Changelog ·

All notable changes are documented here. Format — Keep a Changelog, versioning — SemVer.

[0.9.62] — 2026-11-02

Changed

• The addon tells you straight away whether premade warnings work. On login and on entering an Epic Battleground the chat shows one line: "Premade list loaded, N leaders" or, if there is no list yet, what to do: upload one battle with the Uploader and type /reload.

[0.9.61] — 2026-10-20

Added

• Regular battlegrounds are recorded too. Regular, rated and Blitz battles (Warsong Gulch, Arathi Basin, Eye of the Storm and the rest) are now saved and uploaded alongside the Epic ones. On the site they are kept apart and count in no statistic yet — groundwork for future features. Premade warnings and the odds line still work in Epic Battlegrounds only.

Changed

• Patch 12.1.5 support: the game no longer marks the addon as out of date.

Fixed

• The battle type is told apart more reliably: a brawl is no longer taken for Blitz.

[0.9.60] — 2026-10-13

Fixed

• The premade panel and the odds line work right after an addon update. The data comes from the PremadeIQ Data folder, which updates leave alone (needs Uploader 0.9.15).

Added

• The settings, under "Local database", show whether premade and odds data are loaded, and if not, that the Uploader is what brings them.

[0.9.59] — 2026-10-11

Changed

• Groundwork for a more accurate odds line. Internal changes that will help make the odds line more accurate in coming versions. Nothing changes in game.

[0.9.58] — 2026-10-11

Fixed

• The players panel shows which team is which again. The "Enemy team" and "Your team" lines are now always shown, with the premade, mercenary-group and guild blocks beneath them. Before, a block hid the team line and only the colour told the teams apart.

[0.9.57] — 2026-10-10

Changed

• The odds line now settles after the gates open. Before the battle starts the teams are still changing: players load in, drop out of the queue and are replaced. The odds keep updating until the gates and settle on the roster that actually starts the battle.

[0.9.56] — 2026-10-06

Added

• A warning about a possible premade with no known leader. When the enemy team holds a group of mercenaries who keep entering battles together, the addon shows a banner and a chat line, and the players panel gives the group a "Mercenary group" block of its own. Works with Uploader 0.9.14 or newer; the same switch as the other premade warnings turns it on and off.

[0.9.55] — 2026-10-06

Changed

• "My place" in the rankings is more accurate. The site no longer mixes you up with the friend you queue with, and finds your place sooner after your first battles.
• The Uploader download link points to the site's new address. Install guide: https://premade.online/install. The old address still works and forwards there.

[0.9.54] — 2026-10-04

Fixed

• The Local database block in the settings now switches language with the rest of the panel. Changing the language with the settings open used to leave the player, sample and match counts in the old language until the panel was reopened. The same happened to the "In your list" line under the watchlist field and the "known: N" notes next to guilds.

[0.9.53] — 2026-10-04

Added

• Guilds on your watchlist. The settings now have two buttons next to the input field: Player and Guild. A guild can be given by name (Top Gun) or with its realm (Top Gun-Ravencrest) — guild names repeat across realms, and the realm makes the match exact. In battle, players from watched guilds appear in the Tracked players panel in their own <Guild> (N) block after the premade blocks; anyone who is in a premade stays in the premade's block, with the guild in the tooltip.

The scoreboard carries no guilds, so PremadeIQ Uploader 0.9.12 brings them: a "character → guild" file for the players the database has seen. Each guild in the list shows how many of its players are known, so you can see at once whether it was found. A player the database has never seen will not show up. The list itself still lives only on this computer and is never sent anywhere.

[0.9.52] — 2026-10-04

Changed

• The Tracked players panel splits players by premade. Everyone tracked on a side used to share one grid, and how many belonged to which premade was only in the tooltips. Now each premade gets its own block with a heading — whose premade it is and how many of them are on the field — biggest first, leader on top. A lone member gets a block too: members of different premades often queue without their leader, and you can see who is whose. Possible members (?) sit in the block of the premade they are linked to and keep their question mark. Raid leads (~) and players from your own watchlist (>) with no premade are gathered at the bottom under "Others". A player listed in two premades sits in the one with more people in the match; the other stays in the tooltip.
• A more compact panel. Buttons show names without the realm (it is in the tooltip, and stays on the button when two players share a name; targeting by click is unchanged), so columns are about half as wide. When a side has premade blocks, the separate "Enemy team / Your team" line is gone: the colour of the block headings tells the side and the panel header has the counts.

Fixed

• The odds line no longer runs past the panel's edge. The panel's width came from the name buttons alone, so with two or three players the long odds line (translations especially) spilled past the right border. The panel now reserves room for the widest odds line up front — before the fighting starts, because a panel full of target buttons cannot be resized in combat.

[0.9.51] — 2026-09-16

Added

• A match now carries the odds you were shown. At the moment the odds line stops recalculating, the addon notes the percentage shown, the battle clock, how many rows each side had and how many of them were found in the winrate table. The note travels to the server with the match. It holds no names — only numbers that were already on your screen.

Why: to check how often the percentages the addon actually shows come true, and whether a head-count advantage belongs in the forecast. Today the accuracy is estimated on a roster taken later, and nobody has measured it at the moment you see the number. With the odds turned off nothing is noted. Nothing visible in the addon changed.

[0.9.50] — 2026-09-12

Fixed

• The welcome screen no longer offers a paid tier — there isn't one. The first-run text said the King of EBG tier on Patreon adds deeper dashboard tools. Since 12 September that is not true: there is no paid access any more, and the rest of the site — player search, match breakdowns, enemy leaders — is opened by five matches a week. The text is corrected in all six languages; nothing else in the addon changed.

[0.9.49] — 2026-09-09

Fixed

• The odds are now an epic-battleground feature only. The line used to appear in any battleground, 15-a-side ones included — but the winrates behind it were collected in epics, and so was the accuracy printed next to it. In a regular battleground the number looked just as confident with nothing behind it.
• A locked forecast is no longer spoiled at the moment it locks. When the scoreboard started emptying, the number was first recomputed without the players who had left and only then frozen — so the spoiled one was what got kept. It now freezes what was computed on the full roster. "How full is the board" is also measured by the smaller of the two teams: our half filling while theirs emptied left the total unchanged, and the forecast settled early.
• The "Show win chances" switch now silences all three places. It removed the line from the players panel while the standalone pop-up and the premade banner kept announcing odds. An explicit /piq odds still answers — that is a question asked out loud.
• The addon refuses to compute from an unusable winrate cache. A file of an unknown version, older than 45 days, or with no coefficients now reads as "no data". A zero model used to produce not silence but a flat "50% — 50%" captioned "0% accurate" — zero times anything is a coin flip.

[0.9.48] — 2026-09-07

Changed

• The odds no longer drift during the battle. They used to be recomputed on every scoreboard scan, and a scoreboard changes as people leave — so the number crept toward an outcome that was already visible, looking wiser than it was. It is now computed while the scoreboard fills and locked once it stops growing, on the starting roster the accuracy was measured against.
• The line says what it is doing: "reading the scoreboard", then "calculating", and a locked result is marked "final".
• The forecast strings are translated into every language the addon ships. Only the premade warning and the copy-for-chat text stay English — those are read by a mixed-language battleground.

Added

• A "show win chances" switch in the settings (/piq options), on by default. Not for performance: the whole winrate cache is about 1 MB of memory and a single forecast takes hundredths of a millisecond, over rows the panel has already read.

[0.9.47] — 2026-09-06

Changed

• The players panel now stays up for the whole battle. It used to vanish when the scoreboard held no premades and nobody you had marked — taking the odds line with it, though that line has something to say in every match. While the scoreboard is still loading it says so. Outside a battleground the panel is hidden as before.
• The odds now keep updating during combat: the line used to freeze, because the panel's whole update path stops in combat for its protected buttons.

Fixed

• The separators in the odds line no longer render as empty boxes — the UI font does not draw the character that was there.

