Adds .github/workflows/forge-announce.yml — auto-posts a bilingual
changelog embed to the Hellion Forge #changelog Discord channel on
every vX.Y.Z tag push. DE bullets come from .github/forge-posts/
<tag>.md (frontmatter: subtitle, versionsnatur), EN block from
HellionChat.yaml.
Hard cap 5500 chars total. Major releases that exceed get a clear
manual-post message and stay off the auto-channel.
Decoupled from release.yml — failures in either workflow don't
block the other.
New workflow: when a vX.Y.Z tag is pushed (or workflow_dispatch
runs with a tag input), reads .github/forge-posts/<tag>.md for the
DE bullet body plus frontmatter (subtitle, versionsnatur), pulls the
matching English block from HellionChat.yaml, builds the Discord
webhook embed and posts it to the Hellion Forge #changelog channel.
Decoupled from release.yml — a fail here doesn't block the release,
and a fail there doesn't block the announce. Hard caps at 5500 chars
total (title + description + footer); major releases that exceed
that get a clear fail message and stay manual.
Tag is read via env: TAG_NAME and validated against ^v\d+\.\d+\.\d+$
before any string interpolation; frontmatter is regex-parsed with
explicit length caps (subtitle 60, versionsnatur 40). Curl posts the
payload via stdin so the secret never appears in process args.
Single retry on transient 5xx after 30s, hard fail on 4xx.
First major UI cycle after the standalone v1.0.0 cut. Theme engine
with five built-in themes (Hellion Arctic, Chat 2 Klassik, Event
Horizon, Moonlit Bloom, Mint Grove), customisable JSON themes,
modernised settings layout (card-grid overview + breadcrumb detail
view), opt-in per-theme chat-channel colours, and the plugin icon
swap to the Hellion Forge hammer.
Configuration v13 → v14: all users land on Hellion Arctic. Pick
Chat 2 Klassik in Settings → Themes for the upstream look.
See HellionChat/HellionChat.yaml changelog and docs/CHANGELOG.md for
the full release notes; docs/THEME-AUTHORING.md is the new guide for
writing custom themes.
Three new screenshots replace the v1.0.x set: chatWindow (in-game
sidebar with FreeCompany tab), settingsOverview (card grid with all
nine sections), themesPicker (built-in themes plus example custom).
ImageUrls in repo.json + yaml updated; old withSimpleTweaks.png
dropped.
.github/forge-posts/v1.1.0.md seeded for the eventual auto-announce
workflow (Discord changelog post on tag push). Format matches the
forge-announce spec — frontmatter (subtitle, versionsnatur) plus DE
bullet body.
The chat plugin now ships under the Hellion Forge plugin-workshop
brand. Icon is the 512x512 hammer mark from the Forge logo set
(was 256x256 ChatTwo derivative).
When a theme defines its own chat channel colours and the current
Configuration.ChatColours don't match, a dezent banner offers Apply /
Keep — opt-in, never auto-overwriting user picks. Switching themes
re-arms the banner so each theme can be evaluated separately.
Hellion Arctic, Event Horizon, Moonlit Bloom and Mint Grove each
ship a distinct chat-channel palette tinted toward their brand
family while preserving the FFXIV channel identity (Say light, Yell
yellow, Shout orange, Tell pink-magenta, Party blue, FC cyan, NN
green). Chat 2 Klassik intentionally ships without — users picking
that theme keep their existing channel colours.
Theme-card grid was stacking diagonally for the same reason the
settings overview did: SetCursorScreenPos plus SameLine in the
caller loop don't compose. Wrap each card in BeginGroup/EndGroup,
draw name and author via DrawList instead of cursor hops, and let
ImGui handle row wrapping naturally.
SettingsOverview now wraps each card in BeginGroup/EndGroup so SameLine
in the loop can wrap rows. The card content is drawn directly into the
DrawList (icon, title, subtext) without cursor hopping that broke the
flow.
DrawDetail no longer renders the second-column tab list — the user has
already picked a section from the overview, the redundant column made
the detail view feel like the old vanilla settings layout. Section
content now uses the full width.
The pre-engine StyleModel override in ChatLogWindow.PreDraw and
Popout.PreDraw was layering an extra Dalamud style on top of the
Hellion theme, locally tinting the chat window back to a non-Hellion
look while every other plugin window rendered correctly. Theme is
now the single source of truth — pick chat2-classic for the upstream
flavour.
HellionStyle.PushGlobal nimmt jetzt eine Theme-Instance + Window-Opacity
und liest alle Color- und Style-Slots aus dem aktiven Theme statt aus
einer fixen Konstanten-Tabelle. Plugin hält die ThemeRegistry und schaltet
beim Init auf das in Config.Theme gespeicherte Slug.
