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v1.2.2 Stable
released this
2026-05-06 12:07:07 +00:00 | 291 commits to main since this releaseHellion Chat 1.2.2 — Theme Expansion
Four new built-in themes round out the picker. No engine changes,
no settings touched — just more colour options.- Night Blue — Royal Blue on deep marine. Cool tech-dashboard
mood, distinct from the brand themes. - Indigo Violet — Royal Violet on deep indigo with a turquoise-
mint counter for an aurora glitter feel. Sister to Event Horizon
but darker and denser; the turquoise accent keeps the two
distinguishable. - Forge Merchantman — Patina bronze on workshop slate, warm
amber counter. Hellion Forge given a theme of its own — sister
to Hellion Arctic but greener and warmer instead of cold cyan. - Hellion Spectrum — Deuteran/Protan-safe channel colours
using Wong/Okabe-Ito palette tones. Channel identity (Tell pink,
Yell yellow, Shout orange, Party blue, FC green) is preserved;
tones are chosen so each channel stays distinguishable under
red-green colour vision deficiency. Covers the ~99% of CVD cases
that are red-green.
No schema bump, no migration. Default theme is unchanged (Hellion
Arctic). Existing custom themes keep working.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:- In XIVLauncher: Settings → Experimental → Custom Plugin Repositories
- Add the URL:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/main/repo.json - 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
Downloads
- Night Blue — Royal Blue on deep marine. Cool tech-dashboard
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v1.2.1 Stable
released this
2026-05-06 09:46:50 +00:00 | 303 commits to main since this releaseHellion Chat 1.2.1 — Settings Cleanup
Re-sorted the settings menu so related options live together. Card names
now describe their contents in plain words — "Theme & Layout", "Fonts &
Colours", "Data Management" — and each card has a short subtitle so you
don't have to guess where a setting lives. No new features, just
housekeeping.Card changes:
- Theme & Layout (new) collects the theme picker, window frame style
(title bar, sidebar, hide button, pop-out title bar) and the timestamp
style options. - Fonts & Colours (new) is the new home for font choice, font size and
per-channel chat colours. - Data Management (new) is everything you do with stored messages:
retention windows, cleanup, export, the database viewer and the
advanced shift-click tools. All previously scattered between Privacy
and Database. - Privacy is now focused on one job: the privacy filter.
- Chat absorbs the Auto-Tell-Tabs history preload slider that used to
live under Privacy. - General groups the keybind mode under Input where it belongs.
Cleanup:
- Removed legacy "Style override" option and the unused style-name field
— both made obsolete by the Themes system in 1.1.0. - Removed the legacy WindowAlpha slider; if you had it set, the value is
automatically migrated to Theme & Layout → Window Style → Window
Transparency. - Removed the unused ShowThemeQuickPicker schema field.
Migration v15 → v16:
- A backup of your previous config is written to
pluginConfigs/HellionChat.json.pre-v16-backup before the schema change,
in case you want to roll back manually. - All other settings are preserved unchanged.
- One-time toast on first start if you previously had Style override
enabled — it explains the change. Users who never touched that setting
see no toast.
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:- In XIVLauncher: Settings → Experimental → Custom Plugin Repositories
- Add the URL:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/main/repo.json - 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
Downloads
- Theme & Layout (new) collects the theme picker, window frame style
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v1.2.0 Stable
released this
2026-05-05 22:37:26 +00:00 | 309 commits to main since this releaseHellion Chat 1.2.0 — Layout Refresh
Second UI cycle: tab layouts modernised in both modes, a new
bottom status bar, card-rows as default message render, and
Auto-Tell tabs that you can finally tell apart at a glance.Sidebar (icon-only, fixed 44 px):
- Tab name on hover-tooltip, vertical accent pill on the
active tab, child background no longer paints the top
padding area. - Per-tab custom icons via Settings → Tabs.
- Auto-Tell tabs: each partner gets a hashed icon (envelope/
star/heart/bell/bookmark/flag/fire) plus hashed color
(12-color palette) — 84 distinct combinations. - Pulsing red dot in the top-right of any tab with unread
messages, subtle 2-second sine pulse, respects
Configuration.ReduceMotion.
Top tabs:
- Accent underline pill on the active tab instead of the old
background fill. Icon prefixes were attempted but reverted
— Dalamud's default font atlas has no FontAwesome glyphs.
Bottom status bar (22 px, 1×/sec cached):
- Active channel with color dot, Privacy-First badge, tab +
message counters, auto-tell counter (hidden at zero),
plugin version (right-aligned, muted).
Message rendering:
- Card rows by default — sender header in channel color, body
on its own line, subtle border between cards. - Compact-Density toggle in Appearance returns the classic
single-line[HH:mm] Sender: Textlayout.
