CHANGELOG.md

Unreleased

Added:

• Internal buffers (logs, highlights, etc) can be added to sidebar
• Improved legibility of the returned values of MONITOR list (/monitor L)
• Config option (preview.card.description_decode_html) to decode html strings in preview card descriptions
• Support displaying a larger version of the card images in-app
• IRCv3 no-implicit-names support
• Keyboard shortcuts validation (e.g no duplicate key binds)
• actions.buffer.notifications settings to control how interacting with notifications is handled
• actions.buffer.click_nickname and actions.nicklist.click_nickname can be used to specify whether a nickname will: open query and how the query is opened, insert nickname in the input box, or no action ("no-action" or "noop"); takes over functionality from buffer.nickname.click and buffer.channel.nicklist.click and adds the ability to perform no action
• actions.buffer.click_channel_name and actions.buffer.click_highlight can be set to no action ("no-action" or "noop") to not open the channel when clicking on the channel name
• Explicit portable mode
• Theme editor can be closed via Escape

Fixed:

• Nick highlight improvements
  • Handle nick possessives <nick>'s (<nick> should be parsed)
  • Skip parsing nicks inside abbreviations (e.g. shouldn't have highlights)
• Notifications no longer immediately dismissed in some Wayland DE(s)
• Do not send duplicate JOIN message when using /join
• Do not send MARKREAD for non-PRIVMSG/NOTICE messages when the server does not support echoes
• Do not show unread/highlight indicators for ignored messages
• Do not copy empty selections to the primary clipboard (i.e. do not clear the primary clipboard when a non-selection action is performed, such as moving the cursor or focusing the text input on some systems)
• Prevent anti-flood rate limiting from refilling the token bucket beyond its configured capacity
• Show unread indicators for panes hidden by maximize
• Allow commands (e.g. /join) to be used in the input box of not-joined channels
• Disabled menu entries now block clicks from passing through
• Preserve own away state when leaving and rejoining a channel
• Do not panic when previewing an SVG with a very large filter
• Reject overlong lines from the server connection instead of buffering them without bound
• Do not panic when a server-supplied METADATA retry-after value would overflow the retry timer
• Stop busy-looping on CPU when a DCC file-transfer peer closes its connection early

Changed:

• change_mode server messages are categorized as actions (i.e. actions_dimmed controls whether they are dimmed by default)
• Renamed sidebar.server_icon → sidebar.primary_icon and sidebar.server_font_size → sidebar.primary_font_size since the settings now apply to both servers and internal buffers
• Renamed sidebar.font_size → sidebar.secondary_font_size to reflect its relationship to sidebar.primary_font_size
• Renamed actions.buffer.local → actions.buffer.open_internal to match naming convention used elsewhere
• Renamed actions.buffer.click_username to actions.buffer.click_nickname for more consistent terminology
• Moved functionality from buffer.nickname.click → actions.buffer.click_nickname and buffer.channel.nicklist.click → actions.nicklist.click_nickname
• Windows release artifacts are signed using SignPath
• Set window icon also on Linux for X11

Thanks:

• Contributions: @englut, @luca020400, @classabbyamp, @KaiKorla, @TheDcoder, @City-busz
• Bug reports: @luca020400, agent314

2026.7.2 (2026-06-08)

Added:

• Add clear buffer shortcut to title bar
• Indicate in query if user is offline in its title bar

Fixed:

• Issue where large window size could cause Halloy to crash in certain scenarios
• Correctly support RPL_METADATASYNCLATER
• Issue where input box could lose focus after a filehost, reply, or reaction modal
• Issue where a buffer could jitter in certain particular scroll positions
• Minor issues where input tooltips could fail to reflect current caret position, highlight the correct active argument, show when first the input is first loaded, etc
• Show Display in Configuration docs menu
• Document that servers.<name>.username setting will fall back to servers.<name>.nickname if not set
• Nick completion tooltip no longer shows when there is only a single match

Changed:

• buffer.reply.insert_nick no longer inserts nick when replying in query buffers or to yourself
• Input tooltips are aligned with the input (i.e. inset when text_input.nickname.enabled = true)
• servers.<name>.sasl.plain.username setting will fall back to servers.<name>.nickname if not set
• Replace the Windows MSI package with a per-user Inno Setup installer

Thanks:

• Contributions: @luca020400, @englut, @furudean
• Feature requests: @g00s
• Bug reports: wwWraith, @skizzerz, @ncfavier, @account1009

2026.7.1 (2026-06-02)

Fixed:

• Panic when a reply contains a multibyte character near the start of message
• Ensure messages don't get formatted if channel has +c mode (colour filter)
• User highlighting incorrectly matching contraction suffixes

Thanks:

• Contributions: @luca020400, @aniketkotal
• Bug reports: @WinnerWind, @sco1, @classabbyamp, @aniketkotal

2026.7 (2026-05-28)

Added:

• Support for IRCv3 reply client tag
• Support for IRCv3 draft/message-redaction
• Support for IRCv3 metadata display-name, avatar, pronouns, homepage, color, status keys
• IRCv3 bot mode support, with bot icon in buffers and nicklists
• Support for IRCv3 WebSockets
• Support for displaying SVGs
• Notification for reacts (notifications.reaction)
• Theme colors for horizontal rule text and buffer backlog/date separators
• Font size settings the sidebar (sidebar.font_size) and server titles in the sidebar (sidebar.server_font_size)
• The focused buffer is indicated in the sidebar by a thin border (can be configured with the optional theme color buttons.primary.border_active, falls back to buffer.border_selected if no color is configured; set to "#00000000" to disable)
• Two new optional theme colors, buttons.primary.border_active and buttons.secondary.border_active that define border color used to signal secondary state (set to "#00000000" to disable)
• The config buffer.server_messages.condense.max may be used to limit the number of user entries shown in condensed messages
• Setting to close queries when closing query buffer panes (buffer.close.query)
• Configuration options for font stretch (font.stretch)
• The default font is not bundled if default feature iosevka-font is disabled.
• Customize the character used to indicate a nickname was truncated with display.truncation_character
• Support for draft/chathistory-end message tag
• Setting to mark new messages as read for any open buffer when the buffer is scrolled to the bottom and Halloy is focused (buffer.mark_as_read.on_message)
• Setting to hide the text of messages that contain only a single URL, when the URL's preview is visible (preview.hide_url)
• Nick and channel completion picker
• Runtime graphics settings (graphic backend, vsync, and antialiasing)

Fixed:

