merge: v0.6.1 Pop-Out Discoverability & /tell Auto-Pop-Out

- Visible pop-out icon button in chat header toolbar (right-aligned)
- One-time hint banner introduces toolbar + right-click and the v0.6.1 default flip
- Settings → Chat → Auto-Tell-Tabs → "Open new /tell tabs directly as pop-out"
- PopOutInputEnabled hard-flipped to true via v11 → v12 migration
- Bugfix: pop-out windows of LRU-dropped or logout-stripped temp tabs are now properly torn down (no more ghost windows)
- Bugfix: dead zone below chat input bar when v0.6.0 hint banner was visible (also fixes Jin's report on the v0.6.0 in-pop-out banner)
- CI: fix release.yml YAML parse failure (heredoc footer extracted to .github/release-footer.md), add workflow_dispatch recovery trigger
- README + SUPPORT.md + repo.json + yaml: Hellion Forge Discord link

.github/release-footer.md

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+
+---
+
+## How to install
+
+This release is distributed via the HellionChat custom repository, not the
+Dalamud main plugin repo. To install:
+
+1. In XIVLauncher: **Settings → Experimental → Custom Plugin Repositories**
+2. Add the URL:
+   `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/main/repo.json`
+3. Enable, save, then `/xlplugins` → search **Hellion Chat** → install
+
+## Project documents
+
+- [README](https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/blob/main/README.md) — features, architecture, build
+- [Privacy notice](https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/blob/main/PRIVACY.md) — what the plugin stores and sends
+- [Third-party notices](https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/blob/main/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md) — dependencies and licences
+- [Security policy](https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/blob/main/SECURITY.md) — vulnerability reporting
+- [Support](https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/blob/main/SUPPORT.md) — bug reports, questions, contact paths
+
+## Licence
+
+[EUPL-1.2](https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/blob/main/LICENSE).
+Based on [Chat 2](https://github.com/Infiziert90/ChatTwo) by Infi and Anna,
+also EUPL-1.2.

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -16,6 +16,16 @@ on:
   push:
     tags:
       - 'v*'
+  # Manual recovery trigger. Use when a tag was pushed but the auto-run
+  # was missed or failed: `gh workflow run release.yml -f tag=v0.6.1`.
+  # The tag input is validated against the same semver regex as the
+  # auto-trigger before any string interpolation happens.
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      tag:
+        description: 'Existing tag to (re)release, e.g. v0.6.1'
+        required: true
+        type: string
 
 permissions:
   contents: write
@@ -27,8 +37,14 @@ jobs:
     timeout-minutes: 20
 
     steps:
+      # On push:tags, github.ref_name is the tag — checkout default works.
+      # On workflow_dispatch, ref defaults to the branch the action was
+      # invoked from; we need to explicitly check out the tag the user
+      # supplied so the build comes from the tagged commit, not main.
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ github.event.inputs.tag || github.ref }}
 
       - name: Setup .NET 10
         uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v4
@@ -71,7 +87,12 @@ jobs:
       - name: Generate release body
         shell: pwsh
         env:
-          TAG_NAME: ${{ github.ref_name }}
+          # workflow_dispatch carries the user-supplied tag in inputs.tag;
+          # push:tags carries it in github.ref_name. Either way the value
+          # is treated as a PowerShell variable (env-var pass), not as
+          # inline shell text, and validated against the semver regex
+          # below before any string interpolation.
+          TAG_NAME: ${{ github.event.inputs.tag || github.ref_name }}
         run: |
           $tag = $env:TAG_NAME
           if ($tag -notmatch '^v\d+\.\d+\.\d+$') {
@@ -112,34 +133,14 @@ jobs:
               $currentBlock = $rest.TrimEnd()
           }
 
-          $footer = @'
+          # Static install / docs / licence footer is maintained as a
-
+          # separate file so the workflow YAML stays clean (no embedded
----
+          # heredoc that would have to be indented under the run-block).
-
+          $footerPath = ".github/release-footer.md"
-## How to install
+          if (-not (Test-Path $footerPath)) {
-
+              throw "Release footer template not found: $footerPath"
-This release is distributed via the HellionChat custom repository, not the
+          }
-Dalamud main plugin repo. To install:
+          $footer = Get-Content -Path $footerPath -Raw
-
-1. In XIVLauncher: **Settings → Experimental → Custom Plugin Repositories**
-2. Add the URL:
-   `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/main/repo.json`
-3. Enable, save, then `/xlplugins` → search **Hellion Chat** → install
-
-## Project documents
-
-- [README](https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/blob/main/README.md) — features, architecture, build
-- [Privacy notice](https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/blob/main/PRIVACY.md) — what the plugin stores and sends
-- [Third-party notices](https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/blob/main/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md) — dependencies and licences
-- [Security policy](https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/blob/main/SECURITY.md) — vulnerability reporting
-- [Support](https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/blob/main/SUPPORT.md) — bug reports, questions, contact paths
-
-## Licence
-
-[EUPL-1.2](https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/blob/main/LICENSE).
-Based on [Chat 2](https://github.com/Infiziert90/ChatTwo) by Infi and Anna,
-also EUPL-1.2.
-'@
 
           $body = $currentBlock + "`n" + $footer
           $body | Out-File -FilePath release-body.md -Encoding utf8 -NoNewline
@@ -152,6 +153,11 @@ also EUPL-1.2.
       - name: Attach to GitHub release
         uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v3
         with:
+          # Explicit tag_name so the action targets the correct release in
+          # both push:tags (auto) and workflow_dispatch (manual recovery)
+          # modes. Without this, dispatch runs would default to the branch
+          # ref (main) and fail to find the release.
+          tag_name: ${{ github.event.inputs.tag || github.ref_name }}
           files: ${{ steps.locate.outputs.path }}
           body_path: release-body.md
           fail_on_unmatched_files: true

