Changelog

All notable changes to GRIP – Guild Recruitment Automation are documented here.

This project follows a lightweight variant of Keep a Changelog
and uses semantic-ish versioning.
Dates are in YYYY-MM-DD.

[1.5.4] - 2026-03-07

Added

• /grip perf slash command — C_AddOnProfiler performance baseline metrics (session/recent averages, peak tick, memory usage, tick distribution)

Fixed

• GRIP.VERSION and README now correctly show 1.5.3 (were stuck at 1.3.0/1.3.1)
• Whisper opt-out detection: fixed scope bug where senderShort was nil during pendingInvite lookup (variable was defined in a different block)
• Ghost Mode nil-guards added to Invite.lua and Post.lua — prevents errors if Ghost table isn't loaded
• Campaign cooldown messages and ghost-post string now routed through AceLocale L[] for localization consistency
• Replaced orphaned L[] keys in enUS.lua with actual strings used by Core.lua

Changed

• Simplified .gitignore for Libs/ tracking — untracked redundant bundled AceLocale-3.0 files (packager fetches from external)

[1.5.2] - 2026-03-06

Fixed

• /who returning 0 results no longer triggers false "server throttle" warning — Events.lua now detects the WHO_NUM_RESULTS system message and clears pending state
• BigWigsMods packager changelog integration — added manual-changelog directive to .pkgmeta pointing at Docs/CHANGELOG.md
• Locale @localization@ keyword fix — removed empty namespace param that caused CurseForge API error 1006

[1.5.1] - 2026-03-06

Fixed

• Locale export fix — removed empty namespace="" from @localization@ keywords in all locale files (enUS/deDE/frFR/esES) to fix CurseForge API rejection

[1.5.0] - 2026-03-06

Added

• Full localization infrastructure via AceLocale-3.0 — all 553 user-facing strings now route through L[] locale keys (Locale/enUS.lua). German, French, and Spanish stub files ready for CurseForge community translations (Locale/deDE.lua, Locale/frFR.lua, Locale/esES.lua)
• AceLocale-3.0 library dependency added (.pkgmeta external)
• @localization@ keywords in all locale files for BigWigsMods packager integration with CurseForge translation portal

[1.4.0] - 2026-03-06

Added

• Officer sync v2 protocol — per-collection hash-compare-transfer for blacklists (set-union merge) and whisper templates (last-writer-wins with 5-min clock tolerance). Backward compatible with v1 clients (Sync/Sync.lua)
• FE8 clipboard import/export for blacklists and whisper templates — encode to printable string for cross-guild/cross-addon sharing. /grip export bl|templates, /grip import with auto-detect (Sync/ImportExport.lua)
• Template sync opt-in toggle (config.syncTemplates, default: on) with /grip sync status display showing per-collection hashes
• New slash commands: /grip export, /grip import, /grip templates

[1.3.1] - 2026-03-06

Added

• FUNDING.yml activated with PayPal.me sponsor link
• Sponsor badge added to README.md

[1.3.0] - 2026-03-05

Added

• Raider.IO integration — optional M+ score filtering for candidates when RIO addon is installed. Fail-open design: all checks pass when RIO is absent. New config keys: rioMinScore, rioShowColumn. Settings UI with min-score slider and column toggle (DB/DB_RaiderIO.lua, DB/DB_Filters.lua, DB/DB_Potential.lua, UI/UI_Settings.lua, UI/UI_Home.lua)
• Officer blacklist sync — guild officers running GRIP automatically share permanent blacklist entries via AceComm on GUILD channel. Hash-compare-transfer protocol with djb2 hashing, LibSerialize + LibDeflate compression, set-union merge (add-only, never removes). 1-hour broadcast cooldown, 10-second startup delay, pcall-wrapped. /grip sync on|off|now (Sync/Sync.lua, Core/Events.lua, Core/Slash.lua)
• Aggressive opt-out tier — optional profanity-based rejection phrases ("fuck off", "piss off", etc.) behind config.optOutAggressiveEnabled toggle (default off). /grip set aggressive on|off. Per-language aggressive tables in Data/OptOut_Phrases.lua
• origin parameter passed to C_FriendList.SendWho() calls for good-citizen telemetry (Recruit/Who.lua)
• New slash commands: /grip sync, /grip set aggressive, /grip set riominscore, /grip set riocolumn
• Library dependencies: AceComm-3.0, LibSerialize, LibDeflate (managed via .pkgmeta externals)

