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What's New ​

Features land in NewRecruit faster than most authors hear about them. Each line below is one data-authoring feature, newest first, linking to the page that explains it. Skim it top to bottom once in a while; the point of this page is finding tools you didn't know existed.

2026 ​

  • Text-modifier tweaks (v1.4.15, 2026-08): append/prepend can skip when the text is already there ("unless present"), and replace with an empty find-text fills in an empty value. → Modifiers
  • Show tracker on categories (2026-07): always display a category with its count and limits, even while not having any available or selected units within ("Prime Elites 0/6"). → Army-wide limits
  • Include-self scope variants (2026-07): type scopes that count the starting node too. → Scope
  • Relative modifiers on profiles, rules, and info nodes (v1.4.11, 2026-06): Affects works from info nodes, not just entries. → Modifiers
  • Affect grouped associations (v1.4.11, 2026-06): constraints, conditions, and relative modifiers can traverse grouped associations. → Associations
  • Follow associations from relative modifiers (v1.4.8, 2026-06): buff the unit a character joined. → Modifiers
  • Association conditions and default targets (v1.4.10, 2026-06). → Associations
  • Entry & Type: Not Upgrade scope (2026-06). → Scope
  • Step (v1.4.2, 2026-04): an entry's amount changes in fixed increments, for units bought five models at a time. → Points per model
  • Child ID on self-scope constraints (v1.4.2, 2026-04): constrain one specific child from the node itself. → Constraints
  • Filter association targets with conditions (v1.3.31, 2026-04): restrict what an association may attach to. → Associations
  • Constrain by associations (v1.3.31, 2026-04): constraints can count a node's associated selections. → Associations
  • The header child ID (v1.3.31, 2026-04): with instance-of and Self scope, hides a configuration entry from the add-unit list once it is taken. → Show or hide an option
  • Constraint messages (v1.3.31, 2026-04): plain-language text with placeholders shown when a limit is broken. → Constraints
  • Triangular and exponent modifiers (v1.3.31, 2026-04): stepped-table scaling. → Modifiers
  • Formatting Rules and Default Value on characteristic types (v1.3.31, 2026-04). → Profiles & Rules
  • Category descriptions and category costs (v1.3.31, 2026-04): a category can explain itself and carry a per-slot cost. → In-text References, Army-wide limits
  • Leader-style grouped associations (v1.3.31, 2026-04): action and splitting behavior on associations. → Associations
  • Repeats on condition groups (v1.3.30, 2026-01): any condition group can repeat, not just local ones. → Conditions
  • Primary-category cost modifiers (2026-04): modifiers can change the cost of a unit's primary category. → Army-wide limits
  • Cumulative modifiers (v1.3.29, 2026-01): add/multiply/power that combine across repeated applications. → Modifiers

2025 ​

  • Arithmetic condition groups (v1.3.28, 2025-12): add, subtract, multiply, divide, modulo, power, min, max, plus comparisons: compute values inside logic natively. Retires the old hidden-cost workaround. → Condition-Group Maths
  • The before condition (v1.3.28, 2025-12): position-dependent rules, such as the third copy costing more. → Conditions
  • count and not condition groups (v1.3.25, 2025-11). → Conditions
  • Kind on profile and characteristic types (v1.3.25, 2025-11): tag profiles so exports recognise them. → Profiles & Rules
  • Force readme (v1.3.25, 2025-11): a readme text on forces, changeable by modifiers. → Modifiers
  • The exportable field (v1.3.24, 2025-09): control whether an entry appears in exports. → Custom Export Templates
  • Multiply, divide, and modulo modifiers (v1.3.23, 2025-09). → Modifiers
  • Duplicate-finder scripts (v1.3.22, 2025-09): shipped find-duplicate-ids and find-duplicates-profiles. → Editor Scripts
  • Cost limits in conditions; cost-to-cost modifiers (2025-07): read the roster's cost limit inside logic; modify one point type from another. → Conditions
  • Shared force entries and force links (v1.3.19, 2025-07): define a force once under Shared Force Entries, link it wherever it appears; enables nested child forces. → Forces
  • Custom export templates (2024-11 → 2025-07): XML/HTML/CSS templates with roster queries, string helpers, grouping, and embedded JavaScript; community template repository. → Custom Export Templates
  • Pretty-printed JSON (v1.3.18, 2025-07): clean line-by-line git diffs. → Best Practices
  • Floor and ceil modifiers; manual sort-index box (v1.1.172, 2025-02). → Modifiers, Sorting
  • Position on increment/replace modifiers (v1.1.164, 2025-02): target a specific number or spot inside a string value, like the 3 in D6+3. → Modifiers
  • Associations reach into child forces (v1.1.162, 2025-02). → Associations
  • Automatic constraints (v1.1.170, 2025-02): NR resolves the selection itself and locks add/remove on fixed-size units. → Constraints
  • Attributes on profiles (v1.1.168, 2025-02): hidden characteristics for exports and scripts. → Profiles & Rules
  • The Affects query UI (v1.1.160, 2025-01): point a modifier at other nodes. → Modifiers
  • Cost modifiers on forces (v1.1.155, 2025-01): change costs at the force level. → Modifiers
  • always / never conditions (v1.1.159, 2025-01). → Conditions
  • Local condition groups (v1.1.157, 2025-01): test several things about the same target; double as repeats. → Conditions