ChatTwo/AutoTellTabsService.cs

@@ -183,6 +183,22 @@ internal sealed class AutoTellTabsService : IDisposable
             return;
         }
 
+        // v0.6.1 — if the victim is currently popped out, tear down the
+        // matching Popout window first. Otherwise the window stays in
+        // PopOutWindows + WindowSystem and renders empty / re-spawns on the
+        // next AddPopOutsToDraw tick. Latent since pop-outs were introduced;
+        // becomes visible with AutoTellTabsOpenAsPopout where dropping a
+        // popped tab is now a routine code path.
+        if (victim.Tab.PopOut)
+        {
+            var popout = _plugin.ChatLogWindow.ActivePopouts
+                .FirstOrDefault(p => p.TabIdentifier == victim.Tab.Identifier);
+            if (popout != null)
+            {
+                popout.IsOpen = false;
+            }
+        }
+
         Plugin.Config.Tabs.RemoveAt(victim.Index);
 
         // Re-anchor the active tab so the user does not silently end up on
@@ -207,6 +223,17 @@ internal sealed class AutoTellTabsService : IDisposable
         PreloadHistory(tab, partner.Name, partner.World, currentMessage.Id);
 
         tab.AddMessage(currentMessage, unread: true);
+
+        // Hellion Chat v0.6.1 — opt-in: open new /tell tabs directly as a
+        // pop-out window. Set BEFORE Tabs.Add so the next render-tick's
+        // AddPopOutsToDraw() sees PopOut=true and spawns the Popout window
+        // alongside the tab going into the list. No SaveConfig() because
+        // auto-tell tabs are IsTempTab (session-only, never persisted).
+        if (Plugin.Config.AutoTellTabsOpenAsPopout)
+        {
+            tab.PopOut = true;
+        }
+
         Plugin.Config.Tabs.Add(tab);
     }
 
@@ -355,6 +382,27 @@ internal sealed class AutoTellTabsService : IDisposable
             var lastIndexValid = lastIndex >= 0 && lastIndex < Plugin.Config.Tabs.Count;
             var currentWasTempTab = lastIndexValid && Plugin.Config.Tabs[lastIndex].IsTempTab;
 
+            // v0.6.1 — symmetric to DropOldestTempTab cleanup: tear down any
+            // popped-out temp tab windows before removing the tabs themselves,
+            // otherwise PopOutWindows + WindowSystem keep ghost entries until
+            // the next plugin reload. Especially relevant once Auto-Pop-Out is
+            // enabled — every logout would otherwise leak as many ghosts as
+            // there were active /tell pop-outs.
+            var poppedTempTabIds = Plugin.Config.Tabs
+                .Where(t => t.IsTempTab && t.PopOut)
+                .Select(t => t.Identifier)
+                .ToList();
+            if (poppedTempTabIds.Count > 0)
+            {
+                var poppedSet = poppedTempTabIds.ToHashSet();
+                foreach (var popout in _plugin.ChatLogWindow.ActivePopouts
+                             .Where(p => poppedSet.Contains(p.TabIdentifier))
+                             .ToList())
+                {
+                    popout.IsOpen = false;
+                }
+            }
+
             Plugin.Config.Tabs.RemoveAll(t => t.IsTempTab);
 
             // Force a switch to tab 0 if the active tab was a temp tab OR

ChatTwo/ChatTwo.csproj

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
              0.1.0 is our bootstrap release; the underlying Chat 2 base is
              called out in the yaml changelog so users can see what it
              derives from. -->
-        <Version>0.6.0</Version>
+        <Version>0.6.1</Version>
         <ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings>
         <!-- HellionChat fork: assembly is renamed so Dalamud uses
              pluginConfigs/HellionChat instead of pluginConfigs/ChatTwo,

ChatTwo/Configuration.cs

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ public class ConfigKeyBind
 [Serializable]
 public class Configuration : IPluginConfiguration
 {
-    private const int LatestVersion = 11;
+    private const int LatestVersion = 12;
 
     public int Version { get; set; } = LatestVersion;
 
@@ -111,9 +111,24 @@ public class Configuration : IPluginConfiguration
     // Hellion Chat — v0.6.0 master switch for the pop-out input bar.
     // Global on purpose: per-tab makes no sense for Auto-Tell-Tabs which
     // are session-only and would force the user to re-enable it for every
-    // new conversation. Default OFF so existing users see no behavior
+    // new conversation. Default flipped to ON in v0.6.1 (was OFF in v0.6.0)
-    // change after the v10→v11 migration.
+    // because tester feedback called the manual toggle "umständlich, wirkt
-    public bool PopOutInputEnabled;
+    // unfertig". v11 → v12 migration applies the same flip to existing users.
+    public bool PopOutInputEnabled = true;
+
+    // Hellion Chat — v0.6.1 One-Time-Hint-Banner that introduces the
+    // chat-header pop-out toolbar button and reminds about the pop-out
+    // input default flip. Set to true once the user dismisses the banner
+    // from the main chat window; never reset after that.
+    public bool SeenPopOutHeaderHint;
+
+    // Hellion Chat — v0.6.1 opt-in: when true, AutoTellTabsService.SpawnTempTab
+    // sets tab.PopOut = true on every new auto-tell tab so the conversation
+    // pops out as its own window directly. Closing the pop-out returns the
+    // tab to the sidebar via the standard Popout.OnClose() flow. Default OFF
+    // because the existing sidebar workflow is what most users (especially
+    // club greeters tracking many parallel tells) expect by default.
+    public bool AutoTellTabsOpenAsPopout;
 
     public int GetRetentionDays(ChatType type)
     {
@@ -311,6 +326,8 @@ public class Configuration : IPluginConfiguration
 