Changed

• README.md and platform descriptions updated for v1.3.0 feature set
• CHANGELOG.md brought current

[1.0.0] - 2026-03-05

Changed

• Invite-first mode now whispers on invite delivery (ERR_GUILD_INVITE_S) instead of waiting for accept — players who receive the invite get a follow-up whisper immediately
• First stable release — no code changes from v0.9.0
• Version bumped to 1.0.0 for distribution
• Author field changed to Sataana in TOC metadata
• README updated with full feature list, Stats tab documentation, and missing slash commands
• Platform descriptions refreshed for CurseForge, Wago, and WoWInterface

[0.9.0] - 2026-03-05

Added

• Hybrid opt-out detection algorithm — SAFE phrases (multi-word, abbreviations) use plain substring matching, RISKY phrases ("no", "stop", "pass", "spam", "nope", "nah") use word-boundary-aware matching via MatchWholeWord() to prevent false positives (Recruit/Whisper.lua)
• French, German, and Spanish opt-out phrase lists in new data file (Data/OptOut_Phrases.lua)
• Language selection config key (optOutLanguages) with Settings UI checkboxes for EN/FR/DE/ES (DB/DB_Init.lua, UI/UI_Settings.lua)

Changed

• Extracted magic numbers to named constants across codebase (pipeline thresholds, UI dimensions, color values)
• UI color constants consolidated for consistent theming

[0.8.4] - 2026-03-05

Added

• Hourly activity bucketing — each daily stats bucket now tracks hours[0..23] action counts for time-of-day analysis (DB_Init.lua)
• "Peak Hour" display on Stats page — shows busiest hour per time window (today/7d/30d) with action count (UI_Stats.lua)
• /grip stats [7d|30d] slash command — print today/7-day/30-day recruitment summary to chat (Slash.lua)
• /grip stats reset — clear all stats history (Slash.lua)
• GitHub repository topics for WoWUp Hub discoverability (wow, world-of-warcraft, wow-addon, lua, guild-recruitment, warcraft, retail, midnight)

Fixed

• Onboarding overlay no longer shows for experienced users — smart-dismiss guard skips if blacklist, potential list, or stats history exists (UI_Home.lua)
• Onboarding overlay no longer bleeds outside GRIP window — page container now clips children (UI.lua)
• Added _onboardingDismissed to DEFAULT_DB_CHAR schema for explicit documentation (DB_Init.lua)

[0.8.3] - 2026-03-05

Added

• Daily recruitment statistics tracking — 30-day rolling history stored per-character in SavedVariables, auto-pruned on login (DB_Init.lua)
• RecordStat() helper with hooks across the full pipeline: whispers sent, invites sent, accepted, declined, opt-outs, posts sent, scans completed (Whisper.lua, Invite.lua, Post.lua, Events.lua)
• New "Stats" tab (4th tab) showing Today / Last 7 Days / Last 30 Days summaries with per-metric counters and accept rate (UI_Stats.lua, UI.lua)

[0.8.2] - 2026-03-05

Improved

• Guild link fallback now prints a one-time per-session notice explaining why {guildlink} resolved to plain text, with actionable steps (open Communities window, check Guild Finder listing, use /grip link) (Utils.lua)
• /grip status now shows perm/temp blacklist split and conditional breakdown of permanent entries by reason (opt-out, no-response, other) (Slash.lua)

Added

• First-run onboarding overlay on Home page — dismissible setup guide shown once until "Got it!" is clicked, persisted via _onboardingDismissed config flag (UI_Home.lua)
• Documentation comment for NormalizeWhoCounts explaining the return-value swap detection (Who.lua)

[0.8.1] - 2026-03-05

Changed

• Expanded opt-out phrase detection with 9 new entries: "nty" (abbreviation), polite rejections ("i'll pass", "ill pass", "not for me", "thanks but no thanks"), hostile responses ("go away", "fuck off", "piss off"), and WoW-specific ("just looking") (Whisper.lua)
• Documented opt-out detection design rationale and false positive trade-offs in CLAUDE.md

