JonKazama-Hellion
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Settings UX polish release. Twelve organic settings tabs collapsed into eight themed ones, theme/font controls moved to Appearance, About and Changelog merged into Information. Configuration migrates from v9 to v10 as a wipe with a backup file written next to the live config; chat history and tabs survive.
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name: Hellion Chat
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author: JonKazama-Hellion
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punchline: Chat 2 with privacy controls aligned to EU, US and JP rules
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description: |-
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Hellion Chat is built on top of Chat 2 with one removal and a stack
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of privacy controls on top. Tabs, channel filters, RGB colours,
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emotes, screenshot mode, IPC integration and the chat replacement
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window itself work the same. The optional webinterface that Chat 2
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ships is intentionally not part of this fork because it serves a
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different use case from the smaller default footprint Hellion Chat
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is built around.
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On top of that, Hellion Chat adds privacy and data-handling controls
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designed to align with the modern data protection rules that apply
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across the EU, the United States and Japan. By default only your own
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conversations are stored; messages from strangers, NPCs and system
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spam stay out of the database. Retention windows are configurable per
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channel, history can be wiped retroactively, and stored data can be
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exported on demand.
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Key additions on top of Chat 2:
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- Channel whitelist with a Privacy-First default
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- Per-channel retention with a daily background sweep
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- Retroactive cleanup with a Ctrl+Shift confirm
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- Export to Markdown, JSON or CSV
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- First-run wizard with three preset profiles (Privacy-First, Casual,
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Full History)
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- Bilingual UI (English and German) with live language switching
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- Independent plugin state — own config file and database directory,
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so Hellion Chat does not share state with the upstream plugin
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Based on Chat 2 by Infi and Anna, licensed under EUPL-1.2.
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repo_url: https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat
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accepts_feedback: true
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tags:
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- Social
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- UI
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- Chat
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- Replacement
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- Privacy
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changelog: |-
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**Hellion Chat 0.5.0 — Settings UX polish**
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The settings window has been pulled apart and rebuilt around eight
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themed tabs instead of the twelve organic ones it grew into.
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Settings now sit where they belong and the wall-of-text descriptions
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have been replaced with hover help markers across every section.
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What changed in this release:
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- Twelve tabs collapsed into eight: General, Appearance, Window,
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Chat, Tabs, Privacy, Database and Information
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- Theme and font controls moved out of the Privacy tab into
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Appearance where they belong
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- Auto-Tell-Tabs settings, message preview and emote controls now
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live under one Chat tab with collapsible sections
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- About and Changelog merged into a single Information tab
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- Disabled settings keep their tooltip help marker visible so you
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can still read why an option is greyed out
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- Section headings start collapsed by default, the same pattern
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used for the Auto-Tell-Tabs preload section in 0.4.0
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Configuration version bumps from 9 to 10 as a wipe migration. The
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old config file is copied to HellionChat.json.pre-v10-backup before
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the new defaults are written, so you can restore your previous
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setup by hand if anything looks off. A one-shot notification on
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first start explains the reset.
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No changes to message storage, retention sweep, the privacy filter
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or the export pipeline. Tabs and chat history are untouched by the
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migration.
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Based on Chat 2 1.35.3 (upstream Infiziert90/ChatTwo, EUPL-1.2).
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**Hellion Chat 0.4.0 — Auto-Tell-Tabs**
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Auto-Tell-Tabs lets you turn each /tell into a session-only tab
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dedicated to that conversation partner. The original use case is
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the FFXIV club greeter who has to track 5–15 parallel "hi, welcome"
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exchanges; everyone else can disable the feature in one click and
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go back to a single Tell Exclusive tab.
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What lands in this release:
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- Auto-spawn temp tab "Name@World" on /tell (incoming and outgoing)
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- Tab limit (default 15, range 1–50) with LRU drop that prefers
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greeted tabs first, then sorts by last activity
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- History preload from the local message store (default 20 tells,
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range 0–100) with a "— Earlier conversations —" separator above
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the live tell that triggered the spawn
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- Optional "mark as greeted" toggle button (off by default,
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greeter-specific) that dims the tab name and lets you flip the
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status
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- Section header "Active Tells (n)" or compact-mode separator in
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the sidebar between persistent tabs and the temp tabs
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- Settings UI under Chat (toggle / limit / compact / greeted-toggle)
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and Privacy (history preload count), with hover-tooltip help
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markers replacing the previous wall-of-text descriptions for the
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new sections
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- Save and load filters strip temp tabs from the on-disk config so
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a crash or a sidebar-mode toggle never persists or wipes them
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Compatibility note: if XIV Messanger or another plugin is
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suppressing direct messages, disable its "Suppress DMs" option so
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Hellion Chat can receive tells and open the auto tabs.
