CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

This project uses Semantic Versioning.

1.11.16 -- 2024-10-24

• Really updated the TOC for WoW 11.0.5.

1.11.15 -- 2024-10-24

• Updated the TOC for WoW 11.0.5.

1.11.14 -- 2024-08-13

Fixed

• Replaced deprecated GetAddOnMetadata and IsAddOnLoaded with C_AddOns namespaced functions.

1.11.13 -- 2024-07-31

Fixed

• Removed reference to undefined variable.

1.11.12 -- 2024-07-30

Fixed

• Fix for Greenwall settings not displaying in Options>AddOns Tab and the related 'InterfaceOptions_AddCategory' (a nil value) error.

Updated

• Updated the TOC for WoW 11.0.0.

1.11.11 -- 2023-11-11

Updated

• Updated the TOC for WoW 10.2.0.

1.11.10 -- 2023-05-06

Updated

• Updated the TOC for WoW 10.1.0.

1.11.9 -- 2023-02-17

Updated

• Updated the TOC for WoW 10.0.5.

1.11.8 -- 2022-10-26

Updated

• Updated the TOC for WoW 10.0.0.

Removed

• Removed an unsupported anchor positioning element.

1.11.7 -- 2022-06-20

Updated

• Updated the TOC for WoW 9.2.5.

1.11.6 -- 2021-09-03

Updated

• Updated the TOC for WoW 9.1.0.

1.11.5 -- 2021-03-14

Updated

• Updated the TOC for WoW 9.0.5.

1.11.4 -- 2020-12-23

Updated

• Updated the README to point to the current connected realm documentation.

1.11.3 -- 2020-12-19

Changed

• Updated the TOC for WoW 9.0.2.

1.11.2 -- 2020-10-13

Fixed

• Replaced usage of deprecated GuildRoster() with C_GuildInfo.GuildRoster().

1.11.1 -- 2020-08-09

Fixed

• Added a conditional check for successfully parsed addon version for minimum version enforcement. This is a tactical fix to address the semantic version parsing.

1.11.0 -- 2020-04-27

Removed

• Removed replication of achievements, promotions, demotions, and loot announcements between co-guilds. The SendChatMessage function was made partially protected in 8.2.5, and events that are not triggered by hardware events cannot use the function.
• Removed unnecessary local co-guild use of the addon communication channel.

Added

• GreenWallAPI.GetChannelNumbers function to query the custom chat channels in use by GreenWall

Changed

• Updated the TOC for WoW 8.3.0.
• Refactored CHAT_MSG_SYSTEM handling to use an abstract factory and added full unit testing for the polymorphic classes.

Fixed

• Updated debug message call stack parsing for 8.3.

1.10.1 -- 2019-09-24

Updated

• Updated the TOC for WoW 8.2.5.

Added

• Added unit test coverage reporting through Coveralls.

1.10.0 -- 2019-09-05

Changed

• Moved to customer branch approach for WoW Classic releases.

Removed

• Removed transitional code for handling PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD.

1.9.15 -- 2019-08-27

Changed

• Cleaned up project to support CurseForge automatic packaging.

1.9.14 -- 2019-08-22

Added

• Added compatibility support for Incognito.

1.9.13 -- 2019-07-02

Updated

• Updated the TOC for WoW 8.2.

Removed

• Removed Gitter badge from documentation.

1.9.12 -- 2019-01-10

Fixed

• Added missing message alteration for Name2Chat.

1.9.11 -- 2019-01-06

Fixed

• Added ID tagging support for Identity-2 and Name2Chat under the WoW 8.1.0 changes.
• Changed legendary loot notifications from second-person to third-person.

1.9.10 -- 2019-01-04

Fixed

• Fixed GreenWall_ParseText message filtering to filter blank messages.

Added

• Added warning for any transmission of a blank message on a channel.

Changed

• Removed unused CRC import.

1.9.9 -- 2018-12-13

Fixed

• Added chat interception workaround for guild chat changes in BFA 8.1.

Thank you to Ashayo for the patch.

1.9.8 -- 2018-08-23

Changed

• Refactored system message pattern matching.

1.9.7 -- 2018-08-11

Fixed

• Removed a debug statement that was raising format errors.

Thank you to Legracen from AIE for helping with the fault isolation.

Changed

• Refactored gw.Debug to test the debug level before formatting the message.

1.9.6 -- 2018-08-10

Fixed

• Restored context menu availability for speakers in other co-guilds.

1.9.5 -- 2018-07-19

Fixed

• Checks for ElvUI compatibility now recognize ElvUI user profiles.

Thank you, again, to Simpy from the ElvUI team.