• Issue where duplicate messages could appear for sent messages when connecting to a soju bouncer
• Issue where ZNC playback would produce duplicate messages
• Record NICK and QUIT messages returned by draft/event-playback (chathistory)
• Allow multiple file uploads when pasting on macOS
• Preview inclusion conditions would require both channel and user/server_message be specified, when one or the other should be sufficient
• Matching against users for some include/exclude conditions
• Do not hide consecutive nicknames if the user's displayed access levels or bot mode changes
• Link matching:
  • Channel link matching on single line only
  • Fix link matching for both end of line delimiters & punctuations
  • Handle URLs ending with paired delimiters chars when matching links
  • Handle leading delimiters when parsing link fragments to match nicks after quotes
• Issue where a shorter highlight word would match instead of a longer one sharing the same prefix
• Issue where unread indicator could appear in sidebar for an open pane that does not have unread messages
• Issue where backlog divider in highlights or logs pane would not update when marking the pane as read
• VERSION and JOIN commands on connect are skipped if server is primary soju server
• tor enabled builds
• Emoji pickers not finding newer emoji like 🙂‍↕️
• Selection expansion will take precedence over input history navigation (i.e. shift + ↑ will expand the selection to include the top line of input, rather than navigate to the previous input history entry)
• Window title displays buffer name after closing previously last pane

Changed:

• On-join topic messages dropped by default (buffer.server_messages.join_topic), instead the topic banner is enabled by default (buffer.channel.topic_banner)
• Topic messages manually requested via /topic have a distinct setting from topic messages received on join (buffer.server_messages.topic → buffer.server_messages.request_topic & buffer.server_messages.join_topic)
• Badging on server icons used to indicate unread/highlight state (instead of the color of the server icon); unread indicators positioned to be aligned with server badge
• Default sidebar.server_icon.size changed from 12 → 20
• Default sidebar.unread_indicator.highlight_icon_size changed from 8 → 6
• Default sidebar.spacing.server changed from 6 → 2
• Default sidebar.padding.buffer changed from [4, 4] to [5, 4]
• For filehosts, localhost is now treated as a secure transport when using servers.<name>.filehost.override_url
• buffer.mark_as_read.on_message = true is now equivalent to buffer.mark_as_read.on_message = "open" (previously equivalent to buffer.mark_as_read.on_message = "focused")
• Tooltips have had their spacing tightened
• Reactions are listed in the order they were first added to the message
• Reaction tooltips:
  • Display the reaction text in a larger font size (uses font.only_emojis_size if set and the reaction is an emoji)
  • Lists nicks with a new layout, where nicks are now colored and are listed in order of when they reacted

Thanks:

• Contributions: @bb010g, @furudean, @englut, @luca020400, @4e554c4c, @stephenfin, @achille, @ncfavier
• Bug reports: @bb010g, daniiooo, @e00E, belthesar, @Fingel, @death916, @furudean, @ncfavier, @WinnerWind, @alexaandru, @kasper93, tranzystorekk
• Feature requests: @WinnerWind, Shyny, @classabbyamp, @4e554c4c, @furudean, @englut, @esden, @Erroneuz

2026.6 (2026-04-21)

Added:

• Files can be uploaded to server using soju.im/FILEHOST (see the file uploads guide for details)
• typing
  • Per-server typing settings (servers.<name>.typing)
  • Animate typing dots
  • buffer.typing.style setting with padded and popped modes for typing indicators
• Settings to reroute direct PRIVMSG and/or NOTICE messages to another buffer (servers.<name>.reroute.query and servers.<name>.reroute.notice)
• channel-context support (messages with the tag will be automatically rerouted)
• Theme & Display
  • buffer.nickname.color now supports { palette = ["#RRGGBB", ...] } for nickname colors from a fixed set
  • buffer.server_messages.away setting to control when automated away messages are shown
  • buffer.server_messages.away theme setting to control how automated away messages appear
  • Setting to control whether unread indicators are shown on open buffers (sidebar.unread_indicator.show_on_open_buffers)
  • Unread indicators for queries can be hidden via sidebar.unread_indicator.exclude
  • Ability to customize the arrows used for directional messages such as join, part, quit, kick, and CTCP messages.
  • Expanded tooltips setting to allow hiding auto-complete tooltips
• Commands
  • Ability to add optional arguments in custom aliases (/msg ChanServ op $channel $1?-)
  • /massmessage command to send Ergo/Solanum mass-messages
  • /invite command tooltip and validation provided, and display of INVITE-related messages improved
  • // can be used to escape a leading /; in other words, //topic example will send the message /topic example (not execute the /topic command)
• Controls
  • Right-click context menu on messages now includes "Copy message" to copy the message text to the clipboard
  • Message drafts are remembered across Halloy sessions (can be disabled with buffer.text_input.persist)
  • ctrl + , now opens the config file (⌘ + , on macOs)
  • emacs bindings for ctrl + u and ctrl + w
  • buffer.text_input.kill_to_clipboard to control key bindings moving killed text to clipboard
• Windows MSI installer does not automatically start Halloy during passive or quiet installations

Changed:

• Default typing style (buffer.typing.style) is now popped (from padded)
• Moved typing settings from buffer.channel.typing to buffer.typing to clarify that they apply to queries as well as channels
• Moved nicklist nickname settings from buffer.channel.nicklist to buffer.nickname (away and color)
• Colons, semicolons and double quotes are no longer considered part of channel names
• Backslash escapes are now only interpreted when escaping markdown formatting characters
• Tooltips will be shown for all commands, even those not available on the server, with an error tooltip shown if the server does not support the command
• Parsed URLs will be displayed with IDN encoded domains (to avoid domain spoofing) and percent-decoded path & later components (for legibility) by default (display.decode_urls)

Fixed:

• Server notices with wildcard targets (for example NOTICE *) are shown in the server buffer again
• typing
  • Settings for buffers could get in a stuck state without any way to control them (or see that the state is stuck)
  • +typing=done should not be sent when the message is sent
• chathistory
  • Support for multiline messages
  • TARGETS pagination
  • More conservative treatment of pagination on reconnect
  • Greatly reduced the scope of deduplication to only messages that can be expected to possibly be duplicates
• Receive & apply reactions in queries
• IRC URIs now handle bracketed IPv6 hosts and percent-encoded channel targets correctly
• Fix URLs with non-ASCII characters getting percent-encoded when rendered in buffers
• Filtering for common trailing punctuation and delimiters when linking channel names (and nicks & urls)
• /MOTD command will not trigger end-of-registration actions
• Repeat lines in some MOTDs would be deduplicated
• Keyboard shortcuts now work in popped out buffer windows, including command bar shortcuts
• sidebar.order_by setting works when set to "config"

