squidowl/halloy 2026.6

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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