Changelog

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[1.7.0] — 2026-11-12

• Restore independent, per-character Hide experience bar and Hide minimap controls after the 1.6.1 rollback. Both remain OFF by default and in every preset; saved manual choices are retained. Preserve reputation bars, world-map access and native quest timers.
• Remove addon-triggered bottom action-bar layout notifications. Let Blizzard update spacing on its next native layout pass; the XP gap may remain until then. No fake actions, pet-autocast toggles, manual action-bar coordinates or ForceUpdateAction workaround.
• Suspend HUD hiding during Edit Mode. Preserve combat deferral, visibility restoration and all official locales. The owner tested the fix candidate, reported no further reproduced errors and accepted the native-spacing limitation. This is verification of that scenario, not universal taint or physical-controller certification.
• Mark the reintroduced controls as new for users upgrading past the rollback, without resetting existing preferences.

[1.6.1] — 2026-11-12

• Emergency rollback: restore the runtime from stable 1.5.0, changing only TOC version metadata. Remove the 1.6.0 experience-bar/minimap controls and addon-driven layout updates after repeated combat cooldown and Edit Mode taint reports.
• Preserve existing character/account settings. The inactive 1.6.0 HUD preferences remain saved but have no effect. Quest timers and all other 1.5.0 functionality remain available. Fully exit and restart the game after updating to clear the affected session.

[1.6.0] — 2026-11-11

• Add independent, per-character Hide experience bar and Hide minimap controls under Interface, OFF by default and in all presets. Hide the existing native HUD frames; preserve reputation bars, world-map access and quest timers. Restore the latest native visibility request and defer changes during combat. Request the native bottom action-bar layout immediately after XP visibility changes so default-position bars fill or restore the space without waiting for a pet action. Saved layouts, CVars and gameplay data remain untouched.
• Add full locale coverage and mark the two newly introduced settings for upgrading users. The owner verified both controls and the immediate layout update in Forever.

[1.5.0] — 2026-11-11

• Add an independent Hide quest timers option, OFF by default and in every preset. Preserve the actual Blizzard QuestTimerFrame through a hidden tracker, including native artwork, localized countdown, title tooltip and quest-opening click. The timer keeps Blizzard’s own countdown, artwork and interactions.
• Place the native timer below the minimap using an invisible addon-owned anchor. Drag its header to save per-character placement; native time buttons retain their original interaction. Exempt only the timer subtree from hidden-tracker mouse suppression and defer native visibility/position changes outside combat.
• Leave native full-journal content untouched. A duration-free NPC-offer note fits between Accept and Decline only when client metadata identifies that offered quest. The owner confirmed no pre-acceptance time values for quest 3364; reliable first-time warnings for such offers remain unavailable.

[1.4.4] — 2026-11-09

• Restore automatic onboarding, /nqh welcome and the settings playstyle button by removing a native forbidden dialog template introduced in 1.4.3. Saved settings, preset confirmation and map/controller fixes are preserved. The chooser currently uses mouse input in either interface mode; native controller navigation inside it needs a separately validated implementation.
• The owner verified the fixed preview in Forever and approved this hotfix. Add a regression that rejects forbidden template creation even when the template is registered. This is a fix-only update with no new controls.

[1.4.3] — 2026-11-09

• Add native Gamepad Beta navigation to the playstyle chooser, preserving Blizzard's focus cleanup and explicit preset confirmation.
• Improve native gamepad map compatibility: keep NQH-owned pins out of Blizzard's gamepad hover list and show allowed quest titles/objectives in a private crosshair tooltip. Skip the quest area's independent shared-tooltip tick in this mode while preserving native area drawing and mouse-interface tooltips.
• Fix a Lua error when native bags enumerate a slot before its pooled item button exists, including when quest-item border hiding is OFF. The owner could no longer reproduce the map-close/movement warning with Gamepad Beta enabled and mouse/keyboard after this fix.
• Fix the native waypoint Shift-click clipboard block after reload with active selective quest hints. Read quest state without filling shared Blizzard Lua caches and reconcile private native-template journal/tracker badges without rebuilding the native journal from addon execution. The owner verified the reported scenario in Forever.
• Remove a quest's saved Show hint permission after a confirmed turn-in/removal event during play. Preserve active permissions through loading/reload and refresh hint visuals outside combat without replacing the native SuperTrack target.
• Show Blizzard's treasure-map icon beside No Quest Hints in the native addon list; approved by the owner in-game.
• Preserve saved settings, presets, localization and original native context-menu behavior. No new checkboxes or feature-badge entries.