Removed:

• buffer.channel.message.nickname_color in favor of buffer.nickname.color

Thanks:

• Contributions: @furudean, @omentic, @KaiKorla, @achille, @classabbyamp, @ncfavier, @englut, @WinnerWind, @okdana, @luca020400, @mgdudas, @auronandace
• Bug reports: sebbu, @whitequark, @SnoopJ, @esden, @miyukoc, @ld-cd, @achille, @classabbyamp, vignoux, @ncfavier, @englut, @cyrneko, @jeffharrell1, @RoboDanjal, @internet-catte, @Lualttt, @c727, @cyrneko, @furudean, @lephe
• Feature requests: @omentic, @classabbyamp, @ncfavier, @ineeee, @4e554c4c, @RoboDanjal

2026.5 (2026-03-21)

Added:

• Setting to limit reaction display length (buffer.channel.message.max_reaction_display) and maximum length (buffer.channel.message.max_reaction_chars)
• Emoji and command picker entries are now clickable and insert the selected completion directly into the input.
• Multi-line send support (uses IRCv3 multiline when available)
• Typing indicator support (uses IRCv3 typing)
• Add emoji reactions for supported servers (uses IRCv3 react)
• New "config" option to sidebar.order_channels_by. Uses server.<server_name>.channels to determine order.
• Case insensitive sort of query names in sidebar
• Copied order_channels_by from sidebar to server.<name>, defaults to sidebar.order_channels_by if empty.
• Alias commands (see buffer.commands.aliases)
• Exec command support for generating input from shell command output (see buffer.commands.exec)
• The titlebar now displays the current buffer for each window.
• /plain-me, /format-me, /plain-msg, /format-msg, /plain-notice, and /format-notice commands were added to provide /plain//format functionality to the /me, /msg, and /notice commands

Fixed:

• Improved message length calculation (when known the bytes required to relay a message are included in the calculation, when unknown an estimate is used)
• Prevent interaction leakage behind open modals: clicks, cursor changes, and hover states no longer affect underlying UI while preserving outside-click and Esc to close
• Prevent clicks from passing through completion picker overlays to content behind them (for example nicknames in the buffer).
• Regression that could make the application slow to close
• Apply locale to context menu, copy, and date separator timestamps
• Fixed direct message notifications when excludes are present
• Fixed reloading config for channel sorting.
• Fixed handling of URLs ending with ).
• Auto-format rules are applied to the content of /me, /msg, and /notice commands

Changed:

• Spoilers (/f ||hello world||) now reveal on click instead of hover

Security:

• Fixed file transfer path traversal vulnerability when using DCC
• Config directories and config.toml are now created with owner-only permissions

Thanks:

• Contributions: @KaiKorla, @englut, @mango766, @ncfavier, @classabbyamp, @melocene
• Bug reports: chmod222, @whitequark, @englut, sebbu, @ascarion, @4e554c4c, @BKVad1m, @mango766, @esden
• Feature requests: @gAlleb, @jtbx, @cyrneko, @englut, @ascarion

2026.4 (2026-03-03)

Added:

• Support for the IRCv3 react client tag.
• Correctly record window size if window is maximized
• Optional settings to transform channel name casing:
  • sidebar.channel_name_casing for channel entries in the sidebar
  • buffer.channel.channel_name_casing for channel pane title bars

Changed:

• Notification toasts can now use a subtitle on supported operating systems
• New about screen accessible from the user menu in the sidebar
• Added setting to mark focused buffers as read on incoming messages
• Formatting inside code spans is now ignored in order to prevent breaks in code span styling
• Links inside code spans are not detected in order to prevent breaks in code span styling
• Setting to hide consecutive timestamps (buffer.timestamp.hide_consecutive)
• Channel name casing can now be transformed (e.g. to lowercase) in sidebar entries and channel pane titles via channel_name_casing settings

Fixed:

• High CPU usage when opening very large buffers
• Window state is saved even if altered shortly before quitting
• Default dimmed value for server messages no longer overrides dimmed = false set for individual server message kinds
• Issue where context menu items would not respond to clicks
• Filters are loaded on first connection to server via bouncer-networks and updated on config file reload
• Compatibility with ZNC's backlog service
• Markdown formatting inside code spans is properly ignored

Security:

• Improve link preview management to mitigate spam-driven resource abuse

Thanks:

• Contributions: @melocene, @4e554c4c, @TheOneric, @bmndc, @RealKindOne, @englut
• Feature requests: @deepspaceaxolotl, @RoboDanjal
• Bug reports: @barretgoat, @TheOneric, @Erroneuz, @BKVad1m. @englut, @whitequark, petteri, xtracked

2026.3 (2026-02-24)

Added:

• Support requesting window attention (setting urgency) for notifications (notifications.<type>.request_attention)
• Default server message pseudo-type, allowing the default values for server message types to be user-specified
• Default internal message pseudo-type, allowing the default values for internal message types to be user-specified
• Add setting to specify queries to be added to the sidebar after connecting to a server
• Added ability to disconnect on SASL authentication failure (defaults to true)
• Setting to configure font line height (font.line_height)
• Ability to add multiple keybinds for a single shortcut
• Sidebar actions can now be configured separately for channel and query buffers (actions.sidebar.channel, actions.sidebar.query)
• URL context menu now supports Hide Preview / Show Preview
• New shortcuts:
  • new_horizontal_buffer (not bound by default)
  • new_vertical_buffer (not bound by default)
  • quit_application (defaults to Ctrl+Q on linux, not bound on Windows/MacOS)
• Expand show_access_levels to allow all access levels (in addition to highest or no access levels) in buffer/nicklist/input
• Setting to allow locale specification used when formatting timestamps
• Setting to include chantypes / prefixes when sorting channels in the sidebar
• Manual disconnection from a server will disable auto-reconnect
• Disconnected servers can be connected to via the Connect to server entry in the context menu for its sidebar entry
• Servers can be prevented from connecting on launch (or configuration reload) with the servers.<name>.autoconnect setting
• /connect (without an argument) and /reconnect can be used in open buffers for disconnected servers to (re-)connect to the server
• /join (without an argument) can be used in channel buffers where the channel is not joined in order to (re-)join the channel

Fixed:

• Channel mode in pane headers not updating immediately after mode changes
• Cycle next/previous (unread) buffer shortcuts work from an empty pane
• Virtualize message rendering to improve buffer performance
• Default proxy used when checking for an update
• Detect system locale when formatting timestamps with locale-specific stftime formats
• When changing connection details for server (e.g. address, port, SASL authentication, etc) the connection details will be properly updated and the connection re-initiated
• Server configurations are properly updated when reloading configuration file