[0.9.46] — 2026-09-06

Fixed

• Reloading mid-battle no longer loses the match. A /reload wipes the match context, and restoring it never worked: the battle fingerprint was stamped when we landed in the instance — one to two minutes before the gates open — and then disagreed with the real battle start by exactly the length of that prep phase. On Epics that meant the restore failed every single time, taking the match start time, the premade warning and the odds line with it.
• The "usually takes raid lead" notice is no longer suppressed by an empty catalog. Those players live in their own list, but the "catalog is empty" check only looked at premade leaders and bailed out before reaching them. With raid leads marked and no premades, the notice never appeared at all.
• The copy dialog's title no longer freezes on whichever language was active when the game started.

[0.9.45] — 2026-09-06

Added

• Win chances for the match. The addon reads both teams off the scoreboard, looks them up in the winrate table the Uploader ships, and shows which side is favoured — before the battle decides it. The line lives in the tracked-players panel and updates as the scoreboard fills; hover it to see what the number is made of (each side's average winrate and the share of players the database has never seen), click it to copy that for chat. /piq odds answers on demand and says plainly when there is not enough data.
• It is all computed inside the game, with no server round trip: WoW only hands data out on an interface reload, so asking mid-match is impossible.

Notes

• The forecast is right about 72% of the time — a hint, not a verdict: it is wrong roughly every third or fourth match, which is stated under the number itself. That figure is measured on starting rosters, the same partial scoreboard the addon actually reads.
• Requires Uploader 0.9.2 or newer — it is what delivers the winrate table. Per-player winrates are never shown in game; only the team summary.

[0.9.44] — 2026-09-04

Added

• The addon now warns when your premade list has gone stale. The list comes from the Uploader, and if that has not run for a while the addon keeps working quietly — on data from two weeks ago. The worst part is how it looks: silence on entering a battleground reads as "no premade here", when it actually means "we do not know". Entering an Epic BG with a list older than two weeks now says so plainly: how many days old it is and what to do about it. At most once a week, switched off in the same place as premade warnings.
• /piq status shows the age of the list. The passive hint only fires inside a battleground and only after two weeks of silence, so there was no way to check on purpose. This line answers immediately — including when everything is fresh.
• A third confidence level in the targets panel: "possible premade member". Until now a player was either a premade member or nobody, with nothing in between — so a single game could drop someone off the panel and the next one put them back, though they had changed nothing. A player we have shared history for, just not enough of it to say so with confidence, now shows with a ? mark and the caption "Possible premade member", and the tooltip names whose premade they were seen beside. The mark is deliberately unlike * (leader) and ~ (takes raid lead, runs no premade): it is a question, not a statement. Such players ride in their own list and never join the confirmed roster — not in the panel, not in announcements.

[0.9.43] — 2026-08-26

Added

• The addon now notices when your battles stop leaving your machine. The Uploader is a separate program and it fails quietly: the addon keeps recording, nothing goes out, and you find out when your access to the premade catalog lapses. The previous hint could not help here — it only spoke to players whose catalog was empty, which is precisely the wrong audience. On entering an Epic BG the addon now counts the battles logged since the last upload, and if the Uploader has not run for three days or more, it says so. At most once every three days, and it switches off with the premade warnings.
• And it says what that costs you. Catalog access needs one upload every seven days. Under a week of silence, the addon tells you roughly how long is left; over it, that access has most likely lapsed and how to reopen it. Until now you found out afterwards and without an explanation.
• /piq reports the upload state — how many battles are waiting and when the Uploader last ran. The passive hint only appears after days of silence and only inside a battleground, so there was no way to check it on purpose. This line answers immediately, including when everything is fine.

Changed

• The install address is shorter. WoW has no clickable links and chat text cannot even be selected, so the address gets retyped by hand. A shorter one is less to type, and it leads to the same page.

[0.9.42] — 2026-08-16

Fixed

• The Uploader link led nowhere — and had since the first public release. /piq uploader printed the address of a repository that does not exist, so everyone who wanted to share their matches hit a 404. It now points at the install page: https://premadeiq.duckdns.org/install — and opens a small box with the address already selected, because chat text cannot be selected in this client and retyping a URL by hand is nobody's idea of a good time.

Added

• The addon no longer stays quiet about an empty premade list. It ships with that list empty and cannot fetch anything on its own — the list is community-contributed data and arrives with the Uploader. Until now that looked exactly like a feature that doesn't work. On entering an Epic battleground the addon now says once (at most weekly) what is missing and what fixes it. If the Uploader has run before and access simply lapsed, the wording is different — "upload one match", not "install the app". Those are two different situations and conflating them would be dishonest.
• A /reload reminder after a recorded match. "Match recorded" means "kept in memory", not "sent": the game only writes SavedVariables to disk on /reload or logout. Until then the Uploader genuinely sees nothing and looks broken. Shown only to accounts that have never uploaded.

Changed

• The welcome dialog was rewritten. Step three used to be "link Discord to your Patreon", which made the whole thing read as "paid from here on". It isn't: one finished Epic BG a week opens premade warnings, the full leaderboard and deserters, for free. Joining a Discord server is no longer required either — any Discord account works. Patreon is still there, in the place it belongs: one optional line.
• /piq status on an empty catalog now shows where to get one.

[0.9.41] — 2026-08-15

Fixed

• The minimap button has its own emblem now. Yesterday's button drew a green question mark — the texture the game substitutes for anything it cannot find. The icon path pointed at a Blizzard icon that does not exist, and the client says nothing about that: no error, no warning, just the question mark. The button now carries the PremadeIQ logo, and so does the addon list and the game's own addon compartment.

[0.9.40] — 2026-08-14

Added

• Your own watchlist. The addon options now have an input box: copy a character name in game, paste it, and that player is marked in the targets panel whenever they turn up in your battleground. The list is yours: it is stored in a separate file on your computer only, is never uploaded, and nobody else can see it. It has no effect on premade detection either — it is your note, not our data. Such a row is captioned "on your watchlist" rather than "known premade member", because the addon does not claim what it does not know. Names are matched exactly, so after a rename the entry stops matching and has to be added again.
• Solo raid leaders now show up in the panel. Players who take raid lead but run no premade were only ever mentioned in the warning line; the targets panel did not list them at all. Now it does, marked ~ and captioned "takes raid lead, no premade". They are a separate category, not a premade: such a player never gets the leader star. And when someone both takes raid lead and belongs to somebody's premade — roughly half of them do — the panel states both facts instead of picking one.
• A minimap button. Opens the addon settings, drags around the minimap edge, and can be switched off in those same settings. PremadeIQ also shows up in the game's own addon menu on the minimap, for people who dislike extra buttons.
• An addon language setting. The options now have a "Language" row: it follows your game client by default, but you can force any of the six. The first reason it exists is verification — on a Russian client there was no way to see what English-speaking players read, and they are 45% of the players in our data. Battleground alerts stay English whatever you pick: they are read by a battleground that does not share a language.
• German, French and Spanish are finally complete. The addon declared five languages while three of them were 22% translated: the whole settings window, the tooltips and the links showed in English. German players are 22% of our data, the second largest group after English.
• Italian added as a sixth language, translated in full.

Fixed

• The settings window no longer drifts apart. The "Columns" row and the stats and links blocks crept rightwards into the next column, and the links ran off the edge of the window. The cause was in the layout: each row anchored itself to a button inside the row above rather than to the start of the column, so the offset accumulated.
• The panel could go silent until you reloaded the interface. An error while reading the premade list left an internal "scan in progress" flag raised, and every later refresh was skipped without a word. Such an error is now handled and the panel recovers on the next update by itself.
• The panel heading is honest again — "Tracked players" instead of "Known premade targets": it has been listing more than premade members for a while.

[0.9.39] — 2026-08-14

Fixed

• Players whose identifier could not be read are no longer mistaken for leavers. A final-scoreboard row with an unreadable identifier was skipped silently, and on the server it looked exactly like the row of somebody who had left the battleground. The addon now marks the player by NAME (a name is something the game never hides) before the row can be dropped, and separately reports how many rows it had to drop.

