- Split Appearance into ThemeAndLayout (theme + window-style + timestamps)
and FontsAndColours (fonts + per-channel colours)
- Merge Database into DataManagement together with Retention/Cleanup/Export
from Privacy
- Move HistoryPreload from Privacy to Chat → Auto-Tell-Tabs
- Move KeybindMode from General/Language to General/Input
- Drop OverrideStyle, ChosenStyle, WindowAlpha, ShowThemeQuickPicker
- Migration v15 → v16 maps WindowAlpha → WindowOpacity if Opacity at default
- Add card-subtext per overview card so users do not have to guess where
a setting lives
Forge-Auto-Announce workflow failed twice on tag push because the
Discord webhook returned 400 — embed.description hit 5346 chars,
which exceeds Discord's hard 4096-per-field limit. The workflow's
own 5500-total cap (V6 check) didn't catch it because it was a
per-field overflow, not a total-payload overflow.
Both yaml changelog block and forge-post DE-body trimmed:
- yaml v1.2.0 EN-block: 3249 → 2104 chars
- forge-post DE-body: 2069 → 1543 chars
- description final: 3675 chars (with ~420 char headroom)
- total payload: 3740 / 5500
Plugin-Manager-facing changelog still covers all v1.2.0 highlights
plus the post-test bug fixes; just denser. Tag will be force-recreated
on this commit so workflow_dispatch picks up the trimmed files from
the v1.2.0 tag tree.
Backlog item: workflow should add a per-field cap check (4096 for
description, 1024 for field values) so future releases fail-fast
locally before hitting Discord.
27 commits brought in from feature/v1.2.0-layout-refresh:
- Sidebar/Top-Tabs visual modernisation (icon-only sidebar with
44px fixed width and tooltip, vertical accent pill, top-tab
underline pill).
- TabIconMapping with single-source 15-glyph pool, per-tab
Icon override via Settings → Tabs combobox.
- AutoTellTabTint hash-based icon+color differentiation
(84 distinct combinations) for parallel tells.
- Bottom status bar (22px): channel/privacy/counts/tells/version.
- Card-Rows as default message render with Compact-Density
opt-out toggle.
- Pulsing red unread-dot indicator on sidebar tab icons,
respects Configuration.ReduceMotion.
- Migration v14 → v15: legacy theme fields removed, Appearance
bindings cleaned to use Themes tab as single source.
- Settings-Save chat-history preservation: UpdateFrom Identifier-
mapping for persistent tabs, TempTab skip in ClearAllTabs/
FilterAllTabs, conditional refilter only for filter-relevant
changes.
- Hellion font (Exo 2) no longer blocks FontSizeV2 adjustment —
4K user can scale up the variable font.
Tag v1.2.0 sits on the last feature commit (3da550c).
Forge-Auto-Announce-Action triggers on tag push.
Settings → Erscheinungsbild → Schriftarten: bei aktiver
'Mitgelieferte Hellion-Schrift (Exo 2) verwenden' war der
Schriftgrößen-Slider ausgegraut und FontSizeV2 wurde im
FontManager auch nicht angewendet — 4K-User konnten den
Plugin-Font nicht hochskalieren.
Exo 2 ist Variable-Font, FontSize ist also problemlos
adjustierbar. Zwei-teiliger Fix:
- Appearance.cs: UseHellionFont rendert jetzt nur FontSizeCombo +
SymbolsFontSizeCombo, kein Disabled-Wrap mehr. Der Bestand-
Custom-Font-Stack mit FontsEnabled-Toggle und Font-Choosern
bleibt exclusive zur Hellion-Schrift, läuft im else-Pfad.
- FontManager.cs RegularFont-Build: SizePt-Source verzweigt
jetzt auf UseHellionFont — Hellion-Pfad nutzt FontSizeV2,
Bestand-Pfad nutzt weiter GlobalFontV2.SizePt aus dem
Custom-Font-Spec.
Reported by Flo 2026-05-06: '4k monitor ... der standart zu klein'.
Settings.Save() unconditionally ran ClearAllTabs + FilterAllTabsAsync
after every save. The cycle reloads messages from the DB, which silently
wipes any in-session message that wasn't persisted — Privacy-First
configurations block most channels from the DB, so all unlogged
channels (Allgemein/Say/Yell/Shout under default filters) showed up
empty after every settings save.
New HasFilterRelevantChanges helper compares Mutable to Plugin.Config
across:
- PrivacyFilterEnabled
- PrivacyPersistChannels (HashSet<ChatType>)
- PrivacyPersistUnknownChannels
- FilterIncludePreviousSessions
- per-persistent-tab: Identifier (reorder/swap), SelectedChannels,
ExtraChatAll, ExtraChatChannels
Refilter only runs if any of those changed. Cosmetic settings (theme,
tab icons, layout, fonts, language) leave the chat log untouched.