Bug fixes from in-game testing:
- Settings save no longer wipes chat history. Refilter cycle
only runs when filter-relevant settings actually changed
(privacy, channel selection); cosmetic changes leave the
chat intact. Persistent and Auto-Tell tabs both survive. - Hellion Schrift (Exo 2) no longer blocks font-size
adjustment — 4K users can scale up properly. - Sidebar buttons align with the first message row, status
bar version slot is no longer clipped.
Migration v14 → v15: legacy theme fields removed
(HellionThemeEnabled, HellionThemeWindowOpacity). All other
settings preserved.Polish (lerps, theme crossfade, header quick-picker) follows
in v1.3.0.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:- In XIVLauncher: Settings → Experimental → Custom Plugin Repositories
- Add the URL:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/main/repo.json - 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
Downloads
- Tab name on hover-tooltip, vertical accent pill on the
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v1.1.0 Stable
released this
2026-05-05 13:17:30 +00:00 | 353 commits to main since this releaseHellion Chat 1.1.0 — Theme Foundation
First major UI cycle after the standalone v1.0.0 cut. Theme engine,
five built-in themes, customisable JSON themes, modernised settings
layout.New themes (Settings → Themes):
- Hellion Arctic — the brand default, Arctic Cyan + Ember Glow
on industrial slate. - Chat 2 Klassik — Steel Blue on neutral grey, eckige Kanten.
The upstream Chat 2 look on the new engine. - Event Horizon — Cosmic Purple on near-black. Deep-space mood.
- Moonlit Bloom — Bloom Magenta + Soft Sage on deep-violet
night. - Mint Grove — Mint Green + Honey Amber on deep forest. First
member of the Grove family.
Theme engine highlights:
- Slug-based selection in Settings → Themes with mini-mockup
previews per theme. - Click a theme card and the whole plugin (chat, settings,
pop-outs, viewer) repaints instantly. - Custom themes via JSON in pluginConfigs/HellionChat/themes/.
Example template seeded on first launch. - Optional per-theme chat-channel colours. When a theme proposes
its own chat colours and yours differ, a dezent banner offers
Apply / Keep — never auto-overwriting. - Migration v13 → v14: existing users land on Hellion Arctic. Pick
Chat 2 Klassik to keep the upstream look.
Settings layout:
- New card-grid overview on Settings open. Click a card to drill
into the section. - Breadcrumb back to overview, ESC also returns.
- Detail view drops the redundant tab list — section content uses
the full width.
Branding:
- Plugin icon swapped from the ChatTwo derivative to the Hellion
Forge hammer. - New docs/THEME-AUTHORING.md walks you through writing your own
themes with the Forge logo on top.
Technical:
- HellionStyle.PushGlobal is now theme-driven. Configuration.
HellionThemeEnabled is deprecated and will be removed in v1.2.0. - New ThemeRegistry singleton with LastWriteTime-cached custom-
theme loader. - 51 local unit tests cover the data model, registry, JSON round-
trip and built-in sanity checks.
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:- In XIVLauncher: Settings → Experimental → Custom Plugin Repositories
- Add the URL:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/main/repo.json - 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
Downloads
- Hellion Arctic — the brand default, Arctic Cyan + Ember Glow
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v1.0.3 Stable
released this
2026-05-04 14:17:06 +00:00 | 395 commits to main since this releaseHellion Chat 1.0.3 — Polish patch
- New: optionally hide chat (and every other plugin window) while the
New Game+ menu is open. Toggle in Settings → Window → Frame, default
off. Closing the menu restores all windows. - New: optionally tint the channel selector button next to the input
field with the currently active channel's colour. Toggle in
Settings → Appearance → Colours, default on. Matches the existing
input-text tint and respects ExtraChat overrides. - Fix: status, item and other inline hover icons keep their original
aspect ratio. Debuff icons with non-square dimensions are no longer
visually squished into a 32×32 box. - Diagnostic: hide-state transitions (battle, cutscene, user-hide,
cutscene override) are now logged on Verbose level for easier bug
reports — off by default, enable with/xllog set HellionChat verbose.
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:- In XIVLauncher: Settings → Experimental → Custom Plugin Repositories
- Add the URL:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/main/repo.json - 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
Downloads
- New: optionally hide chat (and every other plugin window) while the
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v1.0.2 Stable
released this
2026-05-04 14:00:07 +00:00 | 397 commits to main since this releaseHellion Chat 1.0.2 — Polish patch
- New: optionally hide chat (and every other plugin window) while the
New Game+ menu is open. Toggle in Settings → Window → Frame, default
off. Closing the menu restores all windows. - New: optionally tint the channel selector button next to the input
field with the currently active channel's colour. Toggle in
Settings → Appearance → Colours, default on. Matches the existing
input-text tint and respects ExtraChat overrides. - Fix: status, item and other inline hover icons keep their original
aspect ratio. Debuff icons with non-square dimensions are no longer
visually squished into a 32×32 box. - Diagnostic: hide-state transitions (battle, cutscene, user-hide,
cutscene override) are now logged on Verbose level for easier bug
reports — off by default, enable with/xllog set HellionChat verbose.
