github squidowl/halloy 2026.9
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6 hours ago

Added:

  • Animated GIFs support
  • Keyboard-driven message focus: navigate and act on messages without mouse
    • Links and channel mentions within a message can be focused and opened
    • New buffer.focus theme color for the focused message border
  • Smooth scrolling
  • Support link delimiters (< & >) with markdown formatting
  • Ability to configure individual bouncer networks with servers.<name>.networks.<network>
  • buffer.server_messages.condense.timestamp setting to control whether a condensed message shows a time range, its start timestamp, its end timestamp, or no timestamp
  • Optional font.code setting for code-formatted text
  • buffer.nickname.offline supports "dimmed" / { dimmed = float }, and { color = "theme"|"nickname", alpha = ...} so theme offline color and dimming can be combined
  • buffer.nickname.color_override rules for assigning colors to specific nicknames
  • Optional buffer.self_message theme style for messages sent by yourself
  • Config options buffer.channel.nicklist.scrollbar.hidden, sidebar.scrollbar.hidden, and pane.scrollbar.hidden that control whether the nicklist, sidebar, and in-pane scrollbars respectively are enabled or not
  • Additional setting for controlling anti-flood burst parameter (servers.<name>.anti_flood.burst); default value has been reduced from 10 to 8
  • Expanded servers.<name>.max_connection_attempts to allow unlimited attempts
  • Server context menu action to open Channel Discovery with that server selected
  • Server messages can be configured to trigger unread in a buffer or not (buffer.server_messages.<server_message>.triggers_unread)
  • Sidebar visibility is remembered across application launches
  • Settings to control how internal and server buffers are opened from the sidebar (actions.sidebar.internal and actions.sidebar.server)
  • Config file path is now shown in config editor
  • CTCP actions in private message context menus
  • Config option to include ignored nicknames in autocomplete (buffer.text_input.autocomplete.include_ignored)
  • file_transfer.send_completion_message setting to control whether a PRIVMSG is sent to the remote user when a file transfer completes.

Fixed:

  • Scroll-to-reply when clicking a reply preview
  • Allow listing modes by not providing <+|->
  • Selection on mutliline messages
  • Display RELAYMSG senders correctly
  • Receiving an invite will reveal the query with the inviter in the sidebar
  • Config editor now properly out-scrolls the cursor
  • Anti-flood rate-limiting applied to post-authentication JOINs (and similar on-connect messages)
  • Display messages from legacy ISO-8859-1 clients instead of replacing invalid UTF-8 bytes
  • Reconnect WebSocket connections when ping writes fail or exceed servers.<name>.ping_timeout
  • Avoid bursts of IRC pings after delays
  • Text in input box being scrolled/clipped 2px on the left on pane load or when navigating history
  • Show registration-required join errors in the channel buffer instead of the server buffer
  • Remove blank space above the input after marking a buffer as read
  • Don't show another preview from the same message after hiding one
  • User avatars are only shown when avatar is included in metadata.preferred_keys
  • Expand $HOME or %AppData% when first component in a path setting
  • Include/exclude conditions are properly accounted for when highlighting nicknames
  • Restrict commonly used (()<>") chars from being used to highlight nicks
  • "Apply Colors & Font Styles" button in Theme Editor persists modifications made via the theme editor
  • Better support for larger font sizes in modals
  • Sanitize incoming DCC filenames against Windows reserved device names, illegal characters, and trailing dots/spaces
  • Reject server icons whose decoded dimensions would exceed the maximum GPU buffer size, matching the existing link-preview guard
  • Cap the number of concurrently open IRCv3 batches a server can hold open, so a single connection cannot grow memory without bound
  • User-specified log levels are applied to all log sources (including non-Halloy log sources, which were previously exempt)

Changed:

  • Right-aligned nickname columns now size to nearby messages instead of the entire loaded history
  • Offline nicknames are styled only by buffer.nickname.offline; buffer.nickname.away no longer applies to them
  • esc in the input box now scrolls the buffer to the bottom
  • "Changed mode" messages reverted to not trigger unread (but remain not-dimmed by default)
  • Removed active and passive categories for server message types; control of dimming and triggering unread can be controlled specifically for each server message type instead
  • User avatars are configurable with metadata.avatar.size
  • Link preview requests now use Halloy/<version> as their default User-Agent
  • Anti-flood rate parameter has been moved servers.<name>.anti_flood to servers.<name>.anti_flood.rate
  • IRC protocol logs for bouncer networks have their logs directory nested under the bouncer name
  • Rename servers.<name>.websocket_ping_interval to servers.<name>.websocket_ping_time
  • When reloading the config file, if the config file editor pane is opened with unsaved changes then those changes will be saved before reloading
  • The XDG data directory ~/.local/share/halloy can be used for storing history/logs/etc macOS, instead of ~/Library/Application Support/halloy/ (move entire directory to migrate)
  • +draft/unreact and +draft/react capabilities can be enabled separately (when either is available for the server)
  • The Theme Editor appends a .toml extension when saving a theme without the extension specified

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