WA 5.19 vs ElvUI Aura Highlight conflict

[MonsieurA78]

@emptyrivers here, hijacking the OP to add the necessary detail

So there seems to be some unfortunate conflict between WeakAuras, ElvUI, and (possibly) some unknown third actor which is causing Aura Highlight, an ElvUI UnitFrames feature where debuffs the player can dispel cause a solid color texture (usually with middling transparency) to overlay the associated unitframe, breaks if the user updates to WeakAuras 5.19.0. From a casual observation standpoint of "watching the elvui retail support channil in discord for 5 minutes", I think it's safe to say this problem affects a not insignificant portion of "users of both ElvUI and WeakAuras", which is why i'm taking such drastic steps as "hijacking an outsider's OP to explain things".

Here are two SV files from users who claimed to have the problem. Unfortunately, I could not trivially reproduce the problem on either file, nor on a fresh install of WeakAuras. Due to this, I somewhat suspect (despite the apparent absurdity of the idea) that there's a third component necessary to reproduce.

It would be nice if someone reading this who does have the problem would install Bisector, find a way to easily get poisoned or whatever, and start a bisecting session with /bisect start +WeakAuras !WeakAurasCompanion +ElvUI_Libraries, and then post the result of the bisect in the replies here. 🙂

--- OP's original message is below ---
Since 5.19 upgrade, I can't see anymore ElvUI Uniframe colors when a debuff can be dispelled.
I don't understand the relationship with WA but if I downgrade WA to 5.18.1 version it works fine.
I also tried only with WA addon but without any WA to be sure it is not a specific WA that entails the issue...

[InfusOnWoW]

There's far too little detail in there to even start investigating this.

[emptyrivers]

and yet this is something we have to investigate, given the scale of affected users.

[MonsieurA78]

Thank you for reopening.

I reproduced the issue and here is the result:

report version: 2
addon version: v1.3.0
mode at print: done
bisect origin: cli
last test result: bad
Bisect took 1 out of (7-142) steps
Hints taken: 2
Addons ruled out: 69
Addons proved: 0

Narrowest set of addons that reproduces the issue:
|-- H:WeakAuras @ 5.19.0
|  |-- D:WeakAuras Archive @ 5.19.0
|  |-- D:WeakAuras Companion @ 5.2.7
|  |-- d:WeakAuras Model Paths @ 5.19.0
|  |-- d:WeakAuras Options @ 5.19.0
|  |  |--WeakAuras Model Paths...(see above)
|  |  |-- d:WeakAuras Templates @ 5.19.0
|  |--WeakAuras Templates...(see above)
|-- H:ElvUI Libraries @ v13.81
|  |-- D:ElvUI @ v13.81
|  |  |-- d:Baganator (ElvUI Skin) @ 11
|  |  |-- d:ElvUI OptionsUI @ 1.07
|  |  |-- d:ElvUI Options @ v13.81
|  |  |-- D:ElvUI Shadow & Light @ 4.85
|  |  |-- D:AtrocityUI @ 16.00
|-- A:Bisector @ 1.1.2
|-- A:BugGrabber @ v11.0.1
|-- A:BugSack @ v11.0.3

Libraries:
LibFishing-1.0 @ 101109
LibDualSpec-1.0 @ 24
AceAddon-3.0 @ 13
AceSerializer-3.0 @ 5
SpellRange-1.0 @ 24
LibElv-UIButtons-1.0 @ 3
LibQTip-1.0 @ 49
AceConfigCmd-3.0-ElvUI @ 14
LibDeflate @ 3
LibSerialize @ 1
LibRangeCheck-3.0 @ 28
LibDispel-1.0 @ 12
LibElvUIPlugin-1.0 @ 46
AceLocale-3.0-ElvUI @ 8
AceDB-3.0 @ 30
AceTimer-3.0 @ 17
LibCompress @ 90083
LibActionButton-1.0-ElvUI @ 58
LibTourist-3.0 @ 90310
LibBabble-3.0 @ 2
AceHook-3.0 @ 9
AceDBOptions-3.0 @ 15
LibGetFrame-1.0 @ 63
LibSharedMedia-3.0 @ 8020003
AceGUISharedMediaWidgets-1.0 @ 9004
AceGUI-3.0 @ 41
LibAceConfigHelper @ 13
AceConfig-3.0-ElvUI @ 3
GUTIL-2.0 @ 18
LibBabble-SubZone-3.0 @ 90238
LibRangeCheck-3.0-ElvUI @ 25
LibSimpleSticky-1.0 @ 4
LibProcessable @ 62
LibCustomGlow-1.0 @ 20
AceComm-3.0 @ 14
LibGraph-2.0 @ 90068
AceGUI-3.0-DropDown-ItemBase @ 2000
LibDBIcon-1.0 @ 55
LibTranslit-1.0 @ 4
AceEvent-3.0 @ 4
AceConfigDialog-3.0-ElvUI @ 90
LibSpecialization @ 10
CallbackHandler-1.0 @ 8
HereBeDragons-2.0 @ 22
AceConsole-3.0 @ 7
AceConfigRegistry-3.0-ElvUI @ 24
GGUI-2.1 @ 27
LibDataBroker-1.1 @ 4```

[emptyrivers]

@MonsieurA78 thanks for helping, can you disiable the addon AtrocityUI, and try again? Barring some obscure custom code aura, that's the only significant difference I can find that could explain the behavior change.