Changed:

• When leaving a server (via context menu on sidebar entry or /quit), the server will not be automatically removed from the sidebar
• Condensed server messages are now enabled by default for nick changes, joins, parts, and quits
• The default condensed server message icon is now "none"
• sidebar.user_menu.show_new_version_indicator setting has been changed to check_for_update_on_launch to clarify that it prevents the check for an update
• Default settings:
  • buffer.server_messages.condense.messages: [] → ["change-host", "change-nick", "join", "part", "quit"]
  • sidebar.padding.buffer: [5,5] → [4,4]
  • sidebar.spacing.server: 12 → 6

Fixed:

• When joining a channel fails (for example, invite-only or channel full), we now show the failure reason

Thanks:

• Contributions: @Hummer12007, @chamlis, @englut
• Feature requests: @megumintyan, @4e554c4c, @RoboDanjal, @stacyharper, @zZzUP3RzZz, @Porkepix, @vidje
• Bug reports: @someone2037492034, @deepspaceaxolotl, @whitequark, @sebbu2, @esden, @Porkepix, @someone2037492034, @Hexorg, @sulrich, @Erroneuz

2026.2 (2026-02-01)

Added:

• Settings to disable (selectively, or for the entire server) confirmation of delivery for sent messages
• Setting to adjust inner spacing and outer padding for panes (pane.gap.inner, pane.gap.outer)
• Setting to style unread query buffers as highlights in the sidebar (sidebar.unread_indicator.query_as_highlight)
• Settings to configure card and image preview dimensions
• Support for transparent background.

Fixed:

• Buffer not showing history until resize
• Previews are fetched through the same proxy as the server (or default proxy) for HTTP/SOCKS5 proxies
• No longer highlight nickname mentions in sent messages in certain scenarios
• Filters applied to one server will no longer hide query panes for other servers
• Card preview description text is now limited in height to prevent excessive text display

Changed:

• No longer highlight matches in sent messages
• No longer show notifications for messages where the relevant buffer is open and Halloy is focused

Thanks:

• Contributions: @Hummer12007
• Bug reports: @e00E, @oooo-ps, @csmith, @bw1, @deepspaceaxolotl

2026.1.1 (2026-01-21)

Fixed:

• Version number reported in AppData file

Thanks:

• Bug reports: @englut

2026.1 (2026-01-20)

Added:

• Added Open URL entry to URL context menus
• Setting to not hide consecutive if previous message was a image preview
• Channel discovery buffer to view all channels on a server (using LIST). Can be opened via sidebar button or command bar.
• Setting to hide server icons in sidemenu
• Setting to adjust buffer padding and server spacing in sidemenu
• Setting to adjust entry padding in context menus
• Support for configuring a regex-based allowlist of URL patterns for Preview
• Setting to open a new pane, replace current pane, or open a new window after /join
• Emoji, channel, and user completion can be used with commands
• Auto-completion (emoji/channel/user) will auto-complete at the text cursor (instead of the end of the current input)
• Insert-nickname will place the nickname at the text cursor (instead of end of the current input)
• Backlog separator can be customized with a custom color and text (with the ability to remove text from it)
• Setting to disable unread indicators for specified channels/servers
• Users and messages can be filtered using regular expressions
• Added ability to set default QUIT and PART reason
• /connect command to temporarily connect to a server
• Setting for the font size of messages that contain only emojis

Fixed:

• No longer any delay in showing a tooltip after hovering
• Ignored users will not be suggested by user auto-completion
• Channel auto-completion works with all channel prefixes specified by the server
• Number pad enter now sends messages instead of adding a new line
• Join & monitor commands sent automatically on connection respect TARGMAX limits specified by the server
• /sysinfo is cleared from input when sent, and is recorded to the buffer even if the server doesn't support echoes
• Channel and user links in messages in the highlight buffer
• Remember fullscreen state across sessions

Changed:

• Keybindings for macOS default to Emacs-like by default, to match native text-input behavior

Thanks:

• Contributions: @csmith
• Bug reports: halloy3002, g00s, Eagle-1
• Feature requests: @tribly, @deepspaceaxolotl, @dieperdev, @Erroneuz, @lorenzosu, @Summertime, @WinnerWind, @vidje

2025.12 (2025-11-28)

Added:

• Ability to exclude previews from specific server messages (e.g. topic, part, quit)
• Ability to expand & contract condensed messages via left-click
• Ability to hide nickname for consecutive messages from the same user
• Ability to hide the indicator when a new version of Halloy is available
• Ability to set Emacs-like keybindings for text input
• Ability to specify a distinct sound for each match highlight set
• Border radius on both image previews and cards displaying images through meta tags (configurable)
• Change-host and kick server messages messages can be condensed
• Context menu added to text input when right clicking
• Context menu item added to server-wide buffers to close all queries
• Exit application from user menu
• Fuzzy matching when searching in command bar
• Keyboard shortcuts can now be unset
• Messages that fail to send are dimmed and marked, and can be deleted or re-sent (for servers that support the echo-message capability)
• Per server custom proxy configuration option
• Reload Halloy by sending SIGUSR1 on Unix system
• Setting to disable file transfers (DCC), removing it from the UI
• Setting to notify for every message in a channel
• /plain command to send text with automatic formatting disabled
• Whowas instead of Whois action in context menu for offline nicknames

Fixed:

• Channels with the same name as servers now appear before servers when searching in command bar
• Flickering logo on Welcome screen
• Hide jitter in backlog divider caused by read marker updates when marking read on send
• Larger fonts (and font sizes) can be used without blanking out the input box
• NumLock status respected in input box & shortcuts
• Server messages reporting an inability to send to a nick/channel are routed to the relevant buffer
• Standard Exif rotation data is used when displaying images

Changed:

• Buffer context menu items in sidebar are sorted alphabetically
• By default the backlog separator is hidden when all messages in a pane have been marked as read (buffer.backlog_separator.hide_when_all_read)
• Unicode nicknames are now supported
• User menu configuration moved to [sidebar.user_menu] section

Thanks:

• Contributions: @kasperkronborg, @mistivia, @oooo-ps
• Bug reports: @Frikilinux, ThePendulum, @crabbedhaloablution, @findus, @Darksecond
• Feature requests: @cyrneko, ilya, abby, @clorteau, @RobertCraigie, @dei-layborer, @classabbyamp, @4e554c4c, @dmd, @ghost, @Erroneuz, @kasper93, @inphobia