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:- In XIVLauncher: Settings → Experimental → Custom Plugin Repositories
- Add the URL:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/main/repo.json - 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
Downloads
- New: optionally hide chat (and every other plugin window) while the
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v1.0.1 Stable
released this
2026-05-04 10:15:26 +00:00 | 399 commits to main since this releaseHellion Chat 1.0.1 — Window Position Recovery
- Automatic bounds check on the first draw after plugin load.
When the persisted window position has no overlap with the
primary viewport, the window snaps to a safe top-left default.
Helpful after a monitor disconnect, resolution change or
multi-monitor layout switch between sessions. - New "Reset Window Position" button in Settings → Window → Frame
as a manual escape hatch for edge cases the automatic check
doesn't catch.
Tested on Linux/Wayland with a hard-cut three-monitor reduction;
window recovers cleanly without manual JSON editing.Housekeeping carried over since v1.0.0:
- Documentation restructured into docs/ folder. New CHANGELOG,
CONTRIBUTORS, LEARNING-JOURNEY and ROADMAP added - Stale ChatTwo/* paths in repo configs updated to HellionChat/*
- Pidgin parser library bumped from 3.3.0 to 3.5.1 (CIString
Unicode fix relevant for non-ASCII channel/tab names) - GitHub Actions: actions/setup-dotnet bumped 4 → 5,
github/codeql-action bumped 3 → 4
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:- In XIVLauncher: Settings → Experimental → Custom Plugin Repositories
- Add the URL:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/main/repo.json - 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
Downloads
- Automatic bounds check on the first draw after plugin load.
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v1.0.0 Stable
released this
2026-05-03 20:51:06 +00:00 | 406 commits to main since this releaseHellion Chat 1.0.0 — Standalone Major Release
First fully standalone release. Internal cleanup plus a sweep of
pre-existing correctness, security, threading and resource-leak
fixes carried over from the upstream codebase. No user action
required — auto-update applies cleanly, configuration and database
paths unchanged.Standalone identity:
- Code namespace consolidated from ChatTwo.* to HellionChat.* across
all source files - IPC channels migrated from ChatTwo.* to HellionChat.* (6 channels:
Register, Available, Unregister, Invoke, GetChatInputState,
ChatInputStateChanged) — third-party plugins that bound to the old
channels need to be updated; none known at release time - ImGui popup ID renamed to hellionchat-context-popup
- Repository folder restructured (ChatTwo/ → HellionChat/), all CI
and build paths updated accordingly - Public-facing descriptions reworded from upstream-fork framing to
standalone framing (Chat 2 attribution preserved per EUPL-1.2) - Colour preset 'ChatTwo Default' is now 'Klassik (Chat 2 Default)'
Safety:
- Plugin now refuses to load when upstream Chat 2 is also active —
bilingual conflict message in EN/DE, throw before any subsystem
initialization, prevents the runtime crash that previously occurred
when both plugins replaced the same chat window in parallel - SQLite native binary bumped to 3.50.3 (CVE-2025-6965 memory
corruption from aggregate-term overflow, CVE-2025-7709) - NuGet restore now honors packages.lock.json so transitive
dependencies don't drift between machines or CI runs
Default tab layout sharpened (one-time tab reset on first start):
The first-run tab layout is reorganized into five thematic tabs
based on external tester feedback. General contains only Say,
Yell and Shout (immediate-surroundings public chat). System
absorbs the gameplay-event streams (NpcDialogue, Loot, Crafting,
Gathering, PF recruitment pings) and announcement noise
(BattleSystem, FreeCompanyAnnouncement, PvpTeamAnnouncement)
that previously lived in General. FreeCompany, Group and
Linkshell each own their channel set. The static Tell tab is
gone — Auto-Tell-Tabs spawns per-conversation tabs on demand.