Added

• The site now shows who did not make it to the end of a match. The data was already there, but only the opposite half of it was used — the "joined late" badge. The match page's "Left the battlefield" section is no longer empty: an Epic battleground turns over half its roster, and both sides of that trade are visible now.

[0.9.38] — 2026-08-12

Fixed

• The addon no longer breaks the game's own combat announcements. The premade headline was posted to the same centre-screen frame the game uses for its own warnings ("The gate has been destroyed" and the like). In 12.1 that became unsafe: after our message the frame stayed flagged as addon-touched and then errored — not only on our text, but on the game's own announcements too. The failure could not be caught, because it happened after the addon had already finished. That frame is no longer used at all. Nothing is lost: the PremadeIQ banner shows the same headline in the same colours (red = premade confirmed, amber = possible) and additionally lists the leaders, which the single-line frame could never do.

[0.9.37] — 2026-08-12

Changed

• Support for patch 12.1 "Curse of Ula'tek". The addon is no longer flagged as out of date.

Fixed

• Enemy "crowns" no longer report zero where the truth is "cannot see". In 12.1 the game stopped telling addons which enemies lead a group, so the old counter honestly returned zero simply because it is no longer allowed to look. On the site that would have read as "the enemy team brought no pre-formed groups" — a claim the addon never made. It now counts separately the enemies the game refused to answer for, and in that case the server publishes no estimate at all instead of publishing a zero. Crowns actually seen (if the game does answer) still count as a lower bound, and your own side is unaffected: the game places no such limits there, so enemy group leaders keep being recovered from reports by players of the opposite faction.

[0.9.36] — 2026-08-08

Fixed

• A player tagged as "usually takes raid lead" no longer disappears from the warning when a premade is in the match too. Their line was printed only when there were no premades at all — that is, exactly in the matches where it matters least. It now comes last in the regular warning and is repeated in the banner, and the premade verdict itself is unchanged.

Changed

• The standalone notice about such a player is easier to catch: with no premade in the match it now shows on the centre of the screen and in the banner, not only in chat. Still no sound — it is context, not an alarm.

[0.9.35] — 2026-08-08

Fixed

• A /reload mid-match no longer costs you the match. The addon only recorded when you joined a battle at the moment it started, and reloading the interface wiped that with no way to get it back. The server then concluded you had been in two matches at once and quarantined the match — it simply vanished from the site. Your join time now survives a /reload: it is stored together with a fingerprint of the battle itself and restored only when that fingerprint matches, so two back-to-back matches on the same map cannot be confused for one another.
• The "who was here from the start" roster is no longer replaced by the final scoreboard. After an interface reload the addon could capture the starting roster from the end-of-match board. Such a list contains everyone who made it to the end, so players who joined as replacements stopped counting as late arrivals — which is exactly what protects them from being marked as having left the match. The starting roster is now never captured after the match is over.

[0.9.34] — 2026-08-08

Added

• The premade targets panel now covers both teams. It used to list known premade players on the enemy side only; there is now a second section, "Your team". Buttons behave identically in both: left-click to target, right-click to set focus. An empty section is not drawn at all.
• The panel minimizes to a small button. The close button in the top-right corner puts the panel away entirely and leaves a compact button with the counts in its place — drag it anywhere, click it to bring the panel back. It works in combat, not just outside it.
• Size settings (Esc → Options → AddOns → PremadeIQ): panel scale 70–150% and 1–6 name columns.

Fixed

• The leader mark no longer renders as an empty box. The stars in the list (and the separators in the header) now use characters the game font can actually draw.
• Long names are no longer clipped. Column width is measured from the longest name on screen, so a full Name-Realm fits on its plate.
• Your own team is identified correctly under mercenary mode. The side now comes from the same battlefield API the scoreboard itself uses rather than from the character's faction, which would swap the two sections around.

[0.9.33] — 2026-08-07

Fixed

• Matches you joined late no longer disappear. If you dropped into a battle already in progress (Wintergrasp, Alterac Valley and Ashran all allow it), the server concluded you had been in two matches at once and threw the whole match away: absent from the site, absent from premade detection. The cause is that the duration the game reports measures the battle, not how long you were in it. The addon now reports when it entered. On prod this was losing 2.5% of all matches.

Added

• A separate notice for people who take raid lead but run no premade. They no longer raise a premade alert; instead one neutral line reads "Usually takes raid lead". No roster, no count, no verdict — the metric that marks them catches ordinary raid leaders too.
• The addon records who was on the scoreboard before substitutions. Combat numbers for players who left cannot be recovered in 12.0.x, but names are always readable, so one snapshot is taken once the scoreboard has demonstrably finished loading. This lets the site tell late joiners again, and stops the "deserter" mark from sticking to someone who merely arrived later. The snapshot rides the scoreboard updates the addon already receives and switches itself off the moment it is captured, so it adds no polling.

[0.9.32] — 2026-08-03

Fixed

• The final scoreboard no longer ships empty. In 12.0.x the combat numbers (damage, healing, killing blows, deaths) are sometimes handed back as "secret values": they cannot be read, and an or 0 check does not catch them because a secret is truthy in Lua. The row was then stored empty, making a player who fought the whole match look like they did nothing. The addon now waits for the numbers to become readable before saving (up to 4 attempts) and explicitly zeroes only what genuinely could not be read.
• The objective-point sum was computed on a possibly-secret value, which could abort the whole end-of-match capture.

Added

• The addon now tells the server how many scoreboard rows stayed unreadable. The server no longer draws conclusions about who left early from such a match.

[0.9.31] — 2026-08-01

Fixed

• The panel could revert to an outdated roster. If the roster changed during combat and then went back to what was already on screen, the obsolete queued update was not dropped — and leaving combat applied it over a correct list. A roster matching the display now clears any pending update.
• Scan timers scheduled at match start no longer survive into the next match: they are cancelable now, and every callback checks the match generation.
• The internal scanning flag is cleared even on error — a failure in filtering could previously wedge every later panel update.

Added

• A "•" marker in the header while an update waits for combat to end, so the list on screen never lies about how fresh it is. It clears the moment the roster is applied.
• A 2-second out-of-combat check, so the short lulls between fights are used to apply deferred updates instead of waiting for the next scoreboard event.

Changed

• Requesting scoreboard data is now separate from reading the cache: the event handler no longer fires a second request that could push the server's response under its own throttle.
• The startup scan burst is shorter (0.5–10s); the periodic check covers the rest.
• The panel is fully English now: its tooltips (player role, premade list, click hint) follow the header and stay English on every client.

[0.9.30] — 2026-08-01

Fixed

• Clicks on the known-premade panel now work. The buttons responded to neither left- nor right-click: the game picks which click edge performs the action from the useOnKeyDown attribute, falling back to the ActionButtonUseKeyDown setting. That setting is on by default, so the action was expected on key-down while the buttons were registered for key-up only — the click was swallowed silently, with no error. The attribute is now set explicitly and always matches the edge the buttons register for.

Added

• Right-click sets the player as focus without dropping your current target (right-click was not wired up at all before). Tooltip hint updated.

Changed

• Panel styling. The near-black plate with white borders is replaced by a muted dark background and a soft warm border. Buttons highlight on hover, premade leaders get a warmer plate, and the header is gold.
• The panel header now stays English on every client, like the premade alert lines.

[0.9.29] — 2026-07-17

Fixed

• The enemy group-leader ("crown") counter no longer fires spuriously in the open world after an abnormal battleground exit (kick / disconnect / leaving without a match-complete): on such an exit the Collector now stops its timers instead of continuing to poll nameplates with a stale "this is an EBG" flag.

[0.9.28] — 2026-07-17

Fixed

• The known-premade panel now uses only the database's strict confirmed roster: at least five shared matches and a share strictly above 25%. The loose legacy members list can no longer add incidental co-players.
• When a player is linked to multiple premades, the website, catalog, and addon use one canonical winner. Shared mercenary entries receive triple weight.

