SpartanUI Changelog

📅 Last Month Summary

SpartanUI now has all-new nameplates with many styles and its own action bars, so you don't need other addons for them. There's also a new chat system called Messenger and full support for WoW Forever, including new looks. The settings window is easier to use with live previews and a simpler setup.

🎯 This Release

All-new nameplates are now the default, offering many styles and ways to customize them. Many minimap display issues are fixed across different themes, and you can now drag teleport spells.

Version 9.0.0 (2026-10-13)

🚀 Features

• Nameplates can change when something happens, like a mob starting to cast
• Painted nameplates for the Voyager, Grove and Observatory looks
• All-new nameplates with ready-made styles and a live preview

🐛 Fixes

• Voyager, Grove and Observatory's minimap fills its ring, with the zone name always on screen
• The minimap sits in its ring again on the Arcane, Fel and War looks
• The Classic look's minimap sits lower, centred in its ring
• The minimap sits in its place on the art again on WoW Forever
• The minimap no longer shows an error when its coordinates use a custom text size
• Arena enemy frames no longer show errors on patch 12.1.5
• Teleports in the /tp window and spellbook can be clicked and dragged to your action bars
• Nameplate range fading, spell color rows and healer mode now work
• Nameplate settings no longer jump while you drag sliders or pick colors
• Nameplates no longer cause errors or slow down big pulls

📝 Changes

• The info bar under the minimap is turned off for now
• The old nameplates are retired, and your plate and text sizes move to the new ones

Version 8.2.2 (2026-10-11)

🐛 Fixes

• The Midnight, Grid and flat looks no longer show an error on Classic

Version 8.2.1 (2026-10-10)

🚀 Features

• Preview chats from the Messenger icon and add handy info bars
• Choose colorful chat bubbles and avoid addon conflicts
• Shard and Lamina, two modern takes on the Classic look
• Every SpartanUI look now has its own painted info bar
• See when your damage over time spells will finish off your target

🐛 Fixes

• Hiding buff icons for phased or out-of-range group members no longer causes errors
• Logs, import, export and what's new now open in front of the settings window
• Scaling the minimap in move mode now scales the map itself, and moved frames no longer drift while you scale them
• The DoT damage marker now shows at the right size
• New characters no longer share settings on their first login
• Setup opens for new characters again

📝 Changes

• The settings window now comes with Lib's AddonTools, so your other Lib's addons can use the same look (update Lib's AddonTools too)
• Tribal's painted info bar art
• Unit frames updated to the latest oUF, with fixes for WoW Forever
• Highlight your target, focus or mouseover on party and raid frames, and on boss and arena frames

Version 8.2.0 (2026-10-02)

🚀 Features

• The color picker matches your window look
• Zoom and drag the settings preview with your mouse
• Show larger tiles on the settings Look, Frames and Windows pages
• A shorter setup: pick your look, your frames and a few helpers
• What's new shows off big releases, with every change since you last played
• Pick a look for SpartanUI's windows apart from your screen art
• Give people and channels a nickname in Messenger
• Three new looks made for WoW Forever: Voyager, Grove and Observatory
• SpartanUI's windows now match your theme, with new art for each look
• Setup now shows matching looks and smoother frame changes
• A new setup - pick your look from picture cards, and reload only once at the end
• Healer Grid shows your own heals over time on each group frame, for every healing class
• Lib's DataBar matches your SpartanUI look and sits in the spot your style has for it
• Three new looks - Modern Flat, Healer Grid and Classic Dark
• A flat bar texture and striped shield textures for health bars
• See how your chat will look while you change chat settings
• See a live preview of an action bar while you change its settings
• See a live preview of your unit frame while you change its settings
• A new settings window with a sidebar and search
• Messenger tells you when a group chat says your name
• Pin Messenger in place, and let pop-out chats hide their controls

🐛 Fixes

• The reload prompt shows its message and buttons again
• Party, boss and arena frames grow the way you set them, in the settings preview too
• The settings side list opens on the page you are on
• A look's own settings no longer show while you use another look
• The minimap stays in place on the new looks and no longer flickers its zoom
• The +/- signs in the settings side list no longer show as a lone line
• The line above new messages in Messenger shows again
• The settings window shows its pages again
• WoW Forever is recognized more reliably
• Experience and reputation bars fill properly on Voyager, Grove and Observatory
• Messenger keeps first and last names on WoW Forever
• Clicking a portrait now targets that unit, and right-click opens its menu
• Unit frame settings now apply straight away after you switch looks
• Aura bars show correctly on newer game versions
• Classic and War frame art no longer disappears after trying a flat look
• Picking a look in setup now changes your unit frames too
• Balance druid eclipse bar and debuff details on Classic clients
• Picking the Fel look in setup now switches to it
• Joining a party no longer causes an error on your unit frames
• The Movers settings page no longer squeezes the list of frames
• Chat commands, text tags and module settings get the whole window
• The unit frame preview shows its health and power bars again
• Frame moving buttons no longer pile on top of each other
• Arena frame settings no longer show while arena frames are turned off
• XP and reputation bars you moved stay put when you change themes
• Frame moving closes safely in combat and keeps attached frames in place
• The setup wizard opens on your first login again

