v1.8.3 Release Notes

Highlights

• Massive Combat Performance Boost: Drastically reduced CPU usage in raids, Mythic+ dungeons, and busy cities by eliminating redundant background calculations.
• Stutter Elimination: Replaced heavy frame-boundary calculations with native game engine hover checks, preventing micro-stutters and freezes when other addons update their layouts.
• Zone Transition Crash Fix: Resolved an issue where crossing zone boundaries or loading into an instance could trigger a fatal interface error.

Performance Improvements

• Filtered Combat Traffic: The engine now listens strictly to your own character rather than running UI checks whenever any raid member, pet, or enemy mob takes damage or casts a spell.
• Idle Sleep Mode: Background polling timers now automatically sleep when your cursor is stationary out of combat, keeping the addon silent while idle in major cities.
• Event-Driven Health Fading: Health threshold fading now updates only when your character's health actually changes, completely removing it from background timer loops.
• Short-Circuited Hover Checks: If a frame is already at 100% opacity from combat or another trigger, the engine now skips unnecessary mouseover calculations entirely.

Scanner & Stability

• Zoning Protection: Added safeguards around protected character status checks (such as being in combat, dead, or in ghost form) so zone changes and loading screens transition smoothly without crashes.
• Smoother Live Reticle HUD: Upgraded the frame picker to use native engine mouse lookups, eliminating cursor lag and motion stutter while configuring UI frames.