[QStereUlicorns]

here is my bisector results :

Bisect results:

report version: 2
addon version: v1.3.0
mode at print: done
bisect origin: cli
last test result: bad
Bisect took 1 out of (5-50) steps
Hints taken: 2
Addons ruled out: 23
Addons proved: 0

Narrowest set of addons that reproduces the issue:
|-- H:WeakAuras @ 5.19.0
| |-- D:WeakAuras Archive @ 5.19.0
| |-- D:WeakAuras Companion @ 5.2.10
| |-- d:WeakAuras Model Paths @ 5.19.0
| |-- d:WeakAuras Options @ 5.19.0
| | |--WeakAuras Model Paths...(see above)
| | |-- d:WeakAuras Templates @ 5.19.0
| |--WeakAuras Templates...(see above)
|-- H:ElvUI Libraries @ v13.81
| |-- D:ElvUI @ v13.81
| | |-- d:ElvUI AddOnSkins Datatext @ 1.1.5
| | |-- d:ElvUI Options @ v13.81
| | |-- D:ElvUI BenikUI @ 4.56
|-- A:Bisector @ 1.1.2
|-- A:BugGrabber @ v11.0.1
|-- A:BugSack @ v11.0.3

Libraries:
LibDualSpec-1.0 @ 24
AceAddon-3.0 @ 13
AceSerializer-3.0 @ 5
SpellRange-1.0 @ 24
AceConfigCmd-3.0-ElvUI @ 14
LibDeflate @ 3
LibSerialize @ 1
LibRangeCheck-3.0 @ 28
LibDispel-1.0 @ 12
LibElvUIPlugin-1.0 @ 46
AceLocale-3.0-ElvUI @ 8
AceDB-3.0 @ 30
LibCompress @ 90083
LibActionButton-1.0-ElvUI @ 58
AceHook-3.0 @ 9
AceDBOptions-3.0 @ 15
LibDataBroker-1.1 @ 4
LibSharedMedia-3.0 @ 8020003
LibDBIcon-1.0 @ 55
AceGUI-3.0 @ 41
LibAceConfigHelper @ 13
AceConfig-3.0-ElvUI @ 3
LibRangeCheck-3.0-ElvUI @ 25
LibCustomGlow-1.0 @ 20
AceTimer-3.0 @ 17
AceComm-3.0 @ 14
AceGUISharedMediaWidgets-1.0 @ 9004
CallbackHandler-1.0 @ 8
AceEvent-3.0 @ 4
AceConfigDialog-3.0-ElvUI @ 90
LibSpecialization @ 10
LibSimpleSticky-1.0 @ 4
AceGUI-3.0-DropDown-ItemBase @ 2000
AceConsole-3.0 @ 7
AceConfigRegistry-3.0-ElvUI @ 24
LibTranslit-1.0 @ 4
LibGetFrame-1.0 @ 63

[QStereUlicorns]

same result without benikui and elvui datatext

Bisect results:

report version: 2
addon version: v1.3.0
mode at print: done
bisect origin: cli
last test result: bad
Bisect took 1 out of (5-50) steps
Hints taken: 2
Addons ruled out: 23
Addons proved: 0

Narrowest set of addons that reproduces the issue:
|-- H:WeakAuras @ 5.19.0
| |-- d:WeakAuras Archive @ 5.19.0
| |-- D:WeakAuras Companion @ 5.2.10
| |-- d:WeakAuras Model Paths @ 5.19.0
| |-- d:WeakAuras Options @ 5.19.0
| | |--WeakAuras Model Paths...(see above)
| | |-- d:WeakAuras Templates @ 5.19.0
| |--WeakAuras Templates...(see above)
|-- H:ElvUI Libraries @ v13.81
| |-- D:ElvUI @ v13.81
| | |-- d:ElvUI AddOnSkins Datatext @ 1.1.5
| | |-- d:ElvUI Options @ v13.81
| | |-- D:ElvUI BenikUI @ 4.56
|-- A:Bisector @ 1.1.2
|-- A:BugGrabber @ v11.0.1
|-- A:BugSack @ v11.0.3

Libraries:
LibDualSpec-1.0 @ 24
AceAddon-3.0 @ 13
AceSerializer-3.0 @ 5
SpellRange-1.0 @ 24
AceConfigCmd-3.0-ElvUI @ 14
LibDeflate @ 3
LibSerialize @ 1
LibRangeCheck-3.0 @ 28
LibDispel-1.0 @ 12
LibElvUIPlugin-1.0 @ 46
AceLocale-3.0-ElvUI @ 8
AceDB-3.0 @ 30
LibCompress @ 90083
LibActionButton-1.0-ElvUI @ 58
AceHook-3.0 @ 9
AceDBOptions-3.0 @ 15
LibDataBroker-1.1 @ 4
LibSharedMedia-3.0 @ 8020003
LibDBIcon-1.0 @ 55
AceGUI-3.0 @ 41
LibAceConfigHelper @ 13
AceConfig-3.0-ElvUI @ 3
LibRangeCheck-3.0-ElvUI @ 25
LibCustomGlow-1.0 @ 20
AceTimer-3.0 @ 17
AceComm-3.0 @ 14
AceGUISharedMediaWidgets-1.0 @ 9004
CallbackHandler-1.0 @ 8
AceEvent-3.0 @ 4
AceConfigDialog-3.0-ElvUI @ 90
LibSpecialization @ 10
LibSimpleSticky-1.0 @ 4
AceGUI-3.0-DropDown-ItemBase @ 2000
AceConsole-3.0 @ 7
AceConfigRegistry-3.0-ElvUI @ 24
LibTranslit-1.0 @ 4
LibGetFrame-1.0 @ 63

[kodewdle]

it seems there some strange lib behavior happening with LibDispel of some sort happening, however this issue can be closed.
i put a new update out for ElvUI which seems to solve the problem from our testing. we'll look into it deeper on our end, thank you! 🌼

[MonsieurA78]

I confirm it is working now with latest ElvUI update (13.82)