📝 Changes

• What's new shows off Messenger for 8.2.0
• Turn SpartanUI's action bars on or off from the modules list, and open What's new from settings
• Pick the part underneath in the preview
• Shift or Ctrl-click a settings page to paste its /sui path into chat
• Pick your look, frames and window look from picture cards in settings
• New pictures for every look and frame style in setup and settings
• Choose how loudly each Messenger conversation alerts you
• The "New" marker in Messenger sits in the middle of its line
• Voyager and Observatory's bar is one clean piece when the minimap is top right
• Cleaner unit frames on the new looks: names sit above Voyager's and Grove's frames and clear Observatory's ornaments
• Start a chat or join a channel right from the Messenger search box
• Settings sub-pages are back in the side list, and the settings window scrolls when made smaller
• Preview a unit frame right on your screen, and hide parts of the preview with Shift+click
• The Transparent look lets the game show through its windows
• Font, texture and sound pickers show a preview, and settings text is sharper
• The info bar look is asked once in setup, not twice
• Every setup page now uses the new setup, and pages for turned-off features are skipped
• The classic art styles now dress your party, raid, focus and boss frames too
• A look can bring its own font, and a font you pick yourself always wins
• The settings preview opens in its own panel beside the settings window
• Or shrink the frame moving bar to reach frames under it
• A clearer Help page
• Frame moving shows where the game's own frames are
• Party and raid previews stack like the real group
• The unit frame preview shows portraits and indicators
• The settings window uses new switches, sliders and menus
• The unit frame preview shows your buff and debuff rows
• Moving frames is easier, with guide lines, exact positions and undo
• Roboto Condensed and a shared look for SpartanUI's tool windows
• Undo a deleted Messenger conversation, and switch chats with Alt+arrows
• Messenger times and hints are easier to read
• Messenger fits larger text and small windows

Version 8.1.0 (2026-09-27)

🚀 Features

• Messenger, a chat window for your whispers and group chats

🐛 Fixes

• Switching portrait styles now updates the unit frame

Version 8.0.0 (2026-09-26)

🚀 Features

• Bring your action bar setup over from Bartender4, ElvUI or Dominos
• SpartanUI now has its own action bars, so Bartender4 is no longer required
• Support WoW Forever alongside Retail and Classic

🐛 Fixes

• Faded bars, the extra action button and the button lock behave correctly
• Importing bars from other addons keeps your theme's layout and more of your settings
• No more repeated key binding messages after switching bar addons
• SUI Bars for Forever
• Action bars no longer error on load in WoW Forever
• Hunter pet happiness shows on the pet frame again
• Key bindings carry over when switching from Bartender4 to SpartanUI bars
• Action buttons no longer show a rounded frame when icons are cropped
• The Move bars button now turns move mode off again
• Buffs and debuffs show on unit frames in WoW Forever
• Stray compass ring under the minimap is hidden on WoW Forever
• Switching to an older profile no longer breaks the UI
• Party and raid frames show up again
• Dispel highlights no longer error on WoW Forever
• The day and night dial no longer covers the minimap edge
• Nameplates display correctly on WoW Forever
• Unit frame groups no longer error on WoW Forever 1.60.1
• Aura icons survive a bad saved icon size
• Health, power and cast bars no longer error on restricted units
• Class colors show in name tags and frame backgrounds too
• Class colors show on units you cannot inspect
• Aura settings apply correctly during raids and mythic+

📝 Changes

• Choose the colour of ready and unusable buttons, and turn off the proc glow
• Spell menus fit the size of your action buttons
• Action bars fixed across game versions, with a vehicle exit button and more faithful imports
• SpartanUI action bars handle vehicles, pet battles and combat more reliably
• The stance bar takes the theme's size even when your forms load after login
• Bag buttons take Masque skins, and bars stay in place with SpartanUI's mover turned off
• Each action bar can have its own button text style
• Party and raid frames work on WoW Forever
• Unit frames updated to the latest oUF release (14.1.0)
• Unit frames pick up the latest fixes for health, power, class resources and PvP icons
• Auto-select quest reward works on all game versions

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