📢 Release Notes - v2.7.0

Version 2.7.0 introduces a complete guided onboarding experience for new users, alongside major improvements to A.I. routing, overlays, private viewer organization, Marketplace games, and platform reliability.

🧭 Walk Me Through Setup

  • Fresh installations can choose a guided setup or continue directly with SheevChat defaults.
  • Choose the areas you want to learn, including appearance and accessibility, accounts, chat, broadcast software, overlays, Commands and Automations, migrations, SheevPad, backups, Spotify, and entitled A.I. tools.
  • Prerequisites are handled in order, so lessons that require an account or broadcast connection appear only when they can be used meaningfully.
  • Practice Commands, Automations, and overlays inside their real editors without silently creating or overwriting records.
  • Learn SheevChat's When / Where / Do action model through a dedicated non-destructive lesson.
  • Opt into beginner, intermediate, and advanced Getting Started examples for Commands, Automations, and Timers, then walk through the saved records with Previous and Next guidance.
  • Import supported data from StreamElements, Nightbot, Moobot, Streamer.bot, Streamlabs, or another SheevChat installation through the existing preview-first Data Manager workflows.
  • Progress, selections, scroll position, and safe return paths are retained so setup can be paused and resumed.

🤖 A.I. Reliability and Routing

  • Automatic chat responses stay on the platform that triggered them unless cross-posting is explicitly enabled.
  • Channel-point celebrations now require an explicit A.I. action instead of generating implicitly.
  • Viewer Greetings use a bounded neutral fallback when a generated response is rejected for safety.
  • Chat Recap supports complete multi-message delivery when a recap is longer than a platform's message limit.
  • Scheduled Chat Writer and event failures now provide more useful privacy-safe diagnostics.

Account-backed A.I. remains available only to accounts with a valid grant. Public purchasing and customer onboarding are still future work.

🖼️ Overlay and Stream Improvements

  • Duplicating an Overlay Builder overlay keeps focus on the new copy.
  • Saved OBS Studio and Streamlabs Desktop scene links survive temporary provider or catalog unavailability.
  • Automatic scene-linked overlay changes now use one shared Master Overlay transition setting.
  • Follower-goal widgets can aggregate totals across their enabled platforms and report unavailable provider data honestly.
  • Raid Finder remembers when an automatically added category is manually removed while still adding genuinely new stream categories later.

👥 Private Viewer Organization

  • Save private nicknames and notes on viewer cards.
  • YouTube and TikTok identities retain their canonical account name while showing a display name or private nickname in parentheses.
  • New main, dock, and mobile chat messages can show the private nickname inside SheevChat.
  • Private viewer metadata never appears in outbound chat, overlays, Marketplace widgets, or public event payloads.

🎮 Marketplace Chat Games

  • Marketplace now has a dedicated Games category and type filter.
  • Chat games use a genre-neutral runtime contract instead of assuming loyalty points, wagers, currencies, commands, or reward tables.
  • Installed game packages can provide their own management adapter, protected command category, settings, and sanitized presentation.
  • The Ecto Gamba package demonstrates atomic balances, replay protection, stream limits, configurable command access, and compact balance-change results without hardcoding its game rules into SheevChat.

🔧 More Improvements

  • Spotify Resume is device-aware and reports restrictions or missing devices honestly.
  • Event-triggered loyalty bonuses can award a viewer by stable platform identity before that viewer appears in chat.
  • Kick chat now discovers and subscribes to the current per-channel realtime room instead of relying on a retired public key.
  • Guided Setup dependency shortcuts reliably open the exact Lists or User Counters Data Manager tab, even when Data Manager is already open.
  • Guided drawers, coaches, wrapped headers, short-window scrolling, and connection feedback now follow SheevChat's normal panel behavior.

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