# 0.2.0

> What changed in Polestar 0.2.0, released October 14, 2026.

Page: https://polestar.guide/docs/reference/changelog/0-2-0 (Polestar docs > Reference > Changelog)

## For players

- Guide packs: guides written by other players load beside Polestar's own.
  A Guide packs page in Options (`/polestar packs`) shows each pack, turns it
  on or off and reports its problems.
- A centred welcome greets each new character by name, with the guide
  Polestar suggests; its Set up page appears only on the account's first
  character.
- The leveling guides of both factions are reworked: quests that block a solo
  player are dropped or made optional, rare drops are optional, flight paths
  and training come at the right levels, and Forever's own additions, fixed
  points and level tips are in.
- Class quests are in the leveling guides of both factions, at the start and
  level where each class gets them: Shaman totems, Warlock demons, Hunter
  pets and Beast Training, Paladin and Priest spells, Warrior stances, Druid
  forms and Rogue poisons.
- Each training stop in the leveling guides is for the classes whose trainer
  stands there, with stops of their own for Horde Druids (Thunder Bluff),
  Undead Paladins (Brill, the Undercity, Thunder Bluff), Alliance Shamans
  (Ironforge) and Alliance Druids (Stormwind, Darnassus), no Horde gap of more
  than about five levels, and riding at 40 from each race's own riding
  trainer. Alliance guides add training in Ironforge on the way out of Dun
  Morogh, and in Stormwind after Duskwood and on the way to Stranglethorn,
  drop it in Auberdine, which has no class trainer, and take every race to the
  Sentinel Hill flight path.
- Alliance 40-50 grinds less: Keeping Pace on the ride through the Shimmering
  Flats into Tanaris, and The Curse of the Tides, Pearl Diving and Return to
  Corporal Kaleb on one loop through northern Stranglethorn.
- Stranglethorn Vale and Un'Goro Crater, which were split into parts, are now
  one guide per stay in the zone. Inn names are the ones the game reports, so
  binding and hearthing check off; Northwatch Hold's step names its levels;
  and no travel step comes before goals that lead there themselves.
- Collectible, Legacy and reputation guides have clearer notes (warlock mount
  hand-offs, Merchant's Favor camps, Timbermaw and Cenarion Circle standings)
  and mark optional extras as such. Gathering loops in Mulgore and Redridge
  point at the nodes, and an exploration area the game names twice is listed
  once.
- The guide arrow knows every place a target spawns: the map marks the other
  places, fainter ("It also spawns here"), and a click on the arrow, the arrow
  button or a mark moves on to the next one.
- Quest markers cover every place a quest's mobs and objects spawn (before: at
  most 8 areas per mob per map), and a kill no longer redraws them all. Quest
  nameplate icons sit beside the health bar you see, on replacement
  nameplates as well as the game's own.
- Guide window: each tab shows its guide's level range; a narrow tab cuts the
  title, not the range.
- Windows fit their text in any font: a page's subtitle wraps to two lines
  inside the header, no text runs past a window's edge in the game font or in
  Inter, and the hub's search placeholder picks the first of its wordings
  that fits the box.
- Beta wording everywhere, and British spelling in the interface.
- The Recorder's command is `/psrec`, replacing `/lsrec`; `/polestarrec`
  still works.
- The README starts with a quick start for players, a download button and
  screenshots from the game.

## For guide authors

- Guide packs: write your own guides in a pack of your own, with `new` to
  start one from a template, `lint`, `playtest`, `dev` (rebuilds into the game
  on every save), `play` (the real addon in the browser), `compile`,
  `install` and `pack` (the release zip). See docs/PACKS.md.
- Lint checks the places of `sethome`, `hearth`, `fly` and `getfp`, and warns
  on a `goto` whose next goal is within 200 yards; route drafts no longer
  write one.
- `lint`, `compile`, `dev`, `play`, `install` and `pack` stop with one clear
  message when the reference data is missing.
- `dev` reports a deleted `pack.json`, keeps the last good build and builds
  again once it is back.
- `find` lists inns and flight points as guide lines.
- `sim compare` takes the pack folder as its argument, like the other pack
  commands.
- Docs: the guide format on one page (docs/GUIDE_CHEATSHEET.md), and what the
  `fly` check accepts.

## For contributors

- A second, independent route search checks the first; the README's numbers
  and charts show both.
- `version` sets `guides/pack.json` too, so the guides addon's TOC carries
  the release version after compile; docs/RELEASING.md separates private test
  builds from public releases.
- The UI renders in docs/preview show this release's windows and come out
  byte for byte the same from any checkout: textures go through a zlib
  encoder of the preview's own (Node's zlib gives different bytes from one
  Node to the next), quest markers are built in quest ID order (LuaJIT walked
  the quest log in another order and stacked overlapping markers
  differently), the test client's `date()` is UTC, `preview` refuses local
  inputs unless they render outside the repository, and the guide menu scenes
  load frozen copies of six compiled guides, so they change only with the UI,
  never with a guide recompile.
- CI runs `npm test` on pushes and pull requests, and fails when the committed
  textures differ from a fresh `media` build or the committed UI renders
  differ from fresh ones.
- `--help` prints a command's usage and never runs it; test helpers live in
  tests/helpers; one copy of each client helper in Core/Compat; every AddOns
  and WTF folder lookup goes through tools/lib/addons.js
  (`$WOW_FOREVER_ADDONS` first, then the detected clients); `.gitattributes`
  and `.editorconfig`.
- A docs map (docs/README.md), READMEs in the main folders, CONTRIBUTING.md
  and issue forms for wrong steps and bugs.
- The design system is docs/DESIGN.md, which now also says who the windows
  are for and what they must do (formerly PRODUCT.md and docs/UI_BRIEF.md).
- The tools share one copy of each foundation: the repository's folders
  (tools/lib/paths.js), the argument parser (tools/lib/cli.js), the XP rules
  (tools/lib/game/xp.js) and the races and classes with their mask bits
  (tools/lib/game/races.js).
- Fields the addon sets on game frames share one prefix, `ps`, explained in
  addon/README.md.

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