2025.11 (2025-10-27)

Fixed:

• Regression when loading chat history in a channel

Thanks:

• Bug reports: @Erroneuz

2025.10 (2025-10-27)

Added:

• /sysinfo command to send system information to current buffer
• Copy URLs from context menu by right-clicking on links
• Settings to condense multiple consecutive server messages into a single abbreviated message
• /detach command to detach from channels (soju feature)
• Support for USERINFO CTCP query
• Configurable anti-flood protection for servers that do not advertise SAFERATE
• Channel modes will be retrieved on joining a channel (to be shown in the pane title bar)
• Display own nickname next to text input field
• Server messages can be dimmed (enabled by default), to lessen their visual impact relative to user messages
• Context menu to timestamps that shows the message date, and will copy the timestamp to the clipboard when clicked
• Setting to open new buffers scrolled to the bottom (rather than scrolled to the last unread message, the default and current behavior)
• macOS: Ability to adjust content rendering to account for titlebar
• Setting to remove all window decorations
• New sounds: Zone, Bloop, Drop, Tweep.

Fixed:

• Enforce delay between notifications
• Larger fonts (and font sizes) can be used without blanking out the sidebar or pane title bar(s)
• The primary clipboard (with copy on selection & paste with middle click) is supported on Linux
• Sound effects are now properly reloaded when config file is refreshed from within the application
• Filters are applied only to the server they are specified for
• Filters are renormalized properly when ISUPPORT is updated
• Crash when typing /bouncer into the message box
• Scroll state no longer changes rapidly when long previews for URL(s) are present in history
• Sidebar menu always takes one click to open (would sometimes require two clicks)

Changed:

• The logs pane will only contain log messages since the last of launch of Halloy (i.e. for the current session only)
• Always show version number in user menu

Thanks:

• Contributions: @Toby222, @Frikilinux, @4e554c4c, @apollo7321, @Bartkk0, @seraxis
• Bug reports: @Toby222, @deepspaceaxolotl, @zhelezov, @Erroneuz, @dgz0, @csmith, @otonoton, @mefistoso
• Feature requests: @j0lol, @xcfrg, ThePendulum, i_like_halloy

2025.9 (2025-09-16)

Added:

• Added different unread icons for highlights vs regular unread messages
• Setting to change icons for unread messages and unread highlight messages
• Setting to change server icon size
• Setting to control spacing between messages in buffers
• Ability to specific multiple themes which then gets picked randomly at launch
• Notification indicator on sidebar menu for warning & error log messages
• Ability to mark as read on buffer close only if scrolled to the bottom of the buffer (new default behavior)
• /part, /topic, /mode, /kick, and /ctcp commands can have their target(s) argument skipped when it can be inferred from context (e.g. /topic will target the current channel by default when used in a channel buffer)
• /cleartopic command to remove a channel's topic (will target the current channel by default when used in a channel buffer)
• Ability to hide and theme kick server messages
• Setting to control whether or not to restore on launch the panes that were open when Halloy last closed
• Setting for split axis chosen as the shorter dimension of the focused pane (new default behavior)
• Setting for split axis chosen as the shorter dimension of the largest splittable pane
• soju.im/bouncer-networks support
• Setting to hide the backlog divider when all messages in the buffer have been read
• Setting to specify whether nickname highlighting is case sensitive
• Setting to hide topic changes

Fixed:

• Receiving files over DCC will no longer stall when sender stops accepting received receipts
• Attempting to navigate to the next/previous unread buffer, when there is no such buffer, will no longer clear the buffer
• Window position is now validated, preventing windows from opening on disconnected monitors
• When kicked from a channel the kick message will be broadcast in the server buffer (which remains open) as well as in the channel history (which is closed on kick)
• Preview images with large dimensions will not be displayed if larger than the allowed buffer size
• Do not activate the mark as read buffer when blocked/hidden messages are unread in the buffer
• Nickname highlighting is case insensitive by default (and uses the server's specified casemapping)
• Nickname changes properly broadcast in all channels user is in
• Page up/down behavior moves by consistent page length, and will no longer get stuck at the top of a buffer
• file_transfer.save_directory is now affected by path substitutions (tilde expansion & relative path prefixing)

Changed:

• Relative paths in configuration files are now prefixed with config dir

Thanks:

• Contributions: @Death916, @4e554c4c, @freakyy85, @hashcatHitman, @5GameMaker
• Bug reports: @privacyadmin, @rlndd, @wingedonezero, @Seishiin, @Erroneuz, @andar1an, freakyy85, ThinkT510, alexia, @darienm, quaff, @zhelezov
• Feature requests: @deepspaceaxolotl, @4e554c4c, @seraxis, RebeLLz, @cvengler, @barretgoat, @remexre, @dmd

2025.8 (2025-07-31)

Added:

• Clear buffers with /clear command
• Notification indicator on sidebar menu for application updates and file transfers

Fixed:

• Nicknames in query was always shown as offline
• macOS now properly prioritizes XDG config directory (~/.config/halloy) over user config directory (~/Library/Application Support/halloy)

2025.7 (2025-07-26)

Added:

• Ability to ignore nicknames on server level or on a per-channel basis
• Ability to truncate nicknames in buffer
• New option to customize the appearance of offline nicknames
• Specify whether nicknames in buffers appear with the user's current status or status at time of sending the message
• Log level filtering for the log buffer (ctrl + l) and log file
• Per toast type setting for showing content in toasts
• Ability to hide nick and mode change server messages
• Context menu item added to server-wide buffers to mark all messages as read
• Auto-accept file transfers, with support for nick and mask filtering
• Adjustable scrollbar sizing

Fixed:

• Sidebar menu is now drawn with the correct offset
• Prevent messages with previews from shifting position on hover
• Recognize registration completion on older servers without capability negotiation (i.e. send on_connect, umodes, etc.)