Gamepad limitation: NQH-owned map pins provide information under the crosshair; select/focus the quest through the journal. Mouse pin actions are preserved. Physical controller navigation has not yet been verified; client checks used mouse/keyboard with Gamepad Beta enabled.

[1.4.2] — 2026-11-08

• Fix the reported protected-action warning that prevented Shift-clicking a native map waypoint from copying coordinates after /reload, even with all hiding controls OFF. Create selective quest map providers only when map hiding is enabled and a valid quest hint is revealed, avoiding unused map initialization.
• The owner verified the fix in Forever across repeated cases before approving publication. Preserve saved preferences and on-demand selective hints. This is a fix-only release; it adds no options or feature notifications. The experimental minimap questgiver-icon option is not included.

[1.4.1] — 2026-11-07

• Identify the addon in the white welcome headline, keep the slogan in the gold second line, and use a short static Choose your playstyle instruction below the cards. Remove duplicated selected-status text while retaining the selected card marker and Begin adventure action. Use informal Russian address throughout the chooser; update all locales without changing typography or spacing.

• Deliver version-upgrade chat notices after loading-screen completion, outside the event stack, to keep them out of the initial login-message burst. Update the seen-version baseline only at delivery; interrupted loading/logout retains the notice for a later attempt.

• Defer automatic onboarding until the loading screen has finished, then open it outside the loading event stack. Preserve explicit pending state, combat retry and once-per-session dismissal. Fix the reported case where pending=true, complete=false survived a full restart but no chooser appeared.

• The owner verified automatic startup and approved the final welcome layout in Forever before requesting release. All 15 Lua 5.1 suites, source syntax, TOC integrity and the 16-file package pass validation.

[1.4.0] — 2026-11-07

• Choose As in Blizzard, Immersion or Full immersion in a native three-card onboarding window. Changes apply only after confirmation; existing characters keep their preferences. Reopen it with /nqh welcome.
• Move settings into Blizzard Options → AddOns → No Quest Hints, opened by /nqh. Playstyle and restoration come first, followed by seven quest controls, two item-price controls, optional bag borders and support access.
• Add independent Hide quest levels and Hide difficulty colors options for journal/tracker titles. Full immersion hides numeric levels but preserves difficulty colors. All other presets leave both OFF.
• Split native vendor-value hiding into Hide outside trading and Hide at auction. Merchants always show prices; Full immersion keeps auction values visible. Preserve effective visibility when migrating the older preview's auction option.
• Add manual-only Hide quest item borders for native carried bags. Preserve quality/new-item highlights and quest-start exclamation marks. Custom bag overlays, including Baganator, remain under their own addons' control.
• Add a confirmation for the Settings restore button. /nqh restore immediately turns all ten restrictions off and restores saved personal game settings, retaining failed CVar backups for retry. Use before disabling or removing the addon. Normal logout/reload attempts CVar cleanup without forgetting saved preferences; forced termination cannot guarantee cleanup.
• Add Support → Report a problem with a copyable GitHub repository link and issue-report instructions. Retire the old map-only /nqh on|off commands; keep /nqh status for diagnostics.
• Automatically localize for all official WoW client locales, including both English/Spanish variants, with English fallback. New translation wording and layout can be refined with player feedback.
• Announce upgrades once per account. Fix-only updates use neutral text; upgrades spanning feature releases invite players to inspect Settings. New checkbox rows use Blizzard's native New marker until viewed. Preserve unseen markers across patches/reloads and dismiss viewed markers across characters.
• Fix invisible tracker rows still receiving mouse input/tooltips. Restore exact original input flags, handle pooled/reparented rows and retry protected changes after combat.
• Fix difficulty-color concealment being lost on journal hover. Stop stationary selective-map tooltips from repeatedly rebuilding the journal; retain unchanged pins and refresh real map/quest changes. Native tooltip content updates on actual re-entry.
• Refine native onboarding cards, round icons, spacing and buttons. Block background hover/click/wheel input while the chooser is open and release it on every exit path.
• Validate with 15 Lua 5.1 regression suites, syntax/TOC checks and a byte-verified 16-file installable ZIP. The owner confirmed the final preview in Forever and explicitly requested this stable release.
• Known issue: intermittent ADDON_ACTION_BLOCKED reports remain under investigation in Issue #3.

