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  v1.5.3 Stable

  JonKazama-Hellion released this 2026-05-19 15:30:01 +00:00 | 60 commits to main since this release

  v1.5.3 — Localisation Wave + Bundled-Font Overhaul (2026-05-19)

  Multi-language pass plus a long-standing first-frame HITCH lands
  as a side effect of a font-stack rewrite.

  User-visible:

  • 24 selectable UI languages (was 2). Catalan, Czech, Danish,
    Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian,
    Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norsk bokmål, Polish, Portuguese
    (BR + PT), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish,
    Ukrainian, Simplified + Traditional Chinese. Sorted by endonym,
    "None" pinned first. Non-native locales are AI-assisted and
    flagged for native-speaker review via the Forge Discord.
  • Bundled Inter Light replaces Exo 2 (SIL OFL 1.1, 343 KB). The
    Inter font ships Latin Extended-A/B, Greek polytonic and
    Cyrillic Supplement coverage; NotoSansCjkRegular joins as a
    third merge layer for Hangul and Simplified-Han glyphs the
    FFXIV Japanese game font does not ship.
  • First-frame HITCH dropped from ~74 ms (v1.5.2 baseline that
    held since v1.4.x) to a median of ~20 ms (5-reload sample
    17.9-23.6 ms, Linux/Wine). The bundled-font path silently
    fell back to the FFXIV Axis font for the entire v1.5.x series
    because of an early-return in the draw loop. The fix that
    routes RegularFont through draw also lands the defer-pattern
    win the v1.5.1 cycle was reaching for.
  • ExtraGlyphRanges auto-activates on language change. Korean,
    ChineseFull and the two new flags (LatinExtended, Greek) toggle
    on without a manual visit to Fonts and Colours.
  • New WarningText under the language dropdown notes FFXIV's
    chat input only fully supports EN/DE/FR/JA character sets.
    Other languages render in HellionChat but may garble when
    typed into in-game chat.

  Under the hood:

  • Three-layer font stack: Inter Light primary, FFXIV
    JapaneseFont merge 1 for kana/kanji style, NotoSansCjkRegular
    merge 2 for everything else CJK.
  • LanguageOverride enum gains ten locales plus three previously
    commented out (Italian, Korean, Norwegian as nb). New
    values append to the enum so existing config integers stay
    stable across update.
  • Crowdin gap closed: four post-sync ChatTwo keys backfilled
    into 13 legacy locales with per-key AI markers.
  • Plugin.LoadAsync runs a one-shot migration that ORs in the
    matching ExtraGlyphRanges flag for users already on a
    non-default language. Settings.Apply auto-activates on
    change going forward.
  • Em-dash sweep across the EN source and 18 translations to the
    house style. Russian and Ukrainian keep the typographic norm.

  Migration v17 stays. UseHellionFont users transition from Exo 2
  to Inter Light transparently on first reload.

  Based on Chat 2 1.35.3 (upstream Infiziert90/ChatTwo, EUPL-1.2).

  How to install

  This release is distributed via the HellionChat custom repository, not the Dalamud main plugin repo.
  To install:

  1. In XIVLauncher: Settings → Experimental → Custom Plugin Repositories
  2. Add the URL:
     https://gitea.hellion-forge.cloud/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/raw/branch/main/repo.json
  3. Enable, save, then /xlplugins → search Hellion Chat → install

  Project documents

  • README
    — features, architecture, build
  • Privacy notice
    — what the plugin stores and sends
  • Third-party notices
    — dependencies and licences
  • Security policy
    — vulnerability reporting
  • Support
    — bug reports, questions, contact paths

  Licence

  EUPL-1.2.
  Based on Chat 2 by Infi and Anna, also EUPL-1.2.

  Downloads

  • latest.zip
    36 MiB

    2026-05-19 15:31:29 +00:00
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  • Source Code (TAR.GZ)