[XB] Verification Badges: User Roles & Achievements 2.1.0

Badge Expiry, Ownership & Complete History!​

This update significantly expands badge management with expiry and renewal workflows, multiple badge owners, detailed badge history, and more flexible automatic award retention. It also introduces a new verification badge catalog, personalized progress tracking, and improved ACP tools.

Important: This version now requires [XB] Core Library.
This is a major update. Please take a full backup before installing it on a production site.

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New Features​

• Added optional badge expiry dates with renewal requests, reminders, and management from the My Badges account page.
• Added badge renewal support, allowing badge owners to renew recipients while preserving remaining validity or starting a new term after expiry.
• Added support for multiple badge owners who can assign and remove manually awarded badges from their account.
• Added ACP Badge History with filters, reasons, actor details, and related request links.
• Added optional logging of automatic badge changes with configurable retention and automatic cleanup (disabled by default).
• Added permanent and conditional retention modes for automatically awarded badges.
• Added a Verification Badges help page with category visibility controls and four display layouts.
• Added optional personalized progress section to My Verification Badges, showing measurable automatic-award requirements and direct request actions.
• Added current badge owner counts and paginated owner lists with a separate viewing permission.
• Added a live ACP badge preview for usernames, posts, and tooltips using unsaved appearance settings.
• Added a Font Awesome icon picker to the badge editor.
• Added an option to copy an existing badge into a pre-filled new badge form.
• Added an option to limit the length of badge and renewal request messages (10,000 characters by default).
• Added moderator permissions for editing their own verification badges and the badges of administrators and moderators. Moderators no longer have either ability until it is granted; administrators are not affected.
• Added individual badge expiry controls for administrators and authorized moderators. Existing badge awards remain unlimited after upgrading.

Improvements​

• Restricted request attachment changes to the member who submitted the pending request.
• Restored attachment uploads when submitting badge and renewal requests.
• Fixed automatic badge checks skipping inactive members when the cron interval is set to zero.
• Preserved a category display order of zero when importing badge XML files.
• Prevented unrelated ACP user edits from removing verification badges when the badge editor is absent from the submitted form.
• Badge XML exports now preserve automatic awarding rules and retention settings.
• Prevented request attachments from being changed after a request is decided or cancelled.
• Allowed expired badges to be requested again when the member cannot use badge renewal.
• Badge history now records the administrator who initiated a user merge.
• Members are now alerted when their badge request is approved from the approval queue.
• Verification badges can now be assigned when creating a member in the ACP.
• Automatic badge checks now run as a resumable background job, so large forums no longer risk cron timeouts.
• Cancelled requests are now always kept with the Cancelled status; the cooldown option only controls whether they count towards the request cooldown.
• Fixed the tooltip of a member's own badge failing to load when its category is hidden from them.
• The My Verification Badges page and its account links now respect the badge viewing permission.
• Bulk badge actions in the ACP now show their progress and return to an up-to-date badge list.
• Merging members no longer leaves the target member with more than one pending badge request.
• Members can now view attachments of their own badge requests.
• Badge tooltips now close instead of waiting indefinitely when their details cannot be loaded.
• The ACP request log now links request authors only for administrators who can edit users.
• Rebuilding award dates no longer replaces the date of a badge that was removed and awarded again later.
• Fixed date presets in the ACP request filter when the filter menu is opened more than once.
• Uninstalling the add-on now removes request field titles, descriptions and choices.

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Increased templater class extension execution order to avoid conflicts with some 3rd party add-ons
Fixed "Element.querySelectorAll is not a valid selector" error in ACP awarded content badges log

Trigger badge info preview tooltip on hover and click
Removed unused alert opt out action

Added rebuild tool to reset badge award date from latest approved request date

Fixed bug causing unnecessary badge award date updating
Added ability to change badge award date from ACP

• Added badge visibility criteria (set up in category options) and permission to bypass it
• Added cron job to force badge awarding for inactive users
• Fixed incorrect phrase key in relation Category MasterTitle