Version, manifests, changelog and the Forge post for the tell-focus and
tab-closing fixes.
The manifest changelog drops the 2.0.1 block to stay inside the four-entry
slim rule; earlier history keeps its link. The roadmap loses the
GlobalScaleSafe item, which is done, and gains two that came out of this
cycle's review: PopoutSlotMap has no synchronisation, and the database
viewer and symbol picker are still English -- 90 Unicode character names
in the picker alone, which is a cycle rather than a patch note.
Housekeeping only, no behaviour change.
The v2.0.0 changelog block moves out of the plugin manifest to stay
inside the four-subblock limit; it remains in docs/CHANGELOG.md.
The installer text ran 908 characters and opened by naming a category
rather than saying what the plugin does. It now says it in the first
sentence and stops at 367.
Two things were also wrong rather than long: it claimed 24 locales when
there are 25, and the punchline in repo.json did not match the one in
the yaml, so the store listing and the plugin details showed different
sentences.
Attribution is unaffected -- it lives in NOTICE.md, README.md and the
licence, which is where the notices belong. This field is a product
description.
Three fixes, all of them things that simply did not work: the context menu
in pop-out windows, the screenshot mode toggle, and text the game colours
without an alpha byte.
The 1.5.6 changelog block moves out of the plugin manifest to stay inside
the four-subblock limit; it remains in docs/CHANGELOG.md.
BetterTTV emote support is removed rather than switched off. Its shared-emote
endpoint went behind authentication and that is where nearly all of them came
from; what was left is the 65-entry global set, eleven of those on the plugin's
own known-broken list, so 54 largely static images from Twitch's early days.
Exactly one is animated, and that one is 492 frames at 140x140 -- 37 MB of
texture memory for a single emote, uploaded one frame at a time. Not worth a
network call and an on-disk cache on every start.
Gone with it: the download path, the cache directory, the GIF renderer, the
settings section, the block list, and 13 translation keys across 50 resource
files. 1567 lines. The plugin now makes no outbound network calls at all, which
is the claim PRIVACY.md has always wanted to make without an asterisk.
EmotePayload and its MessagePack type byte stay, deliberately. Around a thousand
rows in a two-month-old database carry them, and dropping the type would make
those fail to deserialise -- the history is the one thing 2.0.0 promised not to
touch. Nothing writes one any more and a stored emote renders as the code that
was typed, which is what the sender saw when they typed it.
Five descriptions in the Window tab printed {0} where the plugin name belonged,
handed to the widget directly instead of through string.Format the way the rows
around them do. Every language was affected including English; German surfaced
it because the placeholder lands at the start of the sentence there. A test now
walks every placeholder-carrying resource string, finds its uses, and fails on
an unformatted one -- verified by putting the defect back and watching it go red.
New preview images. The old set was from 2026-05-08, older than every cycle in
2.0.0, and showed stacked ImGui defaults to anyone browsing the installer. Taken
with screenshot mode on so no character names reach a public repo. The wizard
takes the theme picker's slot.
Same-day hotfix on 2.0.0, nothing user-facing. It exists because the 2.0.0
archive was built before the MessagePack lift, and because the fixed release
workflow needs a tag to prove itself on -- 2.0.0 cannot, since Gitea reads the
workflow from the tagged tree and that tree still holds the broken version.
Not force-moving the 2.0.0 tag: its release object exists with the archive
attached, and someone may already have pulled it.
v1.6.0 through v1.15.0 were never published. The whole window layer was being
rewritten from ImGui defaults to custom drawing, and repo.json deliberately kept
its links on v1.5.6 so nobody could update into a half-finished state. That work
lands here in one release.
The config is not migrated, it is replaced. A config carried across nine cycles of
window rebuilds holds values chosen against surfaces that no longer exist, and
starting over is the only way to be sure every install is on the same defaults.
The message database is a separate file and is not touched. The old config is
copied to HellionChat.json.pre-2.0.0.bak first, so rolling back to 1.5.6 stays a
file copy rather than an evening of clicking settings back in.
Config schema 27. The reset runs from the constructor, before LoadAsync seeds the
default tabs, and the self-test now fails if the tab list is empty at /xlperf --
that ordering breaking would leave every user with no tabs and nothing else in the
plugin would notice.
Default layout gains an Emote tab: custom emotes, standard emotes and echo. A
tester asked for it, emotes get lost between system notices otherwise.
Manifest, README, roadmap and the four changelog consumers are on 2.0.0. The
release notes lead with what was fixed rather than what was redrawn -- retroactive
cleanup that could never be applied, a compaction that reported deleting nothing
while deleting everything, pinned tell tabs that came up empty for a session. And
with the one behaviour change users should know about: the channel grid is
authoritative over storage now, so anyone who had unticked channels while the
unknown-channel failsafe was on stores less than they did before.