[0.9.27] — 2026-07-16

Added

• Clickable known-premade target panel. During a battleground, PremadeIQ now shows only enemy players present in the catalog as premade leaders or members. Left-clicking a compact button securely selects that player with an exact /targetexact; leaders are starred, names use class colors, and tooltips list the associated premades.
• The panel can be dragged out of combat. Secure buttons are pre-created, while roster and layout changes during combat lockdown are deferred until combat ends, avoiding taint and blocked-action errors.

[0.9.26] — 2026-07-15

Changed

• Copied premade alerts now start with [PremadeIQ], making the message source immediately visible in chat.

[0.9.25] — 2026-07-04

Added

• Enemy group-leader counter. Every party that queued together keeps its leader crowned inside the raid — so several simultaneous crowns on the enemy team mean pre-formed groups. The addon counts those crowns on visible enemy nameplates, and when there are two or more, the alert gains an "Enemy group leaders spotted: N" line (it also appears without a catalog premade in the match). Only visible nameplates are counted, so the real number of groups is always ≥ the shown one; enemy nameplates must be enabled (default V key).
• Group leaders in match stats. The match record now includes your own team's group leaders and the maximum simultaneously visible enemy crowns — one more premade signal for the community database and the website.

[0.9.24] — 2026-06-28

Changed

• Premade alert is now multi-line. The on-screen premade warning now shows the full breakdown — each enemy premade leader and how many of their players are in the match (top 3, plus an "…and N more" line) — in its own banner, so you no longer have to fish it out of chat. It fades on its own after a few seconds and never intercepts a click or your movement keys.

[0.9.23] — 2026-06-23

Changed

• Housekeeping. Removed unused legacy code and settings and simplified the options panel. No change to how your data is handled — PremadeIQ still records match stats only to your local SavedVariables and sends nothing out by itself; contributing to the community database stays a separate, optional step via the PremadeIQ Uploader.

[0.9.22] — 2026-06-21

Added

• Leaderless premade alert. The start-of-match alert now also fires when a premade's marked leader isn't in the battleground but six or more of their confirmed regulars are on the enemy team — catching a premade whose leader sat out or queued on an unmarked alt. It shows a distinct "leader not here" wording and is treated as a confirmed premade. Requires full access (the confirmed roster ships only to patrons) and the latest Uploader; on an older catalog the alert simply behaves as before (leader-present only).

Changed

• Premades are tracked by a stable id, not a display name. A leader's alts no longer split or double-count one premade, and presence is judged per group.

Fixed

• Silent premade alert at match start. A spurious Reset() from PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD (while IsBattleground() was still false during world load) killed both auto-scan channels for the rest of the match. Added a 15-second grace gate from PVP_MATCH_ACTIVE: a false "left the BG" in the opening seconds no longer resets state. Committed 03ea999, verified in-game 2026-06-18. (0.9.21 not cut/published yet — the fix lives only in source.)

[0.9.20] — 2026-06-14

Added

• Precise cleanup via the Uploader handshake (Database.lua, new UploadState.lua). The Uploader writes a file into the addon folder with a cursor saying "samples are server-confirmed up to point X" (per account, by installId), and on world-enter the addon deletes exactly the confirmed samples (PruneUploaded) instead of guessing by age. The 0.9.19 heuristic (30-day window + cap of 4000) stays as a backstop for when there is no cursor / it's stale. Safety: with a missing/mismatched installId, or a stale, lowered or future cursor, the addon deletes less, never losing un-uploaded data; your own character is untouched; samples without endedAt are kept. The cursor is monotonic (lastSamplesUploadedThrough) and clamped against future values. The first handshake needs one /reload cycle (the addon generates installId, the Uploader sees it after SavedVariables are flushed to disk).

Fixed

• Crash generating installId (Database.lua): the code called math.randomseed, which is absent from the WoW sandbox, and errored out. Fixed (shipped in the published 0.9.20 zip).

[0.9.19] — 2026-06-14

Fixed

• SavedVariables no longer grows without bound (Database.lua). The players table kept every player ever seen in an Epic BG forever (in production: 29,587 entries, PremadeIQ.lua ≈46 MB), which made WoW slow to write it on logout (slow close) and slow to load on login. It now keeps a rolling window: players not seen for more than 30 days are evicted, and the total is capped at 4000 (LRU by lastSeen); your own character is untouched. The sweep runs on world-enter (once UnitGUID("player") is known) and after each match. This data is only needed for the Uploader — in-game the premade alert reads KnownPremades.lua, not this table. rawStats is left alone (deferred to a follow-up). Marker PremadeIQ_DB.pruneVersion, one diagnostic line in collectorLog.

[0.9.18] — 2026-06-14

Changed

• ## Interface bumped 120000 → 120005 for the current live client 12.0.5 (build 67823) — no "out of date" flag in addon managers.
• Clearer first-run wording: the welcome dialog now spells out that the addon writes match stats locally to SavedVariables, and that contributing to the community database is a separate, optional step via the Uploader app. Text localized (en/ruRU).

Added

• LICENSE (All Rights Reserved) bundled; vendored libraries keep their own licenses.

[0.9.17] — 2026-06-13

Changed

• The "Copy premade alert" button and its strings are now English even on a ruRU client (Locales.lua). The premade call-out is pasted into the English-facing community (/rw, Discord), so the copy flow (button, its tooltip, the PremadeCopyTip/PremadeCopyHint/PremadeCopyNone hints) is fixed to English regardless of client language. The premade alert itself (PremadeDetected, etc.) stays localized.

[0.9.16] — 2026-06-06

Added

• EBG filter: the addon collects Epic BGs only (plan: docs/ebg-map-filter-plan.md, externally reviewed). Whitelisted instance map ids (ns.EBG_INSTANCE_IDS — a mirror of the server's EBG_MAP_NAMES): Alterac, Isle of Conquest, Ashran, Wintergrasp, Korrak's Revenge, Deephaul Ravine. Arenas / normal BGs / blitz are no longer written to SavedVariables or sent to the server (previously ~17% of uploads were quarantined as non_ebg_map). The gate is three-layered: PVP_MATCH_ACTIVE (Deserter/ PremadeAlert don't start), UPDATE_BATTLEFIELD_SCORE (stale windows from a past Epic don't scan the wrong scoreboard), PVP_MATCH_COMPLETE + a hard guard in SnapshotMatch itself (which also covers manual /piq snapshot).
• Diagnostic ring buffer PremadeIQ_DB.collectorLog (50 lines) — gate decisions are recoverable from SavedVariables.

Fixed

• Real Epics are no longer lost to an id-space collision (Collector.lua). If GetInstanceInfo() no longer returned an instance id at snapshot time (teleport to a capital), the code substituted UiMapID from C_Map.GetBestMapForUnit — a different id space the server whitelist doesn't know → ~3% of real Epics (30 matches in production) were quarantined with a map_name like "Silvermoon". The instance id is now captured on PVP_MATCH_ACTIVE and used as the fallback; the UiMapID fallback was removed.
• /piq version and the load line showed a hardcoded 0.9.2 — the version is now read from the toc (C_AddOns.GetAddOnMetadata).

[0.9.15] — 2026-06-06

Security

• The distribution zip no longer carries the live premade catalog (package_addon.py). The working copy of KnownPremades.lua is GOD-tier data that the owner's Uploader rewrites hourly; it was leaking into the public archive and bypassing the server's tier-gating. The zip now always ships a neutral stub (leaders = {}), plus a hard guard that fails the build if anything but the stub slips into the archive. Each user gets the catalog their own tier earns, only through their own Uploader.

[0.9.14] — 2026-06-04

Changed

• Deserter detection stops re-capturing the roster once your whole group is collected (Deserter.lua). The early-stop threshold used to be hardcoded at 60, but after the move to raid tokens (≤40 in an Epic) it became unreachable, so the event re-capture spun the full 30s for nothing. The threshold is now the current group size (GetNumGroupMembers); the enemy scoreboard is an optional bonus.

