📢 Release Notes - v2.6.0

Version 2.6.0 is one of SheevChat's largest updates yet, bringing major new tools for raids, backups, migrations, stream control, chat workflows, and everyday productivity—along with a wide collection of production fixes.

✨ New Features

⚔️ Twitch & Kick Raid Finder

  • Discover live Twitch and Kick channels without leaving SheevChat.
  • Filter results by platform, category, language, tags, mature content, audience size, follower size, uptime, and follow relationships where supported.
  • See why each channel matched, preview the stream, review the target, and confirm before starting a raid.
  • Sort and progressively load results while keeping your most recent search and filter layout.
  • SheevChat also keeps a local history of incoming and outgoing raids observed while the app is running.

💾 Backup & Selective Restore

  • Create manual backups from General Settings or Data Manager.
  • Enable automatic startup and shutdown backups with configurable retention.
  • Choose whether to include Marketplace items, Action Library content, custom sounds, and Media Library files.
  • Preview a backup and selectively restore the content you want.
  • Restore operations create a recovery backup first and safely roll back if startup cannot complete.
  • Account credentials remain separated from portable backup data.

📥 Nightbot Migration

  • Import supported Nightbot custom commands, timers, Twitch Center quotes, default-command settings, moderation filters, and blacklist groups through Data Manager.
  • Review everything before importing and choose individual items instead of migrating the entire account at once.
  • Conflicts, duplicates, unsupported settings, and invalid entries are clearly identified before changes are made.
  • Existing SheevChat data is preserved through an additive, repeat-safe import flow.

🔎 Faster Navigation and Editing

  • Press Ctrl+K to search across Commands, Automations, Timers, and SheevPad, then jump directly to the matching editor.
  • Action builders now include their own search for action names, descriptions, categories, and types.
  • Duplicate custom Commands, Timers, and Automations into independent editable drafts.
  • Open Data Manager and Overlay Builder directly from the main header or responsive More tools menu.
  • SheevPad buttons can optionally show persistent visual On/Off states on desktop and mobile.

🎥 Twitch Clip Creation

  • A new disabled-by-default !clip command can create Twitch clips between 5 and 60 seconds long.
  • Choose who can use the command, apply cooldowns, and optionally post the finished clip link to chat.
  • The same Create Twitch Clip action is available in Commands, Automations, Timers, and SheevPad.

🔊 Windows Audio Utilities

  • Commands, Automations, Timers, and SheevPad can control Windows playback volume and mute state.
  • Select the default Windows playback or input device for Console, Multimedia, or Communications use.
  • Playback and microphone device controls remain separate so actions change only the intended audio lane.

🎞️ Streamlabs and Overlay Scene Automation

  • Automations can respond to Streamlabs Desktop scene changes, stream state, recording state, replay-buffer state, source visibility, and source mute changes.
  • Overlay Builder overlays can be linked to specific OBS Studio or Streamlabs Desktop scenes.
  • Linked overlays can switch automatically and optionally fade in sync with OBS scene transitions.

🔧 More Improvements

👥 Viewer and Random Selection Tools

  • Viewer data now keeps platform identities separate and distinguishes active viewers more reliably.
  • Viewers can opt in or out of random selection with persistent commands.
  • New variables can select a random eligible viewer from the current platform, a chosen platform, or all available platforms.
  • Bots, broadcasters, SheevChat, and opted-out accounts are excluded automatically.
  • Random List entries can now use optional relative weights for more control over selection odds.

🎵 Media Improvements

  • Duplicate Media Library items while preserving their tags and readiness settings.
  • Import multiple media files at once, with progress and a final result summary even if an individual file fails.
  • Media Requests tracks now include YouTube and Spotify website buttons, with helpful searches when a direct provider link is unavailable.

📌 Chat and Pinned Messages

  • Pinned messages now have independently saved compact or expanded views across the main app, Chat dock, Mobile/Tablet, and Mod dashboard.
  • A pin control can temporarily hide the main pinned-message banner without unpinning the message.
  • Long links are displayed more cleanly in built-in chat overlays while preserving their full destination.
  • Follow age and account age now use clearer year, month, and day formatting.

🛠️ Stream and Automation Utilities

  • Change your loyalty currency name from Commands, Automations, Timers, or SheevPad without affecting balances.
  • Incoming Raid Automations can check for an upcoming Twitch ad, and a shared action can snooze that ad before the raid arrives.
  • TikTok custom commands can now run Advanced Actions, and TikTok timers can use the full supported ordered action sequence.

🤖 A.I. Development Preview

Version 2.6.0 includes substantial foundation work for future account-backed A.I. features, including Bot Personalities, conversation starters, viewer greetings, chat recaps, scheduled writing, reactive chat, raid messages, event responses, creative utilities, category controls, privacy settings, usage tracking, and secure account activation.

These A.I. features are not currently available for use or purchase. They remain gated while customer onboarding, automated email delivery, commerce, and public availability are completed. This section is a preview of ongoing development, not an announcement that paid A.I. access is live.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Smoothed OBS-linked overlay transitions to prevent abrupt or delayed overlay appearances during scene changes.
  • Corrected Twitch ad notifications so messages and After Ad Automations wait for the actual remaining break time.
  • Enforced saved command permissions consistently, including the intended VIP, Moderator, and Super Moderator hierarchy.
  • Restored complete supported Advanced Action execution for TikTok timers and custom commands.
  • Fixed SheevPad search results failing to focus the existing SheevPad window correctly.
  • Prevented clicks on SheevPad row text or empty space from accidentally changing a button's Enabled state.
  • Improved watchtime identity reconciliation and made large identity-repair result sets easier and safer to review.
  • Stabilized Data Manager background refreshes during identity and data maintenance.
  • Improved viewer identity handling to avoid cross-platform username overlap.
  • Strengthened imported-widget chat safety and runtime isolation without changing normal message rendering.
  • Improved Media Library imports so one failed file no longer stops the remaining selection.
  • Corrected pinned-message and long-link layouts across compact chat surfaces.
  • Improved several platform connection, automation, and output paths for more reliable day-to-day operation.

🔄 To receive the update, simply launch SheevChat or right-click the system tray icon and choose _Check for Updates_.