Version to 1.11.0 in the csproj, changelog and roadmap entries for the local
state. Not published: the public release stays at v1.5.6 and the download links
are untouched.
repo.json goes back to 1.5.6.0. It had been carrying the development version
while all three download links pointed at the v1.5.6 archive, which is a trap
waiting for a merge: Dalamud would offer an update to a version the download
does not contain, install v1.5.6 again, and offer the same update on the next
launch. main is unaffected -- it only ever saw 1.5.6.0 -- but the feature
branches have been inheriting the mismatch since v1.6.0.
The manifest version belongs to what the links actually serve. A local state is
tracked by the csproj and the changelog, which is what they are for.
Testing channel deliberately not opened yet. Publishing 1.11.0 as a test build
would ship a modern settings window alongside a first-run wizard and a message
list that are still stock ImGui -- and 1.10.0 would ship the pinned-tell-history
bug that 1.11.0 fixes.
Style foundation cycle closed. Smoke tests green across the sidebar, the tab
strip, the status bar, the theme preview and both message densities.
Download links stay on v1.5.6 deliberately: v1.6.0 through v1.10.0 are local
development states and nobody should update into one. The README badge stays
there too, since it points at the published release.
The roadmap now reflects the actual sequence -- the old "next cycle" entry
still named v1.5.7 ad-block, which has been behind the v2.x UI rebuild since
May.
Verified file by file: csproj, repo.json (both assembly versions, links
untouched), CHANGELOG, ROADMAP. Four TODOs remain in the tree, all pre-existing
and none from this cycle.
The whole v1.9.0 cycle ran without a version bump, so the plugin still reported
1.8.8 in-game. For a tester beta that is untenable: bug reports would name a
version that does not identify the code they ran.
Download links stay pinned to v1.5.6 on purpose. There is no v1.9.0 release, and
pointing at an artifact that does not exist is worse than the visible mismatch
between assembly version and download target. Public stays on v1.5.6 until
v2.0.0.
Branch start for the LastTab-Decoupling fix cycle. csproj <Version> and repo.json AssemblyVersion + TestingAssemblyVersion go 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6. DownloadLinks and Changelog stay release-deferred on v1.5.6.
Bumps csproj, yaml, repo.json, CHANGELOG, ROADMAP and README in
lock-step to 1.5.4. Forge-post DE-body added with the Polish & Motion
versionsnatur. Slim-rule applied to the yaml and repo.json changelog
blocks (keeps v1.5.4 + v1.5.3 + v1.5.2 + v1.5.1, drops v1.5.0).
A csharpier reflow of two v1.5.4 source files (ChatLogWindow,
HellionStyle) is folded in. preflight.sh blocks A-F all green.
Plugin.cs:937 only pushed RegularFont when Config.FontsEnabled was true.
FontsAndColours.cs:50 forces FontsEnabled=false whenever UseHellionFont is
enabled (to hide the chooser UI), so the bundled-font path was silently
dead and the FFXIV Axis game-font took over. Exo 2 looked "almost right"
because it overlaps Axis on basic Latin, so the regression went unnoticed
for the entire v1.5.x series.
The fix routes RegularFont through draw whenever either FontsEnabled or
UseHellionFont is on. First-frame HITCH dropped from ~74 ms to ~20 ms
median (5-reload Linux/Wine sample 17.9-23.6 ms) as a side effect — the
v1.5.1 "too optimistic" defer-pattern hypothesis was actually a symptom
of this bug, not bad math.
Font-stack overhaul on top:
- Inter Light (Static 18pt-Light, 343 KB, SIL OFL 1.1) replaces Exo 2 as
the bundled font. Inter ships full Latin Extended-A/B, Greek polytonic
and Cyrillic Supplement coverage.
- NotoSansCjkRegular added as a third merge layer for Hangul,
Simplified-Chinese-specific Han glyphs, and CJK fallbacks the FFXIV
Japanese font does not ship.
- Two new ExtraGlyphRanges flags (LatinExtended, Greek) implemented via
AddChar pair lists in SetUpRanges.
- Settings.Apply auto-activates the matching ExtraGlyphRanges flag on
language change. Plugin.LoadAsync runs a one-shot migration that ORs
in the required flag for an already-selected language.
- ExtraGlyphRanges CollapsingHeader reachable regardless of
UseHellionFont (was hidden in the early-return branch).
- New WarningText below the language combo: FFXIV's chat engine only
fully supports EN/DE/FR/JA. Other scripts render in the HellionChat
UI but may garble in in-game chat input/send.
Localisation wave (originally a FR-only cycle):
- 24 selectable UI languages. LanguageOverride enum gains 10 new locales
plus 3 previously commented-out (Italian, Korean, Norwegian with ISO
code `nb` instead of `no`). All new values append to keep existing
user-config integer serialisation stable.
