chore: bump version to 1.4.9, sync manifest

Manifest version bump for the v1.4.9 release cut. Schema-required v16
stays unchanged (R1/R2/R3 are all config-neutral refactors).

Files touched:
- HellionChat/HellionChat.csproj: <Version> 1.4.8 -> 1.4.9
- HellionChat/Plugin.cs: schema-migration error string self-reference
  (v1.4.8 -> v1.4.9, required schema v16 stays)
- repo.json: AssemblyVersion, TestingAssemblyVersion, 3x DownloadLink*
  URLs all bumped to 1.4.9 / v1.4.9. Changelog field is still on v1.4.8;
  the v1.4.9 block plus v1.4.5 slim-drop land in the next commit.
- README.md: shield badge, version header in lead paragraph, project-
  status block rewritten for v1.4.9 (Plugin-Load Render Polish).
- docs/CHANGELOG.md: v1.4.9 block inserted above v1.4.8.
- docs/ROADMAP.md: v1.4.9 moved into the released-versions list,
  "Next Cycle" header now targets v1.4.10 (Render Clipper + Symbol
  Picker reserves carried over from the v1.4.9 plan).

yaml changelog block and repo.json Changelog field follow in the
docs commit so the slim-drop of v1.4.5 stays atomic with the v1.4.9
block insert.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

HellionChat/HellionChat.csproj

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <Project Sdk="Dalamud.NET.Sdk/15.0.0">
     <PropertyGroup>
         <!-- Independent versioning; see yaml changelog for upstream Chat 2 base -->
-        <Version>1.4.8</Version>
+        <Version>1.4.9</Version>
         <ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings>
         <Nullable>enable</Nullable>
         <!-- Use lock file to pin exact versions -->

HellionChat/Plugin.cs

@@ -189,8 +189,8 @@ public sealed class Plugin : IAsyncDalamudPlugin
         if (Config.Version < 16)
         {
             throw new InvalidOperationException(
-                $"HellionChat v1.4.8 requires config schema v16, got v{Config.Version}. "
+                $"HellionChat v1.4.9 requires config schema v16, got v{Config.Version}. "
-                    + "Please install v1.4.2 first to migrate the configuration, then upgrade to v1.4.8."
+                    + "Please install v1.4.2 first to migrate the configuration, then upgrade to v1.4.9."
             );
         }
         Config.Version = 17;

README.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 [![Build](https://gitea.hellion-forge.cloud/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/actions/workflows/build.yml/badge.svg?branch=main)](https://gitea.hellion-forge.cloud/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/actions/workflows/build.yml)
 [![License: EUPL-1.2](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-EUPL--1.2-blue.svg)](LICENSE)
-[![Latest release](https://img.shields.io/badge/release-v1.4.8-brightgreen)](https://gitea.hellion-forge.cloud/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/releases/latest)
+[![Latest release](https://img.shields.io/badge/release-v1.4.9-brightgreen)](https://gitea.hellion-forge.cloud/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/releases/latest)
 [![Dalamud API](https://img.shields.io/badge/Dalamud-API_15-purple)](https://github.com/goatcorp/Dalamud)
 [![.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/)
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
   <img src="docs/images/hellion-forge.png" alt="Hellion Forge" width="180" />
 </p>
 
-**Version 1.4.8** — Privacy-first chat plugin for FINAL FANTASY XIV / Dalamud, built on
+**Version 1.4.9** — Privacy-first chat plugin for FINAL FANTASY XIV / Dalamud, built on
 [Chat 2](https://github.com/Infiziert90/ChatTwo) (EUPL-1.2).
 
