v0.8.2

WoW Forever

Improved

• Panning no longer hitches: the map set up to 300 textures' files in a single frame where a
  pan brought new ground into view, and each set is a load and an upload, so that frame showed as
  a hitch of about 35 ms. It sets 60 a frame now; the art still fades in, a few frames later.

Fixed

• The map no longer stalls a moment after it opens: since 0.8.0 OpenMap keeps the map's art
  loaded while it's closed, then let go of it all in one frame a second into the opening, which the
  game unloaded at once (about a second's freeze). It now lets go of it a little at a time.

• Zooming in notch by notch is smooth again: since 0.8.1 the blur came back all at once each
  time the map stopped, one long frame the next wheel notch landed on. It now waits out a pause
  between notches and comes back a few zones a frame. Questie's mob paths are worked out once the
  map stops, not on every frame of a zoom.

Retail

Improved

• Panning no longer hitches: the map set up to 300 textures' files in a single frame where a
  pan brought new ground into view, and each set is a load and an upload, so that frame showed as
  a hitch of about 35 ms. It sets 60 a frame now; the art still fades in, a few frames later.

Fixed

• The map no longer stalls a moment after it opens: since 0.8.0 OpenMap keeps the map's art
  loaded while it's closed, then let go of it all in one frame a second into the opening, which the
  game unloaded at once (about a second's freeze). It now lets go of it a little at a time.

• Zooming in notch by notch is smooth again: since 0.8.1 the blur came back all at once each
  time the map stopped, one long frame the next wheel notch landed on. It now waits out a pause
  between notches and comes back a few zones a frame. Questie's mob paths are worked out once the
  map stops, not on every frame of a zoom.

v0.8.1

WoW Forever

New

• Questie's mob paths on the stitched map, drawn over the art for the zones near the view as
  you zoom in (Questie's own were under the art, and only on the zone's own map).

• Darkening colour (Options, under Darkening): the colour unexplored areas are darkened with,
  picked with the game's colour picker; Default colour brings back the dark one.

Improved

• Zooming is about four times smoother: OpenMap no longer lays out its hidden icons and its
  blur on every frame of a zoom (the blur comes back a moment after you stop). Found and measured
  by Peendars.

• Flight masters are easier to see on the map: bigger, with a dark outline, and the ones you
  haven't learned are no longer half see-through (they were lost on the parchment).

• Ctrl-click drops a pin can be turned off (Options, and the menu's More tab): with Map Pin
  Enhanced a Ctrl-click dropped two pins, its own and OpenMap's. Off, the menu's Drop a pin still
  works.

• The Drowned City's map is Santiago Reyes's updated version, which names more of its places
  (the Eternal Amphitheater and the Abyssal Dais).

Fixed

• Dungeon and cave maps show in every language: on the Latin American Spanish, Russian and
  Italian clients every dungeon map and Blizzard cave map was solid green squares, as the game
  doesn't have their art for those languages. OpenMap now brings that art itself. Found and
  first fixed by RADD95 (OpenMap TextureFix): with this version that addon isn't needed.
  (New textures: restart the game.)

• Zone names in your client's language: on every client but English, the zones' prebuilt
  art lettered their English names over the map. Other languages now draw the zones from the
  client's own art (zooming is a little slower there, as with that art turned off).

• Questie's icons show the first time you open the map: after a login they could be missing
  until the map was closed and opened again (Questie was still setting up when OpenMap looked).

• Zygor's waypoint shows on the stitched map, in the right place and over the art (Zygor uses
  its own renamed copy of HereBeDragons, which OpenMap didn't know). Traced by robnoord.

• Your class's trainers are found on every language's client: on a French client (and the
  other non-English ones) every class trainer showed as a profession trainer.

• An NPC who walks about shows once on the map: Girl with Puppies in Orgrimmar had a vendor
  icon at every point of her walk, dozens over the city. An NPC with many spawns in one zone (with
  Vendors and the other townsfolk on) now has one icon, in the middle of where it walks. Fixed by
  diegodiaz1256.

• The map opened on Zephras Isle shows Zephras Isle, as its airship opens it: it showed the
  stitched world with no one on it.

• No friends dot or badge for yourself: with Share where you are on, you could show on your
  own map as a guild member (the guild's roster can spell your realm differently).

• The map opens at once inside a dungeon: each opening loaded the dungeon's map art again, a
  second or two (longer in dungeons with many floors, whose Floors tab shows every floor). OpenMap
  now keeps the art of the dungeon you're in loaded, as it does the world map's.

Retail

New

• Questie's mob paths on the stitched map, drawn over the art for the zones near the view as
  you zoom in (Questie's own were under the art, and only on the zone's own map).

• Darkening colour (Options, under Darkening): the colour unexplored areas are darkened with,
  picked with the game's colour picker; Default colour brings back the dark one.

