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UI Development Notes for Midnight Beta – January 21st, 2026

Blizzard has posted UI development notes for the Midnight Beta for today!

Additional notes for this week’s 12.0.1 beta build:

USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY

TEXT-TO-SPEECH UPDATES

New Combat Audio Alert options were added:

Say Your Debuffs

Format

Voice

Min Duration

Volume

Debuff Self Alert (announces when a debuff is applied to the player that they can dispel)

TRANSMOGRIFICATION

Added the ability to use arrow keys to navigate through appearance items.

NAMEPLATES

Fixed an issue where raid marker icons were not showing in friendly player nameplates.

The background color of Raid Frames can now be customized with a color picker. This can be found in Options > Gameplay > Interface > Raid Frames > Background Color
Boss Abilities now have an Edit Mode option to be displayed as timer bars rather than a timeline.
Boss Abilities and Boss Warnings now have Edit Mode options to anchor tooltips to the cursor location.

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