         SeenPopOutInputHint = other.SeenPopOutInputHint;
         PopOutInputEnabled = other.PopOutInputEnabled;
+        SeenPopOutHeaderHint = other.SeenPopOutHeaderHint;
+        AutoTellTabsOpenAsPopout = other.AutoTellTabsOpenAsPopout;
     }
 }
 

ChatTwo/HellionChat.yaml

@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ description: |-
     so Hellion Chat does not share state with the upstream plugin
 
   Based on Chat 2 by Infi and Anna, licensed under EUPL-1.2.
+
+  Modding & support: join the Hellion Forge Discord at
+  https://discord.gg/X9V7Kcv5gR — community for Hellion Chat and
+  other Hellion Online Media plugins/tools.
 repo_url: https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat
 accepts_feedback: true
 icon_url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/main/ChatTwo/images/icon.png
@@ -44,6 +48,26 @@ tags:
   - Replacement
   - Privacy
 changelog: |-
+  **Hellion Chat 0.6.1 — Pop-Out Discoverability & /tell Auto-Pop-Out**
+
+  - Pop-out button now visible in the chat header (no more hunting
+    through the right-click menu)
+  - One-time hint banner explains pop-out tabs and the right-click
+    shortcut
+  - New setting: open new /tell tabs directly as pop-out windows
+    (Settings → Chat → Auto-Tell-Tabs)
+  - Pop-out input is now enabled by default — closing a pop-out still
+    returns the tab to the sidebar
+  - Bugfix: dropping or logging out with an LRU/popped auto-tell tab
+    now also closes its pop-out window (no more ghost windows)
+  - Bugfix: dead zone below the chat input bar when the v0.6.0 pop-out
+    hint banner was visible (also fixed retroactively for the v0.6.0
+    banner inside pop-outs)
+
+  Modding & support: join Hellion Forge — https://discord.gg/X9V7Kcv5gR
+
+  Based on Chat 2 1.35.3 (upstream Infiziert90/ChatTwo, EUPL-1.2).
+
   **Hellion Chat 0.6.0 — UX Polish: Pop-Out Input + Colour Presets**
 
   Two opt-in UX features land in the same release. Existing users see
@@ -114,26 +138,6 @@ changelog: |-
   encoded byte buffer length via GetByteCount before pointer
   arithmetic. Single-fix patch on top of v0.5.2.
 
-  **Hellion Chat 0.5.2 — Bugfix patch**
-
-  Auto-Tell-Tabs history-separator landed below the live tell instead
-  of above (preload now excludes the trigger message). Plugin icon
-  packaging fixed by removing a stale DalamudPackager.targets override
-  that conflicted with the SDK 15 default. Default config aligned to
-  the maintainer's daily driver: HellionThemeWindowOpacity 0.5,
-  Use24HourClock true, Gruppe tab no longer auto-routes /party. Two
-  earlier CodeQL findings closed (workflow permissions, empty-input
-  pointer arithmetic).
-
-  **Hellion Chat 0.5.1 — Backlog Sweep**
-
-  Pure hardening and polish. Eight backlog items from the v0.5.0
-  codebase review collected into one patch: cleanup-preview-stale
-  detection, greeted-tab dim background, Performance HelpMarker
-  consistency, Tabs/Database tab names from HellionStrings,
-  FontChooser framework-thread marshalling, async-void on
-  EmoteCache.LoadData, parameterised SQL via BindIntList helper.
-
   ---
 
-  Earlier history at https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/releases.
+  Earlier history: https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/releases

ChatTwo/Plugin.cs

@@ -167,6 +167,23 @@ public sealed class Plugin : IDalamudPlugin
                     "SeenPopOutInputHint added (default false)");
             }
 
+            // Hellion Chat v11 → v12 — flips Configuration.PopOutInputEnabled from
+            // the v0.6.0 opt-in default (false) to opt-out (true) per v0.6.1 UX
+            // polish. Hard-flip is a deliberate design call (see Spec section 5.7);
+            // users are notified via the v0.6.1 hint banner (SeenPopOutHeaderHint
+            // reset). Re-toggle after migration is preserved because this block
+            // only fires for Version < 12.
+            if (Config.Version < 12)
+            {
+                Config.PopOutInputEnabled = true;
+                Config.SeenPopOutHeaderHint = false;
+                Config.Version = 12;
+                SaveConfig();
+                Log.Information(
+                    "Migrated config v11 → v12: PopOutInputEnabled hard-flipped to true (v0.6.1 default), " +
+                    "SeenPopOutHeaderHint reset to false (v0.6.1 banner re-armed)");
+            }
+
             // Hellion default tab layout for first-run and v10-wipe.
             // General catches player chat plus active gameplay events; the
             // System tab takes the technical noise so it does not bury real

ChatTwo/Resources/HellionStrings.Designer.cs

@@ -179,6 +179,8 @@ internal class HellionStrings
     internal static string ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_Compact_Description => Get(nameof(ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_Compact_Description));
     internal static string ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_GreetedToggle_Name => Get(nameof(ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_GreetedToggle_Name));
     internal static string ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_GreetedToggle_Description => Get(nameof(ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_GreetedToggle_Description));
+    internal static string ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_OpenAsPopout_Name => Get(nameof(ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_OpenAsPopout_Name));
+    internal static string ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_OpenAsPopout_Description => Get(nameof(ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_OpenAsPopout_Description));
     internal static string ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_PreloadHint => Get(nameof(ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_PreloadHint));
     internal static string ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_ConflictHint => Get(nameof(ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_ConflictHint));
 
