Four updates before BlizzCon.
Black Temple Phase 3 — live Aug 27
Burning Crusade Anniversary Phase 3 went live on schedule: Black Temple, Hyjal Summit, Arena Season 3, Netherwing dailies and epic gems. Longdale's milestone is complete — next is the BlizzCon reveal Sep 12-13. Tracked in the Classic+ hub.
Project Camelot — 1.60.1.69609 (Aug 29)
The encrypted 1.60.1 branch bumped from 69407 (Aug 20) to 69609 (Aug 29) on WoW Dev 2, with intermediate 69555 builds on Aug 28. The steady cadence holds two weeks out — internal QA only, no PTR yet. Live via our CDN watcher.
Tracker now 102 servers
From 93 to 102 this week (+9) via community-list comparison and gap sweeps: RetroWoW, BloodWoW TBC, Tirisgarde, LegionPlus, Project Alterac, Felsong, Dragonborn WoW and Luntares join, plus earlier Whitemane/Chromiecraft evidence sweep. All 80 playable servers now have popTier assigned (0 unknowns); stale cohort (Capybara + 10× Aug 20 entries) re-verified Aug 30. Full tracker.
Hero imagery added — eight compressed WoW-scene photos across the homepage, Classic+ hub, blog index and post headers.
BlizzCon 2026 — 13 days
Opening Ceremony streams free Sep 12 ~11 AM Pacific. Draft skeletons for Classic+ and Wrath Anniversary are armed and will be filled day-of. Timeline and Status Snapshot in the Classic+ hub are current through Aug 29. After the show we'll flip the status panel, update FAQ JSON-LD and reconcile every Vanilla+ project against the announcement.