squidowl/halloy 2026.7

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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