1.9.4 -- 2018-07-19

Fixed

• Applied workaround for chat channel sender regression introduced in 8.0.1.

Removed

• Removed pre-8.0 call to bare SendLocal.

1.9.3 -- 2018-07-17

Updated

• Updated the TOC for WoW 8.0.

1.9.2 -- 2018-06-11

Fixed

• Updated compatibility mode for ElvUI 10.74 changes to chat.
• Removed combat log from chat window scanning.

Thank you to Simpy from the ElvUI team for the fixes.

1.9.1 -- 2018-04-28

Fixed

• SendAddonMessage is now called in the C_ChatInfo namespace for 8.0.x.

Changed

• Moved WoW build information to gw.build global.

1.9.0 -- 2018-01-08

Added

• Added support for shared, account-level settings per character. Each character can either use the account settings or a character-specific configuration. If an existing GreenWall configuration exists for the character character mode will be the default, otherwise account mode is the default.
• Added confederation announcements of legendary items looted.
• Moved configuration handling to a proxy class to allow a single point of access for all configuration data.
• Added Travis CI build testing with luaunit for unit tests.
• Added a dedication in memoriam to Roger K White (aka Ralff), we will always miss you.

Fixed

• Corrected item string matching for legendary loot toasts.

Changed

• Pointed documentation to new CurseForge URL.

Updated

• Rewrote the project README.

Removed

• Removed luadoc HTML output.
• HTML copies of other documentation.

1.8.5 -- 2017-08-29

Fixed

• Applied a workaround for 7.3.0 where GuildControlSetRank() was made protected. Checking for rank access is now determined by reading the officer note of the GM.

1.8.4 -- 2017-08-29

Updated

• Updated the TOC for WoW 7.3.

1.8.3 -- 2017-04-16

Updated

• Updated the TOC for WoW 7.2.

1.8.2 -- 2017-01-12

Added

• The version command now give WoW version information.

1.8.1 -- 2016-10-25

Fixed

• Corrected configuration whitespace grooming.

Changed

• Updated TOC for WoW 7.1.

1.8.0 -- 2016-09-20

Fixed

• Added whitespace trimming to configuration parser.

Changed

• Compatibility messages are now raised as debugging output.

1.7.3 -- 2016-08-03

Fixed

• Corrected global name parsing to account for UTF-8.
• Updated API documentation.

1.7.2 -- 2016-07-20

Fixed

• Workaround for delayed bridge channel join caused by missing CHAT_MSG_CHANNEL_NOTICE events.

1.7.1 -- 2016-07-20

Changed

• Updated TOC for WoW 7.0.3.

1.7.0 -- 2016-01-01

Fixed

• Improved message validation during adaptation layer decoding.
• Fixed message handling logic.

Changed

• Updated color of addon messages in chat.

Added

• Confederation bridging API for third-party add-ons.
• Automatic Prat-3.0 compatibility mode.

Removed

• Removed version number from options screen title.

1.6.6 -- 2015-12-16

Fixed

• A check is now done for officer status before sending a gratuitous officer announcement.
• Added officer note data validation before parsing.

Added

• Automatic ElvUI compatibility mode. Thank you, Blazeflack.
• Added Markdown change log.
• Added channel-specific hold downs for join failures.

1.6.5 -- 2015-06-24

Changed

• Updated TOC for WoW 6.2.

1.6.4 -- 2015-03-07

Changed

• Refactored the user option validation.
• Modified the GwHoldDown object. Renamed GwHoldDown:set() to GwHoldDown:start() and created a new 'GwHoldDown:set()' mutator to change the interval.
• Moved the Semantic Versioning parser to a LibStub library.

Added

• Added a user option (joindelay) to control the channel join hold-down.

1.6.3 -- 2015-03-04

Changed

• Restored original channel hold-down timer value of 30 seconds.

1.6.2 -- 2015-03-01

Changed

• Removed lazy sweeper case in the event loop and replaced it with a callback for handling hold-down expiry.
• Reduced channel hold-down to 10 seconds.

1.6.1 -- 2015-02-28

Fixed

• Added conditional to check achievements flag on receipt of achievement spam.

Added

• Added guild ID to debugging output on message receipt.

1.6.0 -- 2015-02-24

Changed

• Comprehensive refactor to allow new features in 2.0.
• Refactored configuration parser.
• Split GreenWall_Core.lua into multiple files.
• Removed excess semicolons ... Lua is not Perl.

Added

• Added GwConfig object to contain configuration.
• Added GwChannel objects for channel management, implementing transport and adaptation layers for communication.
• Added GwHoldDown and GwHoldDownCache objects.
• Added LibStub libraries for SHA256, Salsa20, CRC16-CCITT, and Base64.