The Beginner / Novice-Network preset is no longer added by
default but is still available via Settings, Tabs.This is a one-time tab-layout reset for users on config version
12 or older. Privacy, Retention, Theme and every other setting
is preserved. Your previous tab configuration is written to
pluginConfigs/HellionChat.json.pre-v13-backup so you can restore
it manually if you prefer the old layout.Crash-class fixes (formerly latent in upstream):
- MathUtil.HasOverlap now uses a correct AABB test; identical or
edge-touching rectangles are no longer reported as non-overlapping - ChatCode.Equals compares fields directly instead of GetHashCode;
removes the hash-collision anti-pattern - IpcManager.Dispose uses UnregisterAction to match the matching
RegisterAction call; previous mismatch leaked the action
subscription on every plugin reload - ExtraChat.Dispose now unsubscribes all three IPC subscriptions
(was only the first); leaks closed - TellTarget.FromTarget guards against a zero IPlayerCharacter.Address
before dereferencing the unsafe Character* cast - GameFunctions ResolveTextCommandPlaceholderDetour null-checks the
Hook reference instead of using the null-forgiving operator - Popout.cs and SettingsTabs/Tabs.cs bounds-check list indexing so
a tab drop or empty-worlds list no longer crashes the UI - Debugger.cs now declares IDisposable so the existing Dispose runs
Correctness fixes:
- GlobalParametersCache.GetValue captures Cache into a local before
the bounds check, so a concurrent Refresh can't slip a different
array between check and read - IconUtil binary search bounds initialized to entries.Length-1 and
reset on redirect-restart; entries.Length==0 short-circuits - Sheets.WorldsOnDatacenter now compares DataCenter.RowId (was
Region.RowId) so it actually returns same-DC worlds - Message.cs back-reference loop iterates the processed Sender/Content
properties so chunks added by CheckMessageContent get Message set - Language.zh-Hans Webinterface_Start_Success corrected to
"网页界面已启动" (was "网页界面已停止")
Threading and async:
- AutoTranslate Entries/ValidEntries are now serialized behind a
single lock; the preload worker thread and main thread no longer
race on the underlying dictionary/hash set - Privacy retention and cleanup workers bound their framework-refresh
waits to 5 seconds with a logged timeout; a hung framework tick can
no longer deadlock the background worker
Resource handling:
- EmoteCache reuses the static HttpClient instead of allocating a new
one per call (closed socket leak) - FontManager wraps HttpClient/HttpResponseMessage in using-blocks
and adds EnsureSuccessStatusCode; failed downloads no longer
silently produce a zero-byte font file - SearchSelector mixes the row index into the ImGui ID stack so
selectables don't collapse to a single ambiguous ID - SettingsTabs/Chat blocked-emote add-button now opens its selector
popup on left-click
Performance:
- DbViewer text export caches filteredHistory.Count once instead of
re-enumerating the IEnumerable on every batch (O(N) instead of
O(N²) on large histories)
License attribution (NOTICE.md, COPYRIGHT, THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md
and the Credits section in README) is unchanged.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:- In XIVLauncher: Settings → Experimental → Custom Plugin Repositories
- Add the URL:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/main/repo.json - 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
Downloads
- Code namespace consolidated from ChatTwo.* to HellionChat.* across
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v0.6.1 Stable
released this
2026-05-03 15:16:00 +00:00 | 434 commits to main since this releaseHellion Chat 0.6.1 — Pop-Out Discoverability & /tell Auto-Pop-Out
- Pop-out button now visible in the chat header (no more hunting
through the right-click menu) - One-time hint banner explains pop-out tabs and the right-click
shortcut - New setting: open new /tell tabs directly as pop-out windows
(Settings → Chat → Auto-Tell-Tabs) - Pop-out input is now enabled by default — closing a pop-out still
returns the tab to the sidebar - Bugfix: dropping or logging out with an LRU/popped auto-tell tab
now also closes its pop-out window (no more ghost windows) - Bugfix: dead zone below the chat input bar when the v0.6.0 pop-out
hint banner was visible (also fixed retroactively for the v0.6.0
banner inside pop-outs)
Modding & support: join Hellion Forge — https://discord.gg/X9V7Kcv5gR
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:- In XIVLauncher: Settings → Experimental → Custom Plugin Repositories
- Add the URL:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/main/repo.json - 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
Downloads
- Pop-out button now visible in the chat header (no more hunting
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released this
2026-05-03 11:22:32 +00:00 | 453 commits to main since this releaseHellion Chat 0.6.0 — UX Polish: Pop-Out Input + Colour Presets
Two opt-in UX features. Existing users see no change unless they enable
the new toggles.Pop-out input bar:
- Global master switch in Settings → Window → Frame
- Channel-coloured icon button + text input in every pop-out window
- Independent text buffer and history cursor per pop-out
- Channel changes apply globally (FFXIV channel API behaviour)
- Up/Down navigates a shared input history singleton
- One-time hint banner on first pop-out after the upgrade
Chat colour presets (seven built-ins):
- ChatTwo Default, High-Contrast, Pastell, Dark-Mode-Tuned
- Hellion (brand-coloured, Arctic Cyan + Ember Glow)
- Night Blue, Indigo Violet (bonus mood presets from KAZAMA themes)
Configuration migrates from v10 to v11 with a diagnostic log.
Bilingual EN/DE for all new sections.Based on Chat 2 1.35.3 (upstream Infiziert90/ChatTwo, EUPL-1.2).
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