Tempest Streaming Studio 1.8.0

Tempest Streaming Studio 1.8.0 release notes

Tempest Streaming Studio 1.8.0 focuses the operator experience around the tools used during a real stream, adds secure hosted Discord companion pairing, and retires the heavier Streamworld and Kick integrations from Studio.

Clearer operator workspace

• Replaced the multi-level workspace navigation with one persistent sidebar organized into On Air, Create, collapsed Setup + Connections, and System destinations.
• Made Live Chat, Polls, Stream Together, 3D Dice, and Go Live direct On Air destinations.
• Kept sensitive setup controls behind the collapsed setup drawer while preserving the global private-information guard.
• Removed duplicate nested tab rows and corrected the production-health layout for Twitch-only monitoring.

Hosted Discord companion

• Added Tempest Signal pairing for the hosted Discord companion using a short-lived setup code.
• Stores the issued tenant credential through Windows encryption and supports a distinct Studio alias when several people share one Discord server.
• Shows pairing, connection, server, session, and participant status inside Discord Guests.
• Keeps the local Discord RPC path available while making the hosted bot the simple multi-user option.

Focused interaction platform

• Removed viewer sprite avatars, avatar packs and closets, the stream pet, duels, world physics, gaze controls, and Stage Actor development assets.
• Retained the bounded Interactive Stage for text, images, effects, meters, polls, alerts, emotes, and 3D Dice.
• Retained Discord Guests and optional VTube Studio, Warudo, Tempest2D, and Stormframe connections.
• Existing retired-feature data remains on disk so an upgrade does not destroy prior user files.

Twitch-only Studio services

• Removed Kick account setup, OAuth storage, chat routing, hosted relay linkage, poll and automatic-message destinations, and Kick-specific output controls from Studio.
• Live Chat, polls, automation, extensions, and production supervision now focus on Twitch and Stream Together.
• Tempest Broadcast remains authoritative for encoders, canvases, destinations, final audio, and recording.

Compatibility

• The Studio/Broadcast wire protocol remains 1.0 and remains compatible with Tempest Broadcast 1.5.0.
• Tempest Mainframe remains 0.2.1 and Tempest Streaming remains 0.1.1; this Studio release does not publish new Twitch Extension versions.
• Existing Twitch credentials, alerts, managed media, commands, counters, dice configuration, Discord guest profiles, and companion pairings remain compatible.