 Hellion Chat is a privacy-first plugin built on the Chat 2 foundation. The majority of the engine comes from Chat 2
@@ -286,19 +286,18 @@ An optional submission to the Dalamud main plugin repo (in addition to the custo
 
 ## Project Status
 
-**Version 1.4.8** — Hook-Layer and Polish Quick-Wins. The Database Viewer now has an optional FTS5 full-text search
+**Version 1.4.9** — Plugin-Load Render Polish. First-frame render cost is now well under Dalamud's 100 ms HITCH
-across the entire chat history. Toggle "Full-text search" next to the search bar; the index is built asynchronously on
+warning threshold (~76 ms median, down from ~127 ms). The gain comes from deferring six non-essential rendering
-first run after the update with a progress toast, and the toggle stays disabled until the build completes. Multi-word
+sections on the very first Draw — bottom status bar, channel-name SeString chunks, window bounds check, hint
-terms match as exact phrases by default; power users can opt into raw FTS5 `MATCH` syntax by wrapping their own
+banner, autocomplete and input-preview calculation — so the initial ImGui layout cost is spread between frame 0
-double-quotes. Custom theme files auto-reload when edited while the theme is active — save the JSON in your editor and
+and frame 1 instead of all hitting at once. At 60 fps the user sees those sections one frame (~17 ms) later, which
-the live render picks up the change within a second, no picker click. Retention sweep no longer blocks the framework
+is invisible inside the post-reload font-atlas build window. Slash commands `/hellion`, `/hellionView`,
-thread (`Framework.Run(...).Wait()` replaced by `Framework.RunOnTick(...)`), removing the ~194 ms hitch per sweep. Status
+`/hellionSeString` and `/hellionDebugger` are now registered centrally during plugin load so they work before
-bar height is now derived from `GetTextLineHeightWithSpacing()` plus a DPI-aware spacer so the bar renders correctly at
+their target window is opened the first time. The configuration-button entry in Dalamud's plugin manager hangs on
-Windows display scaling above 100 %. Receive-suppressed-tells routing is postponed to v1.5.x; the investigation in this
+the same path. Three plugin-load profiling logs (auto-translate warm-up, message-store connect, tab filter) stay
-cycle showed that the FFXIV `ContentIdResolverHook` does not fire when other plugins suppress tells via
+on at Information level as a regression tripwire — if a future change pushes the load past 100 ms again, the cost
-`CheckMessageHandled`, which means tell-partner identification breaks for AutoTellTab routing — the fix lives next to
+is right there in `/xllog`. Migration v17 stays (no schema bump). Tenth sub-patch of the v1.4.x polish sweep
-the planned ad-block hook layer where the same `RaptureLogModule` patch surface comes up anyway. Migration v17 stays
+series (as of 2026-05-15).
-(no schema bump). Ninth sub-patch of the v1.4.x polish sweep series (as of 2026-05-14).
 
 Hellion Chat is a standalone plugin, no longer a fork in the repository sense. Fully completed:
 

docs/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -10,6 +10,35 @@ to the release pages for details.
 
 ---
 
+## Hellion Chat 1.4.9 — Plugin-Load Render Polish (2026-05-15)
+
+Tenth sub-patch of the v1.4.x polish-sweep series. First-frame render cost drops from ~127 ms median down to
+~76 ms median — comfortably under Dalamud's 100 ms HITCH warning threshold. The remaining ~13 ms gap to ChatTwo
+upstream (~63 ms median) is the cost of HellionChat-only features (sidebar tab view, custom status bar,
+Honorific integration).
+
+- First-frame defer: six non-essential rendering sections inside `ChatLogWindow` skip their first Draw and run
+  one frame later. Covered sections are the bottom status bar, channel-name SeString chunks, window bounds
+  check, v0.6.1 hint banner, autocomplete and input-preview calculation. At 60 fps the user sees those sections
+  ~17 ms after plugin reload — invisible inside the ~2.5 s font-atlas build window every reload runs through
+  anyway. Frame 1 stays well under 100 ms too (~40 ms), so no secondary HITCH warning appears.
+- Slash-command centralisation: `/hellion`, `/hellionView`, `/hellionSeString` and `/hellionDebugger` are now
+  registered during `LoadAsync` instead of inside the corresponding window constructors. The commands work
+  before their target window is opened the first time, and Dalamud's plugin-manager configuration / open
+  buttons (`UiBuilder.OpenConfigUi` / `OpenMainUi`) hang on the same path.
+- Plugin-load profiling logs stay on: `MessageStore.Connect`, `MessageStore.Migrate`, `FilterAllTabs` and the
+  auto-translate warm-up timing log are now Information level rather than Debug. They serve as a tripwire so a
+  future regression past 100 ms shows up directly in `/xllog` without re-enabling Debug.
+- Migration v17 stays (no schema bump).
+- Internal: hypothesis-triage during the R2 cycle falsified three of the four candidate root causes
+  (font-atlas sync, theme-apply ABGR-cache init, multiple-window render). Actual cause is `DrawList` setup
+  cost distributed across ~10 ImGui sections inside ChatLogWindow (5-20 ms each). The six selective defers
+  above are the pragmatic fix — a clean structural rewrite would belong in the v1.5.x DI-container cycle.
+
+Based on Chat 2 1.35.3 (upstream Infiziert90/ChatTwo, EUPL-1.2).
+
+---
+
 ## Hellion Chat 1.4.8 — Hook-Layer and Polish Quick-Wins (2026-05-14)
 