@@ -263,4 +265,9 @@ internal class HellionStrings
     internal static string Popout_v060_HintText => Get(nameof(Popout_v060_HintText));
     internal static string Popout_v060_HintAck => Get(nameof(Popout_v060_HintAck));
     internal static string Popout_v060_HintOpenSettings => Get(nameof(Popout_v060_HintOpenSettings));
+
+    // Hellion Chat — v0.6.1 pop-out header hint banner (discoverability)
+    internal static string Hint_v061_PopOutHeader_Body => Get(nameof(Hint_v061_PopOutHeader_Body));
+    internal static string Hint_v061_PopOutHeader_Ack => Get(nameof(Hint_v061_PopOutHeader_Ack));
+    internal static string Hint_v061_PopOutHeader_OpenSettings => Get(nameof(Hint_v061_PopOutHeader_OpenSettings));
 }

ChatTwo/Resources/HellionStrings.de.resx

@@ -406,6 +406,12 @@
   <data name="ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_GreetedToggle_Description" xml:space="preserve">
     <value>Fügt neben jedem Auto-Tell-Tab einen Klick-Button hinzu, um einen Gesprächspartner als bereits begrüßt zu markieren — der Tab-Name wird dann gedimmt. Nützlich für Club-Greeter, die parallel viele Konversationen führen. Standardmäßig aus.</value>
   </data>
+  <data name="ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_OpenAsPopout_Name" xml:space="preserve">
+    <value>Neue /tell-Tabs direkt als Pop-Out öffnen</value>
+  </data>
+  <data name="ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_OpenAsPopout_Description" xml:space="preserve">
+    <value>Wenn aktiv, wird jeder neu angelegte /tell-Tab sofort als eigenes Fenster geöffnet. Beim Schließen des Fensters kehrt der Tab in die Seitenleiste zurück.</value>
+  </data>
   <data name="ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_PreloadHint" xml:space="preserve">
     <value>Die Anzahl der vorgeladenen Tells lässt sich im Datenschutz-Tab einstellen.</value>
   </data>
@@ -594,4 +600,13 @@
   <data name="Popout_v060_HintOpenSettings" xml:space="preserve">
     <value>Fenster-Settings öffnen</value>
   </data>
+  <data name="Hint_v061_PopOutHeader_Body" xml:space="preserve">
+    <value>Du kannst jeden Chat-Tab als eigenes Fenster öffnen. Klicke auf das Fenster-Symbol oben rechts oder rechtsklicke den Tab. Neu in v0.6.1: die Pop-Out-Eingabe ist standardmäßig aktiv (abschaltbar unter Einstellungen → Fenster).</value>
+  </data>
+  <data name="Hint_v061_PopOutHeader_Ack" xml:space="preserve">
+    <value>Verstanden</value>
+  </data>
+  <data name="Hint_v061_PopOutHeader_OpenSettings" xml:space="preserve">
+    <value>Einstellungen öffnen</value>
+  </data>
 </root>

ChatTwo/Resources/HellionStrings.resx

@@ -406,6 +406,12 @@
   <data name="ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_GreetedToggle_Description" xml:space="preserve">
     <value>Adds a click-to-toggle button next to each auto tell tab to mark a partner as already greeted, dimming the tab name when set. Useful for club greeters tracking many parallel conversations; off by default.</value>
   </data>
+  <data name="ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_OpenAsPopout_Name" xml:space="preserve">
+    <value>Open new /tell tabs directly as pop-out</value>
+  </data>
+  <data name="ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_OpenAsPopout_Description" xml:space="preserve">
+    <value>When enabled, each newly created /tell tab opens directly as its own window. Closing the window returns the tab to the sidebar.</value>
+  </data>
   <data name="ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_PreloadHint" xml:space="preserve">
     <value>The number of preloaded tells is configured in the Privacy tab.</value>
   </data>
@@ -594,4 +600,13 @@
   <data name="Popout_v060_HintOpenSettings" xml:space="preserve">
     <value>Open window settings</value>
   </data>
+  <data name="Hint_v061_PopOutHeader_Body" xml:space="preserve">
+    <value>You can open any chat tab as its own window. Click the window icon in the top right or right-click the tab. New in v0.6.1: pop-out input is enabled by default (can be turned off under Settings → Window).</value>
+  </data>
+  <data name="Hint_v061_PopOutHeader_Ack" xml:space="preserve">
+    <value>Got it</value>
+  </data>
+  <data name="Hint_v061_PopOutHeader_OpenSettings" xml:space="preserve">
+    <value>Open Settings</value>
+  </data>
 </root>

ChatTwo/Ui/ChatLogWindow.cs

@@ -347,6 +347,14 @@ public sealed class ChatLogWindow : Window
         if (Plugin.Config.PreviewPosition is PreviewPosition.Inside)
             height -= Plugin.InputPreview.PreviewHeight;
 
+        // Hellion Chat v0.6.1 — Header-Toolbar rendert auf Window-Ebene über
+        // einem horizontalen Layout-Pfad und wird von GetContentRegionAvail
+        // hier drin NICHT automatisch berücksichtigt, daher expliziter Abzug.
+        // Banner dagegen rendert in DrawChatLog VOR diesem ganzen Block und
+        // ImGui zieht seine Höhe automatisch von GetContentRegionAvail ab,
+        // weil der Cursor schon weiter unten steht — kein eigener Abzug.
+        height -= ImGui.GetFrameHeightWithSpacing();
+
         return height;
     }
 
@@ -543,6 +551,12 @@ public sealed class ChatLogWindow : Window
         if (IsChatMode && Plugin.InputPreview.IsDrawable)
             Plugin.InputPreview.CalculatePreview();
 