1.5.4 -- 2014-12-12

Fixed

• Corrected comparisons of character names to account for capitalization normalization in the API.

Changed

• Updated luadoc.

1.5.3 -- 2014-11-11

Fixed

• Added comember cache updates for channel join/leave events. This stops flapping roster announcements for characters in peer co-guilds.

1.5.2 -- 2014-10-31

Fixed

• Fixed the General chat delay lockout.
• Improved the tests for officer status.

1.5.1 -- 2014-10-15

Fixed

• Fixed regular expression for realm name in GwGlobalName.

1.5.0 -- 2015-10-14

Fixed

• Updated for fully qualified names.

Changed

• Switched to MIT license.
• Minor changes to debug messages.

Added

• Added support for guilds on connected realms.

1.4.1 -- 2014-08-10

Fixed

• Corrected the processing of the reload request.

1.4.0 -- 2014-03-22

Changed

• Update documentation for Interface Options.
• Cleaned up debugging levels.

Added

• Added Interface Options panel for GreenWall options.

1.3.6 -- 2014-02-18

Fixed

• Fixed sender identification under WoW 5.4.7.

Added

• Added realm name to gwPlayerName.

1.3.5 -- 2014-0120

Added

• Added missing roster notification functionality.

1.3.4 -- 2013-11-17

Changed

• Changed officer note format and updated parsing.

1.3.3 -- 2013-09-10

Changed

• Updated TOC for WoW 5.4.0.

1.3.2 -- 2013-08-07

Fixed

• Fixed message integrity checking for duplicated messages.
• Fixed messages generated on guild join, leave, or kick.
• Corrected formatting of documentation.

1.3.1 -- 2013-08-06

Changed

• Project moved to GitHub.
• All text documentation has been converted to Markdown and HTML.
• All URLs have been updated in the TOC.

Added

• Guild configuration format documentation has been added.

1.3.0 -- 2013-06-09

Fixed

• Fixed handling of a kick from a guild.
• Fixed variable names for input validation in GwStringHash().

Changed

• Simplified the unpacking of inter-guild messages.

Added

• Added support for a newer, compact configuration format.

1.2.7 -- 2013-02-27

Changed

• Updated TOC for WoW 5.2.0.

1.2.6 -- 2012-12-04

Changed

• Updated TOC for WoW 5.1.0.

1.2.5 -- 2012-09-01

Fixed

• Localized _ to avoid the taint issues with glyphs in 5.0.4.

1.2.4 -- 2012-08-29

Changed

• Updated TOC for WoW 5.0.4.

1.2.3 -- 2012-08-25

Changed

• Replaced the 32-bit string hash used to obfuscate channel names in the debugging output with a standard CRC-16-CCITT implementation to avoid overflow issues with string.format() in MoP.
• Made some changes to the debugging code to improve visibility into message passing and replication.

Added

• Added extra debugging information for current guild information.
• Added value checking for missing coguild ID in GwSendConfederationMsg().

1.2.2 -- 2012-11-12

Fixed

• Fixed officer chat bridging for the guild leader.

1.2.1 -- 2011-11-29

Changed

• Updated TOC for WoW version 4.3.

Added

• Added link to LemonKing's add-on in the documentation.
• Documented prequisites.

1.2.0 -- 2011-11-26

Fixed

• Fixed unnecessary channel resets due to configuration reload.
• Fixed behavior during UI reload.
• Corrected join/leave handling.
• Corrected case statement for handling chat events.

Changed

• Switched to Semantic Versioning.
• Separated guild info parsing from the GwRefreshComms() function.
• Factored out some ugly flags.
• Cleaned up CLI configuration.
• Cleaned up debugging output.
• Cleaned up guild info handling.
• Parameterized all channel control functions.
• Masked all channel names and passwords in debugging output.

Added

• Added officer chat support.
• Added message queuing.
• Added a GwIsOfficer() check to the officer chat configuration phase to avoid pointless work.
• Added broadcast message type.
• Added broadcasts of guild join and leave events.
• Added broadcasts of promote and demote messages.
• Added hold-down for reconfiguration.
• Added broadcast receiver code.
• Added string hash to determine changes in text fields.
• Added error checking for officer note parsing failure.
• Added README.txt and GUILD_QUICKSTART.txt.

Removed

• Removed channel protection code.
• Removed SHA1 library.

1.1.07 -- 2011-06-28

Changed

• Updated TOC for WoW version 4.2.

1.1.06 -- 2011-03-21

Changed

• Babel now disabled by default.

1.1.05 -- 2011-03-21

Changed

• Moved scan of chat windows to chat message event handlers.
• Sorted clauses in the main event switch for legibility.