 Ninth sub-patch of the v1.4.x polish-sweep series. Hook-layer cluster (FTS5 full-text search, ad-block foundation

docs/ROADMAP.md

@@ -10,14 +10,35 @@ the plugin's privacy-first scope during brainstorming.
 
 ---
 
-## Next Cycle (v1.4.9)
+## Next Cycle (v1.4.10)
 
-**Plugin-Load Render Polish.** Erststart-Frame-Hitch (~110 ms UiBuilder) and the related Font-Atlas + Auto-Translate
+**Render Clipper, Symbol-Picker and Final-Cleanup.** Reserve items inherited from the v1.4.9 plan that did not need to
-warmup costs surface every load and are reproducible in `/xlstats`. The cycle also unblocks the lazy-window refactor
+land in the HITCH-cut: an `ImGuiListClipper` for variable-height messages in `DrawMessages` (the OtterGui `ImGuiClip.cs`
-sketched in `feedback_lazy_window_dalamud` and the slash-command centralisation that comes with it.
+wrapper is the idiom anchor), a Symbol Picker popup for the chat input (`imgui_demo.cpp` Popups & Modal Windows section
+is the pattern reference), plus the carry-over from v1.4.9: structural First-Frame-Layout rewrite if the v1.4.9 selective
+defers turn out to be too narrow once user-side regressions surface. Lazy-Window-Init naive is **not** in scope — the
+v1.4.9 Stage-2 diagnose falsified that path (`WindowSystem.windows` is non-thread-safe, Game-Freeze under reload stress,
+no measurable HITCH delta). A clean DI-container adoption (Lightless `PluginHostFactory` pattern) belongs in v1.5.x and
+will revisit the question with the right threading model.
 
 ---
 
+## v1.4.9 — Plugin-Load Render Polish (released 2026-05-15)
+
+Tenth sub-patch of the v1.4.x Polish Sweep series. First-frame HITCH drops from ~127 ms median to ~76 ms median (4-reload
+sample), comfortably under Dalamud's 100 ms warning threshold. Mechanism: a single `_firstFrameDone` flag inside
+`ChatLogWindow` defers six non-essential rendering sections (bottom status bar, channel-name SeString chunks, window
+bounds check, v0.6.1 hint banner, autocomplete, input-preview calculation) from frame 0 to frame 1. User sees those
+sections ~17 ms (60 fps) later, invisible inside the ~2.5 s font-atlas build window after every reload. Slash-command
+registration moved from individual window constructors to a central `SetupCommands` / `TearDownCommands` pair in
+`Plugin.cs` — `/hellion`, `/hellionView`, `/hellionSeString` and `/hellionDebugger` work before their target windows are
+opened the first time, and Dalamud's plugin-manager `OpenConfigUi` / `OpenMainUi` buttons hang on the same path.
+Plugin-load profiling logs (auto-translate warmup, `MessageStore.Connect`, `MessageStore.Migrate`, `FilterAllTabs`) stay
+on at Information level as a regression tripwire. Migration v17 stays (no schema bump). Hypothesis-triage falsified
+three of four candidate root causes (font-atlas sync fallback, theme-apply ABGR-cache init, multiple-window render via
+lazy-init) — actual cost distributes evenly across ~10 ImGui sections inside ChatLogWindow, so structural rewrite is
+deferred to v1.5.x DI-container cycle.
+
 ## v1.4.8 — Hook-Layer and Polish Quick-Wins (released 2026-05-14)
 