[0.8.0] - 2026-03-05

Added

• Invite-first safety toggle — send guild invite before whisper, only whispers players who accept the invite. Reduces Silence penalty risk from players with "Block Guild Invites" enabled. Off by default. (DB_Init.lua, Invite.lua, Whisper.lua, UI_Settings.lua, Slash.lua)

Changed

• All chat sends (whisper, channel post) now check C_ChatInfo.InChatMessagingLockdown() before sending, silently skipping when the player is chat-restricted (Recruit/Whisper.lua, Recruit/Post.lua, Recruit/Invite.lua)
• Max level clamp corrected from 100 to 90 for Midnight level cap (Slash.lua, UI_Settings.lua, Who.lua)

Fixed

• Ghost Mode /who timeout closure now uses reference equality to prevent stale session callbacks (Who.lua)
• Variable shadowing in opt-out whisper name resolution fixed (Whisper.lua)
• Post target regex no longer matches loose hyphenated words, preventing false-positive post attribution (Post.lua)

[0.7.0] - 2026-03-04

Added

• Slider widgets for Ghost Mode session max / cooldown settings (UI_Settings.lua)
• Ghost session lock — pipeline slash commands, Home buttons, minimap menu items, and Settings filters locked during active Ghost session (GhostMode.lua, Slash.lua, UI_Home.lua, Minimap.lua, UI_Settings.lua)

Changed

• Right-click "Invite to Guild" now checks blacklist gate before sending invite (UnitPopupInvite.lua)
• Whisper ticker skips candidates when invite can't follow due to combat lockdown (Whisper.lua)
• /who window flash suppressed during automated scans via FriendsFrame hide/show guard (Who.lua)
• Suppress whisper echo checkbox added to Settings page (UI_Settings.lua)
• Removed dead GetRealmToken() from Who.lua
• Cleaned up misleading "Phase 1 backward compat" / "legacy" comments across codebase (BC1–BC6)
• Fixed stale comments in DB_Init, UnitPopupInvite, Core (SC1–SC3)

Fixed

• Edit box text no longer reverts on focus loss — dirty tracking rewritten with programmatic-set flag (UI_Widgets.lua, UI.lua)
• /who panel no longer flashes despite suppressWhoUI being enabled (Who.lua)
• Whisper echo suppression now works correctly — filter registration timing and buffer matching fixed (Utils.lua, Events.lua)
• WASD movement no longer blocked while GRIP UI is open — removed SetPropagateKeyboardInput(false) from main frame (UI.lua)

[0.6.0] - 2026-03-04

Changed

• Migrated Potential list (UI_Home.lua) and Blacklist panel (UI_Home_Blacklist.lua) from manual FauxScrollFrame to WowScrollBoxList + DataProvider pattern — automatic row recycling, no manual pool management
• Updated CLAUDE.md UI Architecture section to document ScrollBox patterns

[0.5.0-beta] - 2026-03-02

Added

• Daily whisper cap (500/day default) with 80% warning, calendar-date reset, /grip set dailycap
• Opt-out response detection — auto-blacklists candidates who reply "no thanks", "stop", etc.
• Whisper template variety — multiple messages with sequential/random rotation
• Sound feedback — optional audio cues for queue complete, invite accepted, scan results, cap warning
• Multi-template whisper editor with navigation, add/remove, rotation selector
• /grip link command — prints current guild name and Guild Finder link for troubleshooting
• EnsureDB now enforces 10-template cap on whisperMessages (defensive against manual SV edits)
• Campaign cooldown — sliding-window timer with soft warning (30 min) and hard auto-pause (60 min), gap reset after inactivity, /grip set cooldown
• Ghost Mode (experimental, disabled by default) — invisible overlay frame captures hardware events to drain a universal action queue. Full pipeline: auto-scan → auto-whisper → auto-invite → auto-post. 1-hour max session, 10-minute persistent cooldown (survives /reload, relog, restart). /grip ghost start|stop|status
• Ghost Mode UX — Settings page checkbox + session/cooldown config, Home page session status strip with Start/Stop button and live timer
• Addon compartment right-click dropdown — 5 quick actions (Toggle UI, Status, Build Scan Queue, Ghost toggle, Whisper toggle) via MenuUtil context menu
• Account-wide blacklist — GRIPDB (account-wide: blacklists, no-response counters) + GRIPDB_CHAR (per-character: config, potential, filters). Automatic migration from old single-SV schema via MigrateToSplitSV()
• Frame pooling for Home page potential + blacklist rows (CreateFramePool)