[0.9.13] — 2026-06-04

Fixed

• Deserter detection: the starting roster is now taken from your own team via raid/party unit tokens, not the scoreboard (Deserter.lua). GUIDs on the live scoreboard in 12.0.x become secret values and drop out during serialization to SavedVariables, so the server-side "start vs final" diff found nobody (in production: 0 deserters from this source across 909 matches). Raid GUIDs are plain and survive serialization. The scoreboard is still read as an extra name source while its GUIDs are still plain.
• The final scoreboard snapshot clears the faction filter before reading (SetBattlefieldScoreFaction(-1) in Collector.lua). RequestBattlefieldScoreData alone doesn't clear it — without this ~1% of matches arrived single-faction.

[0.9.12] — 2026-06-02

Fixed

• Premade alert text is now always English (header + leader lines). The alert is broadcast into /rw, read by a mixed-language BG — English as the lingua franca, same logic as the server. Previously it was Russian on a Russian client.
• The copy button can be dismissed with a right-click (previously it didn't disappear if the alert fired outside normal combat — e.g. a manual /piq premade check: the BG enter/leave events didn't fire and the button lingered). In normal combat it still hides on leaving the BG. Tooltip updated: left-click copy, right-click hide, drag to move.

[0.9.11] — 2026-06-02

Added

• A "Copy alert" button appears with the premade alert. When the alert fires, a button pops up under the central banner — clicking it opens a box with the last enemy-premade line (Ctrl+C → paste into /rw or Discord). Previously you had to type /piq copy. The button lives in the main addon (which everyone downloads), not in the owner-only PremadeIQ_Leader toolbar — otherwise only the owner would get the feature. It's a button, not an auto-popup: the dialog focuses its input field, and auto-popping in combat would steal WASD; the click opens it at the right moment. The button is draggable, its position is saved (PremadeIQ_DB.copyBtnPos), and it hides on leaving combat.

[0.9.10] — 2026-05-31

Changed

• Premades are detected by leader, with confidence grading. Previously the alert shouted "Premade" at any catalog player — including a lone regular. New rule: a premade without a leader is not a premade. A known leader on the enemy side = "possible premade" (yellow); a leader + >5 of their regulars (CONFIRM_MIN_MEMBERS = 6) nearby = "PREMADE" (red). Lone members without a leader are no longer flagged.
• Output to the point: one line per leader — "Leader X — with N of their players", where N is how many of their known regulars are present. The banner/chat/copy and sound use the same text. Catalog matching was rewritten for multi-membership (a player can belong to several leaders — each gets the credit). The alertLog diagnostic line gained a ldr field (number of leaders on the enemy side).

[0.9.9] — 2026-05-31

Fixed

• In-combat lag — scan throttling. UPDATE_BATTLEFIELD_SCORE on an 80-player Epic fires many times a second, and on each one we scanned the whole scoreboard AND called SetBattlefieldScoreFaction(-1), which itself fires a synchronous score update reprocessed by the whole UI (a heavy rebuild of Blizzard's native 80-player scoreboard) and by addons — a per-frame storm. Added throttling: autoScan runs at most once per SCAN_THROTTLE_SEC = 1.5 (lastScanAt/GetTime, reset in OnMatchActive/Reset). One scan per ~1.5s is plenty to catch a roster that loads over seconds; manual /piq premade ignores the throttle.

[0.9.8] — 2026-05-31

Changed

• Scan window extended for the enemy team loading late. The enemy roster isn't shown until the match starts and only appears a few seconds in, and on an 80-player Epic the scoreboard loads gradually (in alertLog, even our own half grew 16→35 over ~50s). The old 60s window / timers up to 45s could end before the enemy half appeared. Timers are now {4,8,14,22,32,45,60,80,105,135,170} with SCAN_WINDOW_SEC = 180. The announcement is one-shot (fired), so on a hit the scans stop immediately — the long window only costs anything when there's no premade. Names are NeverSecret, so reading deeper into the match is safe.

[0.9.7] — 2026-05-31

Fixed

• Faction un-filtering didn't work — wrong argument. In 0.9.4–0.9.6 detect() called SetBattlefieldScoreFaction() with no argument (nil), but nil does NOT show both factions — alertLog proved it: n stuck at ≈35 (own team only), enemy=0, even though the server confirmed enemy premades in most matches. The "All" tab in Blizzard's native scoreboard passes factionEnum = -1 (PVPMatchResults.xml; 1 = Alliance, 0 = Horde). We now call SetBattlefieldScoreFaction(-1) — and on every scan, since calling it on an early n=0 tick didn't "stick". The 0.9.6 re-entrancy guard makes the repeated call safe; the factionUnfiltered flag was removed.

[0.9.6] — 2026-05-31

Fixed

• C stack overflow in combat (crash from 0.9.4). SetBattlefieldScoreFaction(), added to detect(), fires UPDATE_BATTLEFIELD_SCORE synchronously; our OnBattlefieldScoreUpdate handler → autoScan → detect() re-entered, and so on until the C stack overflowed (RequestBattlefieldScoreData was async, which is why it didn't recurse before). Added a re-entrancy guard: detect() is now a wrapper over detectImpl with a scanning flag (an inner re-entry is a no-op) and pcall (the flag is always reset). Plus SetBattlefieldScoreFaction is called at most once per match (factionUnfiltered, reset in OnMatchActive/Reset) — the filter is persistent anyway, no need to poke the event on every scan.

[0.9.5] — 2026-05-31

Added

• Prominent premade alert + copy. Besides the chat lines, the alert now shows a large center-screen banner via RaidWarningFrame (RaidNotice_AddMessage, like the native /rw) — so it isn't missed in Epic spam. The new /piq copy command opens a dialog with a ready-to-paste line ("Premade on the enemy team! — Leaders: … — Members: …"), text selected, press Ctrl+C and paste into /rw or raid chat yourself. Chat from insecure code is blocked in 12.0.x (ADDON_ACTION_BLOCKED), so copying is manual; the dialog doesn't auto-popup (it won't hijack WASD in combat) and is opened by the command instead. After every alert a /piq copy hint is added to chat.

[0.9.4] — 2026-05-31

Fixed

• The alert saw only our own half of the scoreboard. After the name fix (0.9.3), premades on OUR side were found but the enemy's weren't. Server ground truth: premades were on the enemy side in 13 of the last 15 matches, while alertLog gave enemy=0. Root cause: GetScoreInfo/GetNumBattlefieldScores return rows only for the faction last selected by SetBattlefieldScoreFaction; the default after PVP_MATCH_ACTIVE is the local faction, so the enemy half (exactly what we're looking for) is invisible. In the log this is n≈38 on misses vs n≈75 in the one match that fired. detect() now calls SetBattlefieldScoreFaction() (= both factions) before reading — the same call Blizzard's native scoreboard makes when switching team tabs (PVPMatchScoreboard.lua).

[0.9.3] — 2026-05-30

Fixed

• Premade alert didn't fire at all — matching on a secret GUID. The alertLog diagnostics found the root cause: in live Epics C_PvP.GetScoreInfo(i).guid arrives as a secret value already in the opening window (str=0 sec=77 hit=0), and detect() looked up only lookup[guid] → skipping every row. The name, faction, className, raceName fields of the PVPScoreInfo struct are marked NeverSecret = true (Blizzard_APIDocumentationGenerated/PvpInfoDocumentation.lua), i.e. they stay plain even in an active match. detect() now matches the enemy roster by normalized Name-Realm (guid only as an exact shortcut while it's plain), and determines the enemy side by faction. ensureLookup builds a second name→entry index; normName appends the viewer's realm to bare same-realm names. Dedup by the catalog entry's name. Taint-safe: secret values are never compared.

Changed

• The alertLog line now carries an nm field (number of plain names on the scoreboard) alongside str/sec — to confirm name readability within one match.

[0.9.2] — 2026-05-27

Added

• Premade-alert diagnostics in SavedVariables. PremadeAlert writes a ring log to PremadeIQ_DB.alertLog (100 lines): on PVP_MATCH_ACTIVE — catalog state (catalog_leaders, lookup, tier); on each scan — bg / cat / n / str / sec / hit / enemy / mine (in a BG, catalog size, scoreboard rows, readable guids vs secret, catalog hits, enemies, own faction); and ANNOUNCE when it fires. Lines are deduplicated. With /piq debug on they're mirrored to chat in grey. The goal: diagnose "the alert doesn't fire" from an on-disk dump, without relying on reading chat live.