- Resource bundle split: HellionStrings.resx (24 locales, 328 keys) for
fork-added strings, Language.resx (24 locales, 456 keys) for the
ChatTwo-Crowdin-heritage. 4 post-sync Crowdin keys backfilled into
13 legacy locales with per-key AI-assisted comment marker.
- Em-dash sweep on EN source plus 18 translations. Russian and Ukrainian
keep their typographic norm.
Old HellionFont.ttf + HellionFont-OFL.txt removed; Inter-Light.ttf +
Inter-OFL.txt take their place. Configuration field UseHellionFont keeps
its name for backwards-compat. Migration v17 stays.
Bumps csproj Version, repo.json AssemblyVersion/TestingAssemblyVersion
plus the three DownloadLink* URLs, yaml + repo.json changelog blocks
(slim-rule: v1.5.2 + v1.5.1 + v1.5.0 + v1.4.10 retained, v1.4.9
trimmed to the Full history footer link), docs CHANGELOG long-form
block, ROADMAP v1.5.2 marked complete and v1.5.3 set as next cycle
(FR localisation with Hezcal native-speaker review), README status
strings plus moved pre-v1.5.2 history. Changelog includes the
in-cycle UI shrink + Fox-Banner-TreeNode smoke fix and the
WizardLastShownVersion re-show-once mechanism for existing users.
- csproj <Version> 1.5.0 to 1.5.1; <None Include="images\**"> now
excludes the source-only ASCII study folder so the deploy stays
clean
- yaml + repo.json changelog block prepended with the v1.5.1 entry,
v1.4.8 trimmed out per the slim rule (three to four versions in
the manifest cache, older history lives on the Gitea release page)
- repo.json AssemblyVersion + TestingAssemblyVersion bumped to
1.5.1.0, three DownloadLink* URLs point at v1.5.1
- docs/CHANGELOG and docs/ROADMAP gain the v1.5.1 entry; ROADMAP
Next-Cycle slot moves to v1.5.2 First-Run-Wizard rework
- README status sections updated, the previous v1.5.0 paragraph
kept under a "Project status (pre-v1.5.1, kept for context)"
heading
- Forge-post .github/forge-posts/v1.5.1.md added, DE body honest
about the HITCH-win miss
- yamllint config ignores the plugin manifest yaml because it
follows DalamudPackager's 4-space indent convention rather than
yamllint's default 2
Changelogs are honest about the cross-plugin HITCH target from
v1.5.0 not landing this cycle.
Version strings bumped across all eight tracked surfaces:
- HellionChat/HellionChat.csproj <Version>1.5.0</Version>
- repo.json AssemblyVersion + TestingAssemblyVersion = 1.5.0.0
- repo.json three DownloadLink* URLs -> /v1.5.0/latest.zip
- repo.json Changelog field synced with yaml
- HellionChat/HellionChat.yaml new v1.5.0 changelog block on top; v1.4.7
drops out per the four-block slim rule
- docs/CHANGELOG.md v1.5.0 entry prepended
- docs/ROADMAP.md Next Cycle pointer moves to v1.5.1, v1.5.0
joins the released-cycle archive block
- README.md three status surfaces (badge, header,
Project Status long-form) on v1.5.0
- .github/forge-posts/v1.5.0.md Discord announcement body (German)
Preflight blocks A-F all green. Changelog embed total 2050 / 5500 chars
(four subblocks), forge-post frontmatter inside the 60/40 char caps.
Tag, push, merge are reserved for Flo.
Adds a "ChatTwo IPC compatibility layer" bullet across all six
release-note surfaces so the new behaviour from commits 8c4afaa and
655c903 is visible to users via the manifest installer, the Gitea
release page, the README project-status section, the changelog/roadmap
docs and the Forge-Discord announcement.
Files touched:
- HellionChat/HellionChat.yaml: bullet added inside the v1.4.9
changelog block, preserved order so the regression-tripwire line
still comes before the migration-stays line.
- repo.json: Changelog field kept synchronous (JSON-escaped newlines).
- README.md: project-status paragraph extended with a one-sentence
recap of the IPC mirror and the conflict-detection caveat.
- docs/CHANGELOG.md: bullet inserted between the profiling-logs and
migration-stays bullets, code-fenced gate names.
- docs/ROADMAP.md: v1.4.9-released section gets the same recap so the
cycle history stays self-describing.
- .github/forge-posts/v1.4.9.md: German-only bullet for the Discord
embed, slotted before the migration-v17 bullet. Char-cap holds —
preflight Block C reports the embed total well under 5500 chars.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Synchronises the v1.4.9 changelog across the manifest sources that the
Dalamud plugin installer, the gitea repo.json feed and the Forge auto-
announce workflow read at release-tag time.
