diff --git a/ChatTwo/ChatTwo.csproj b/ChatTwo/ChatTwo.csproj
index 9b43ba3..69b12b1 100644
--- a/ChatTwo/ChatTwo.csproj
+++ b/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,
diff --git a/ChatTwo/HellionChat.yaml b/ChatTwo/HellionChat.yaml
index c43f346..1d916fe 100755
--- a/ChatTwo/HellionChat.yaml
+++ b/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
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f62496c..f303b74 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/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).
diff --git a/SUPPORT.md b/SUPPORT.md
index 612306f..815bd59 100644
--- a/SUPPORT.md
+++ b/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
-tracker so they can be tracked, but a quick "is this a bug or am I
-holding it wrong" message is fine.
+- **Hellion Forge Discord** — community for HellionChat and other
+  Hellion Online Media plugins/tools: https://discord.gg/X9V7Kcv5gR
+- 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
 
diff --git a/repo.json b/repo.json
index a203f58..5ade4e6 100644
--- a/repo.json
+++ b/repo.json
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
     "Author": "JonKazama-Hellion",
     "Name": "Hellion Chat",
     "InternalName": "HellionChat",
-    "AssemblyVersion": "0.6.0.0",
-    "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.",
+    "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.\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",
-    "DownloadLinkUpdate": "https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/releases/download/v0.6.0/latest.zip",
-    "DownloadLinkTesting": "https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/releases/download/v0.6.0/latest.zip",
-    "TestingAssemblyVersion": "0.6.0.0",
+    "DownloadLinkInstall": "https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/releases/download/v0.6.1/latest.zip",
+    "DownloadLinkUpdate": "https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/releases/download/v0.6.1/latest.zip",
+    "DownloadLinkTesting": "https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/releases/download/v0.6.1/latest.zip",
+    "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",