[0.9.1] — 2026-05-26

Fixed

• The premade alert didn't fire in Epics. Three fixed scans (4/8/14s) often all landed while the enemy half of the scoreboard on an 80-player Epic hadn't loaded yet (or enemy guids read as secret and detect() skipped them) → a miss every time. PremadeAlert now catches the UPDATE_BATTLEFIELD_SCORE event and re-scans on every update within a 60s window (the accumulating strategy that makes Deserter reliable), plus the timers were extended to {4,8,14,22,32,45}. One announcement per match is preserved.

Added

• /piq now prints a catalog status line (loaded / not loaded, how many leaders, tier) — you can check the alert feed any time without waiting for the login line. New localized string PremadeCatalogMissing.

[0.9.0] — 2026-05-25

Added

• In-game premade alert. On entering a battleground the addon compares the enemy roster against known premades and warns the player via chat + sound.
• New module PremadeAlert.lua: on PVP_MATCH_ACTIVE it starts a multi-shot roster capture (4/8/14s — the early window where names/guids still read plain, like Deserter; on a deep match they're secret, but we don't go there). It checks the enemy side (faction ≠ ours → also catches mercenaries) against the catalog. Every read is guarded by issecretvalue.
• Data comes from a new catalog the Uploader downloads from the server (GET /api/addon/known-premades) and writes to KnownPremades.lua; the addon loads it on login//reload.
• Server-side tiering. A contributor gets the list of leaders; a patron gets leaders + rosters. The shape of the data in KnownPremades.lua dictates what to show (has members → roster, otherwise leader only); there's no tier logic in the addon. You can't fake an upgrade by editing the file — the server doesn't put what your tier hasn't earned into the file.
• /piq premade — manually check the current match.
• Options: "warn about premades" and "sound" toggles (on by default).
• KnownPremades.lua — a shipped stub, overwritten by the Uploader. A toc-data file (not a SavedVariable): WoW loads it at startup and never writes to it, so the Uploader's update is never clobbered by the client.

Related (server / uploader)

• Server: GET /api/addon/known-premades (tier-gated, catalog.py with a 30-min TTL cache). Builds leaders from enemy_leaders + co-players (≥3 shared clean matches on the home side) for patrons. +1 test (test_addon_catalog).
• Uploader: ApiClient.fetch_catalog() + catalog_writer.py + resolve_addon_dir, writes the file into the addon folder once an hour after upload. +6 tests (test_catalog_writer).

Pending

• Live test in EBG (confirm guids read in the early window for real).
• Server deploy + Uploader rebuild (Nuitka --standalone).

[0.8.2] — 2026-05-23

Disabled

• Mid-match snapshots disabled (MID_SNAPSHOT_INTERVAL = 0). An empirical check on a real match (retail 12.0.x): not only the numeric fields (damageDone, etc.) are protected as secret values, but also info.guid — and the Lua serializer silently drops secret strings from SavedVariables. The result: snapshots arrived at the server with no guid and zeroed metrics, useless for off-board metric recovery. Worse — without a guid the server rejected the whole upload as a 422 validation error, and a backlog of matches got stuck.

The snapshot code is left in place: once we find an alternative source (combat log parser or a secure-context hook), we just restore a non-zero interval.

[0.8.1] — 2026-05-23

Fixed

• Secret-value taint in the mid-snapshot. Retail 12.0.x protects live scoreboard numbers (pvpStatValue, damageDone, healingDone, …) during an active match — arithmetic on them crashed TakeMidSnapshot() with "attempt to perform arithmetic on a secret number value". The final snapshot from PVP_MATCH_COMPLETE survived this because Blizzard drops the protection on the completion event; the mid-snapshot runs mid-match and hit the guard. Every numeric read is now wrapped in a safeNum() helper that returns 0 for protected values (via issecretvalue) instead of crashing. Some snapshot fields will be zero (the protected ones), but the snapshot is saved and at least guid+faction signals the player's presence on that tick.

[0.8.0] — 2026-05-23

Added

• Mid-match snapshots every 300s. A new Collector:TakeMidSnapshot() via C_Timer.NewTicker periodically snapshots the scoreboard during the match. Saved as snapshots = {{takenAt, players = [...]}, ...} inside a matchLog entry. This lets us recover the metrics of players who left before the end and were substituted — they're no longer in Blizzard's final scoreboard (always 40 per side).
• Schema v3. A snapshots field added to matchLog entries. Old v2 entries without snapshots are fine — the server treats absence as "no timeline available for this match".

Why

In long Epic BGs (30–90 min stall-wars) player rotation is common. Before this release we only saw the 40 who finished the match; those who left earlier had only a name in the deserters table, with no dmg/heal/etc. Now we have data points every 5 minutes, and an off-board deserter usually lands in at least one snapshot.

[0.7.3] — 2026-05-04

Added

• Capture our raid leader's GUID at scoreboard snapshot. New findRaidLeaderGUID() in Collector.lua iterates GetRaidRosterInfo for rank=2 (raid) or UnitIsGroupLeader (party) and stashes the GUID on the match payload as leaderGUID. The server stores it on Match.leader_guid and recomputes per-player leader_count like desertion_count is recomputed.

[0.7.2] — 2026-05-04

Removed

• Removed dead legacy scaffolding. Cleaned out unused inter-addon communication libraries and a leftover debug slash command that no longer did anything, trimming the Libs.xml and .toc load list accordingly. LibSerialize and LibDeflate are kept — they may be useful later, and sit as one LibStub module load each with no active work.

[0.7.0] — 2026-05-01

Added

• Deserter detection via start vs end comparison. New module Deserter.lua (~80 lines) does a single replay-of-the-data trick: at +6s after PVP_MATCH_ACTIVE it snapshots the scoreboard — who came in to fight; the final scoreboard on PVP_MATCH_COMPLETE is already taken by Collector. On ingest the server diffs the sets and, for each "present at start / absent at end", checks faction vs match.winner — if the faction lost, it flags the player as a deserter.
• Late-join guard: if C_PvP.GetActiveMatchDuration() > 60s at PVP_MATCH_ACTIVE, we set lateJoin=true and the server skips the diff for that match (so we don't false-positive everyone who left before we joined).
• The match payload gains a startRoster: { lateJoin, takenAt, players: [{guid, name, faction}] } field. The server computes deserters; in the DB they go to a deserters table with a natural key (reporter_id, ended_at, guid) for dedup across reports.

Changed

• Version: 0.6.2 → 0.7.0.
• No new events registered in Main.lua — we make do with the same PVP_MATCH_ACTIVE / PVP_MATCH_COMPLETE / PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD / UPDATE_BATTLEFIELD_SCORE. No chat parsing, no locales, no debuff watching.

Design notes

• The "the faction lost" heuristic is deliberately asymmetric: leaving a won match isn't flagged. This surgically cuts out disconnects (technically indistinguishable from desertion to us), while still catching serial AFKers by the law of large numbers: they leave losing matches more often than winning ones, and every encountered addon user independently contributes a record to the shared database.
• Self-desertion (when the reporter themselves left) is not detected directly — for us that match simply doesn't exist. But other reporters in the same match will see and record it. A pattern over time from multiple reporters covers the gap without an aura watch.

[0.6.2] — 2026-04-29

Fixed

• On AV/IoC the match-end scoreboard contained only our own team (40 rows instead of 80), so the opposite faction's data didn't reach the server. Cause: WoW fills the client scoreboard cache lazily — only for the tabs the player actually opened during the match, and on these maps the fast post-cap teleport leaves no chance for a manual view. Added Collector:ScheduleSnapshotMatch: two RequestBattlefieldScoreData() calls 0.7s apart guarantee both sides are cached before iterating. Total delay before the snapshot is 1.4s (was 1.0). The same logic applies to the manual /piq snapshot command.