Combined with the prior UpdateFrom Identifier-mapping fix and the
TempTab skip in ClearAllTabs/FilterAllTabs, both persistent and
Auto-Tell tabs now fully survive a settings save.
Reported by Flo from in-game testing 2026-05-05/06: 'der allgemein
chat tab z.b immernoch gecleart wird' / 'alle vom plugin nicht
geloggten channel sind dann leer'.
Also updated yaml changelog, docs/CHANGELOG.md and .github/forge-posts/
v1.2.0.md to describe the actual fix shape rather than the partial
UpdateFrom-only fix that preceded it.
Final release-doc pass for v1.2.0:
- yaml changelog extended with the post-T14 polish notes
(Auto-Tell variety, unread pulse, layout fixes, settings-save
wipe fixes for both persistent and TempTabs)
- docs/CHANGELOG.md date filled in (2026-05-05) and same polish
notes added under Added/Fixed sections
- .github/forge-posts/v1.2.0.md created — DE bullet body, picked
up by forge-announce.yml on tag push (EN side reads the yaml
changelog block)
1920 chars in the forge post — comfortably under the 5500-char
total cap that the workflow enforces.
TempTabs (Auto-Tell-Tabs) are session-only and populated directly by
AutoTellTabsService.HandleTell — they have no DB persistence to refilter
from. The Settings-save flow calls ClearAllTabs() + FilterAllTabsAsync()
to rebuild persistent tabs after potential filter changes; this wiped
TempTabs as collateral because their tells aren't in the DB (either
Privacy-filtered out or simply not yet persisted).
Skip TempTabs in both methods so their live-state survives any settings
save. Live tells continue to land via HandleTell, regardless of the
clear/filter cycle.
UpdateFrom replaced persistent tabs with Tab.Clone()s. Clone deliberately
omits the NonSerialized Messages list to avoid shared mutable state on
disk-load — but on a settings save (Plugin.Config.UpdateFrom(Mutable))
that path means every persistent tab loses its in-session chat history
the moment the user clicks Save.
Capture the live MessageList plus LastSendUnread counter by Identifier
before the replace and restore them onto the cloned tabs. Tab.Clone()
already preserves Identifier so the lookup matches one-to-one for
unchanged tabs. New tabs added in settings get a fresh empty list,
deleted tabs lose their history (both intended).
Reported by Flo in-game 2026-05-05 — chat got wiped on every settings
save during v1.2.0 testing in Limsa.
Sin-based alpha scaling between 60% and 100% with a 2-second cycle.
Subtle enough to register peripherally without becoming distracting.
Respects Plugin.Config.ReduceMotion (field exists since v1.1.0,
toggle UI lands in v1.3.0) — static render when disabled.
The sidebar child window's ChildBg painted the upper top-padding area
(reserved for header-toolbar alignment) with the theme's frame color,
making it look like a stub block above the buttons. Pushing ChildBg
to transparent keeps the buttons floating on the window background.
Vertical separation to the message column stays intact via the
TabTable's BordersInnerV flag.
Sidebar buttons sat at the window top while messages began below the
chat header toolbar — vertical mismatch flagged by Flo. Adding a
GetFrameHeightWithSpacing dummy at the top of the sidebar child shifts
the entire button column down to align with the first message row.
Reverted the previous TextLineHeight+4f button shrink (commit 8a78390):
buttons size was fine, only their vertical position needed correction.
Updated the documentation to clarify the upstream sync workflow, including changes to cherry-picking practices and conflict handling. Added sections on intent, contributing back, and handling upstream changes.
Updated the contributing guidelines to reflect changes in project scope, contribution acceptance criteria, and response times. Clarified sections on translations and continuous integration.
Tofu-squares rendered in-game (verified by Flo 2026-05-05 19:21).
ImGui TabItem labels render in a single font frame; mixed-font
(FontAwesome icon + default font for tab name) is not possible
without Font-Atlas merging at FontManager level — out of scope
for v1.2.0.
Top-Tabs visual modernization is now driven by the Underline-Pill
alone (T6, kept). Sidebar (icon-only) remains the use case where
icons earn their keep. v1.2.0 Akzeptanzkriterium AC1 wird auf
"Top-Tabs haben Pill-Underline" reduziert.
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.
Persisted ImGui window position can end up off-screen when the user
disconnects a monitor or changes display resolution between sessions.
The chat log window then renders outside the visible viewport with no
drag handles available, and the only recovery path is editing the JSON
config by hand.
This commit adds two layers of safety:
- Automatic one-shot bounds check on the first draw after plugin load.