+        // Hellion Chat v0.6.1 — render the one-time hint banner first so it
+        // sits above the tab area / sidebar in full window width. Stash the
+        // height for GetRemainingHeightForMessageLog so the message log
+        // shrinks accordingly while the banner is visible.
+        _v061HintBannerHeight = DrawV061HintBannerIfNeeded();
+
         if (Plugin.Config.SidebarTabView)
             DrawTabSidebar();
         else
@@ -1295,6 +1309,7 @@ public sealed class ChatLogWindow : Window
                 TabSwitched(tab, previousTab);
 
             tab.Unread = 0;
+            DrawChatHeaderToolbar(tab);
             DrawMessageLog(tab, PayloadHandler, GetRemainingHeightForMessageLog(), hasTabSwitched);
         }
 
@@ -1427,11 +1442,85 @@ public sealed class ChatLogWindow : Window
         }
 
         if (currentTab > -1)
+        {
+            DrawChatHeaderToolbar(Plugin.Config.Tabs[currentTab]);
             DrawMessageLog(Plugin.Config.Tabs[currentTab], PayloadHandler, childHeight, hasTabSwitched);
+        }
 
         Plugin.WantedTab = null;
     }
 
+    // Hellion Chat v0.6.1 — visible pop-out trigger right above the message
+    // log so users discover the feature without having to right-click the tab.
+    // Renders only for the active tab in the main ChatLogWindow; pop-out
+    // windows have their own render path and skip this toolbar.
+    private void DrawChatHeaderToolbar(Tab tab)
+    {
+        var avail = ImGui.GetContentRegionAvail().X;
+        var iconWidth = ImGui.GetFrameHeight();
+        ImGui.SetCursorPosX(ImGui.GetCursorPosX() + avail - iconWidth);
+
+        if (ImGuiUtil.IconButton(FontAwesomeIcon.WindowRestore, tooltip: Language.ChatLog_Tabs_PopOut))
+        {
+            tab.PopOut = true;
+            Plugin.SaveConfig();
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Hellion Chat v0.6.1 — One-Time-Hint-Banner introducing the chat header
+    // pop-out toolbar button and the right-click pathway. Reuses the visual
+    // pattern from Popout.cs DrawHintBannerIfNeeded so users see a familiar
+    // dismiss-affordance. Returns the vertical space the banner consumed
+    // (0 when not shown) so the message log can shrink accordingly.
+    private float DrawV061HintBannerIfNeeded()
+    {
+        if (Plugin.Config.SeenPopOutHeaderHint)
+            return 0f;
+
+        var hintText = Resources.HellionStrings.Hint_v061_PopOutHeader_Body;
+        var ackLabel = Resources.HellionStrings.Hint_v061_PopOutHeader_Ack;
+        var openLabel = Resources.HellionStrings.Hint_v061_PopOutHeader_OpenSettings;
+
+        var startY = ImGui.GetCursorPosY();
+
+        var bg = new System.Numerics.Vector4(0.16f, 0.20f, 0.28f, 1f);
+        ImGui.PushStyleColor(ImGuiCol.ChildBg, bg);
+        ImGui.PushStyleVar(ImGuiStyleVar.FrameBorderSize, 1f);
+
+        var dismiss = false;
+        var openSettings = false;
+        using (var child = ImRaii.Child("##v061-pop-out-header-hint", new System.Numerics.Vector2(0f, 84f), true))
+        {
+            if (child)
+            {
+                ImGui.TextWrapped(hintText);
+                if (ImGui.Button(ackLabel))
+                    dismiss = true;
+                ImGui.SameLine();
+                if (ImGui.Button(openLabel))
+                {
+                    dismiss = true;
+                    openSettings = true;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        ImGui.PopStyleVar();
+        ImGui.PopStyleColor();
+        ImGui.Spacing();
+
+        if (dismiss)
+        {
+            Plugin.Config.SeenPopOutHeaderHint = true;
+            Plugin.SaveConfig();
+            Plugin.Log.Debug("v0.6.1 pop-out header hint dismissed");
+            if (openSettings)
+                Plugin.SettingsWindow.Toggle();
+        }
+
+        return ImGui.GetCursorPosY() - startY;
+    }
+
     private void DrawTabContextMenu(Tab tab, int i)
     {
         using var contextMenu = ImRaii.ContextPopupItem($"tab-context-menu-{i}");
@@ -1491,6 +1580,13 @@ public sealed class ChatLogWindow : Window
     internal readonly List<bool> PopOutDocked = [];
     internal readonly HashSet<Guid> PopOutWindows = [];
 
+    // Hellion Chat v0.6.1 — height the v0.6.1 hint banner consumed in the
+    // current frame, read by GetRemainingHeightForMessageLog so the message
+    // log can shrink. Unconditionally reassigned at the top of DrawChatLog
+    // (before any tab-area render) so the value is always in sync with the
+    // current frame. Returns 0 once the banner is dismissed.
+    private float _v061HintBannerHeight;
+
     // v0.6.0 — live enumeration of all active Popout windows so the
     // KeybindManager can find a focused ChatInputBar to forward tab-cycle
     // keybinds to. Filter on IsOpen prevents touching closed-but-still-

ChatTwo/Ui/Popout.cs

@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ internal class Popout : Window
     public ChatInputBar? InputBar { get; private set; }
     public bool HasFocusedInputBar => InputBar?.IsFocused ?? false;
 