[0.6.1] — 2026-04-27

Fixed

• /piq options crashed with bad argument #1 to 'OpenSettingsPanel' (outside of expected range). The code set category.ID = "PremadeIQ", overwriting the auto-generated numeric ID with a string; OpenSettingsPanel accepts only an integer. Removed the manual assignment, keep the category object and pass category:GetID().

[0.6.0] — 2026-04-27

Added

• GUI settings panel: Esc → Options → AddOns → PremadeIQ. debug checkbox, local-database stats, a "Wipe database" button with confirmation, Uploader/Discord links, addon version. Registered via Settings.RegisterCanvasLayoutCategory (retail 11.0+).
• Slash command /piq options (aliases /piq config, /piq settings) — open the panel programmatically.
• Panel localization: ru / en (other locales fall back to en).

[0.5.1] — 2026-04-27

Fixed

• Players from your own realm reached the server without a realm suffix (the WoW API returns a short name for same-realm players). Because of that ~7 players in our database were stuck at enrichment_status='error'. The collector now always appends the local realm via GetRealmName() if it's missing from info.name.

[0.5.0] — 2026-04-27

Added

• The player's race (info.raceName) is now shipped in every sample. The server uses it to detect mercenaries: a match card will show "played for Alliance, actually Horde" and vice versa.

[0.4.0] — 2026-04-23

Added

• A welcome dialog on first launch with instructions for joining the shared database (Uploader + Discord + Patreon).
• Unified slash commands: /piq status | uploader | snapshot | debug on|off | reset confirm | version.
• SavedVariables schema version 2 + automatic migration from v1.
• A PremadeIQ_DB.settings table for user settings (debug flag, hints).
• Helper methods Database:GetSetting/SetSetting, Database:CountSamples.
• Full ruRU / enUS locales with fallback to enUS.

Changed

• toc version → 0.4.0, added IconTexture, X-Website, an X-Curse-Project-ID placeholder.
• /piq reset now requires confirm to guard against a typo.
• The debug dump is hidden behind the /piq debug on flag — no longer spamming chat for normal players.
• Consolidated the debug output behind that single flag.

Fixed

• Settings access is now guarded against nil access before init.

[0.3.0] — 2026-04-21

• Collect the PvP scoreboard on PVP_MATCH_COMPLETE.
• Support reading objective ownership from the Leader module.
• Ring buffer: 30 samples for other players, 500 for your own character.
• Deserter tracker: chat parsing + UPDATE_BATTLEFIELD_SCORE fallback.
• i18n for the objective tracker's chat text (ruRU/enUS).

[0.2.0] — 2026-04-15

• Instance mapID resolver via select(8, GetInstanceInfo()).
• C_PvP.GetActiveMatchWinner instead of GetBattlefieldWinner.
• Fixed a bug with won = nil for lost matches.

[0.1.0] — 2026-04-10

• First internal version: basic Collector, Database, Comm.

All notable Uploader changes are documented here. Format — Keep a Changelog, versioning — SemVer. Versions before 0.7.0 predate this public changelog.

[0.9.18] — 2026-11-01

Fixed

• The Uploader from the ZIP opens again. Windows marks files unpacked from a downloaded archive as "from the internet" and then refuses to load one of the app's files, so no window appeared at all. The Uploader now removes that mark from its own files when it starts.

[0.9.17] — 2026-11-01

Fixed

• The window no longer closes silently. The Uploader window needs the Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime. Without it, the ZIP version used to close at once without a word. Now it says the runtime is missing and opens the page to download it. If the window fails to open for another reason, the Uploader shows the error and where the log is.

[0.9.16] — 2026-10-15

Added

• On a Mac the app now updates itself, just like on Windows: the "Update & restart" button on the update card downloads the new version, checks its signature, puts it in place of the old one and restarts the app. Your login and stats are kept. If anything goes wrong, the app brings the previous version back and offers the download from the site instead. It works when the app sits in Applications (or another folder you can write to), not when it runs straight from Downloads. 0.9.16 itself has to be installed by hand on a Mac — for the last time.

Changed

• If an automatic update fails, the update card now links straight to the download page.

[0.9.15] — 2026-10-13

Fixed

• Premade and odds data no longer vanish after an addon update. CurseForge and Wago used to wipe them on every addon update until the Uploader ran again, leaving the premade panel and the odds line silent. The Uploader now keeps a copy in a separate PremadeIQ Data folder next to the addon, and if an update still leaves empty files behind, it puts them back within minutes without asking the server. Needs addon 0.9.60; restart the game once after the new Uploader first runs.

[0.9.14] — 2026-10-06

Added

• The addon learns about mercenary groups with no known leader — people who keep entering battles together. With addon 0.9.56 such a group on the enemy team triggers a possible-premade warning, and the players panel gives it a block of its own.

Changed

• Links to the website in the app point to the new address, premade.online. The old address still works. (On Windows and macOS this comes together with the drawn Discord icon on the sign-in button from 0.9.13.)

[0.9.13] — 2026-10-04

Added

• Linux version. Two flavours: with a window — the same window as on Windows, with an applications-menu entry and start at login; and console — no window, commands in a terminal. Both have a background service (systemd) that uploads your battles the whole time you are logged in — on a Steam Deck in Game Mode too. The game is found inside Wine: Lutris, Steam (Proton), Bottles, Heroic, winetricks, ~/.wine, a second disk included; if not, set-wow-root takes the game folder. Sign in through the browser or with a code on your phone. Install and update: https://premade.online/install#linux
• The Discord mark on the sign-in button is drawn rather than an emoji: on systems without an emoji font it showed an empty box.

Windows and macOS get nothing else in this version and stay on 0.9.12 until the next joint release.

[0.9.12] — 2026-10-04

Added

• Guilds for the personal watchlist. Twice a day the app puts a "character → guild" file into the addon folder, covering the players the PremadeIQ database has seen. With it the addon (0.9.53+) shows players from guilds on your personal watchlist in battle. The watchlist itself still lives only in the game and is never sent anywhere.

[0.9.11] — 2026-09-29

Added

• Sign-in can be confirmed on your phone. If Discord opened on a phone or in another browser rather than in this computer's browser, the login used to go nowhere — the phone tried to open the computer's address and showed "cannot connect". The waiting screen now shows a six-digit code: enter it on the page that opens after Discord, and the app signs in by itself within seconds.

Fixed

• Cancel during sign-in cancels at once. A second "Sign in" used to answer "already running" for up to five minutes after a cancel.
• Sign-in now waits 10 minutes instead of 5.
• macOS: sign-in starts at once — the app could wait several seconds on a DNS lookup before opening the browser.

[0.9.10] — 2026-09-25 · macOS only

Nothing changes on Windows: it stays on 0.9.9, no update needed.

Added

• First build for macOS (Apple silicon). The app finds the game in Applications, in ~/Applications and on external disks, hands over your matches and puts the premade catalog and win rates into the addon folder — as on Windows. Without it the addon on a Mac knows no premades at all.
• How it differs from Windows. There is no tray icon: closing the window quits the app, and you can minimise it to the Dock instead. "Open at login" opens it minimised when you sign in; it works only when the app is in Applications. The app tells you about a new version, but you install it by hand — the button takes you to the site.

[0.9.9] — 2026-09-23

Changed

• The access line no longer thanks you for Patreon. There has been no paid tier since September 12: full access is earned by matches and lapses like any contribution. For full access the line now shows how many matches this week have been handed over, and warns ahead of time when access is about to run out. The tier label in the header reads "Full access" instead of "King of EBG".
• The trial week shows in the app. A newcomer gets full access for the first week after signing in (server side since September 23). The access line shows how many days of it are left and how many of the five matches that keep it afterwards have been handed over.
• The access line updates even when you are not playing. The app used to ask the server about access only after sending matches, so someone who stopped playing kept seeing "trial week" or "full access" after either had ended. It now asks again every half hour.
• The app understands the tier's new name. The server still calls full access by its old name, patron; once most people have updated it will switch to full, and this version shows both the same way.