Changed:

• Optimized message loading by implementing lazy loading: buffers now load only enough messages to fill the visible area instead of always loading 500+ messages.
• The [buffer.away] section has been split into [buffer.channel.nicklist] and [buffer.nickname] for greater flexibility
• Colorize the level text in log buffer based on theme
• Scrollbars now use a dedicated scrollbar color instead of horizontal_rule
• Tor is now an optional feature. Build with --features tor to enable Tor proxy support
• Topic "set at" time is now shown with local timezone offset, instead of UTC's

Thanks:

• Contributions: @4e554c4c, @KE0VVT, @englut, @KaiKorla, @root-goblin
• Bug reports: @darienm, @mercster, @ChrisRenfrow, @glguy
• Feature requests: @rossburton, death916, @Celeo, @TehPeGaSuS, @gdluca, @darienm, @RealKindOne, @Tahomaru, @tribly

2025.6 (2025-06-14)

Added:

• New application icon
• Show channel mode in panel if available
• Configuration options for font weight and bold weight
• /delay <seconds> command that can be used to control the timing of commands sent on connect
• Configuration option for the ordering of servers in the sidebar

Fixed:

• Handling of RPL_NOWAWAY & RPL_UNAWAY to reflect user's own AWAY state
• Draft messages are saved while navigating message history (i.e. pressing ↑ then ↓ in the input box will restore an unsent message after displaying sent message history)

Thanks:

• Contributions: @englut, @KaiKorla, @kit-ty-kate, @mhegreberg, @ohhskar, Rune Seir
• Bug reports: @awbradle
• Feature requests: @darienm, @kasper93, @auronandace, @n-kalosha

2025.5 (2025-05-05)

Added:

• Ability to show a modal prompt before opening a URL
• WHOIS command now accepts optional server parameter
• CTCP requests through commands and user context
• Title bar button and keyboard shortcut to mark a buffer as read (will update the read marker as well, if the read-marker capability is available)
• Mark as Read settings to control when buffers are automatically marked as read
• /hop command. /hop parts the current channel and joins a new one
• Settings to limit passwords read from a file to the first line of the file only (on by default)
• Receive WALLOPS messages in the server buffer (color configurable in themes)

Changed:

• Clicking to insert a username will now use same suffixes specified for autocomplete
• Emoji picker will only show once there are two characters after : (by default, configurable)
• Autocomplete will match users based on how recently they were seen in the channel (by default, configurable)
• Include & exclude settings for previews apply to queries as well as channels

2025.4 (2025-04-07)

Added:

• All toast notifications now display the server name
• Server messages (join, part, etc.) are now user-aware and will color nicknames accordingly
• Actions will be colored with the same features as regular messages (nicknames, urls, etc)
• Shortcuts for cycling buffers with unread message(s)
  • Cycle to next buffer with unread message(s) ctrl + `
  • Cycle to previous buffer with unread message(s) ctrl + ~
• Navigate commands & emoji picker with ↑ & ↓ (as well as Tab & Shift-Tab)
• Expanded command completion and error checking/reporting
• Various shortcuts for https://themes.halloy.chat/
  • The Command Bar now includes a "Discover More Themes" action, which opens the website
  • The Theme Editor now has a "Share Theme with Community" option that opens the submit page with the theme payload pre-filled
• Ability to adjust alpha value of away users
• New action settings section with settings to control how to open buffers in response to various user actions

Fixed:

• No longer freezes under Wayland when window(s) are not visible
• Emoji picker is no longer case sensitive (i.e. 🤔 and :THINKING: will both match 🤔)
• Full support for the /notice command
  • Message text will no longer be truncated to the first word
  • Sent notices appear in message history
  • /notice <targets> (without any message text) will open a pane for the target(s) without sending a message
• /msg <targets> supports more than one target when opening pane(s) without sending a message

Changed:

• Improved font rendering on Windows for better readability
• Sidebar buffer action settings have been moved to the new action settings section
  • sidebar.buffer_action → actions.sidebar.buffer
  • sidebar.buffer_focused_action → actions.sidebar.focused_buffer

2025.3 (2025-03-14)

Added:

• Highlights by regex and words
• Time remaining is now displayed during file transfers
• Sidebar now automatically adjusts its width based on content
• Ability to customize default pane splitting direction (vertical or horizontal)
• Clicking a nickname is now configurable. The default behavior has changed to open a query.
• Ability to quit Halloy through command bar and keyboard shortcut
• New shortcuts for scrolling a buffer:
  • Scroll buffer up a page pageup (Fn + ↑ on macOS)
  • Scroll buffer down a page pagedown (Fn + ↓ on macOS)
  • Scroll to top of buffer ctrl + ↑ (⌘ + ↑ on macOS)
  • Scroll to bottom of buffer ctrl + ↓ (⌘ + ↓ on macOS)

Changed:

• [file_transfer.save_directory] is now default download path for transfers. If set, files will be downloaded there by default. Otherwise, you'll be prompted to choose a location
• Ability to dynamically select dark or light theme based on OS appearance.
• /msg <target> (without any message text) will now open a pane for the target without sending a message
• Text input of the active pane will remain focused after all actions
• Focus last known active pane on launch
• Changed maximize / restore buffer shortcuts to ctrl + shift + ↑ / ctrl + shift + ↓ (⌘ + shift + ↑ / ctrl + shift + ↓ on macOS) to prevent collision with new scroll shortcuts

2025.2 (2025-02-20)

Added:

• Emoji picker accessible via : in text input
• Automatically replace :shortcode: with corresponding emoji
• Added an option to show or hide images in preview cards by default

Fixed:

• infinite_scroll was defaulting to false, contrary to its documented default value. Now defaults to true
• A rare issue where the app opens smaller than when closed
• Closing the application while it is minimized (on Windows) causes it to open with the wrong size and position next time
• TLS connection issue on Windows (10+)

2025.1 (2025-02-02)

Added:

• Image and card previews for url links
• Ability to disable dimming of usernames when away
• Ability to customize autocomplete sorting direction and completion suffixes
• Ability to hide command descriptions
• Ability to set delay before triggering notifications
• Ability to toggle fullscreen
• Ability to exclude and include notifications.
• New IRCv3 extensions support
  • chathistory
  • setname
  • Standard Replies
• Case mapping support via ISUPPORT
• Restore last known window position and size at launch
• Date separators in buffers when day changes
• Show nickname in user-context menu
• Tor support as a proxy option

Fixed:

• Long username & password combinations could cause SASL authentication to fail
• nick_password_command is now working as intended
• Don't add suffix (: ) to prompt if there is no valid nick to autocomplete
• Append .toml filename when saving themes on macOS
• Highlight notifications are correctly triggered for /me actions

Changed:

• Changed focus buffer shortcuts to include ctrl (⌘ on macOS) to avoid interfering with default text input shortcuts for word navigation (⌘ + ←, ⌘ + →)

2024.14 (2024-10-29)

Fixed:

• CPU spiking due to memory leak in upstream crate.