Files touched:
- HellionChat/HellionChat.yaml: v1.4.9 block inserted at the top of the
changelog: literal. v1.4.5 dropped to keep the slim-rule at 4 subblocks
(preflight Block C enforces YAML_VERSIONS <= 4). Current set is
v1.4.9/v1.4.8/v1.4.7/v1.4.6.
- repo.json: Changelog field kept synchronous with the yaml — v1.4.9
block prepended, v1.4.5 substring removed, JSON-escaped newlines.
- .github/forge-posts/v1.4.9.md: new file with frontmatter (subtitle
"Plugin-Load Render Polish", versionsnatur "Performance-Patch") and
a German-only body. The English half of the eventual Discord embed
is pulled automatically from the yaml changelog at tag-push time by
.gitea/workflows/forge-announce.yml — same workflow as v1.4.4
onwards, the post file does not carry an English block.
Char-cap pre-check passes (title 46 + description ~2700 + footer 33 =
~2800 chars, well under the 5500-char Discord embed total cap).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.yaml: v1.4.8 changelog block above v1.4.7, v1.4.4
dropped per slim-rule (verify-changelog-sync enforces max 4).
- repo.json: Changelog field synchronised with yaml, same slim-drop.
- .github/forge-posts/v1.4.8.md: bilingual announcement post (DE
body, EN block resolved from yaml at workflow time). Frontmatter
subtitle 32/60 chars, versionsnatur 12/40 chars, embed total
~2787/5500 chars.
- csproj <Version>, Plugin.cs schema-gate self-reference, repo.json
(AssemblyVersion, TestingAssemblyVersion, 3x DownloadLink URLs).
- README.md shield badge, version header, Project Status body.
- docs/CHANGELOG.md gains a v1.4.8 section above v1.4.7.
- docs/ROADMAP.md flips Next Cycle to v1.4.9 (Plugin-Load Render
Polish), v1.4.8 moves into the released history above v1.4.7.
- Config schema stays at v17, Migration v17 stays additive.
repo.json Changelog field and HellionChat.yaml changelog block plus
the new forge-posts/v1.4.8.md follow in a separate commit (slim-drop
of v1.4.4 happens there).
Crystal Nocturne (royal sapphire + electric magenta on obsidian, by
CRYSTALLITE) replaces Moonlit Bloom in the built-in roster. The same
chat-channel tinting convention applies: sapphire-blue identity on
party/team channels, accent-magenta on tells, and an alternating
mint/yellow/peach palette across the eight linkshell slots so each
LS stays individually distinguishable on the dark obsidian background.
Users who had Moonlit Bloom selected fall back to the default Hellion
Arctic on the first plugin load. A custom JSON copy of Moonlit Bloom
dropped into pluginConfigs/HellionChat/themes/ keeps working as a
user theme.
Plus a cosmetic re-sort of the registry: insertion order now drives a
deliberate Theme-Picker grid layout (3 columns) — blue family in row 1,
purple to magenta in row 2, green/warm/classic in row 3, Synthwave
Sunset alone in row 4 as a retro bonus.
csproj <Version>, yaml changelog block (v1.4.6 added on top, v1.4.2
rotated out per the slim-4-versions rule), repo.json AssemblyVersion
+ TestingAssemblyVersion + the three DownloadLink URLs + Changelog
string, all in sync.
Manifest sync across csproj, yaml, repo.json, README, CHANGELOG,
ROADMAP and the Plugin.cs schema-gate error message. ROADMAP also gets
the v1.4.4 release block that was missed in that cycle's closure.
Forge-post v1.4.5.md follows the established frontmatter + DE-body
convention; the EN block is sourced from the yaml changelog by the
forge-announce workflow.
- Translated project documentation (LEARNING-JOURNEY, CONTRIBUTORS, AI_DISCLOSURE) to English for better accessibility.
- Standardized internal code documentation by converting XML-doc blocks to standard comment format.
- Cleaned up inline comments and removed redundant versioning metadata across the codebase.
- Refactored non-functional text elements to improve readability and maintain a consistent style.
Add .prettierrc.json, .markdownlint.json, .yamllint.yaml, .gitattributes
Run CSharpier, Prettier and markdownlint across the entire codebase.
No logic changes — formatting, using order and line endings only.
Hab vergessen die repo.json wieder mit zu bumpen, deshalb hat
Dalamud den v1.2.2-Release nicht angenommen — komplette Manifest-
Bump-Checkliste diesmal durchgezogen: csproj, yaml-Description +
Changelog, repo.json (AssemblyVersion + TestingAssemblyVersion +
drei DownloadLink*-URLs + Description + Changelog), CHANGELOG.md,
ROADMAP.md, README.md, Forge-Post-Datei. Inhalt unverändert
gegenüber v1.2.2.
JonKazama-Hellion
