# The CurseForge listing > The summary, the project settings, what to upload where, and the steps for a new release. Page: https://polestar.guide/docs/contributors/releasing/curseforge (Polestar docs > Contributors > Releasing) Everything the Polestar project on CurseForge needs, in one folder: | File | What it is | |---|---| | [description.md](https://github.com/fitzforge/polestar/blob/next/docs/curseforge/description.md) | The project description, ready to paste whole into CurseForge's description editor in Markdown mode | | `images/logo-1024.png`, `images/logo-400.png` | The project avatar: the gold emblem on a night tile, no text | | `images/banner.png` | The banner at the top of the description (the README's dark banner at 2x) | | `images/starts.png`, `images/levels.png` | The route charts at 2x; the description shows `starts.png` | The description's images and links point at `main` on GitHub (`https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fitzforge/polestar/main/...` and `https://github.com/fitzforge/polestar/blob/main/...`): CurseForge does not show SVG reliably, strips most HTML and cannot follow relative links. The images load only while the repository is public. The screenshots are the README's own, `docs/assets/screenshots/*.png`. CurseForge does not allow links to downloads hosted elsewhere, so the description links to the source and the docs on GitHub, never to the releases page. The images are drawn in code: `node tools/polestar.js readme brand` writes `docs/assets/avatar.svg` and, with `rsvg-convert` (librsvg) installed, every PNG here; `readme charts` re-exports the two charts when it redraws them (tools/README.md, "Generated files"). ## Summary For the project's summary field (plain text, at most 150 characters; this one is 145): ```text Free, open-source guides for World of Warcraft: Forever: leveling routes for every start, found by simulation, plus professions, mounts and pets. ``` ## Project settings - [ ] **Name:** Polestar Guides (live at https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/polestar) - [ ] **Slug:** `polestar` - [ ] **Summary:** the text above - [ ] **Description:** [description.md](https://github.com/fitzforge/polestar/blob/next/docs/curseforge/description.md), pasted whole, editor in Markdown mode - [ ] **Avatar:** `images/logo-400.png` (CurseForge asks for 400x400 pixels; `images/logo-1024.png` is the large copy) - [ ] **Categories:** Quests & Leveling (primary); Map & Minimap, Professions, Tooltip - [ ] **Game flavour and version:** Forever, 1.60.1 - [ ] **License:** GNU General Public License version 3 (GPL-3.0) - [ ] **Source URL:** https://github.com/fitzforge/polestar - [ ] **Issues URL:** https://github.com/fitzforge/polestar/issues - [ ] **Wiki or docs URL** (if asked): https://github.com/fitzforge/polestar/blob/main/docs/README.md - [ ] **Discord** (if the form has a field for it): https://discord.gg/polestar - [ ] **Donation:** Ko-fi, `0xfitz` (https://ko-fi.com/0xfitz); the description's "Support Polestar" section links the same page - [ ] **Experimental:** off, so the project syncs to the CurseForge app - [ ] **Allow comments:** on - [ ] **Relations:** none; Polestar needs no other addon The categories are CurseForge's World of Warcraft addon categories as its search page lists them (checked 2026-10-14): Quests & Leveling for the guides, Map & Minimap for the arrow, the quest markers and the travel planner, Professions for the twelve profession guides, Tooltip for the upgrade indicator. ## Uploads ### The file - **File:** `dist/Polestar-.zip`, from `node tools/polestar.js pack` (docs/RELEASING.md). Its addon folders sit at the top level, as CurseForge and its app expect. - **Display name:** `Polestar ` - **Release type:** Release. CurseForge lists a project in its app only once it has a Release file, and offers Beta files only to players who opt in; the version number (0.x) and the description's "Beta" section say it is a beta. The GitHub release is a full release too, marked Latest. - **Game version:** Forever 1.60.1 - **Changelog:** the version's "For players" section of CHANGELOG.md, in Markdown, each list item joined onto one line - **Not uploaded:** `Polestar_Recorder-.zip` and `SHA256SUMS` stay on the GitHub release. ### The gallery The in-game screenshots, from `docs/assets/screenshots/`, each with its title (the description's captions, shortened): | File | Title | Description | |---|---|---| | `hub-guides.png` | The hub | Guides, Lookup, Dungeons and Rares on one rail; here the Horde leveling guides by level band | | `guide-window.png` | The guide window | The step's goals with their counters, who comes next, XP per hour and the time to level | | `guide-transparent.png` | Transparent mode | Outlined text straight on the world; the controls appear under the cursor | | `arrow.png` | The arrow | Distance and the goal it leads to | | `lookup.png` | Lookup | One search over guides, mounts, items, recipes, quests, NPCs and rares | | `dungeons.png` | Dungeons | Every dungeon by level, its quests counted for your faction | | `dungeon-quests.png` | A dungeon's page | Who starts and ends each quest and its chain | | `dungeon-rewards.png` | Objectives and rewards | The items to choose from, the experience and the money | | `rares.png` | Rares | Every rare and treasure, its drops, where it spawns and how far | | `options-appearance.png` | Options | Every setting as one row, applied as you change it | ## For a new release 1. Upload the new zip as above, with its changelog. 2. Read [description.md](https://github.com/fitzforge/polestar/blob/next/docs/curseforge/description.md) against the release: the guide counts in "What it is" (README.md, "What it is"), the hours in "How the routes are made" (README.md, "The numbers"; always as the simulator's estimates), the "Beta" section, and any feature the release adds or changes. Keep each paragraph and list item on one line, as now. 3. If the charts were redrawn (`readme charts`) or the brand art changed (`readme brand`), commit the new PNGs too. 4. Push to `main` first: the description's images load from there. 5. Paste description.md whole over the old description (Markdown mode) and check the page. --- Next page: [Slash commands](https://polestar.guide/docs/reference/commands.md) · Every docs page: https://polestar.guide/llms.txt · All docs in one file: https://polestar.guide/llms-full.txt