Configuration v13 → v14:
- Neue Felder Theme (slug), WindowOpacity, ReduceMotion, UseCompactDensity,
ShowThemeQuickPicker
- HellionThemeEnabled und HellionThemeWindowOpacity sind ab v14 [Obsolete]
und bleiben bis v1.2.0 als JSON-Safety-Net erhalten
- Migration setzt alle Bestandsuser auf hellion-arctic; chat2-classic
bleibt im Themes-Tab als Upstream-Look wählbar
- WindowOpacity übernimmt den Wert von HellionThemeWindowOpacity, alte
HellionThemeEnabled-Flag entfällt funktional (Theme-Engine ist immer aktiv)
Konsumenten der alten Felder (ChatLogWindow.BgAlpha, Popout.BgAlpha) lesen
jetzt das neue WindowOpacity. Die Settings-UI in Appearance.cs schreibt
übergangsweise weiter in die Obsolete-Felder; Phase J ersetzt diesen Block
durch den dedizierten Themes-Tab. CS0612/CS0618 sind dort gezielt mit
pragma gekapselt.
Audit-Tooling hatte einen mehrstündigen Sweep mit 50–200 erwarteten
Warnings prognostiziert. Tatsächliches Resultat: eine Zeile. Genau
eine. Codebase war pro-File längst nullable-konform, wir hatten den
Project-Switch nur nie umgelegt. Reminder dass Audit-Output ein
Hinweis ist, kein Plan, und ein menschlicher Pass davor lohnt sich.
Locale-Bug: BytesToString rendert auf deutscher Locale "1,5GB" statt
"1.5GB". InvariantCulture pinnt den Dezimal-Separator. Plus
InternalsVisibleTo-Hook für ein lokales (gitignored) Test-Projekt.
PendingSync läuft jetzt als LinkedList (O(1) Last statt O(n) Linq-Last
im ContentIdResolverHook); Privacy-Filter-Drop-Log auf Verbose runter,
sodass der Default-xllog-Stream nicht mehr pro Nachricht spammt.
Plugin-scoped CancellationTokenSource fließt jetzt durch LoadAsync und
die Texture-Calls; Dispose cancelt in-flight downloads. Smoke (System-
Spam + Reload) sauber, weiter beobachten unter höherem Emote-Volumen.
ImageSharp, MessagePack and Pidgin pinned to [x.y, next-major) so a
lock-file regeneration cannot drift across a major. Resolved versions
unchanged; lock-file diff is request-string only.
Replaces floating major-version tags with full commit SHAs (Tag-
Kommentar dahinter), so a tag-republish can't slip a different action
into the workflow.
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.
v1.0.2 tag was claimed before the DownloadLink fix shipped, so the
content moves to v1.0.3. No code changes — manifest, repo.json,
CHANGELOG and README version refs roll forward; DownloadLink* URLs
now point to v1.0.3/latest.zip.
Manifest-bump in 8e9332a missed the three DownloadLink* entries.
Plugin-Manager fetched v1.0.1 zip (AssemblyVersion 1.0.1.0) against
the new repo.json (AssemblyVersion 1.0.2.0), tripping the version-
match guard.
Four small backlog items bundled:
- New: hide chat (and every other plugin window) while the New Game+
menu is open. Settings -> Window -> Frame, default off. Skips the
whole WindowSystem.Draw() pass while QuestRedo is visible, mirroring
the existing HideInLoadingScreens pattern.
- New: tint the channel selector button in the active channel colour.
Settings -> Appearance -> Colours, default on. Reuses the existing
inputColour computation (incl. ExtraChat override) and adds an
ImGuiCol.Button push around the selector. New ColourUtil helper
AdjustBrightness derives hover/active variants.
- Fix: PayloadHandler.InlineIcon hardcoded all hover icons to 32x32.
Replaced with float-based aspect-ratio-preserving shrink, single
scale-factor, zero-size guard, named MaxInlineIconSize constant.
Affects six call sites (status, item, achievement and other inline
hover paths).
- Diagnostic: HideState transitions log on Verbose level for both
ChatLogWindow and Popout.
Manifest bumped to 1.0.2 across csproj, yaml, repo.json. CHANGELOG
entry added, README version line updated. yaml + repo.json changelog
trimmed to the slim 4-version window (1.0.2, 1.0.1, 1.0.0, 0.6.1).
Bumps version to 1.0.1.0 and aligns the user-facing changelog across
HellionChat.csproj, HellionChat.yaml, repo.json and docs/CHANGELOG.md.
Headline fix: off-screen window recovery (one-shot bounds check on
plugin load + manual reset button under Settings -> Window -> Frame).
Bundled housekeeping since v1.0.0: docs restructured into docs/, stale
ChatTwo/* paths cleaned up across configs, Pidgin 3.3.0 -> 3.5.1,
actions/setup-dotnet 4 -> 5, github/codeql-action 3 -> 4.
DLL build verified locally; release.yml workflow generates the release
body from HellionChat.yaml on tag push.
JonKazama-Hellion