+    // Hellion Chat — v0.6.1 expose just the tab identifier (not the whole Tab
+    // reference) so AutoTellTabsService.DropOldestTempTab can locate the
+    // matching pop-out window when an LRU temp tab gets evicted.
+    internal Guid TabIdentifier => Tab.Identifier;
+
     public Popout(ChatLogWindow chatLogWindow, Tab tab, int idx) : base($"{tab.Name}##popout")
     {
         ChatLogWindow = chatLogWindow;

ChatTwo/Ui/SettingsTabs/Chat.cs

@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ internal sealed class Chat : ISettingsTab
             ImGui.Checkbox(HellionStrings.ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_Compact_Name, ref Mutable.AutoTellTabsCompactDisplay);
             ImGuiUtil.HelpMarker(HellionStrings.ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_Compact_Description);
 
+            ImGui.Checkbox(HellionStrings.ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_OpenAsPopout_Name, ref Mutable.AutoTellTabsOpenAsPopout);
+            ImGuiUtil.HelpMarker(HellionStrings.ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_OpenAsPopout_Description);
+
             ImGui.Checkbox(HellionStrings.ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_GreetedToggle_Name, ref Mutable.AutoTellTabsShowGreetedToggle);
             ImGuiUtil.HelpMarker(HellionStrings.ChatLog_AutoTellTabs_GreetedToggle_Description);
 

README.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 [![.NET](https://img.shields.io/badge/.NET-10.0-512BD4)](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/)
 [![FFXIV](https://img.shields.io/badge/FFXIV-Dawntrail-c3a37f)](https://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/)
 
-**Version 0.6.0** — DSGVO-bewusste Erweiterung von [Chat 2](https://github.com/Infiziert90/ChatTwo) für FINAL FANTASY XIV / Dalamud.
+**Version 0.6.1** — DSGVO-bewusste Erweiterung von [Chat 2](https://github.com/Infiziert90/ChatTwo) für FINAL FANTASY XIV / Dalamud.
 
 Hellion Chat baut auf Chat 2 auf und ergänzt es um Datenschutz- und Daten-Handling-Kontrollen, die mit den Datenschutz-Regeln in der EU, den USA und Japan im Einklang sind. Alle Chat-2-Funktionen, Befehle und Tastenkürzel funktionieren unverändert. Eigenständiger Plugin-Slot, eigene Konfiguration, eigene Datenbank.
 
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ Konflikte in Upstream-Sprach-Ressourcen (`Language.<lang>.resx`) kommen häufig
 
 ## Projektstatus
 
-**Version 0.6.0** | Stand: 2026-05-03
+**Version 0.6.1** | Stand: 2026-05-03
 
 Alle Bootstrap-Phasen abgeschlossen:
 
@@ -283,6 +283,14 @@ Phase 3 (offen, kein festes Datum):
 
 ---
 
+## Community & Support
+
+- **Hellion Forge Discord** (Modding- und Plugin-Community von Hellion Online Media): https://discord.gg/X9V7Kcv5gR
+- Bug-Reports und Feature-Requests: [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/issues)
+- Weitere Kontaktwege (Security, Privacy, Quick-Questions): siehe [SUPPORT.md](SUPPORT.md)
+
+---
+
 ## Lizenz
 
 EUPL-1.2 (gleiche Lizenz wie Upstream Chat 2). Volltext in [LICENSE](LICENSE), Copyright-Notes mit Dual-Holder-Block in [COPYRIGHT](COPYRIGHT), persönliche Danksagung an die Upstream-Autoren in [NOTICE.md](NOTICE.md).

SUPPORT.md

@@ -32,9 +32,12 @@ that document:
 
 ## Quick questions and casual feedback
 
-Discord DM `@j.j_kazama`. Bug reports still go through the issue
+- **Hellion Forge Discord** — community for HellionChat and other
-tracker so they can be tracked, but a quick "is this a bug or am I
+  Hellion Online Media plugins/tools: https://discord.gg/X9V7Kcv5gR
-holding it wrong" message is fine.
+- Discord DM `@j.j_kazama`
+
+Bug reports still go through the issue tracker so they can be tracked,
+but a quick "is this a bug or am I holding it wrong" message is fine.
 
