📢 Release Notes - v2.8.0

Version 2.8.0 brings X live chat into SheevChat, adds Twitch polls and predictions, expands automation and Stream Info presets, and improves chat-widget performance. Marketplace games, overlays and SheevPad also gain new ways to work together.

💬 X Live Chat

  • Receive X broadcast chat alongside your other connected platforms, with platform filters, overlays and text-to-speech support.
  • X viewers can participate in supported local commands, automations, loyalty points, watchtime and chat games. Commands such as !setcolor can update local viewer settings.
  • Manage your connected services through Your platforms, with connection and Connect on Launch controls.

X chat is receive-only. SheevChat silently skips outbound responses to X while allowing supported local actions to run. Sending messages and moderation on X are not included in this release.

🗳️ Twitch Polls and Predictions

  • Create Twitch polls and predictions through action sequences, with questions and multiple options that support variables and RNG lists.
  • Follow polls and predictions in the main window's shared, collapsible pin section.
  • Lock predictions, select the winning outcome or refund participants directly from SheevChat.
  • Cleaner Question, Options and Timing groups make the action editor easier to navigate.

⚙️ More Flexible Automations and Timers

  • Default Commands is a new automation When category. Run an automation after a supported default command successfully executes, using variables from its result.
  • For !playclip, the trigger runs when playback actually starts and supplies the clip duration. Use a variable such as {clip.duration} in a Pause action to coordinate later steps.
  • Pause accepts variables and decimal durations across Commands, Automations, Timers and SheevPad.
  • Restrict timers to selected Twitch or Kick stream categories, with improved official category search and match ranking.
  • Default-on Fuzzy timer spacing spaces scheduled timer, automatic A.I. and giveaway reminder messages 15–45 seconds apart per platform to reduce back-to-back announcements. Chat games, Trivia, manual replies and giveaway closing remain independent. Change this under General Settings → Display and Behavior.

📑 Stream Info Presets

  • Save reusable stream titles, categories and platform destinations in Data Manager → Preset.
  • Duplicate presets and edit them in a roomier editor with clearly aligned platform controls.
  • Apply a specific preset from an action, or choose randomly from your selected preset pool. Titles support variables and RNG lists.
  • Open the preset manager directly from the action editor.

🎮 Marketplace Games and Widgets

  • The updated game engine supports a wider range of Marketplace games and companion widgets, including shared sessions, voting and card games. Optional widgets can show game activity while the game engine manages outcomes and rewards.
  • Installed game commands support managed names and aliases, clearer ownership and searchable instructions.
  • Installed Marketplace widgets appear directly in Overlay Builder's add list, with their own fields and compatible themes.
  • Compatible chat themes can offer viewer choices through included commands such as !classtheme, allowing chatters to choose a supported theme identity.
  • Marketplace list/card layouts, package details and compatibility feedback are easier to browse. Trivia and game settings cards start collapsed and retain your choices during the session.

🎛️ SheevPad and Stream Deck

  • Map saved SheevPad buttons to Stream Deck keys using the separate SheevChat plugin, with button artwork, searchable selection and connection feedback.
  • SheevPad previews now scroll within half the editor's available height, keeping the editor accessible alongside its buttons.

🖼️ Smoother Chat and Overlays

  • Reduced unnecessary chat-widget updates and repeated initialization, improving CPU usage and memory behavior while preserving existing widget APIs and iframe reloads.
  • Unused theme assets, fonts and audio resources are released when their final widget host is removed.
  • Native Spotify and YouTube overlays keep playback progress synchronized through seeks, pause/resume and queue updates while chat widgets retain the performance improvements.
  • Clip playback preserves the video's aspect ratio within the player widget. Creator credits stay centered above the fitted video when space allows, or at the top of the widget.
  • Platform headers use initials at medium widths and colored circles in the most compact layout.

🔧 More Improvements

  • Global Search includes Settings and installed Marketplace commands, with more reliable navigation to their editors.
  • Raid Finder gains named filter presets, improved session category behavior and visible Twitch chat restrictions where available.
  • Optional Twitch watch-streak messages can appear in the local chat feed without duplicating alerts or text-to-speech.
  • Windows OBS Studio and Streamlabs Desktop connections can create or recreate a combined broadcaster/SheevChat desktop shortcut.
  • Application and game launch actions skip already-running targets when their local process can be identified. Games that open a secondary launcher may still attempt launch again.
  • TikTok sending and browser preparation receive reliability improvements, alongside more useful startup, error and resource diagnostics.

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