Changelog

All notable changes to Sentinel are documented here. This project follows Semantic Versioning and the spirit of Keep a Changelog.

1.0.0 - 2026-06-09

The first public release of Sentinel — a modern, Secret-Value-safe Lua error watcher for the Midnight-era WoW client.

Added

Error capture

• Sole-owner error handler that captures the full call stack and locals at the real fault site, installed early via the leading ! load order.
• Capture of taint events (ADDON_ACTION_BLOCKED / ADDON_ACTION_FORBIDDEN), the macro equivalents, and LUA_WARNING, with the default blue blocked-action popups suppressed.
• Deduplication with per-error occurrence counters and re-stamped timestamps.
• Token-bucket flood protection that pauses capture during an error storm to protect frame rate, with a re-entrancy guard against recursive faults.
• Automatic disable of legacy grabbers (!BugGrabber, !Swatter, !BaudErrorFrame) so capture is never silently swallowed.

Window & display

• Tabbed views: All bugs, This session, Previous session, Received, and Search.
• Smart default tab on open (This session, falling back to All bugs when the session is clean but older bugs exist).
• Syntax-highlighted, scrollable detail pane for stack traces and locals.
• Per-row hover tooltips showing occurrences, last-seen date/time, session, and sender (for shared bugs).
• Copy a single error or export the entire list as clean plaintext.
• Flat dark theme with an ornate Maw/runecarving frame border and modern scrollbars.

Sharing

• Send a caught error to another Sentinel user over a chunked, throttled addon channel (AceComm-3.0 + AceSerializer-3.0).
• Received bugs are tagged with the sender's name and flagged with a *.
• Secret values are stripped before sending; sharing is blocked inside instances (where Midnight disallows addon messages) with a prompt to use Export instead.

Access & settings

• Self-contained minimap button with a live error-count badge, drag-to-position, a rich tooltip, and an Addon Compartment entry.
• Options panel on Blizzard's Settings API: minimap toggle, throttled sound, chat announcement, auto-open on error, and a one-click wipe.
• Slash commands: /sentinel, /sen, /sen config, /sen clear, /sen test.

Under the hood

• Midnight Secret-Value safety across every UI and formatting path.
• Persistence via SavedVariables with LoadSavedVariablesFirst, default merging, schema versioning, and a hard cap on stored errors.
• Event-driven design with no idle OnUpdate, pooled list rows, and combat-lockdown-aware behavior throughout.