If less than 100x40 pixels of the saved window position overlap the
primary viewport, the window snaps to a safe default offset
(top-left + 50px). Logged at INF level so users can verify the
recovery happened.
- Manual "Reset Window Position" button in Settings -> Window -> Frame
as a deliberate escape hatch when anything else slips past the
automatic check (different DPI scaling, viewport edge cases).
Pop-outs are intentionally not part of this recovery path: they are
non-persistent (cleared on plugin reload) and therefore cannot survive
a session boundary in an off-screen state.
Tested on Linux/Wayland (KAZAMA, Plasma, 3-monitor setup): hard-cut
test with both auxiliary monitors physically disconnected between
sessions reproduces the off-screen window before the patch and
recovers cleanly with this fix in place.
Catches up the only direct NuGet dependency that drifted behind on
the v1.0.0 standalone cut. The bump includes:
- 3.4.0: AnyCharExcept performance optimisation for single-char inputs
- 3.5.0: incremental parsing API in Pidgin.Incremental, public Expected
constructors, SequenceTokenParser performance improvement
- 3.5.1: CIString Unicode handling fix (relevant for non-ASCII
channel/tab names)
No security advisory drove this; rolling forward to align v1.0.0 with
the current upstream of every direct dependency. dotnet restore +
Release build verified locally, packages.lock.json regenerated.
- .gitattributes: linguist-generated path was still pointing at the
pre-v1.0.0 ChatTwo/Resources/ tree, which silently let the renamed
HellionChat/Resources/Language.*.resx files leak into Linguist's
language statistics
- bug_report.yml: drop the "or ChatTwo" filter hint; the plugin only
emits HellionChat.* into /xllog since the v1.0.0 standalone cut
- 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.
Adds a "Default tab layout sharpened" block between the Safety and
Crash-class sections in both yaml and repo.json. Explains the new
five-tab structure, calls out that the reset is one-time, that all
non-tab settings are preserved, and that the live config is backed
up to pluginConfigs/HellionChat.json.pre-v13-backup before the wipe
so users can restore manually.
The actual code change shipped in the previous commit; this commit
is purely the user-facing communication so the in-game migration
notification has matching written context.
Aligns the first-run tab layout with the sharpened defaults that
external testers asked for. Three changes in one commit:
1. VanillaGeneral now contains only Say/Yell/Shout. The previous
30-channel kitchen-sink (party, FC, every linkshell, all gameplay
events) buried the actual immediate-surroundings conversation
under loot rolls, crafting and PF pings.
2. HellionSystem absorbs the gameplay-event streams that used to live
in General — NpcDialogue, LootNotice, LootRoll, Crafting, Gathering,
PeriodicRecruitmentNotification — plus the announcement and battle-
system noise (BattleSystem, FreeCompanyAnnouncement,
PvpTeamAnnouncement) that previously had no fixed home.
3. The first-run / wipe default no longer adds HellionBeginner
conditionally and no longer adds a static VanillaTellExclusive tab.
Auto-Tell-Tabs spawns per-conversation tabs on demand, the static
tell-bucket is redundant. NoviceNetwork users can still add the
Beginner preset from Settings -> Tabs.
A new v12 -> v13 migration triggers a hard tab-wipe on existing
installs because per-channel mapping from the old General preset to
the new General/System split is ambiguous. The wipe scope is
narrow: only Config.Tabs is cleared, every other knob (Privacy,
Retention, Theme, etc.) keeps its current value. A pre-v13 backup
of the live config is written alongside it for manual restore.
Users see the existing SettingsRefactor migration notification.
Replaces the inherited Chat-2 IPC guide with a guide that follows the
Hellion README structure: top-level intro, a dedicated "Compatibility
with Chat 2" section that calls out exactly what the v1.0.0 rename did
(and did not) change, a channel-reference table, per-surface sections
with separate "Migration from Chat 2" diff blocks, and a closing
license/attribution paragraph that points back to NOTICE.md.
Content additions on top of the previous version:
- Explicit statement that the IPC surface is the Chat-2 surface re-
published under the Hellion name. Tuple shapes, lifecycle and call
semantics are unchanged; only the channel-string prefix differs
- Channel-reference table at the top so integrators can see the full
surface at a glance instead of reading two long code samples
- Tuple-payload field table for the Typing State IPC with a short
meaning per field
- Behavior notes for ChatInputStateChanged (fires once on subscribe,
then only on real changes) so integrators don't need to read the
source to learn the contract
- Explicit migration-diff blocks for both surfaces
Existing example code is preserved with the same identifiers; only
the host-class names are aligned to "HellionChat..." instead of
the old "ChatTwoIpc"/"TypingIntegration" placeholders.
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