Changelog

0.4.3

• Refresh the interface with cleaner navigation, fewer borders, sharper text, compact talent summaries and clearer materials/crafter sections.
• Reorganize Settings into General, Your character, Guild map, Officer tools, Guild management, and Help & diagnostics. Preserve existing preferences and permissions.
• Show online members' locations beside their level and class, with location search and full text on hover.
• Show native recipe tooltips in the crafting list; keep finished-item and material tooltips in the details panel. Preserve shift-click item links and tooltips after selection.
• Add four-second guild announcements using WoW's raid-warning display, with local preview, optional sound, separate rank permissions and a leader-controlled on/off switch. No announcement cooldown or saved message history.
• Let the guild leader hide the loot feed and stop loot capture/sharing. Existing history remains until normal expiry. Members need this update to honor the switch.
• Add promotion previews for recently connected addon users, a target rank and individual confirmation for each promotion. Skip members already at that rank or higher and respect native guild permissions.
• Add a brief first-use introduction, clearer empty states, tab-specific search/page memory, disabled-button explanations and guild-setting save feedback.
• Improve guild information wrapping and diagnostics layout. Keep self-loot capture working through temporary roster refreshes.
• Keep the addon standalone with bundled libraries. Preserve saved settings, Discord invites and officer configuration.

0.4.2

• Enable guild map visibility and character location sharing by default when no preference is saved. Preserve explicit opt-outs and keep both Settings switches.

0.4.1

• Correct specialization icons and automatic roles, including Priest Shadow Magic. Manual role choices remain supported.
• Show shared guild locations on related zone and continent maps with small class-colored diamonds.
• Keep map markers stable during temporary roster refreshes and reuse pins when positions change.
• Show native two-line map tooltips with name, level, class and known specialization; preserve the tested hover fallback.
• Update only changed map pins, cache coordinate projections and reduce idle map work.
• Fix tooltip text helpers returning an unintended extra value.
• Preserve settings and bundled libraries; no additional addon dependencies.

0.4.0

• Add a saved crafting binding filter: Hide BoP (default), BoE only, BoP only, All bindings and Unknown binding. Unknown item metadata remains visible in the default view until it loads; enchant services remain visible.

• Reuse shared recipe-list templates and send member-specific differences, with bounded caches and missing-template recovery.

• Fetch uncached gear on demand; retain previously fetched snapshots and keep cached gear updated.

• Prioritize the open tab and newest loot entries; tab changes safely reorder remaining catch-up work.

• Add local traffic, processing-time and explicitly sampled memory diagnostics.

• The 900-member simulation now finishes background profiles/recipes/loot in 6m50s for matching recipe lists and 9m40s with varied books. Equipment is deferred until requested, so this is not the same payload as the previous 15m30s all-gear run. Live performance remains unverified.

• First-release storage: discard old development caches once while preserving personal settings, Discord invite, officer ranks and loot policy.

• Use compact recipe memberships in memory and on disk, backed by one shared definition catalog; remove expanded-book caches.

• Remove legacy protocol discovery, feature-capability flags and obsolete personal loot overrides.

• Unify loot records and retention, recording rarity so the officer-controlled feed stays visible while item metadata loads.

• Announce small changes directly; fetch gear/recipe deltas with full-snapshot fallback. Periodic discovery recovers missed notifications.

• Prefer one catch-up source, allow a second after a stall, and avoid repeatedly comparing a newcomer's incomplete cache while it downloads.

• Batch/compress transfers using the embedded bounded LibDeflate fork; repair missing fragments and retain strict queue, input and memory bounds.

• Prefetch three bounded manifest pages, batch acknowledgments and prioritize online profiles/gear. Show cache catch-up progress in the footer.

• Spread cold fingerprint calculations across ticks, adapt sending to client congestion, reduce traffic in combat and prevent bursts after loading screens.

• Earlier transport-only comparison: full catch-up fell from 26.3 to 15.5 simulated minutes before gear became on-demand.

0.3.14

• Cache sync fingerprints per immutable record, releasing replaced records through weak keys.
• Avoid timestamp-only profile publications between the existing 15-minute refreshes, while publishing real changes immediately.
• Separate roster, profile, profession and loot invalidation so gear updates reuse roster/crafting lists.
• Index recipe crafters instead of searching every recipe book for each result.
• Presence-only roster updates no longer schedule local character scans; startup, periodic and event-driven scans remain.
• Prune loot on loot writes and periodic maintenance instead of on every character/recipe update.
• Validated in a Lua 5.1 simulation with 900 members, 4,100 records and 144,000 recipe entries. In-game performance remains to be measured.

0.3.13

• Coalesce repeated item-data requests with a bounded pending set and retry cooldown.
• Ignore unrelated and failed item-cache events instead of rebuilding addon lists.
• Avoid scheduling UI refresh timers while the window is closed and requesting already resolved equipment again.
• Include the current addon memory reading in /gl status. Live memory-growth verification is still needed.

0.3.12

• Optional guild-member dots on the world map, colored by class with native hover details.
• Separate show-members and share-my-location settings, both off by default.
• Locations update every 30 seconds, expire after 90 seconds, and are hidden for offline members and inside instances.
• Only the exact zone map is supported; locations are temporary and never saved or relayed.

0.3.11

• Guild masters can set or remove a guild-specific Discord invite through the Discord dialog. New installations no longer include a fixed guild invite.
• Invites are shared directly by the guild master with compatible online members and retained locally for the current guild.
• Updated installation, update, privacy, loot-policy and crafting documentation.
• Added explicit addon licensing and clarified bundled-library notices.
• Release validation checks matching versions, TOCs, required files and unchanged embedded libraries before packaging.
• Kept SavedVariables schema 1 and protocol 1. Existing character and loot records remain compatible.

0.3.10

• Preserve guild loot and officer policy while guild membership is temporarily unavailable during loading screens.
• Keep Uncommon loot visible while its item metadata is uncached.

0.3.9

• Added officer-controlled Uncommon loot capture and a single guild loot feed.
• Guild master controls which ranks can manage loot policy.
• Shared history retains up to 500 entries for seven days.

Earlier testing builds

• Compact roster with class/spec icons, level information and automatic roles with personal overrides.
• Slot-based gear details, concise specialization summaries and profession cards.
• Recipes grouped once with materials and a list of available crafters.
• Native item/spell tooltips, draggable minimap launcher, key binding, window scaling and diagnostics.
• Required launcher libraries embedded for standalone installation.