[0.8.1] — 2026-10-12

Inspection engine performance, proactive pre-caching, and range responsiveness. Eliminates latency by pre-caching player data on target and mouseover events, speeds up the background queue ticker from 1.5s to 0.5s with instant INSPECT_READY chained dispatch, prioritizes actively targeted players, and resolves remote inspection deadlocks.

Added

• Proactive Target Pre-caching (PLAYER_TARGET_CHANGED): Targeting any inspectable player instantly triggers inspection in the background. GearScore, average item level, specialization, and talents are cached before hovering their unit frame or opening manual inspect.
• Eager World Mouseover (UPDATE_MOUSEOVER_UNIT): Sweeping over player characters in the 3D world triggers immediate background inspection queries rather than waiting for tooltip rendering passes.
• Group Roster Inspection Scanning (GROUP_ROSTER_UPDATE): Automatically runs inspection passes over party and raid members as group members join or update.
• Equipment Swap Invalidation (UNIT_INVENTORY_CHANGED): When an inspected player swaps items, their cached profile is immediately invalidated and re-inspected.

Fixed

• Remote Inspect "Scanning Equipment..." Deadlock: Corrected LibForeverInspector callback firing to include isInspect (true) and unit with INVENTORY_READY (lib.callbacks:Fire("INVENTORY_READY", guid, true, unit)), matching consumer contracts and preventing TacoTip_Extras from rejecting the callback.
• Non-Targeted Inspect Resolution via InspectFrame.unit: When players are inspected via right-click contextual menus (guild roster, chat, /who, friends list), they are frequently not current target, focus, or mouseover. lib:PlayerGUIDToUnitToken now matches InspectFrame.unit, ensuring remote inspects resolve their unit token cleanly.
• Uncached Item ID Resolution on Remote Inspect: Handled remote inspection situations where GetInventoryItemID returns nil while GetInventoryItemLink returns a valid item string link, extracting the item ID directly from the native link to prevent false contradiction failures.
• Max-Range Inspect Failure & Terrain Dead Zones: lib:CanInspect(unit) now succeeds if either _G.CanInspect(unit) or _G.CheckInteractDistance(unit, 1) confirms inspect eligibility, resolving false-negative rejections caused by tall mounts, elevation changes, or 28-yard border thresholds.
• Inspection Queue Throttle & Idle Latency: Tightened INSPECT_DELAY from 1.5s to 0.8s on modern clients (1.0s on Classic). Replaced the static 1.5s background ticker with a 0.5s ticker, and chained next-queue dispatch immediately upon INSPECT_READY arrival, completely eliminating idle delays between sequential player scans.
• Specialization Lookup & Unused Variable Resolution in LibForeverInspector:
  • Resolved unused localized parameter in lib:GetSpecializationName(class, specIndex, localized): queries modern GetSpecializationInfoForClassID on Retail/Forever and lib.spec_table_localized across localized clients (deDE, esES, koKR, ruRU, zhCN), falling back gracefully to English defaults.
  • Resolved unused class and specIndex parameters in lib:GetSpecializationIcon(class, specIndex): dynamically extracts the specialization icon via GetSpecializationInfoForClassID on Retail/Forever and via lib:GetTalentInfoByClass on Classic.
  • Added lib:IsAnniversary() and lib:IsTitanforge() convenience aliases.
  • Hardened TBC Anniversary client detection via clientBuildMajor == 2 (20506) alongside Blizzard's native WOW_PROJECT_BURNING_CRUSADE_CLASSIC constant.
• Target Prioritization: The background inspect loop now checks and inspects your actively selected target ahead of queued or group roster background iterations.
• Pending Inspect Timeout: Reduced the pending inspect timeout from 3.5s (nextInspectTime + 2.0) to ~1.6s (nextInspectTime + 0.8), recovering gracefully if a target moves out of range or disconnects.