squidowl/halloy 2026.3

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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