Improved

• Zooming is about four times smoother: OpenMap no longer lays out its hidden icons and its
  blur on every frame of a zoom (the blur comes back a moment after you stop). Found and measured
  by Peendars.

• Flight masters are easier to see on the map: bigger, with a dark outline, and the ones you
  haven't learned are no longer half see-through (they were lost on the parchment).

• Ctrl-click drops a pin can be turned off (Options, and the menu's More tab): with Map Pin
  Enhanced a Ctrl-click dropped two pins, its own and OpenMap's. Off, the menu's Drop a pin still
  works.

Fixed

• Questie's icons show the first time you open the map: after a login they could be missing
  until the map was closed and opened again (Questie was still setting up when OpenMap looked).

• Zygor's waypoint shows on the stitched map, in the right place and over the art (Zygor uses
  its own renamed copy of HereBeDragons, which OpenMap didn't know). Traced by robnoord.

• Your class's trainers are found on every language's client: on a French client (and the
  other non-English ones) every class trainer showed as a profession trainer.

• An NPC who walks about shows once on the map: Girl with Puppies in Orgrimmar had a vendor
  icon at every point of her walk, dozens over the city. An NPC with many spawns in one zone (with
  Vendors and the other townsfolk on) now has one icon, in the middle of where it walks. Fixed by
  diegodiaz1256.

• No friends dot or badge for yourself: with Share where you are on, you could show on your
  own map as a guild member (the guild's roster can spell your realm differently).

• The map opens at once inside a dungeon: each opening loaded the dungeon's map art again, a
  second or two (longer in dungeons with many floors, whose Floors tab shows every floor). OpenMap
  now keeps the art of the dungeon you're in loaded, as it does the world map's.

v0.8.0-beta

WoW Forever

New

• Friends and guild on the map (Options: Friends and guild): your guild members and friends on
  your realm who are online show on the stitched map, a badge on the zone each is in with who's there. Those who use
  OpenMap and turn on Share where you are show as a class-coloured dot where they stand, updated
  every few seconds while they move. The map asks once whether to share; it's off unless you say yes,
  goes only to your guild and your friends, and never from inside a dungeon, raid or battleground.
• Maps of The Drowned City, Krol'dok Stronghold and Shaper's Terrace, drawn by Santiago Reyes and
  used with his permission (credited on the map, as his other dungeon maps are).

Improved

• A new OpenMap icon, drawn by zloyeb: a map scroll in a gold ring, in the AddOns list, on the
  minimap button, in the map's menu and its portrait (it borrowed the game's Eastern Kingdoms icon).
• OpenMap is back on GitHub, at github.com/openmap-world/openmap: Report a problem opens a
  report there again, and What's new and the AddOns list link to it.

Fixed

• "Center on player, keep zoom" opens at your zoom straight away: having moved since the map
  closed, it opened on the zone's whole map for a moment and then jumped to the zoom kept.
• The map opens with its art already there: the game let go of the map's art while it was
  closed, and each opening loaded it again (blank parchment for a moment). OpenMap now keeps it
  loaded while the map is closed; /openmap warm turns that off.
• The map closes in combat again: with the map open as a fight started, neither Escape nor M
  closed it (since 0.7.0). The windowed map no longer stays open beside an NPC's window, which is
  what blocked it.
• Flight masters you haven't learned show as not learned: every one showed as learned, as
  WoW Forever reports them all as found. OpenMap now goes by the ones a flight master shows you've
  learned: what it remembered is forgotten once and counted again at the next flight master you talk to.
• The map window can't go above the top of the screen, where its title bar couldn't be
  grabbed to bring it back. /openmap reset puts the window back to its size and place.
• Dun Morogh stays Dun Morogh near Ironforge: around Kharanos, panning or zooming switched the map
  to Ironforge's and a click zoomed into the city. A city's map now takes over only in its middle,
  and its zone comes first when you click your way in.
• The OpenMap menu fits a short screen: on a TV at a big UI scale the Look tab ran off the
  bottom.
• Flight masters are named in your own language: on a client that isn't English, the map's
  flight masters kept the game's tables' English names (hovering one said "Stormwind, Elwynn" while
  the flight master in game names it in your language). They're now named as the game names them,
  and a flight's measured time is found again on a route (the times were keyed by the English names).
• The map opened inside a dungeon shows that dungeon's map (Ragefire Chasm, Deadmines ...): it
  showed the world map with no one on it, as WoW Forever has no map of its dungeons. Its map only
  opened from the entrance on the world map.

Retail

New

• Friends and guild on the map (Options: Friends and guild): your guild members and friends on
  your realm who are online show on the stitched map, a badge on the zone each is in with who's there. Those who use
  OpenMap and turn on Share where you are show as a class-coloured dot where they stand, updated
  every few seconds while they move. The map asks once whether to share; it's off unless you say yes,
  goes only to your guild and your friends, and never from inside a dungeon, raid or battleground.

