Auctioneer/Releases/History

Z Norganna's AddOns

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Project Background

Auctioneer is an suite of AddOns which can be used in the World of Warcraft MMO. Auctioneer was first created by Norganna, back in 2005 in the early days of Vanilla WoW. He eventually collected a team of open-source enthusiasts who were willing to collaborate with him to provide ongoing maintenance and enhancements to the Auctioneer tool. Auctioneer is currently in its 5th major release version.

New release quality builds are provided whenever substantial new Auctioneer functionality is ready for release, or when new versions of WoW require substantial changes to the Auctioneer code for compatibility.

In addition to our main trunk branch, from which all release and preview builds are born, at any given time various experimental features may be under development in any number of other testing branches. Under normal circumstances, end-users should not attempt to download and use these branches of the code, unless given direction by one of the developers. We provide no support for these experimental versions.

History of Releases and Project Activity

Auctioneer (Advanced, 5.x)

This version of Auctioneer (originally released as Auctioneer Advanced, and able to co-exist with the older 4.x Auctioneer Classic) re-wrote the entire framework to be more modular. The scanning module now supported multiple separate pricing/statistics plug-ins, which users could enable or disable, or even write their own. The framework also supports price matching modules and utility modules, each independently controllable or open for user contribution. This version also eliminated the problem of users' price databases growing too large to be handled in WoW, causing the loss of all a user's data.

Starting with the 5.x set of releases, we began providing stable "release" quality builds at any X.Y version numbering, alongside frequent "preview" X.Y+1 builds of our current developer/unstable trunk branches, for users willing to accept beta quality in order to get more up-to-date functionality and bug fixes. Each version is also tagged with a build number, which corresponds to the SVN revision associated with that particular release.

Auctioneer 5.x is/was compatible with TBC, WotLK, and Cataclysm.

  • Auctioneer 5.11 - May 10, 2011 (WoW 4.1 compatibility, additional Cataclysm updates)
  • Auctioneer 5.10 - January 26, 2011 (scanning fixes, SearchUI revamp, initial Cataclysm updates) [This version was not released to AddOn sites]
  • WoW 4.0 (Cataclysm) US release - December 7, 2010
  • Auctioneer 5.9 - October 20, 2010 (WoW 4.0.1 compatibility, plus LDB access)
  • Auctioneer 5.8 - May 4, 2010 (AutoMagic overhaul, minor updates and conveniences throughout, decommission of Auc-Stat-Classic)
  • Auctioneer 5.7 - December 8, 2009 (WoW 3.3.0 compatibility, Glypher module, performance enhancements)
  • Auctioneer 5.6 - August 27, 2009 (WoW 3.2.0 compatibility, searcher performance, posting performance, tooltip configuration)
  • Auctioneer 5.5 - May 19, 2009 (WoW 3.1.2 compatibility)
  • Auctioneer 5.4 - April 15, 2009 (WoW 3.1.0 compatibility, Appraiser per stack pricing)
  • Auctioneer 5.3 - March 2, 2009 (movable columns, tooltip enhancements, enchantrix and informant updates)
  • Auctioneer 5.2 - January 23, 2009 (convert from EnhTooltip to LibExtraTip and TipHelper, localization, and performance enhancements)
  • WoW 3.0 (Wrath of the Litch King) US release - November 13, 2008
  • Auctioneer 5.1 - October 14, 2008 (updated for WoW 3.0.2 compatibility)
  • Auctioneer 5.0 - October 5, 2008 (initial WotLK PTR compatibility, plus initial Auctioneer Advanced release, plus libraries including Configator, DebugLib, SlideBar)
  • Twenty-six (!!) "Preview Releases" of Auctioneer Advanced were made available between August 31, 2007 and September 10, 2008, designed for TBC (and eventually WotLK beta) compatibility
  • New JIRA, Crucible, and Fisheye bug tracking and project management software put in place - October 19, 2007

Auctioneer (Classic, 4.x)

This version of Auctioneer extended the underlying framework of the Auctioneer tool, allowing the tool to queue up multiple scans, purchases, and auction postings in a complex queuing-callback system. BottomScanner and Swatter were added to the suite.

This version of Auctioneer was released ~2 months after TBC was unveiled, existed side-by-side with Auctioneer Advanced preview releases for several months, and was decommissioned for the WotLK release, with which it was not compatible.

Auctioneer (3.x)

During development of this 3.x version, Auctioneer was becoming a very complex, modular system of AddOns. It provided the ability to scan the Auction House and search for good deals for purchase. It also included the Enchantrix, Informant, and BeanCounter modules to provide extended auction functionality. BottomFeeder was also introduced at this time (and then later pulled, at Blizzard's request).

Starting with Auctioneer 3.2, Auctioneer used even-numbered point releases (e.g. 3.4) to indicate major releases, and odd-numbered point releases (e.g. 3.5) to indicate developer/unstable versions. This system was in place through our 3.8 releases.

Auctioneer 3.x (and earlier) versions were compatible with Vanilla WoW 1.x. I do not believe Auc 3.x was compatible with TBC, as Auc 4.x was released at that time

Auctioneer (2.x)

Auctioneer 2.x made some data format changes to allow for separate servers and factions, and made other under-the-hood changes to allow it to move away from LootLink scanning in the 3.x line.

Auctioneer (1.x)

The original version of Auctioneer, created by Norganna. At this point in time, Auctioneer relied on LootLink for scanning code.

Downloadable Releases

For history buffs, old releases of the AddOn can currently be found in the following locations:

  • CurseForge (versions 1.2 and later)
  • SourceForge (versions 2.04 - 3.0.11)
  • Google may be able to locate other versions as well
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