Changelog

1.2.9 - 2026-09-18

• Replaced the exact game-version allowlist with startup API validation. Compatible future patches no longer require a version-only update.
• Incompatible APIs still fail closed; World Engine retains its exact method-body audit.

1.2.8 - 2026-09-18

• Added Valheim 1.0.15 support while retaining exact API checks and support for 1.0.7, 1.0.12, and 1.0.14.

1.2.7 - 2026-09-17

• Added Valheim 1.0.14 support while retaining compatibility with 1.0.7 and 1.0.12.
• Retained exact game API checks and rejection of unknown versions.
• Updated installed-game contract verification for the 1.0.14 client.

1.2.6 - 2026-09-14

• Include vanilla Standard Pair destinations in the Runic picker, dedicated-server directory, and final travel validation. Vanilla portals retain their normal tag pairing when entered.
• Show all authorized Public, owned Private, and current-member Group destinations across network names.
• Protect the local player from incoming hits and ongoing damage throughout an authorized Runic picker session, including directory loading; cancel restores normal damage and travel uses native teleport protection.
• Expand directory capacity to the graph's 2,048 endpoint ceiling rather than truncating at 128 destinations (the configured graph limit still applies).
• Recheck source discovery and departure access before opening the protected picker.

1.2.5 - 2026-09-14

• Include Public Runic destinations from every network alongside authorized destinations in the entry portal's network.
• Apply the same destination scope to the picker, dedicated-server directory, name lookup, and travel validation.
• Warn when crossing to a public destination leaves no reverse route to the original private or group network.
• Keep permission, ward, availability, revision, and native travel restrictions in place.

1.2.4 - 2026-09-11

• Added group-invitation popups showing the inviter and group, with Accept and Decline buttons.
• Accept joins the group and selects it as your active group; Decline removes only your invitation.
• Added /group decline <group name> as a chat alternative.
• Invitations wait while other menus are open and are checked again by the server when answered.
• Cancelled, expired, and replaced invitations cannot be accepted through an old popup.

1.2.3 - 2026-09-11

• Fixed portals and group features being disabled by the Valheim 1.0.12 version check. Retained Valheim 1.0.7 support.

1.2.2 - 2026-09-10

• Fixed group invitations and /group whoami failing for characters with valid negative Valheim IDs.
• Fixed those characters being excluded from group membership, the group dropdown, and portal access/map checks.
• Added explicit character-readiness errors instead of silently dropping group requests.
• Clarified when an invited player is connected but their character identity is not yet available.

1.2.1 - 2026-09-09

• Updated dialog, statistics, map-coordinate, pin-removal, and portal-registry integration for Valheim 1.0.
• Re-audited the installed Valheim 1.0.7 client and dedicated-server assemblies and updated the BepInEx dependency to 5.4.2350.

1.2.0 - 2026-09-08

• Added a native in-game portal editor with a Standard Pair checkbox, separate Network and Portal Name fields, Public/Private/Group access controls, and arrival/departure direction choices.
• Added an authenticated Group dropdown populated from the player's chat-managed groups, removing the need to enter internal group identifiers.
• Standard Pair editing now uses the same form while preserving Valheim's 10-character portal-tag limit and vanilla pairing behavior.
• Kept destructive mode or metadata changes behind a visible second-save confirmation window so an established route is not replaced by a stray click.

1.1.4 - 2026-09-05

• Reworked the Thunderstore description and README opening to lead with the player problem, the mod's core benefit, major features, in-game feel, and then safety and compatibility details.
• Description-only package update. The plugin DLL and gameplay behavior are byte-for-byte unchanged from 1.1.3.

1.1.3 - 2026-09-01

• Fixed first-use network portals incorrectly reporting source-ward-denied while the dedicated server was still loading the source zone's native ward objects.
• Kept source ward checks fail-closed: an ambiguous source requests the exact nearby server zone and receives up to eight bounded retries over eight seconds, while a known hostile ward is still rejected immediately as source-ward-denied.
• Transient missing ward evidence is now reported accurately as source-ward-unavailable instead of being mislabeled as a permission denial.

1.1.2 - 2026-09-01

• A valid 1.1.0 directory request received by a 1.1.2 server is now rejected with the explicit client-update-required compatibility reason instead of being counted as malformed cheat evidence. The older protocol still cannot authorize or enumerate portals.
• Identity-unbound requests during the short connection/character handoff remain denied and recorded, but no longer contribute high-confidence automatic-disconnection strikes. Truly malformed envelopes, malformed authenticated commands, and replay conflicts retain escalation.

1.1.1 - 2026-09-01

• Fixed first-use Runic portal entry on a dedicated server by binding the request to the exact nearby source ZDO and using the server record as authority. Client revision/network values are now freshness hints, so normal replication lag no longer becomes source-unavailable.
• Fixed the normal large-map P directory so it warms authorized world-wide portal records from the authoritative server instead of showing only zones that this client had previously visited.
• Added bounded, authenticated, read-only map-directory transport and precise server rejection diagnostics without adding any portal mutation or ownership-transfer RPC.

1.1.0 - 2026-08-31

• Added an optional, reflection-only Runic Sentinel security bridge without making Sentinel a required dependency. Rejected malformed, identity-unbound, or replay-conflicting portal requests can now contribute trusted evidence to Sentinel's bounded automatic-enforcement policy.
• Kept ordinary portal permission denials out of cheat escalation: being outside a ward, group, or network permission is a normal authorization failure and is never treated as proof of cheating.

1.0.0 - 2026-08-29

• Fixed the first network-portal entry on a dedicated client reporting that no destinations were available until the player had traveled through a vanilla portal. The authenticated client now asks the server to force-send only the matching portal records it may discover and arrive at, then waits briefly for the complete authorized network before drawing the picker map.

• Kept the first-use directory request bounded, retry-limited, source-revision checked, peer-character authenticated, network-scoped, and filtered by portal and ward permissions.

• Fixed dedicated-client long-distance Runic routes being denied whenever the destination zone was unloaded and therefore had no local PrivateArea evidence.

• Separated Public/private/Group policy authorization, source ward authorization, destination ward authorization, and route-revision evidence so failures report the correct reason.

• Public remains the default travel policy; Private remains recorded-owner-only; Group travel uses the current authenticated server membership snapshot and fails closed when it is unavailable.

• Kept source/edit wards strict and kept known hostile loaded destination wards denied, while an unloaded remote destination is no longer rejected solely because its ward state is unknown.

• Applied the same remote-destination rule to the picker, world-wide directory, and final commit.

• Made Runic Portals independently installable with BepInEx as its only runtime dependency.

• Removed the Core registry, capability negotiation, protocol admission, account binding, portal transport, durable edit intents, mutation WAL, recovery, quarantine, and source-protection leases.

• Moved portal edits and travel to Valheim's native local portal/player ownership paths without claiming or transferring ownership.

• Kept Standard Pair routing separate from public, private, and Group named networks.

• Kept permission-filtered map directories, walk-in destination selection, direction rules, one-way acknowledgement, return routes, setup UI, and bounded diagnostics.

• Compiled the limited group domain code needed by this mod into RunicPortals.dll; no shared Runic runtime assembly is produced.

• Added one bounded, namespaced Group request/response channel. The server authenticates its actor from the current peer's owned Player character ZDO and keeps request/replay state only in memory.

• Preserved existing portal ZDO keys and record schemas plus the prior world-scoped group catalog and active-selection file formats and locations.

• Added an optional reflection-friendly Group membership API for other gameplay mods.

• Replaced the obsolete durability and remote-owner harness with 19 focused format, routing, ownership, RPC-authentication, and architecture tests.