Added

• Added GwReplicateMessage() function.
• Added RegisterAddonMessagePrefix call for 4.1 changes.
• Added Babel.

1.1.04 -- 2011-01-15

Changed

• Minor updates for Curse packager.
• Cleaned up status display code.

Added

• Added BSD-derived license.

1.1.03 -- 2011-01-14

Changed

• Moved GuildRoster call to PLAYER_LOGIN handler.
• Limited conditions under which reinitialization occurred on PLAYER_GUILD_UPDATE.
• Renamed gwPlayerGuild to gwGuildName.
• Cleaned up prep/refresh/join flow for connecting to the common channel.

Added

• Added a delay mechanism to prevent hijacking of general channel.
• Added connection statistics gathering.
• Added LuaDoc data for functions and procedures.

1.1.02 -- 2010-12-11

Fixed

• Fixed missing assignment of channel number on join.

Changed

• Redacted sensitive data in the status output.

Added

• Added hold-downs for join and configuration messages.
• Added a configuration flag to enable replication of achievement messages.
• Added frame identifier to Tx debug messages.
• Added help text with command listing.

Removed

• Removed tabs from the source code!
• Removed event registration for channel leave events.
• Removed squelch message on reload flood.

1.1.01 -- 2010-12-06

Fixed

• Fixed status output when no channel has been configured.

Added

• Added co-guild tagging.

1.1.00 -- 2010-12-05

Added

• Added announcement flag check for logout announcements.

Removed

• Removed unused moderation release code.

1.0.18 -- 2010-12-04

Added

• Added options line to configuration.

1.0.17 -- 2010-12-04

Fixed

• Fixed SavedVariables processing.

1.0.16 -- 2010-12-04

Fixed

• Removed moderator handling and switched to better handling of owner status.

1.0.15 -- 2010-12-03

Fixed

• Removed faulty tContains() for gwPeerTable checks to stop prolific kicking.

1.0.14 -- 2010-12-03

Fixed

• Fixed missing argument to GetGuildInfo().

1.0.13 -- 2010-12-03

Changed

• Updated guild change/update handling.

1.0.12 -- 2010-12-03

Fixed

• Fixed /who and channel join event processing.

1.0.11 -- 2010-12-03

Fixed

• Limited handling of channel owner/moderator changes to the common channel.

Changed

• Simplified and improved GwIsConnected().

Added

• Added a nil result check for the system message regex.
• Added gratuitous container officer response on channel join.
• Suspend confederation messages until container ID is known.
• Limit scope of the channel debugging.

Removed

• Removed proactive channel leave before a join.

1.0.10 -- 2010-11-22

Changed

• Rewrote guild lookups.

Added

• Added extra slash commands.

1.0.09 -- 2010-11-21

Fixed

• Missing negation in channel defense code.

1.0.08 -- 2010-11-21

Fixed

• Corrected guild join handling.

Added

• Added more debugging code.

Removed

• Removed channel bans.

1.0.07 -- 2010-11-17

Fixed

• Typos in variable names.

1.0.06 -- 2010-11-13

Added

• Added online/offline notices.

1.0.05 -- 2010-11-13

Fixed

• Fixed the placement and use of GwLeaveChannel().

Changed

• Changed container messaging system to generalize the request message type.

1.0.04 -- 2010-11-13

Fixed

• Fixed container recognition in configuration processing.

Added

• Added debugging output to slash command handling.

1.0.03 -- 2010-11-12

Changed

• Changed configuration to support common configurations across co-guilds.
• Refactored configuration parsing.
• Cleaned up slash command handling.

Added

• Added variable field to the saved variables.

1.0.02 -- 2010-11-12

Added

• Added container IDs to channel messages to avoid duplicates within the same co-guild.

1.0.01 -- 2010-11-12

Added

• Brought back GUILD_ROSTER_UPDATE to get around the guild info loading delay.

1.0.00 -- 2010-11-11

Changed

• Cleaned up debugging statements.

Added

• Added moderator/owner status handling.
• Added kick/ban handling for interlopers.
• Added channel leave if player leaves the guild.
• Finished defensive ownership/moderation handling.
• Added handling for guild achievements.
• Added forced reload.

Removed

-Removed GUILD_ROSTER_UPDATE event handling.

0.9.02 -- 2010-11-06

Fixed

• Fixed parsing of peer entries in configuration.

Changed

• Expanded debugging code.

Removed

• Removed slash command code, left stub.

0.9.01 -- 2010-11-06

Changed

• Abstracted several functions.

Added

• Added peer configuration entries.

0.9.00 -- 2010-11-01

Initial commit.