1.12 out today/tomorrow

[Watto44]

As mentioned on the Lurker Lounge front page, eagle eyed observers (in other words, not me) noticed a few differences between the patch notes posted by Nethaera and those that were included with the download of the patch. Two items that were added in Nethaera's post were:
This is a big and very needed change for guilds attempting difficult raid encounters, where main tanks are buffed up to the very limit -- such as when guilds attempt Patchwerk or Maexxna in Naxxramas. In addition to the visible buffs on players, there are hidden buffs associated with things like shapeshifting and stances. For example, warrior Defensive Stance actually causes three hidden buffs on the player related to damage reduction and threat generation. This is fine and is a mechanism normally hidden to the player. However, in encounters where guilds attempt to maximize all buffs on their tanks, it was possible for procs such as Inspiration to knock buffs such as flasks and Defensive stance off the main tank, frequently with disasterous results. This is definitely a good change.
This is an interesting new option. I'm not sure if I'll use it, but it's nice to know it's there.

The changes to buff priority are indeed timely. (I would have assumed they would have been implemented at the same time as debuff prioritising. I can only assume that Blizzard, like me, only became aware of this problem recently...)

The self-cast changes? Meh, I'll keep my seperately hotkeyed macros thank you very much. (Actually, I'll hold onto DAB's selfcast functionality, but macros work just as well.:))