[1.3.0] — 2026-11-06

• Add Hide quest hints in tooltips: selectively suppress native quest title/objective/player lines on creature and world-object mouseover without hiding normal details.
• Add Hide quest NPC names: independently override Blizzard's UnitNameFriendlySpecialNPCName CVar while preserving the original account value on disable or character change. Because Blizzard groups these name types, some special/friendly NPC names may also be hidden; regular hostile-name CVars are untouched.
• Add Hide item sell prices: hide the native SellPrice tooltip line outside the merchant window. Original prices reappear while trading, and selling mechanics remain unchanged. Addons that draw their own price overlays are unaffected.
• Add Hide quest progress popups: suppress six native quest-specific yellow objective count/completion messages, but preserve ordinary game messages and red errors. Restore pre-existing message-type settings when disabled.
• All four new controls are independent, per-character, off by default, and localized in Russian and English. The full settings window now has six checkboxes.
• Expand Lua 5.1 regression coverage to ten suites, including independent options, saved settings, safe Blizzard UI integration, deferred loading, merchant-only prices and quest-message filtering.
• Add shared release-quality gates: all Lua syntax, all automatically discovered regression suites and manifest-verified ZIP packaging must pass in PR CI and again before a tag/release is published.
• New controls were evaluated by the addon author in World of Warcraft: Forever before requesting the stable release. Mocked Lua tests cannot exclude every client-side compatibility issue.

[1.2.0] — 2026-11-05

• Add a Blizzard-styled standalone settings window (/nqh) and a launch button under Options → AddOns.
• Add independent per-character options for global quest hint suppression and the on-screen objective tracker.
• Let players selectively reveal native Blizzard blue quest objective areas and original round progress/turn-in map POIs by quest ID. These are not custom pin images.
• Add Show hint / Hide hint to the journal's details panel, its right-click menu, and the objective tracker's right-click menu; align the details button beside Blizzard's Back button.
• Context-menu hint toggles no longer open the map. Normal clicking of a quest still does.
• When revealing a quest, set its native C_SuperTrack target for the in-world diamond and distance without adding it to the watch list. Enable showInGameNavigation only while the active super-tracked quest is explicitly permitted; restore saved CVar values when global hint suppression is disabled.
• Show Blizzard's original POI buttons next to quest names only for permitted quests in the native journal and objective tracker, without turning questPOI on globally.
• Add ruRU localization for all addon UI controls, hints and status messages, with English (enUS) default/fallback.
• Keep the objective-tracker visibility checkbox independent of quest hint permission and native SuperTrack focus.
• Preserve existing per-character options and /nqh on | off | status behavior; on/off still applies to map hints only.
• Expand Lua regression coverage for SavedVariables lifecycle, navigation gating, localized strings, native POI badges, tracker and journal controls, reload, and character separation.
• Add an opt-in GitHub Actions publishing workflow invoked by a version request, with automatic tag and GitHub Release.
• Verified in World of Warcraft: Forever: selective native blue quest areas, round quest POIs, in-world navigation diamond with distance, quest journal/tracker POI badges, and Russian quest-hint labels. The user also reported no recurrence of a previously observed Blizzard blocked-action dialog in follow-up testing. The root cause of that earlier warning has not been established, and cross-character behavior remains to be checked in-game.

[1.1.1] — 2026-11-05

• Fix per-character SavedVariables initialization: load data on ADDON_LOADED after Blizzard restores the globals, instead of capturing empty tables at Lua chunk execution.
• Fix /nqh off not restoring quest hints after /reload.
• Add regression tests that simulate the actual WoW addon loading order and verify on → /reload → off.
• Verified in the released Forever client: world-map and minimap hints are suppressed; after manual recovery of values left by 1.1.0, the on → /reload → off scenario restores the three available CVars.
• Upgrading from affected 1.1.0 installs may require a one-time manual reset of CVars to 1 because the original baseline was not saved by the buggy version.
• The objective tracker remains visible by design. Cross-character switching remains to be verified on the live client.

[1.1.0] — 2026-11-04 (initial release build)

• Add /nqh on, /nqh off, and /nqh status.
• Default to OFF and persist the ON/OFF setting per character.
• Restore previously changed account-wide CVars when entering an OFF character.
• Restore original values on /nqh off, instead of setting all hints to 1.
• Add showQuestObjectivesOnMap to the targeted map settings.
• Add runtime CVar availability checks, event-driven enforcement, and client validation instructions.
• Target the released client folder (_forever_). In-game Forever verification still pending.

[1.0.0] — experimental archive

• Initial proof of concept: four CVars were forced to 0 on login and on CVar updates, globally for all characters.
• No slash commands, persistence, or verification in Forever.