 Ninth sub-patch of the v1.4.x Polish Sweep series. Database Viewer gains an optional FTS5 full-text search across the

repo.json

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
         "Author": "Jon Kazama (Hellion Forge)",
         "Name": "Hellion Chat",
         "InternalName": "HellionChat",
-        "AssemblyVersion": "1.4.8.0",
+        "AssemblyVersion": "1.4.9.0",
         "Description": "A Hellion Forge plugin — privacy-focused chat replacement for FINAL FANTASY XIV, built for EU, US and JP data rules.\n\nBy default only your own conversations are stored. Public chat, NPC dialogue, system messages and battle logs are discarded at the storage layer unless you opt in. Retention windows are configurable per channel, history can be wiped retroactively, and everything can be exported on demand.\n\nFeatures:\n- Channel whitelist with a Privacy-First default\n- Per-channel retention with a daily background sweep\n- Retroactive cleanup with preview and Ctrl+Shift confirm\n- Export to Markdown, JSON or CSV\n- First-run wizard with three profiles: Privacy-First, Casual, Full History\n- Bilingual UI (EN/DE) with live language switching\n- Own config and database — no shared state with other plugins\n\nBased on Chat 2 by Infi and Anna (EUPL-1.2).\nSupport: https://discord.gg/X9V7Kcv5gR",
         "ApplicableVersion": "any",
         "RepoUrl": "https://gitea.hellion-forge.cloud/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat",
@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@
         "Punchline": "A Hellion Forge plugin. Privacy-first chat for FFXIV, built to stay out of your way.",
         "Changelog": "**v1.4.8 — Hook-Layer and Polish Quick-Wins (2026-05-14)**\n\nNinth sub-patch of the v1.4.x polish-sweep series. Hook-layer cluster (DbViewer FTS5 full-text search, ad-block foundation investigation) plus three polish quick-wins.\n\n- DbViewer full-text search: optional FTS5 index across the full chat history. Built asynchronously on first load after the update with a progress toast. The local page-filter remains available as the default mode. Queries match as exact phrases -- multi-word terms must appear together in order; advanced users can opt into raw FTS5 MATCH syntax by wrapping their own double-quotes.\n- Custom theme files now auto-reload when edited while the theme is active -- no need to re-click the theme in the picker.\n- Retention sweep no longer blocks the framework thread, removing the ~194ms mini-hitch per sweep.\n- Status bar renders correctly at Windows display scaling > 100%.\n- Receive-suppressed-tells routing investigated this cycle and postponed to v1.5.x: when other plugins suppress tells via CheckMessageHandled, the FFXIV chat pipeline skips the RaptureLogModule.AddMsgSourceEntry path so HellionChat's ContentIdResolverHook does not fire and tell-partner identification breaks. The fix belongs next to the planned ad-block hook layer where the same patch surface comes up.\n- Internal: messages.Id is declared BLOB but stored as TEXT (Microsoft.Data.Sqlite Guid binding). FTS bulk insert and LoadByGuids match the TEXT storage form on both sides. Migration v17 stays (no schema bump).\n\nBased on Chat 2 1.35.3 (upstream Infiziert90/ChatTwo, EUPL-1.2).\n\n---\n\n**v1.4.7 — Backlog Cleanup and Mid-Features (2026-05-13)**\n\nEighth sub-patch of the v1.4.x polish-sweep series. First user-visible feature bundle since v1.4.5 — pinned tell tabs that survive relog, opt-in Honorific glow rendering, and a configurable sidebar.