Fixed

• The app no longer holds up a Windows shutdown. The close button hides the window to the tray, and the same thing happened when Windows was shutting down: the system showed "this app is preventing shutdown" and waited. On shutdown, restart and sign-out the app now closes at once. The close button still hides it to the tray.
• "Quit" in the tray closes the app again. It hid the window, like the close button, and removed the icon, while the process itself kept running — with no window and no icon, until the next reboot. A process like that held up shutdown too.

[0.9.8] — 2026-09-12

Changed

• Winrates reach the game in hours instead of a day and a half. The app fetched the winrate table once a day, and only at the moment the game rewrites its own files — that is, only while somebody is playing. With the game closed nothing was fetched at all; and the addon reads the file only at login, so a match ran on the table downloaded two sessions ago. The app now checks on its own clock, every three hours, so the file is fresh when you log in rather than right after you log out. The old delay has a measured price: over 723 matches, a two-day-old table costs 4 percentage points of forecast accuracy.
• A repeat check no longer pulls 230 KB for nothing. The app tells the server which version it already holds and gets back a short "nothing newer", which is what makes frequent checks almost free.

Fixed

• The empty stub from the addon archive no longer sticks forever. The addon archive ships a blank PlayerStats.lua, so a CurseForge update overwrote the real table with it. The app saw a file that was present and a version that had not moved, and left it alone — while the addon shows no odds at all for a zero model. The app now recognises its own file by size and refetches anyone else's.
• --version prints the version instead of opening the window. It was declared in a way that parsed the flag and did nothing, after which the app fell through to "no command — show the window". From a console that looked like a hang: no output, and the window never gives the prompt back. Fixed in source on 2026-09-09.

[0.9.7] — 2026-09-09

Fixed

• A partial answer from the server no longer overwrites the winrate cache. It used to be written to PlayerStats.lua verbatim: a missing coefficient became a zero (and a zero in that formula is not "no forecast", it is a flat 50/50), an empty player list replaced two hundred kilobytes of real data with a stub, and a zero floor switched off the check that stops the addon averaging over nobody. Such an answer is now discarded and the existing file is left alone — yesterday's data beats today's emptiness.

[0.9.6] — 2026-09-07

Added

• Your Discord avatar next to your name. It used to be a circle with the first letter, although the avatar itself has long been stored on the server and shown on the admin pages. If the picture cannot be loaded — no network, a blocked CDN — the lettered circle is what stays.

Changed

• News is back on the main screen. In 0.9.4 it moved to the Settings tab — a tab you open once, to switch autostart on. News is the reason to look at the window at all, so it sits under the buttons again: the two latest, the rest behind "Read earlier news".

[0.9.5] — 2026-09-07

Changed

• The window shows the project's logo instead of a duck. A 🦆 emoji had sat in the header and on the sign-in screen since the first build; it is now the same shield the site and the tray use. The artwork is embedded in the app rather than read from a file beside it — in the packaged build there is no such file.

[0.9.4] — 2026-09-07

Added

• A "Check for updates" button in the settings. The version check only ran inside a sync cycle, and a cycle only starts when the game rewrites SavedVariables — after a battleground. Anyone who installed the app and did not play for a fortnight was never told about a fix.

Changed

• The window is split into Status and Settings tabs — state, buttons and news apart from the things you set once.
• The app looks like the project now. The tray showed a gold square reading "PIQ"; it is the PremadeIQ logo from the site, and the app icon is rebuilt from the same artwork. Colours aligned with the site palette.
• News no longer stretches the window: the two latest are shown, the rest sit behind a "Read earlier news" button.

[0.9.3] — 2026-09-07

Fixed

• The game folder can now be chosen in the app itself — a "Choose game folder…" button sits next to the list of places we looked. The environment variable stays for anyone who prefers it.
• Finds World of Warcraft when it is not installed in the default folder. The app knew exactly two things — a Blizzard registry key and three hard-coded paths — so an install on another drive produced "No SavedVariables found" with the addon plainly working and no way to point the app at the game. It now also reads the Battle.net agent's product database and the launcher's default install folder, and checks the usual folder names on each drive.
• A dead end now explains itself. When the game cannot be found, the app lists every place it looked and how to correct it: set PREMADEIQ_WOW_ROOT to the folder containing _retail_. The detect command prints the same.

[0.9.2] — 2026-09-06

Added

• Win chances for the match. The app now fetches a winrate table from the server and writes it next to the premade catalog (PlayerStats.lua). The addon uses it to work out both teams' chances during the battle — with no server round trip, because WoW only hands data out on an interface reload. Refreshed daily, and rewritten only when the server actually has newer data. Needs addon 0.9.45 or later.

[0.9.1] — 2026-08-10

Fixed

• Players tagged as "takes raid lead" now reach the game. The server started sending that list on 4 August, but the app did not know the field and silently dropped it while writing the addon's data file — so no in-game notice about them ever appeared. The list is now written and the addon sees it.

Changed

• Version bumped to 0.9.1. That is part of the fix, not bookkeeping: the shipped build and the published version were both called 0.9.0, so the app considered itself current and would never have updated.

[0.9.0] — 2026-06-23

Security

• Signed updates. App updates are now cryptographically signed (Ed25519) and verified against a built-in key before anything is installed — a tampered or spoofed download is refused even if it otherwise looks valid.
• Encrypted sign-in token. Your Discord token is now encrypted at rest on Windows (DPAPI) instead of stored as plain text; an existing token is migrated automatically the next time it's saved.
• Login & connection hardening. The browser sign-in handoff now carries a one-time anti-CSRF token, the app refuses a non-HTTPS server address, and ignores proxy / certificate settings injected via environment variables.

[0.8.2] — 2026-06-20

Changed

• Feeds the leaderless premade alert. The known-premade catalog the Uploader writes for the addon now carries a stable leader id and, on the full-access tier, each premade's confirmed regulars — so the in-game alert can warn you about a premade even when its leader never enters the battleground. After this update the Uploader refetches the catalog once so the new data lands immediately instead of waiting for the next daily refresh.

[0.8.1] — 2026-06-19

Changed

• Addon-update banner links to CurseForge. When a new addon version ships, the info-block button now opens the CurseForge store page (where the CurseForge app updates the addon for you) instead of the self-host page. The store URL comes from the /api/addon/latest manifest; it falls back to the install page when absent.

[0.8.0] — 2026-06-17

Added

• Reciprocal premade catalog. Your in-game premade alert now refreshes as a result of an upload, not a background timer — you push your matches and the same exchange hands back the latest known-premade list. A daily safety poll keeps it fresh for patrons and on the rare leader change.
• Info block + access-status banner. The window now shows a "What's new" card with project updates, plus a live access indicator: it tells you how long your full access lasts and warns before it pauses, so the activity window is never a silent surprise.

Changed

• Catalog sync is upload-driven. The old hourly catalog poll is replaced by an upload-triggered refresh (plus the daily safety poll above) — less chatter, and a returning contributor gets fresh data the instant they upload again.
• Roster analysis fails soft. When the live win-chance tool isn't available (below the contributor tier), the Uploader treats it as a quiet "locked" no-op instead of surfacing an error.

[0.7.0] — 2026-06-14

Added

• Addon handshake: precise cleanup of uploaded data. After every successful upload the Uploader writes an UploadState.lua file into the addon folder with a cursor that says "samples are server-confirmed up to point X" — per account, keyed by a stable installId. The addon uses that cursor to delete exactly the delivered samples instead of guessing by age, so the local database stops growing (in production: PremadeIQ.lua shrank from 46 MB to under 1 MB → the game closes instantly). The cursor is written from the server's actual acknowledgement, is filtered to the right install (_retail_, not _ptr_/_beta_), and never moves on non-sample events.

Fixed

• The upload checkpoint no longer "freezes". Writing state.json now survives transient file locks on Windows (antivirus / indexer; os.replace with retry). Previously a single failure could freeze the on-disk checkpoint for days, so after a restart the Uploader re-read and re-sent the whole backlog. Unexpected write errors are still not masked.