2024.13 (2024-10-27)

Added:

• Highlight buffer to view highlights across all servers. Can be opened via sidebar button or command bar.
• Logging buffer to view logs. Can be opened via sidebar button or command bar.
• New hotkeys
  • Toggle channel topic (Ctrl + Alt + t (macOS: ⌘ + ⌥ + t))
  • Toggle file_transfers buffer (Ctrl + j (macOS: ⌘ + j))
  • Toggle logs buffer (Ctrl + l (macOS: ⌘ + l))
  • Toggle theme editor window (Ctrl + t (macOS: ⌘ + t))
• New configuration options
  • Dynamically select dark or light theme based on OS appearance. See configuration.
  • Ability to define a shell command for loading a NICKSERV password. See configuration
  • Ability to define a shell command for loading a SASL password. See configuration
  • Show/hide sidebar button to view logs. See configuration
  • Ability to align nicknames above messages. See configuration.

Fixed:

• Inverted scrolling direction.
• Only highlight if user nick isn't part of another word.
• Errors from password commands are now caught and displayed to the user.

Removed:

• Configuration options:
  • [sidebar.buttons] in favor for the new User Menu

2024.12 (2024-09-17)

Added:

• Multi-window support: Pop out panes into separate windows.
• In-app theme editor with ability to with share it via a halloy:// URL.
• Clickable users and channels in buffers.
• New configuration options
  • Ability to include or exclude channels for server messages (join, part, etc.). See configuration.
  • Ability to color nicknames within channel messages. See configuration
  • Ability to define a shell command for loading a server password. See configuration
• Enable support for IRCv3 msgid and read-marker

Fixed:

• Regression where messages sent to ZNC virtual users were routed to the wrong buffer (e.g. *status routed to status).
• Timeouts that could occur while Halloy was running in the background.

Changed:

• Default Ghost sequence changed to REGAIN.

2024.11 (2024-09-04)

Added:

• New configuration options
  • Right aligning nicks in buffers. See configuration.
  • Right aligning nicks in nicklist. See configuration.
  • Hiding chghost messages. See configuration.
  • Overwrite nicklist width in channels. See configuration.
  • Show/hide user access levels in buffer and nicklist. See configuration
  • buffer_focused_action added to sidebar to enable actions a focused buffer. See configuration.
  • Notification for direct messages. See notification configuration.
• Enable support for IRCv3 Monitor and extended-monitor

Fixed:

• Expanded recognized login notifications (used to join channels that report themselves as requiring registration after logging in)
• Messages with multiple targets are correctly recorded into multiple buffers (and/or multiple times into the same buffer) client-side.
• Messages sent with a STATUSMSG prefix are recorded and indicated in the corresponding channel.
• Ability to position the sidebar at the top, bottom, right, or left. See configuration.
• /mode requires too many parameters for certain commands.

Changed:

• Reworked themes to add better customization possibilities
  • NOTE Old theme files are not compatible with the new format. However all the themes in the theme community has been updated to the new format.
• Unread indicator has changed from a boolean value to a enum. See configuration.
• Renamed sidebar.default_action to sidebar.buffer_action.
• Auto-completing (with tab) a nickname at the beginning of the input line will append ': ' (colon space). Otherwise, a space is appended to the completion.
• SIGTERM and SIGINT are now intercepted and trigger the same exit path as a normal window close

Removed:

• Removed hex configuration option for server messages and nicknames.
  • hex was previously used to overwrite a color value. This is now done through the new theme format.

2024.10 (2024-08-04)

Added:

• Small icon in sidemenu when a new release is available
• Enable support for IRCv3 chghost, account-notify, and extended-join

Removed:

• Persistent window position and size due to an upstream bug

2024.9 (2024-07-29)

Added:

• Rich formatted and clickable URLs
• Text formatting through /format command. For more details, see text formatting guide.
• Support for CTCP queries CLIENTINFO, PING, SOURCE, and VERSION
• Custom notification sounds. Use your own sounds or select from a few new built-in options. For more details, see notification configuration.
• Support DCC Send requests with spaces in the filename
• Reload config button in Sidebar

Fixed:

• Text input missing key presses in certain instances
• Connection timeout when UI is suspended on an offscreen workspace due to channel back pressure
• Raw commands are passed through unmodified
• AWAY command cuts off the away message

2024.8 (2024-07-05)

Added:

• Ability to open irc:// and ircs:// URL schemes
• Ability to overwrite nickname colors by providing a hex string (see buffer configuration).
• Ability to overwrite server & internal message colors by providing a hex string (see buffer configuration).
• Configurable shortcuts for "Leave Buffer" and "Toggle Sidebar" actions (see keyboard shortcuts configuration).
• Ability to remember window position and size when reopened.
• Ability to hide unread indicators in sidebar (see sidemenu configuration)

Fixed:

• UTF-8 channel name rendering in sidebar and in pane title bars.

2024.7 (2024-05-05)

Added:

• Reload configuration file from within the application (Ctrl + r (macOS: ⌘ + r))
• Allow configuration of internal messages in buffer (see buffer configuration)
• User information added to context menu
• Support for IRCv3 CAP NEW and CAP DEL subcommands
• Enable support for IRCv3 multi-prefix, message-tags, WHOX, and UTF8ONLY
• Dynamic commands and tooltips added to command auto-completion via ISUPPORT
• Added support for socks5 proxy configuration (see proxy configuration)
• Added support for http proxy configuration (see proxy configuration)

Changed:

• Simplified onboarding experience for users without a config.toml file
• MacOS will now also look in $HOME/.config/halloy for config.toml.
• Context menus can be dismissed by pressing Escape
• Join channels that report themselves as requiring registration after logging in

Fixed:

• No longer automatically reconnects to a server after using the /QUIT command.

2024.6 (2024-04-05)

Added:

• File transfer support (see file transfer configuration)
• Adjust WHO polling for servers without away-notify (see server configuration)
• Tooltips on application buttons (see tooltips configuration).
• Sidebar menu buttons (see sidebar configuration).
• Display current version, and latest remote version in command bar
• Allow reading passwords from files in server configuration
• Allow configuration to specify a server's NickServ IDENTIFY command syntax

Fixed:

• Accept '@' in usernames to support bouncers that use the user@identifier/network convention
• Prevent rare scenario where broadcast messages' timestamp would not match time the messages are received
• Fix SASL on macos by using RUSTLS backend

Changed:

• MacOS icon to better follow Apple's Human Interface Guidelines

2024.5 (2024-03-21)

BREAKING Configuration file format has switched from YAML to TOML. Please visit the migration guide here: halloy.squidowl.org/guides/migrating-from-yaml.

Added:

• Added command bar entry to open wiki website.