 ## Upstream Chat 2 issues
 

repo.json

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
     "Author": "JonKazama-Hellion",
     "Name": "Hellion Chat",
     "InternalName": "HellionChat",
-    "AssemblyVersion": "0.6.0.0",
+    "AssemblyVersion": "0.6.1.0",
-    "Description": "Hellion Chat is built on top of Chat 2 with one removal and a stack\nof privacy controls on top. Tabs, channel filters, RGB colours,\nemotes, screenshot mode, IPC integration and the chat replacement\nwindow itself work the same. The optional webinterface that Chat 2\nships is intentionally not part of this fork because it serves a\ndifferent use case from the smaller default footprint Hellion Chat\nis built around.\n\nOn top of that, Hellion Chat adds privacy and data-handling controls\ndesigned to align with the modern data protection rules that apply\nacross the EU, the United States and Japan. By default only your own\nconversations are stored; messages from strangers, NPCs and system\nspam stay out of the database. Retention windows are configurable per\nchannel, history can be wiped retroactively, and stored data can be\nexported on demand.\n\nKey additions on top of Chat 2:\n\n- Channel whitelist with a Privacy-First default\n- Per-channel retention with a daily background sweep\n- Retroactive cleanup with a Ctrl+Shift confirm\n- Export to Markdown, JSON or CSV\n- First-run wizard with three preset profiles (Privacy-First, Casual,\n  Full History)\n- Bilingual UI (English and German) with live language switching\n- Independent plugin state — own config file and database directory,\n  so Hellion Chat does not share state with the upstream plugin\n\nBased on Chat 2 by Infi and Anna, licensed under EUPL-1.2.",
+    "Description": "Hellion Chat is built on top of Chat 2 with one removal and a stack\nof privacy controls on top. Tabs, channel filters, RGB colours,\nemotes, screenshot mode, IPC integration and the chat replacement\nwindow itself work the same. The optional webinterface that Chat 2\nships is intentionally not part of this fork because it serves a\ndifferent use case from the smaller default footprint Hellion Chat\nis built around.\n\nOn top of that, Hellion Chat adds privacy and data-handling controls\ndesigned to align with the modern data protection rules that apply\nacross the EU, the United States and Japan. By default only your own\nconversations are stored; messages from strangers, NPCs and system\nspam stay out of the database. Retention windows are configurable per\nchannel, history can be wiped retroactively, and stored data can be\nexported on demand.\n\nKey additions on top of Chat 2:\n\n- Channel whitelist with a Privacy-First default\n- Per-channel retention with a daily background sweep\n- Retroactive cleanup with a Ctrl+Shift confirm\n- Export to Markdown, JSON or CSV\n- First-run wizard with three preset profiles (Privacy-First, Casual,\n  Full History)\n- Bilingual UI (English and German) with live language switching\n- Independent plugin state — own config file and database directory,\n  so Hellion Chat does not share state with the upstream plugin\n\nBased on Chat 2 by Infi and Anna, licensed under EUPL-1.2.\n\nModding & support: join the Hellion Forge Discord at https://discord.gg/X9V7Kcv5gR — community for Hellion Chat and other Hellion Online Media plugins/tools.",
     "ApplicableVersion": "any",
     "RepoUrl": "https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat",
     "Tags": [
@@ -20,12 +20,12 @@
     "CanUnloadAsync": false,
     "LoadPriority": 0,
     "Punchline": "Chat 2 with privacy controls aligned to EU, US and JP rules",
-    "Changelog": "**Hellion Chat 0.6.0 — UX Polish: Pop-Out Input + Colour Presets**\n\nTwo opt-in UX features land in the same release. Existing users see\nno change unless they enable the new toggles.\n\nPop-out input bar:\n\n- New global master switch in Settings → Window → Frame: \"Enable input\n  in pop-outs\". Default OFF so existing behaviour is preserved\n- When enabled, every pop-out window grows a compact input bar at the\n  bottom (channel-coloured icon button left, text input right). The\n  auto-translate picker is intentionally not part of the compact bar\n  in v0.6.0 — typical pop-out workflows (FC greeter, club hostess)\n  rarely need it there\n- Each pop-out keeps an independent text buffer and history cursor;\n  channel changes still apply globally because that is how the FFXIV\n  channel API works\n- Up/Down navigates a shared input history singleton across the main\n  window and every open pop-out\n- First pop-out opening after the upgrade shows a one-time hint\n  banner pointing users to the new toggle\n\nChat colour presets:\n\n- Seven built-in presets above the per-channel colour list in\n  Settings → Appearance → Colours: ChatTwo Default, High-Contrast,\n  Pastell, Dark-Mode-Tuned, Hellion (brand-coloured, blue/orange\n  Arctic Cyan + Ember Glow palette from the Hellion Online Media\n  branding spec), plus two bonus mood presets — Night Blue (royal\n  blue, classic-cool) and Indigo Violet (royal violet, glitter-mystic)\n- Apply is immediate and overwrites the channels covered by the\n  preset; battle-channel colours are left alone so combat tuning\n  stays intact\n\nConfiguration migrates from v10 to v11 with a diagnostic log entry;\nno data is reset. Bilingual (English/German) for both new sections.\n\nBased on Chat 2 1.35.3 (upstream Infiziert90/ChatTwo, EUPL-1.2).\n\n**Hellion Chat 0.5.4 — WrapText hardening**\n\nReplaces the unsafe pointer-arithmetic in ImGuiUtil.WrapText with\nSpan- and index-based control flow. Closes the persistent CodeQL\nCritical alert \"unvalidated local pointer arithmetic\" that kept\nre-firing on every shape of the previous fix.\n\nHardening:\n\n- WrapText now allocates a buffer sized by Encoding.UTF8.GetMaxByteCount\n  via ArrayPool, validates the actual encoded length against that\n  ceiling, and threads the rest of the algorithm through int offsets\n  instead of raw byte pointers\n- Pointer arithmetic only happens inside two small private helpers\n  (CalcWordWrap and DrawText) that take the pinned base pointer plus\n  int offsets sourced from the plugin's own logic, not from any\n  virtual-method return\n- Added a 16 KiB upper bound on the buffer rent to prevent a\n  pathological input from triggering an unbounded ArrayPool allocation\n\nNo user-visible behaviour change. Word-wrap output is byte-identical\nto v0.5.3.\n\nBased on Chat 2 1.35.3 (upstream Infiziert90/ChatTwo, EUPL-1.2).