Improved

• A new OpenMap icon, drawn by zloyeb: a map scroll in a gold ring, in the AddOns list, on the
  minimap button, in the map's menu and its portrait (it borrowed the game's Eastern Kingdoms icon).
• OpenMap is back on GitHub, at github.com/openmap-world/openmap: Report a problem opens a
  report there again, and What's new and the AddOns list link to it.

Fixed

• "Center on player, keep zoom" opens at your zoom straight away: having moved since the map
  closed, it opened on the zone's whole map for a moment and then jumped to the zoom kept.
• The map opens with its art already there: the game let go of the map's art while it was
  closed, and each opening loaded it again (blank parchment for a moment). OpenMap now keeps it
  loaded while the map is closed; /openmap warm turns that off.
• The map closes in combat again: with the map open as a fight started, neither Escape nor M
  closed it (since 0.7.0). The windowed map no longer stays open beside an NPC's window, which is
  what blocked it.
• Flight masters you haven't learned show as not learned: some showed as learned, as OpenMap
  counted the stops a flight passes through. What it remembered is forgotten once and counted again
  at the next flight master you talk to.
• Flight masters are named in your own language: on a client that isn't English, the map's
  flight masters kept the game's tables' English names. They're now named as the game names them,
  and a flight's measured time is found again on a route.
• The map window can't go above the top of the screen, where its title bar couldn't be
  grabbed to bring it back. /openmap reset puts the window back to its size and place.
• The OpenMap menu fits a short screen: on a TV at a big UI scale the Look tab ran off the
  bottom.

v0.7.5-beta

Fixed

• The map's art is there at once when you open it: since 0.7.4 the zones showed blank parchment
  for a moment each time the map opened.
• Clicking a quest on the map keeps the map as it is: the quest is tracked and the map zooms in on
  it, full screen or windowed. It opened the quest's details, which Blizzard shows in the windowed
  map, so a full-screen map left full screen. With the quest log open beside the map, its details
  show there too.
• Hiding your pins hides their drawings too (the menu's Pins, right-clicked): what you drew on a
  pin stayed on the map without it.

v0.7.4-beta

New

• Chat over the full-screen map (the menu's Look tab, and Options): the chat windows stay on show
  over the map while it's full screen, to keep talking while you look. Off unless you turn it on (a
  player's request).
• Faster to load: only your language's translations are read (the other nine were a quarter of
  OpenMap's code), and its look through every addon's map icons for combat waits till you're in the
  world, not the loading screen (a player's report: half a second more load time).
• The zones' detail comes in sooner when the map first opens up close: it took a couple of
  seconds after a login or reload.
• /openmap status says what loading costs: OpenMap's files, the login, the map's setup and
  building the map (a player found it added load time: this shows where).

v0.7.3-beta

New

• Key bindings (the game's Keybindings > OpenMap): Find me, Drop a pin, Pins, Quill,
  Quest log and the map's menu, each opening the map first if it's closed (players' requests).
• The quill draws on dungeons' maps: with a dungeon's map up, what you draw goes on its picture
  and is kept with that dungeon, not on the world map behind it (a player's request).
• Only places you've found (the menu's On the map tab, under Places): dungeon entrances, docks
  and zeppelin towers once you've explored where they are, flight masters once you've learned them.
  Off unless you turn it on (a player's request).
• Townsfolk from another addon's NPC database: an addon with a database in Questie's shape can
  give it to OpenMap (OpenMapAPI.RegisterTownsfolkProvider, docs/api.md), so townsfolk and rare
  mobs show without Questie (a player's request).

Fixed

• Smooth zooming at any Take colour out: the zones' fast pre-drawn art was only used at the
  setting's default (10%); at any other, every zone was drawn from its hundreds of pieces and the
  frame rate dropped as their detail came in. It's now used at every setting.
• Full screen stays full screen, and the quest log you closed stays closed, the next time the
  map opens: it went back to the window and the quest log each time (a player's report).
• Improves performance under Fade icons while zooming no longer stays on show over the menu's
  other tabs (a player's report).
• Riverglades and Zephras Isle show their levels on the zone hover (35-45 and 1-12, from the
  Warcraft Wiki; a player's report).

v0.7.2-beta

Improved

• Zooming is smoother with unexplored areas darkened: greying the land you haven't found cost
  a lot of frame rate while zooming; it now costs far less.
• Unexplored areas for one character only: the menu's Only for this character, under
  Unexplored areas, gives this character its own choice (darkened, hidden or shown); every other
  character keeps the shared one (a player's request).
• Fade icons while zooming says Improves performance under it in the map's menu, so it
  isn't turned off unawares.

