chore(release): close the v1.14.0 cycle

Version to 1.14.0 in the csproj, changelog and roadmap for the local state. Not
published: repo.json stays on 1.5.6.0, links untouched.

The changelog leads with what the row became and is honest about how it got
there: every style decision in this cycle was made by looking at variants in the
lab, in-game, against the live theme -- and the two recurring traps of the day
(the RGBA/ABGR contrast swap, popups that do not size to their content) each
left a guard behind rather than just a fix.

Smoke-tested continuously by Flo through the evening rather than at a single
gate: the contrast bug, the clipped menu, the hover speed and the seam hardness
were all his catches, live, and each is named in the log where it was fixed.

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>1.13.0</Version>
+        <Version>1.14.0</Version>
         <ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings>
         <Nullable>enable</Nullable>
         <!-- Use lock file to pin exact versions -->

docs/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -11,6 +11,83 @@ releases as an overview and links to the release pages for details.
 
 ---
 
+## [1.14.0] — unreleased (local only)
+
+The input row. It was the one surface a user actually works in and it spoke three
+shape languages at once — a rounded pill, a square field, five filled default
+buttons — sitting directly above a status bar that is rounded throughout. This
+release makes the row one thing, and it teaches the popups the window's own
+shapes while it is in there. **Not published** — the public release stays at
+v1.5.6.
+
+### Added
+
+- A style lab under `/hellion lab`: variants of UI elements side by side, drawn
+  in real ImGui against the live theme. Permanent, as a dev playground — its
+  radio buttons default to whatever shipped, so the window doubles as a record
+  of which variant won. Every decision in this release was made by looking at it
+  in-game rather than at a drawing.
+- `PopupRow`, the row a popup is made of: soft hover fill, a two-pixel accent
+  bar on the active entry — the sidebar row's shape, which is also exactly what
+  Character Select+ draws for its own popup entries. The channel picker and the
+  new input-row menu are built from it.
+- A colour-channel guard in preflight (Block G). `EnsureContrast` works in ABGR,
+  theme colours are RGBA, both are `uint`, and the mistake of feeding one into
+  the other happened six times in a single day — each found only by a human
+  staring at unreadable text. The guard flags any raw theme member reaching the
+  helper; on its first real run it caught three cases a hand-written search had
+  missed minutes earlier.
+
+### Changed
+
+- The five filled buttons in the input row are two ghost buttons and a menu.
+  Symbols stay outside because they are used mid-sentence; theme, settings,
+  screenshot mode and hide moved in. The ghosts are flat at rest and glow on
+  hover — the first caller `DrawGlowBorder` ever had.
+- The screenshot toggle was allowed into the menu only because its state moved
+  to the status bar first, as an accent camera pill that shows while the mode is
+  on. Knowing what the screen shows before the screenshot key is pressed is the
+  entire point of the mode; a state behind a closed menu answers nothing.
+- The input field paints its own rounded surface and hands ImGui a transparent
+  frame, so the widget draws only text and caret. Focus is a two-pixel accent
+  rail on the left edge — the same mark rows and popups use. The field is about
+  a hundred pixels wider, reclaimed from the button reserve.
+- The channel pill is chamfered, the corner language of the segmented control,
+  with a faint white depth gradient.
+- The channel header traded its surface plate for a tenth-opacity accent wash.
+  The plate was the exact shape the settings window abandoned in v1.11.0 — it
+  reads fine on blue themes and vanishes on violet ones.
+- The sidebar softened, on tester feedback that the transition to the chat field
+  was too hard: the full-width border line under every row is a fading rule now,
+  the gap between list and messages carries a surface wash instead of two hard
+  edges, and the selected tab bridges across it so it touches the conversation
+  it selects.
+- Hover fades run at a quarter of their old speed with a smoothstep curve —
+  soft start, soft landing. 14/s in was judged light speed; it is 3/s now, and
+  a test guards against drifting back. Every hover in the plugin inherits both
+  changes through the one shared code path.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Popups size themselves from their widest visible entry. Both new popups
+  carried a guessed minimum width, and German outran it within a day —
+  `Schnellauswahl` and `Chat ausblenden` were clipped mid-word.
+- Popup entry text was unreadable at rest on several themes and only became
+  legible on hover: the RGBA-into-ABGR mistake again, in `PopupRow` and three
+  spots in the lab. Fixed, and the new preflight guard exists so the seventh
+  occurrence dies in CI rather than in a screenshot.
+- The pill label was raw theme text on an accent fill with no contrast check.
+
+### Known issues
+
+- The channel header still recomputes its widths every frame rather than on the
+  status bar's one-second tick.
+- `Metrics.Scale` still calls a Dalamud property that is marked obsolete.
+- The first-run wizard is now the last surface drawn in ImGui defaults. It is
+  the next cycle.
+
+---
+
 ## [1.13.0] — unreleased (local only)
 
 Typography. The message list was the last surface still drawn in ImGui defaults,

docs/ROADMAP.md

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ be a poor fit for the plugin's privacy-first scope during brainstorming.
 
 The published release is **v1.5.6**. Development since then runs as a UI rebuild towards v2.0.0 and
 is not published: the whole window layer is being rewritten from ImGui defaults to custom drawing.
-Versions v1.6.0 through v1.13.0 are local development states, and `repo.json` deliberately keeps
+Versions v1.6.0 through v1.14.0 are local development states, and `repo.json` deliberately keeps
 its download links on v1.5.6 so nobody updates into a partial state.
 
 Where it stands:
@@ -35,8 +35,12 @@ Where it stands:
 - **v1.13.0** — typography. Named type roles instead of one size, a channel header above the
   conversation, timestamps in a column of their own, and rows with a surface. Screenshot mode
   reached one of four surfaces that draw a tab name and now reaches all of them.
-- **v1.14.0 onwards** — the input bar, then the first-run wizard: the last two surfaces still
+- **v1.14.0** — the input row: two ghost buttons and a menu where five filled defaults sat, a
-  drawn in ImGui defaults.
+  field with its own surface and focus rail, popups built from the sidebar's row shape, and a
+  softened seam between the tab list and the conversation. Plus a style lab under
+  `/hellion lab` and a preflight guard for the RGBA/ABGR contrast trap.
+- **v1.15.0** — the first-run wizard, the last surface still drawn in ImGui defaults, and the
+  first thing a tester sees.
 
 The sidebar is no longer on this list. Earlier drafts had it moving from tab rows to channel
 rows, but both reasons for that are gone: it was flat and unstyled when the idea was written,