\n\n**Hellion Chat 0.5.3 — Pointer arithmetic hardening**\n\nClosed CodeQL Critical alert in ImGuiUtil.WrapText by validating the\nencoded byte buffer length via GetByteCount before pointer\narithmetic. Single-fix patch on top of v0.5.2.\n\n**Hellion Chat 0.5.2 — Bugfix patch**\n\nAuto-Tell-Tabs history-separator landed below the live tell instead\nof above (preload now excludes the trigger message). Plugin icon\npackaging fixed by removing a stale DalamudPackager.targets override\nthat conflicted with the SDK 15 default. Default config aligned to\nthe maintainer's daily driver: HellionThemeWindowOpacity 0.5,\nUse24HourClock true, Gruppe tab no longer auto-routes /party. Two\nearlier CodeQL findings closed (workflow permissions, empty-input\npointer arithmetic).\n\n**Hellion Chat 0.5.1 — Backlog Sweep**\n\nPure hardening and polish. Eight backlog items from the v0.5.0\ncodebase review collected into one patch: cleanup-preview-stale\ndetection, greeted-tab dim background, Performance HelpMarker\nconsistency, Tabs/Database tab names from HellionStrings,\nFontChooser framework-thread marshalling, async-void on\nEmoteCache.LoadData, parameterised SQL via BindIntList helper.\n\n---\n\nEarlier history at https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/releases.",
+    "Changelog": "**Hellion Chat 0.6.1 — Pop-Out Discoverability & /tell Auto-Pop-Out**\n\n- Pop-out button now visible in the chat header (no more hunting through the right-click menu)\n- One-time hint banner explains pop-out tabs and the right-click shortcut\n- New setting: open new /tell tabs directly as pop-out windows (Settings → Chat → Auto-Tell-Tabs)\n- Pop-out input is now enabled by default — closing a pop-out still returns the tab to the sidebar\n- Bugfix: dropping or logging out with an LRU/popped auto-tell tab now also closes its pop-out window (no more ghost windows)\n- Bugfix: dead zone below the chat input bar when the v0.6.0 pop-out hint banner was visible (also fixed retroactively for the v0.6.0 banner inside pop-outs)\n\nModding & support: join Hellion Forge — https://discord.gg/X9V7Kcv5gR\n\nBased on Chat 2 1.35.3 (upstream Infiziert90/ChatTwo, EUPL-1.2).\n\n**Hellion Chat 0.6.0 — UX Polish: Pop-Out Input + Colour Presets**\n\nTwo opt-in UX features land in the same release. Existing users see\nno change unless they enable the new toggles.\n\nPop-out input bar:\n\n- New global master switch in Settings → Window → Frame: \"Enable input\n  in pop-outs\". Default OFF so existing behaviour is preserved\n- When enabled, every pop-out window grows a compact input bar at the\n  bottom (channel-coloured icon button left, text input right). The\n  auto-translate picker is intentionally not part of the compact bar\n  in v0.6.0 — typical pop-out workflows (FC greeter, club hostess)\n  rarely need it there\n- Each pop-out keeps an independent text buffer and history cursor;\n  channel changes still apply globally because that is how the FFXIV\n  channel API works\n- Up/Down navigates a shared input history singleton across the main\n  window and every open pop-out\n- First pop-out opening after the upgrade shows a one-time hint\n  banner pointing users to the new toggle\n\nChat colour presets:\n\n- Seven built-in presets above the per-channel colour list in\n  Settings → Appearance → Colours: ChatTwo Default, High-Contrast,\n  Pastell, Dark-Mode-Tuned, Hellion (brand-coloured, blue/orange\n  Arctic Cyan + Ember Glow palette from the Hellion Online Media\n  branding spec), plus two bonus mood presets — Night Blue (royal\n  blue, classic-cool) and Indigo Violet (royal violet, glitter-mystic)\n- Apply is immediate and overwrites the channels covered by the\n  preset; battle-channel colours are left alone so combat tuning\n  stays intact\n\nConfiguration migrates from v10 to v11 with a diagnostic log entry;\nno data is reset. Bilingual (English/German) for both new sections.\n\nBased on Chat 2 1.35.3 (upstream Infiziert90/ChatTwo, EUPL-1.2).\n\n**Hellion Chat 0.5.4 — WrapText hardening**\n\nReplaces the unsafe pointer-arithmetic in ImGuiUtil.WrapText with\nSpan- and index-based control flow. Closes the persistent CodeQL\nCritical alert \"unvalidated local pointer arithmetic\" that kept\nre-firing on every shape of the previous fix.\n\nHardening:\n\n- WrapText now allocates a buffer sized by Encoding.UTF8.GetMaxByteCount\n  via ArrayPool, validates the actual encoded length against that\n  ceiling, and threads the rest of the algorithm through int offsets\n  instead of raw byte pointers\n- Pointer arithmetic only happens inside two small private helpers\n  (CalcWordWrap and DrawText) that take the pinned base pointer plus\n  int offsets sourced from the plugin's own logic, not from any\n  virtual-method return\n- Added a 16 KiB upper bound on the buffer rent to prevent a\n  pathological input from triggering an unbounded ArrayPool allocation\n\nNo user-visible behaviour change. Word-wrap output is byte-identical\nto v0.5.3.\n\nBased on Chat 2 1.35.3 (upstream Infiziert90/ChatTwo, EUPL-1.2).\n\n**Hellion Chat 0.5.3 — Pointer arithmetic hardening**\n\nClosed CodeQL Critical alert in ImGuiUtil.WrapText by validating the\nencoded byte buffer length via GetByteCount before pointer\narithmetic. Single-fix patch on top of v0.5.2.\n\n---\n\nEarlier history: https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/releases",
     "AcceptsFeedback": true,
-    "DownloadLinkInstall": "https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/releases/download/v0.6.0/latest.zip",
+    "DownloadLinkInstall": "https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/releases/download/v0.6.1/latest.zip",
-    "DownloadLinkUpdate": "https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/releases/download/v0.6.0/latest.zip",
+    "DownloadLinkUpdate": "https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/releases/download/v0.6.1/latest.zip",
-    "DownloadLinkTesting": "https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/releases/download/v0.6.0/latest.zip",
+    "DownloadLinkTesting": "https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/releases/download/v0.6.1/latest.zip",
-    "TestingAssemblyVersion": "0.6.0.0",
+    "TestingAssemblyVersion": "0.6.1.0",
     "IconUrl": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/main/ChatTwo/images/icon.png",
     "ImageUrls": [
       "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/main/ChatTwo/images/chatWindow.png",