
• The primary parser now routes captures by the format string's positional indices, so a hypothetical locale printing the max rank before the current one ("%3$d/%2$d") can no longer swap rank/maxRank and render a partially-upgraded item as maxed.
• The discount-achievement name guard compared GetAchievementInfo's localized name against the enUS name, so discount-aware mode could never activate on non-English clients; it now compares against the locale's translated achievement name where one is shipped.

[0.2.0-alpha] — 2026-06-10

Added

• In Bag (next upgrade free) section (open by default): bag items whose next upgrade rank is gold-only because they sit below the slot's high-watermark (at minimum, the item level you have equipped in that slot). Catches the rings and trinkets kept for their stats or effects that quietly become free upgrades.
• In Bag (crest required) section (collapsed by default): bag items whose next upgrade costs crests. The two bag lists are exclusive, routed by what the item's next rank costs.
• Bag rows show item level, slot, and the quality-coloured item name, with hover tooltips; lists refresh on BAG_UPDATE_DELAYED.
• "Warbound until equipped" items are excluded from the bag lists, matched against the ITEM_ACCOUNTBOUND_UNTIL_EQUIP / ITEM_BIND_TO_ACCOUNT_UNTIL_EQUIP globals so the check is locale-safe. A toggle for this is planned.
• This changelog.

Changed

• Columns are now iLvl | Slot | Upgrade | Next | To 6/6 in every section, with a single font size throughout and rebalanced column spacing for readability.
• The equipped off-hand row is labelled "Off Hand" (matching the bag rows) instead of "Secondary Hand".

Fixed

• C_ItemUpgrade.GetHighWatermarkForItem is now called with an item link, as the API expects, instead of an ItemLocation. The old call failed silently through its pcall guard, so discount-aware "Free" markers on equipped gear could never appear.

[0.1.0-alpha] — 2026-06-10

Added

• "Gear Upgrades" tab on the character frame (4th tab, after Currency), click-to-open, styled like the Currency tab.
• Equipped section: paper-doll-ordered list with item level, upgrade track and rank, crest cost to the next rank and to fully upgraded; fully upgraded rows render muted.
• "Base costs" / "Discount aware" dropdown, persisted across sessions (GearUpgradeCostTabDB).
• Costs computed from a static table (verified in game) with track/rank parsed from tooltip data; track-specific Dawncrest currency icons.