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HawkWatch Changelog

Track all major updates, new features, and bug fixes for HawkWatch Discord bot.

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[v2.0.0] – Interactive Setup & Summary Mode

The biggest update yet! Complete command restructuring with new interactive setup and dual posting modes.

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🆕 New Commands

  • 🛠️ /watch setup - Interactive game setup with guided configuration menu
  • ⚙️ /settings - View all tracked games or individual game configurations with health checks
  • ✏️ /edit - Modify existing tracking settings with interactive menus and health verification

📊 New Post Methods

  • 📝 Summary Mode - Maintains a single updating message with complete game details
  • 📢 Message on Update Mode - Sends new messages for each detected change (classic behavior)
  • 🔄 Post Method Conversion - Switch between modes anytime with /edit

🎯 Enhanced Features*

  • 🏥 Built-in Health Checks - Automatic permission verification for posting/editing messages
  • 🌐 Flexible Input - Support for game names, IDs, and URLs in setup commands
  • 🔎 Smarter Game Search - Add games by name with results from both HawkWatch’s database and Roblox’s Omni search
  • 🔍 /search Restored - Search for games by name with clean results (fixed from its broken state)
  • 🎛️ Interactive Menus - Button-based configuration for easier setup
  • 📋 Better Overview - /settings shows all tracked games with status indicators
  • 🔐 Simpler Permissions - Install HawkWatch with Admin privileges for hassle-free setup (or disable Admin if you prefer granular control)

🗑️ Removed Commands

  • /watch settings set - Replaced by interactive /edit command
  • /watch settings get - Replaced by /settings with individual game support

🔧 Technical Improvements

  • ✅ Comprehensive permission validation before setup completion
  • 🛠️ Improved error handling with specific troubleshooting suggestions
  • 🎨 Enhanced user experience with guided workflows
  • 🖼️ Enhanced Thumbnail Detection - Better error detection and reporting for broken image types to help developers identify and resolve issues

[v1.2.6] – Smarter Pings and Faster Tracking

Get notified…Faster!

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  • ⏱️ Tracking interval reduced to 1 minute for snappier update detection
  • 📢 Added per-game ping role support with /watch settings set ping_role:@role
  • 🔕 Ping roles are now ignored when the only change is a timestamp update
  • 🗓️ Added in-post “Disable Date Tracking” buttons for easier noise control
  • 🎮 Added occasional “Play Game” buttons to jump into updated games instantly

[v1.2.5] – API Reliability

Bug Fix…

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  • 🔐 Fixed Roblox API compatibility issues after SSL trust level changes from Roblox system.

[v1.2.4] – Tracking Stability and Messaging Improvements

Reliability improvements

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  • 🧭 Improved timestamp logic to reduce false “update” alerts caused by minor time mismatches
  • 🛠️ Made universe ID lookups more reliable during game tracking
  • 🔗 Updated support server links in help and error messages

[v1.2.3] – Permission Check Fixes

Perms are annoying…

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  • ✅ Bot now validates whether it can post in target channels before confirming a watch or settings change
  • 🧪 Reduced setup confusion when permissions are misconfigured

[v1.2.2] – Channel Routing, Reliability, and Quality-of-Life Fixes

Bug fixes and quality improvements

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  • ➕ You can now route update alerts to a different channel than where /watch was run
  • 💬 /list watched can now post results publicly or reply privately
  • 🛠️ Fixed false alerts caused by minor timestamp shifts (Roblox API-level seconds mismatches)
  • 🛠️ Fixed settings reset bug when changing alert channels — settings now persist as expected
  • ❌ News/Announcement channels are no longer supported for tracking
  • 🔄 /help now reflects updated command behavior

[v1.2.1] – Role Compatibility Improvement

Only Owner or users with administrator prviliage can setup watches

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  • 🛡️ Added better detection for users with administrator permissions — resolves issues where some admins couldn’t use commands
  • ⏱️ Minor improvements to internal update timing for faster checks

[v1.2.0] – 🟢 Public Launch (Multi-Server Support)

First version where HawkWatch became available for use in any server.

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  • 🌐 Multi-server support added
  • 🔎 Search filters out games already tracked
  • ⚙️ Server-specific game settings and alert configurations supported
  • 👁️ Improved visual alert handling (name, thumbnail, description, update time)

Earlier Versions (v1.1.x and v1.0.x)

Used internally for testing and limited deployment. Not available to the public.


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