MidnightSimpleUnitFrames

5.4-5.5 - 2026-05-22

Highlights

• Reworked the Castbar Menu with dedicated live previews for Player, Target, Focus, and Boss castbars, including normal casts, channels, empowered casts, interrupt states, latency, spark, glow, icons, spell text, and cast time.
• Reworked the Unit Auras setup page around a clearer first-pass workflow with Essentials, Scope, presets, view modes, visible-unit toggles, reset actions, and a live aura preview.
• Fully reworked Dispel / Debuff Overlay and border highlights for Unit Frames and Group Frames around one visible Highlight Priority model.
• Added persistent Menu2 memory so the menu remembers opened cards, selected tabs, pinned previews, page state, color picker choices, and other recent selections.
• Added per-indicator icon pack selection for Unit Frame and Group Frame status indicators, including bundled UX Pro icons and support for external replacement packs.

Menu2 and UX

• Improved Menu2 search so it also works as an ask-style field for questions like where to move frames, change fonts, adjust inline text colors, or disable group frames.
• Added broader English and German search handling, better direct-control ranking, and a first-use Search / Ask intro popover.
• Improved compact menu layouts for scaled or narrow UI setups so sliders, switches, edit boxes, previews, and layout toggles clamp cleanly instead of overlapping.
• Fixed a Menu2 preview helper load error caused by ambiguous Lua function-call syntax when creating rounded masks.
• Improved Group Frame disable/search wording so party and raid frame questions point directly to the `Use MSUF group frames` switch and Blizzard fallback dropdown.

Castbars

• Rebuilt the Global Castbars page around a more accurate preview surface that follows runtime sizing, per-unit match-width behavior, fill direction, channel ticks, empower stages, latency, spark, glow, icon visibility, spell text, cast time, and interrupt shake.
• Added per-castbar time format controls for Player, Target, Focus, and Boss castbars.
• Improved castbar preview fidelity so menu previews line up with runtime width, height, text placement, icon placement, and cast-time rendering more closely.
• Split Boss Castbar preview/edit-mode behavior away from runtime boss cast handling.
• Reduced idle work in the castbar and interrupt-ready paths through tighter event gating, cached checks, and safer apply scheduling.

Unit Frames and Group Frames

• Added Group Frame Blizzard fallback mode for layouts that should let Blizzard own the secure group frame path.
• Fixed Group Frame disabled fallback ownership so Blizzard only takes over when all MSUF group-frame scopes are off, while active MSUF party, raid, or mythic raid scopes keep Blizzard group frames hidden.
• Added status icon Advanced tabs with extended offsets, layer controls, reset actions, test mode, and preview actions.
• Added Group Frame options to hide name text while units are dead or offline.
• Moved heal prediction controls into the Bars pages and improved Group Frame heal prediction and absorb test rendering.
• Added a global Bar Outline Color for Unit Frames and Group Frames while keeping aggro, purge, dispel, and other indicator colors independent.
• Improved Unit Frame and Group Frame outline rendering so detached, active, preview, live, and pixel-snapped borders use consistent outside-outline behavior.
• Added configurable Target-of-Target inline text color modes: Auto, ToT Name Color, Target Name Color, NPC / Type Color, and Default Font Color.
• Improved Group Frame HP text handling, including reverse-order HP text, stable centered HP text, and font outline updates.
• Fixed Group Frames Buffs & Debuffs text-option layout so cooldown and stack text controls can expand instead of being clipped.

Dispel, Debuff Overlay, and Highlights

• Rebuilt Unit Frame and Group Frame dispel priority around one visible Highlight Priority order: Dispel, Aggro, Purge, Boss Target, Target, and Focus.
• Migrated legacy Magic, Curse, Disease, Poison, and Bleed custom sorting into the single Dispel visual lane.
• Kept Dispel Border and Dispel Overlay independently configurable while sharing the same resolved debuff winner.
• Improved Any Debuff, Any Dispel Type, typed color mode, typed priority order, and Bleed handling so the highest-priority debuff is selected consistently.
• Added renderer-independent Group Frame dispel highlights so priority visuals still work when Blizzard owns aura icons.
• Improved cleanup for reused Group Frames so stale dispel, debuff, status, highlight, and aura state cannot leak into newly assigned units.

Auras and Performance

• Improved Auras2 performance by caching dispel metadata, tracking structural aura changes, and avoiding repeated filter/sort work when aura structure and configuration are unchanged.
• Reduced Auras2 event and render overhead when unit aura modules are disabled, including stronger cleanup of inactive containers and private aura state.
• Improved handling for stealable buffs when mine-only, important-buff, and merged buff filters are active.
• Improved aura delta handling so priority-based dispel visuals rescan only when relevant aura data can change.
• Fixed Unit Frame range alpha background bleed and kept Sated aura threshold filters fresh after aura rule changes.
• Fixed a Range Fade protected-call warning by keeping the `CheckInteractDistance` fallback out of combat while preserving spell-based range checks and out-of-combat fallback behavior.

Stability and Fixes

• Restored the previous MSUF keybind synchronization behavior and removed the newer account-wide `SaveBindings` / `LoadBindings` path to avoid a reload-only keyboard input edge case.
• Added `/msuf inputdebug` to help diagnose rare keyboard focus or input-capture issues.
• Reset keyboard input propagation when MSUF edit-mode popups, HUD panels, and picker overlays hide.
• Refreshed runtime systems after profile switch, reset, import, and external profile overwrite so frames, auras, class power, powerbar embeds, and portrait decorations update without stale state.
• Improved Class Power hidden-anchor handling and powerbar embed anchoring when class power is disabled or hidden.
• Improved portrait decoration layout recovery when portrait containers are rebuilt or their anchor points change.
• Reduced idle work in castbar, interrupt-ready, aura, range-fade, gameplay apply, target-swap, and boss castbar runtime paths.

Localization and Internals

• Added German labels for the new Target-of-Target inline color options.
• Expanded localization coverage for Menu2 search, Castbar, Group Frame, and changelog strings.
• Split several large runtime and Menu2 files into focused modules for search data, dropdown helpers, preview helpers, widgets, dashboard, Group Frame effects, Auras2, Target-of-Target inline text, frame previews, totem previews, Class Power, and Boss Castbar previews.
• Updated release tooling so release packages and changelogs are generated more consistently.