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2026.7.2

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

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

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

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

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; note: incompatible with the current release of soju [v0.10.1], expected to be resolved in a future version)
• 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
• Bug reports: chmod222, @whitequark, @englut, sebbu, @ascarion, @4e554c4c, @BKVad1m, @mango766, esden
• Feature requests: @gAlleb, @jtbx, @cyrneko, @englut, @ascarion

2026.4

Added:

• Support for the IRCv3 react client tag.
• Correctly record window size if window is maximized

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)

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

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
• 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
• Configuration setting to allow locale specification used when formatting timestamps
• Configuration setting to include chantypes / prefixes when sorting channels in the sidebar
• When leaving a server (via context menu on sidebar entry or /quit), the server will not be automatically removed from 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:

• 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

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

Note: Windows

Windows build didn't like our extra version number here, so please use 2026.1 until we release 2026.2.

Changelog

Fixed:

• Version number reported in AppData file

Thanks:

• Bug reports: @englut