Changed:

• Configuration file now uses TOML instead of YAML
  • Renamed [keys] section to [keyboard]
  • Renamed [buffer.channel.users] section to [buffer.channel.nicklist]
  • Renamed [buffer.input_visibility] section to [buffer.text_input]
  • Removed [dashboard] section
    • Renamed [dashboard.sidebar] section to [sidebar]
  • Changed exclude from [buffer.server_messages] to two separate settings
    • enabled = bool
    • smart = number
• Use primary text color instead of accent color for solid nicknames
• Op and Voice context menu items hidden in channels where the user is not an Op

Fixed:

• WHOIS is now correctly formatted when printed in buffers.

2024.4 (2024-03-15)

Added:

• Configuration option to enable a topic banner in channels. This can be enabled under buffer.channel.topic
• Messages typed into the input will persist until sent. Typed messages are saved when switching a pane to another buffer, then are restored when that buffer is returned to.
• Added display of highest access level in front of nicks in chat, mirroring the format in the nick list
• Added ability to toggle Op and Voice from user context menu in channels

Fix:

• Context menus now shows buttons as expected
• Buttons on help screen is now correctly sized
• Text input is now disabled when not connected to a channel
• When someone is kicked, it is now correctly shown
• Query messages sent by another client will now correctly be displayed
• Prevent flooding server by grouping channels together in as few JOIN messages as possible

Changed:

• Various UI changes
  • Ensured consistent padding in channel buffer
  • Unified styling for dividers

Security:

• chrono RUSTSEC-2020-0071

2024.3, 2024.2 (2024-03-05)

Added:

• Option to colorize nicks in the nick list (and an option to control it separately from in the buffer)
• Option to control application scale factor

Fixed:

• Input not visible on Server and Query (DM) buffers
• Clipped buttons in context menu

Changed:

• Improved user experience in text input when auto-completing a nickname.
• Configuration option server_messages changed exclude from a boolean value to [All, None or !Smart seconds].
  • All excludes all messages for the specific server message.
  • None [default] excludes no messages for the specific server message.
  • !Smart seconds shows the server message if the user has sent a message in the given time interval (seconds) prior to the server message.

2024.1 (2024-02-07)

Added:

• Configuration option servers.<name>.sasl.external.key added to support loading a separate PEM PKCS #8 encoded key for SASL authentication.

Changed:

• Focus an available pane on launch, so that launch behavior follows typical use (e.g. if dashboard.sidebar.default_action is set to replacePane, then selecting a channel in the sidebar will replace the focused pane instead of opening a new pane)
• hidden_server_messages has been changed to server_messages and additional customization has been added:
  • Exclude messages [join, part, quit].
  • Adjust username format.

Fixed:

• Accept '*' as a legal special symbol for usernames
• Accept '/' in usernames, ensuring correct parsing for bouncers using the nick/server convention
• Create the configuration directory correctly, if it does not exist yet.

2023.5 (2023-11-12)

Added:

• IRCv3 capability userhost-in-names support added
• IRCv3 capability invite-notify support added
• Configuration option dashboard.sidebar.width to control sidebar width.
• Configuration option notification to control and enable notifications

Changed:

• Limit messages to 512 bytes in length, including the trailing CR-LF characters.
• Configuration option dashboard.sidebar_default_action now moved to dashboard.sidebar.default_action

2023.4 (2023-08-03)

Added:

• Command bar (opened by pressing (Ctrl + k (macOS: ⌘ + k)))
• Configurable keyboard shortcuts for common actions, such as changing buffer focus, maximize / restoring buffer size, cycling channels in the buffer and more! A new keys section has been added to the config file, reference the wiki for more details.
• Single clicking on a user will insert nickname to input
• Configuration option on_connect to execute commands once connected to a server, reference the wiki for more details.

Changed:

• Instead of using hostname as fallback, we now always derive the seed for unique user colors from their nickname

Fixed:

• Set the window application id on Linux to org.squidowl.halloy
• Correctly display all arguments when receiving MODE command

2023.3 (2023-07-27)

Message history and dashboard state will be reset due to a breaking change. We've switched to a more flexible storage format to ensure future breakages won't occur.

Added:

• Away-notify extension added for supported servers
• SASL support for PLAIN & EXTERNAL. The following per-server config keys have been added:
  • PLAIN - sasl.plain.username & sasl.plain.password
  • EXTERNAL - sasl.external.cert is a path to the PEM encoded X509 cert
• Configuration option buffer.hidden_server_messages to hide server messages from the provided array of sources: ["join", "part", "quit"]
• Configuration option buffer.input_visibility to control input field visibility: always shown or following the focused buffer.
• Portable mode - if a config file exists in the same directory as the executable, all Halloy data will be saved to that directory
• Upon joining a channel, display the channel mode in the buffer
• When querying an away user, you will see an away message
• Autocomplete on joined channels

Changed:

• Away users will be appear slightly transparent in nicklist
• Configuration option new_buffer has been renamed to buffer. new_buffer key will still work for backwards compatibility.
• Migrated to our own internal IRC backend. This should allow for quicker development against extensions and bug fixes.

Fixed:

• Changes done in the config file are now properly applied to the old buffers
• Text and colors on light themes will no longer appear washed out
• All WHOIS responses are now properly routed to the buffer where the request was made (text input or via context menu)
• Accessing text input history will only populate the current buffer, not all of them
• Text from input box can be copied to clipboard
• Prevent text input cursor from blinking when window loses focus

2023.2 (2023-07-07)

Added:

• Nickname completions in text input with Tab
• Previously sent messages can be accessed per buffer in the text input with ↑ / ↓ arrows
• New configuration option dashboard.sidebar_default_action to control pane behavior when selecting buffers
• Messages from other users containing your nickname are now highlighted
• Themes directory where users can add their own theme files
• Broadcast nickname changes to relevant channels and queries.
• Broadcast quit messages to relevant channels and queries.
• Better error descriptions on connection failures
• Support RAW command
• Drag & drop buffers to the edges for better customization of the grid
• Whois messages are printed in the currently focused buffer

Changed:

• Default channel in config.yaml has been changed to #halloy (from ##rust)
• palette field has been deprecated and replaced by theme in config.yaml
• Sorting channel nicknames
• Title headers has been changed to also display user count for channels
• Copy change: "Leave" has been changed to "Close query" for queries

Fixed:

• The last word of a message sometimes disappeared
• Persist partial text input content when switching away from buffer
• Correctly load image on welcome screen

2023.1-alpha1 (2023-06-30)

Added:

• First release 🎉