The FontManager constructor downloaded FFXIV_Lodestone_SSF.ttf from
img.finalfantasyxiv.com on first start (or read it from a local
cache) into a GameSymFont byte array. Both historical readers of
that field are gone:
- BuildFonts() used to feed the bytes into AddFontFromMemory; that
path was replaced by the Dalamud-provided AddGameSymbol helper.
- The upstream webinterface server wrote the bytes through a
BinaryWriter to serve them to the Svelte frontend; the entire
webinterface was intentionally removed in HellionChat.
With no live consumer left, the field, the constructor block, the
HttpClient call and the disk cache are all dead code. Removing them:
- eliminates the synchronous HTTP request on the plugin-load thread
(no more multi-second startup hang on slow networks)
- closes the implicit "no timeout, no size guard" exposure on that
request
- removes one outbound network endpoint (Square Enix Lodestone CDN)
from the privacy footprint
PRIVACY.md and THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md updated to reflect that
HellionChat now talks to BetterTTV only (opt-out via setting). Cached
TTF files left over from earlier versions stay in pluginConfigs/
HellionChat/ until a user removes them; they are simply no longer
read.
Build: 0 warnings, 0 errors. No behavioural change for users — symbol
glyphs (job icons, item glyphs, status effects) keep rendering through
Dalamud's built-in symbol font.
General code-quality and robustness pass across the plugin: thread-
safety on IPC state, resource-disposal cleanups, input validation,
defensive null-checks and a few small UX glitches. Compliance docs
(THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES, PRIVACY, COPYRIGHT) refreshed to v1.0.3.
Highlights
- ExtraChat IPC state synchronised across threads
- ChatLogWindow autocomplete no longer leaks the unmanaged
ImGuiListClipper allocation
- ChatLogWindow + Popout style stack stays balanced when config
toggles mid-frame
- Retention sweep and privacy cleanup wait for the actual filter
pass instead of the fire-and-forget Task that started it
- Configuration.LatestVersion bumped to 13 to match the active
migration path
- GameFunctions placeholder buffer guarded against oversized
replacement names
- TellTarget.IsSet, ResolveTempInputChannel, InputPreview, IconUtil,
Lender, Payloads, ExtraPayload all hardened against null / empty /
EOF / cycle inputs
- FontManager Lodestone download stays in scope for a follow-up
(timeout + lazy init pending)
- AutoTranslate replaced the msvcrt.dll memcmp P/Invoke with a
managed Span comparison
- Privacy cleanup worker thread marked IsBackground = true
- Database cleanup now removes both legacy files in one click
- Tell-target name redacted in the verbose debug log
Compliance
- THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES: last-reviewed bumped to v1.0.3, Pidgin 3.5.1,
SQLitePCLRaw.lib.e_sqlite3 3.50.3 listed as direct dependency with
CVE-2025-6965 / CVE-2025-7709 rationale
- PRIVACY: last-reviewed bumped to v1.0.3, BetterTTV trigger wording
clarified (list fetch at startup vs. on-demand image fetch)
- COPYRIGHT: upstream attribution range widened
Build: 0 warnings, 0 errors. No behavioural changes that would alter
existing user configuration or stored chat history.
- Move AI_DISCLOSURE, THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES, UPSTREAM_SYNC, ipc.md
into docs/ (ipc.md renamed to IPC.md for consistency)
- Add docs/ROADMAP.md, docs/CHANGELOG.md, docs/CONTRIBUTORS.md,
docs/LEARNING-JOURNEY.md
- Update README to reflect the v1.0.0 standalone state, drop the
development section, refresh the architecture tree, add a
release-cadence block linking to LEARNING-JOURNEY
- Fix stale ChatTwo/* source paths to HellionChat/* across docs
- Update cross-links in PRIVACY, CONTRIBUTING and .github/* so they
point at the new docs/ paths
Pure documentation pass, no code changes.
JonKazama-Hellion