\n\n- TempTell Pin: right-click a TempTell tab in the sidebar to pin it. Pinned tabs survive relog, keep their conversation history (loaded on demand from the message store), and stay bound to the same /tell partner. Hard cap of 5 pinned tabs in a pool separate from the 15-tab auto-tell pool — total ceiling is 20 tabs. New 'Angepinnt' / 'Pinned' section in the sidebar with its own divider header\n- Honorific Glow outline now renders when the title carries a Glow colour. Opt-in via Settings → Integrations → 'Render glow outlines (Honorific)' (default off, dodges the per-frame DrawList overhead on low-end hardware). Gradient (Color3 / GradientColourSet / Wave / Pulse) is parsed but rendered statically — a later cycle will port the full animation\n- Sidebar width is now configurable in Theme & Layout (range 44–160 px). Default stays icon-only; widen to fit section headers like 'Aktive Tells (3)' without truncation\n- Settings Save no longer pops the chat input back to /tell with a pinned partner — Configuration.UpdateFrom now preserves the runtime CurrentChannel across the persistent-tab merge, and TabSwitched deep-clones the seeded channel instead of sharing the previous tab's UsedChannel\n- Util/ImGuiUtil.cs DrawArrows IconButton id now uses (id + 1).ToString() instead of the operator-precedence quirk id + 1.ToString() — generated IDs stay numerically stable\n- Internal: IPluginLogProxy indirection over Dalamud's IPluginLog routes all ~91 Plugin.Log call sites through a testable proxy. MessageStore.Migrate0 can now run in xUnit without loading Dalamud.dll, closing the gap F12.1 left in v1.4.6\n- Internal: TempTab counter switched from an Interlocked cached field to a derived Tabs.Count(predicate) — pin-state transitions are cold-path and don't need lock-free reads\n\nBased on Chat 2 1.35.3 (upstream Infiziert90/ChatTwo, EUPL-1.2).\n\n---\n\n**v1.4.6 — Code Hygiene and Refactor (2026-05-12)**\n\nMaintenance patch. No user-visible behaviour changes; tightens the development feedback loop, fixes two upstream-inherited bugs, and prepares the code for the v1.4.7 backlog cleanup.\n\n- preflight.sh gains a csharpier reflow check and a markdownlint pass so style drift and markdown violations are caught at the pre-push gate\n- FontManager fallback catches the full set of atlas-toolkit throws (IO, InvalidOperation, ArgumentException) — a corrupt font config no longer takes down the whole atlas build\n- BrandingLinks and IntegrationLinks URLs validated on plugin load — a typo in a future URL rotation now throws at startup\n- Cherry-picked from ChatTwo upstream f35b7d3: Chat.SetChannel no longer leaks the native Utf8String when the linkshell check rejects the channel\n- Cherry-picked from ChatTwo upstream f35b7d3: Tab.Clone now deep-clones UsedChannel and TellTarget — PopOut and Temp tabs no longer mutate each other's channel state\n- Active-tab underline scales with DPI and rounds to physical pixels for crisp rendering above 100% scaling\n- IconButton width parameter no longer subtracts HUD-scaled padding from a raw int (measured width pasLine truncated
         "AcceptsFeedback": true,
-        "DownloadLinkInstall": "https://gitea.hellion-forge.cloud/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/releases/download/v1.4.8/latest.zip",
+        "DownloadLinkInstall": "https://gitea.hellion-forge.cloud/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/releases/download/v1.4.9/latest.zip",
-        "DownloadLinkUpdate": "https://gitea.hellion-forge.cloud/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/releases/download/v1.4.8/latest.zip",
+        "DownloadLinkUpdate": "https://gitea.hellion-forge.cloud/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/releases/download/v1.4.9/latest.zip",
-        "DownloadLinkTesting": "https://gitea.hellion-forge.cloud/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/releases/download/v1.4.8/latest.zip",
+        "DownloadLinkTesting": "https://gitea.hellion-forge.cloud/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/releases/download/v1.4.9/latest.zip",
-        "TestingAssemblyVersion": "1.4.8.0",
+        "TestingAssemblyVersion": "1.4.9.0",
         "IconUrl": "https://gitea.hellion-forge.cloud/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/raw/branch/main/HellionChat/images/icon.png",
         "ImageUrls": [
             "https://gitea.hellion-forge.cloud/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/raw/branch/main/HellionChat/images/chatWindow.png",