Changed

• Zone system: removed dead STATIC_ZONES_BY_GROUP, added expansion grouping, seasonal detection, improved exclusion rules, SeedZones fix
• scanMaxLevel default corrected from 80 to 90
• Stripped revision header bloat from all source files; removed dead code (U.AnySelected())
• Upvalue localization — hot-path WoW API and Lua stdlib globals localized as file-top upvalues across all 22 .lua modules
• SavedVariables split: GRIPDB is now account-wide (## SavedVariables), GRIPDB_CHAR is per-character (## SavedVariablesPerCharacter)

Fixed

• RemovePotential(fullName) now returns true|false (contract alignment for purge/cleanup paths).
• GuildInvite() → C_GuildInfo.Invite() deprecated API migration with compat wrapper
• GetGuildName() removed dead C_GuildInfo.GetGuildInfo reference, improved cache warming via guild events
• GetGuildFinderLink() added cache with 5-min TTL, suppressed debug spam
• ApplyTemplate() Lua gsub count leak fixed

Known Limitations / Future

• Ghost Mode is functional but disabled by default. Enable in Settings and start via /grip ghost start or the Home page button.
• ChatThrottleLib runtime detection implemented (Utils.lua). Routes WHISPER through CTL when present; falls back gracefully when absent.

[0.4.0] - 2026-02-26

Added

• Minimap button
  • Left-click: toggle UI (Home)
  • Middle-click: Settings
  • Right-click: Ads
  • Drag to reposition
  • /grip minimap on|off|toggle
• All/None shortcuts for Zones/Races/Classes allowlists.
• Scrollable Settings and Ads pages (prevents layout overflow).
• Automatic excluded-zone building:
  • Encounter Journal instances
  • Battlegrounds
  • Manual excludes/pattern patterns
• Static zone list (Maps_Zones.lua) used for seeding zone selections.
• /grip zones export — writes copy/paste-ready Lua table to GRIPDB.lists.zonesExportLua.
• Persisted debug capture (SavedVariables) with configurable cap.

Changed

• Default /who minimum interval set to 15s to align with UI cooldown.
• Edit boxes now use “dirty” tracking to prevent ticker overwrites.
• /who ingestion now normalizes C_FriendList.GetWhoInfo() fields for correct race/class/zone consistency.
• Minimap drag logic now commits SavedVariables only on drag stop (reduced churn).
• UI now hardens against DB-not-ready states (graceful disable instead of hard error).
• Logger refactor:
  • Introduced GRIP.Logger wrapper
  • Plain-text persistence for SavedVariables
  • Debug window resolution caching

Refactored

• Split monolithic DB.lua into modular DB files:
  • DB_Init
  • DB_Zones
  • DB_Filters
  • DB_Blacklist
  • DB_Potential
  • DB_Util
• Split UI.lua into page modules:
  • UI_Home.lua
  • UI_Settings.lua
  • UI_Ads.lua
  • UI.lua retained as controller

Fixed

• Apply+Rebuild no longer reverts Max/Step on first click (ticker overwrite race resolved).
• Whisper/Ads message Save reliably persists.
• Append {guildlink} no longer flashes and disappears.
• Classes list no longer includes “Adventurer”; filter keys pruned correctly.
• Zones list pre-populates from map API (fallback to current zone if enumeration fails).
• Whisper UI status no longer shows premature failure before confirmation.
• Invite failure attribution hardened (prevents mis-attribution when multiple candidates pending).

[0.3.0] - 2026-02-26

Added

• Multi-page minimal UI:

  • Home (candidate list + actions)
  • Settings (scan & filter config + whisper message)
  • Ads (General/Trade advert config + scheduler queue)

• Structured whisper queue

• Invite tracking + blacklist cooldown

• Post scheduler (queues only; hardware-triggered send)