squidowl/halloy 2026.8

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Added:

• Channel Monitor internal buffer for viewing messages from all joined channels
• Config editor internal buffer for editing the config file in-app
• Sidebar
  • Collapse & expand servers in sidebar
  • Internal buffers (logs, highlights, etc) can be added to sidebar
  • Channel, query, and internal buffers can be muted (only shown if an unread/highlight indicator should be shown) via servers.<name>.channels, servers.<name>.queries, and sidebar.internal_buffers.mute
  • sidebar.unread_indicator.exclude & sidebar.unread_indicator.include no longer controls highlight indicators
  • New sidebar.highlight_indicator.title, sidebar.highlight_indicator.show_on_open_buffers, sidebar.highlight_indicator.exclude, and sidebar.highlight_indicator.include settings for independent highlight control
• Undo/redo in the message input and config editor (ctrl/cmd + z, ctrl/cmd + shift + z)
• Link interactions
  • Context menu on channel links
  • 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
  • actions.buffer.click_channel_discovery to configure click behavior for channel names in the channel discovery pane (default: "new-pane")
  • Allow image preview on URL click (actions.buffer.click_image_url)
• actions.buffer.notifications settings to control how interacting with notifications is handled
• Support displaying a larger version of the card images in-app
• pane.always_show_title_bar_buttons setting to prevent pane title bar buttons from being hidden when the pane is not hovered
• Shortcuts displayed in pane button tooltips (where available/configured)
• follow option for reroute rules (servers.<name>.reroute) to reroute messages to the focused buffer
• Add system keyring support for server, NickServ, channel, SASL, filehost credential, and proxy passwords
• IRCv3
  • IRCv3 no-implicit-names support
  • servers.<name>.do_not_request can be specified to prevent IRCv3 capability requests (e.g. servers.<name>.do_not_request = [ "labeled-response" ] will prevent labeled-response from being requested from the server)
• servers.<name>.max_connection_attempts setting to control the number of connection of attempts made before autoconnect is automatically disabled (defaults to 10)
• 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
• runtime.metrics_hinting setting to control whether widgets are rendered using metrics hinting
• Keyboard shortcuts validation (e.g no duplicate key binds)
• servers.<name>.irc_protocol_log settings to enable logging of the IRC protocol messages sent-to / received-from the server
• logs.max_file_count setting to control the number of Halloy log files that are stored on disk
• logs.file_timestamp setting to control what timezone is used for timestamps in log files and log file names
• Explicit portable mode via HALLOY_PORTABLE_DIR environment variable
• 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)
• Sidebar
  • Do not show unread/highlight indicators in sidebar for ignored messages
  • Show unread indicators for panes hidden by maximize
  • Queries specified in configuration correctly added to the sidebar
• 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)
• Disabled menu entries now block clicks from passing through
• Only play one sound at a time (if two sounds would overlap, then the second sound is skipped)
• Allow sound files to be symbolic links
• When both card and image previews are excluded for a buffer, previews will not be pre-fetched for URLs in that buffer
• Suppress connection status messages while macOS is asleep
• Don't show a transient terminal window when running /exec on Windows
• Do not reconnect automatically when the server closes the connection in response to a requested quit
• Apply mode arguments to the correct targets when a MODE message mixes added and removed modes (e.g. -o+v foo bar de-ops foo and voices bar)
• Prevent anti-flood rate limiting from refilling the token bucket beyond its configured capacity
• 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
• Allow commands (e.g. /join) to be used in the input box of not-joined channels
• 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:

• Clicking on a message expanded out of a condensed message will always contract it (configurable via actions.only_contract_expanded_message)
• Rerouted messages are marked with a icon next to the nickname
• When SASL authentication fails, after disconnecting from the server connection will be automatically re-tried if servers.<name>.autoconnect is enabled
• 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.unread_indicator.highlight_icon → sidebar.highlight_indicator.icon and sidebar.unread_indicator.highlight_icon_size → sidebar.highlight_indicator.icon_size
• 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
• Renamed servers.<name>.chathistory to servers.<name>.automated_chathistory, and it now controls whether chathistory requests are made automatically instead of controlling whether the chathistory capability is requested (see servers.<name>.do_not_request for controlling whether the capability is requested)
• Moved functionality from buffer.nickname.click → actions.buffer.click_nickname and buffer.channel.nicklist.click → actions.nicklist.click_nickname
• change_mode server messages are categorized as actions (i.e. actions_dimmed controls whether they are dimmed by default)
• keyboard.file_transfers shortcut is disabled when file_transfer.enabled = false
• More than one Halloy log file can be saved (configurable, defaults to 4); accordingly there is not a singular log file <data_dir>/halloy/halloy.log, instead log files are placed in <data_dir>/halloy/logs/
• Set window icon also on Linux for X11
• Windows release artifacts are signed using SignPath

Thanks:

• Contributions: @englut, @luca020400, @classabbyamp, @KaiKorla, @TheDcoder, @City-busz, @rtmongold, @Gelbpunkt, @zsigisti, quark
• Bug reports: @luca020400, agent314, @FlooferLand, @englut, @rexbinary, @belthesar, @deepspaceaxolotl, @neilzilla, @0ther0ne
• Feature requests: @FlooferLand, quark, @daniiooo, @deepspaceaxolotl, @4e554c4c, @RoboDanjal, @Vendicated, @raggi, @Avinash-Bhat