2024 ​

  • Relative modifiers (2024-09): a modifier on one node that changes other nodes; → Modifiers
  • Error, warning, and info modifiers (2024-09 → 2025-01): data-driven validation messages on the roster. → Best Practices
  • Default a group to nothing (v1.1.151, 2024-09): a group's Default Selection can be explicitly none. → Weapon options
  • Modifier fan-out scopes (v1.1.148, 2024-09): one modifier can target its parents, children, profiles, or profiles of a given type. → Modifiers
  • Annotation modifiers (v1.1.148, 2024-09): show a parenthetical after a node's name, as Name (Annotation). → Modifiers
  • Separator control on append/prepend (v1.1.148, 2024-09): set or remove the joining string (default space). → Modifiers
  • Renameable "Child Forces" label (v1.1.148, 2024-09). → Forces
  • Hidden modifiers on cost types (v1.1.145, 2024-08): conditionally hide a cost type. → Modifiers
  • No Index (v1.1.144, 2024-08): keep a name out of rules auto-linking. → In-text References
  • defaultAmount as a modifier target (v1.1.140, 2024-08). → Modifiers
  • Comment lints (v1.1.139, 2024-07): todo: / warning: / error: comments show as annotations in the editor. → Best Practices
  • The negative constraint flag (v1.1.135, 2024-05): -1 means "no limit" unless you opt in to a real negative. → Constraints
  • Type scopes (v1.1.131, 2024-05): count within the nearest unit, model, or upgrade, whatever the nesting. → Scope
  • Multi-stack default amounts (v1.1.128, 2024-04): defaultAmount takes comma-separated values like 1,2,3. → Weapon options
  • Scripts and paste hooks (v1.1.124, 2024-04): bulk edits, lints, and custom paste importers written in JavaScript. → Editor Scripts
  • Add from Github (2024-04 onward): players load a system straight from any repository, with install links and automatic updates. → Publishing
  • Markdown in text fields (2024-03/04): bold, italics, tables, and ^^small caps^^. → Profiles & Rules
  • Aliases (v1.1.123, 2024-03): alternative names for rules auto-linking. → In-text References
  • Manual ordering (v1.1.92–104, 2024-01): sort index with drag-reorder, and no-alphabetical-sort. → Sorting
  • replace and prepend operations (v1.1.93–111, 2024-01). → Modifiers
  • Paste as link (Ctrl+L); flatten groups (2024-01): paste a copied entry as a link to it; flatten a group's children into its parent. → Links & Shared Entries
  • Profile subType (v1.1.95, 2024-01/02): crew, mount, and unit-group sub-typing on model profiles. → Profiles & Rules
  • Sort profile types (v1.1.94, 2024-01): a popup to reorder a system's profile types. → Sorting

2023 ​

  • The data editor itself (v1.0, 2023-05): tree editing, copy/paste with ID scrambling, undo/redo, the References panel; JSON, XML, and zipped formats supported from day one.
  • Change File Format (v1.1.89, 2023-12): convert a whole system between XML, zip, and JSON. → Best Practices
  • GitHub publish with automatic revision bumps (v1.1.27, 2023-06): publish from the editor; catalogue revisions increment on their own against the repository. → Publishing
  • Increment/decrement on string stats (v1.1.60, 2023-06): 5+ becomes 4+ with a plain increment modifier. → Modifiers
  • Default amounts, default group options, exactly constraints, default cost limits (2023-06): the basics of making a fresh unit legal. → Weapon options, Your First Game System

Before the editor ​

  • Associations (2022): leaders joining units have been in the builder since before the editor existed. → Associations