Fixed

• The map loads the zone you pan or zoom to again: with an addon adding map icons (Questie,
  GatherLite ...), it could stay on the zone you started on, so the zone or continent you'd panned to
  showed none of their icons until you clicked it (a player's report from 0.6, and ours). Its setting,
  once Follow the view, is now Load the zone in view (the menu's More tab), saying what it does.
• The map window drags and resizes with Move Any installed but turned off: OpenMap asked whether
  Move Any was on for a character named by your first name alone (WoW Forever gives a first and last
  name), which the game took as on, and left the window to it (a player's report, with the fix).

v0.7.1-beta (retail)

Fixed

• The map loads the zone you pan or zoom to again: with an addon adding map icons, it could stay
  on the zone you started on, so the zone you'd panned to showed none of their icons until you
  clicked it. Its setting, once Follow the view, is now Load the zone in view.

• Flight masters you've learned are in colour, all of them: OpenMap knew only the ones it had
  seen you visit since it was installed (and, on a client not in English, none). It now asks the
  game which you've found.

• Retail: your arrow and the map's icons where they are in the cities: in Stormwind, your arrow,
  Blizzard's flight master and the other icons on the city's map were drawn tens of yards from where
  they are (a player's report).

• With Enhance QoL, OpenMap says once in chat to turn off its Mover > World Map: the two both
  size the map, and its scale goes wrong (a player's finding).

v0.7.1-beta

Improved

• Darkened unexplored areas look better (Unexplored areas: Darken): a Darkening slider (the
  menu's sliders, and Options) sets how dark they are, from a light shade to the full one; unfound
  land is greyed as well as darkened, so the lighter lines Blizzard paints along zones' borders no
  longer show bright through it; neighbouring zones you haven't found blend into one another, with
  no light seams between them, and the painted land between zones (north of the Plaguelands,
  Gilneas, round Ahn'Qiraj ...) darkens with them.
• Other addons' icons fade while you zoom (Questie's, RestedXP's ...), out as a zoom starts and
  back in after it, instead of blinking off and on. Fade icons while zooming, in the map's menu
  (the Show tab), turns it off.
• The map window can go partly off the screen: drag it up until its title and the bar under it
  are past the top, for just the map (Options' Reset window brings it back), or past the sides and
  bottom while some of it stays on.
• Unexplored areas for one character only: the menu's Only for this character, under
  Unexplored areas, gives this character its own choice (darkened, hidden or shown); every other
  character keeps the shared one (a player's request).
• With Enhance QoL, OpenMap says once in chat to turn off its Mover > World Map: the two both
  size the map, and its scale goes wrong (a player's finding).

Fixed

• Other addons' icons stay on the map (RestedXP's, Nauticus's, Questie's ...): they could
  flicker and go, as anything that set the map's scale counted as zooming. Now only your own
  zooming does, and never for more than a moment.
• The map loads the zone you pan or zoom to again: with an addon adding map icons (Questie,
  GatherLite ...), it could stay on the zone you started on, so the zone or continent you'd panned to
  showed none of their icons until you clicked it (a player's report from 0.6, and ours). Its setting,
  once Follow the view, is now Load the zone in view (the menu's More tab), saying what it does.
• The map window drags and resizes with Move Any installed but turned off: OpenMap asked whether
  Move Any was on for a character named by your first name alone (WoW Forever gives a first and last
  name), which the game took as on, and left the window to it (a player's report, with the fix).
• Flight masters you've learned are in colour, all of them: OpenMap knew only the ones it had
  seen you visit since it was installed (and, on a client not in English, none). It now asks the
  game which you've found.
• Fishing on the zone hover shows: OpenMap looked for your Fishing skill in a way WoW Forever no
  longer offers, and found none.
• Zeppelin towers show for the Alliance too when Zeppelins is on: they were the Horde's only,
  though their routes showed for everyone and the goblins' zeppelins take anyone.

v0.7.0-beta (retail)

New

• OpenMap for retail (Midnight): the same seamless map, from retail's own maps. Every continent on
  Azeroth's map, its zones stitched in as you zoom with their explored areas painted (or hidden until
  you've been there, as Blizzard's own map does), Blizzard's art as it is; the world's parchment out to
  its torn edge and on past it; dungeon and raid entrances from the encounter journal with every floor
  of their maps, flight masters, boats and zeppelins, the close-up minimap. A download of its own on
  CurseForge.

Improved

• The map stays open while you talk to an NPC (or open a vendor, the bags' windows ...): the
  windowed map is no longer put away to make room. Escape still closes it; maximized, it behaves as
  before.
• Reopen map: Center on player, keep zoom (the menu's Reopen map, and Options): the map opens
  on you at the zoom you closed it at.
• Choose your map: the choice the first time the map opens is in the map window's own frame,
  with plainer words.
• A little lighter at the whole-world view: a city's map isn't drawn at all until it starts to fade
  in (before, it was drawn unseen).