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Configuration version bumps from 8 to 9. Existing users get a one-
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shot notification on the first start, defaults are seeded by
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property initializers, persistent tabs are untouched.
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The vertical sidebar tab view becomes the default for fresh
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installs; existing users keep their saved preference.
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Inspired by the per-sender tab pattern in XIV InstantMessenger
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(Limiana, AGPL-3.0). No code was ported across the licence
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boundary; only the architectural concept influenced this design.
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Based on Chat 2 1.35.3 (upstream Infiziert90/ChatTwo, EUPL-1.2).
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**Hellion Chat 0.3.1 — Upstream emote regression fix**
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Cherry-picks Infi's upstream commit ff899ff "Fix a regression
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from API 15 updates" which changes the BetterTTV emote DTOs
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(Emote and Top100) from public fields to public properties.
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System.Text.Json under the API 15 toolchain only honours the
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[JsonPropertyName] attribute on properties, so the previous
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field-based version deserialised every fetched emote into empty
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default values. Result: BetterTTV emotes were silently broken
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on fresh installs. The fix is six lines and applies cleanly on
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top of our defensive null-check from earlier; the EmoteCache
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path-traversal hardening from 0.3.0 stays as it is.
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Authorship of the fix is preserved with git cherry-pick -x, so
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Infi shows up as the author on the commit. Thanks to him for
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catching it in the upstream codebase.
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**Hellion Chat 0.3.0 — Audit hardening, brand sweep and rebrand of slash commands**
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This release closes the remaining audit follow-ups from the
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0.2.0 cleanup and finishes turning Hellion Chat into a properly
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branded fork rather than a Chat 2 with a different name.
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Slash commands have been renamed across the board so they no
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longer collide with the upstream plugin and tell you which
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plugin owns them at a glance:
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- /chat2 becomes /hellion
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- /chat2Viewer becomes /hellionView
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- /clearlog2 becomes /clearhellion
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- /chat2Debugger becomes /hellionDebugger (internal)
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- /chat2SeString becomes /hellionSeString (internal)
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This is a breaking change for anyone with macros bound to the
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old command names. The upstream Chat 2 commands keep working
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if you also have that plugin installed.
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Privacy and storage hardening based on the post-0.2.0 audit:
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- Privacy filter master switch now states explicitly that the
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filter only governs storage, not the live chat log
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- Emote cache refuses to write outside its own directory if a
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third-party API ever returns a path that escapes
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- Retention sweep is serialised so the 24h auto-sweep and the
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manual button cannot launch in parallel and race for the
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SQLite connection
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- DbViewer paging uses an int constant and the matching SQL
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parameter name (the upstream code passed a float and a name
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without the parameter prefix; both worked in practice but
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were inconsistent)
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Visual identity now matches the Hellion Online Media website:
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- Theme palette switched to Arctic Cyan plus Ember Orange,
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matching the website's BRANDING.md tokens
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- Active tabs and window title bars use a brand-color-dark teal
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variation as identity colour, replacing the previous slate
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violet that did not appear in the brand
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- Resize grips and scrollbar grabs picked up Ember Orange
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instead of industrial amber on hover and active states
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About tab rewritten and properly localised:
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- New "Why this fork exists" block sets out the mission in
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neutral terms, framing Chat 2's full-history default as the
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right one for most users while explaining the narrower
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default footprint this fork chose
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- All Hellion-specific About copy now lives in HellionStrings
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in EN and DE, so German users see the Hellion sections in
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German rather than the upstream English fallback
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- Webinterface absence is described as a focus mismatch
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(different use case, substantial rebuild) rather than as
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a security issue with the upstream code
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- Translator list at the bottom of the About tab is reachable
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again on smaller settings windows
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Based on Chat 2 1.35.3 (upstream Infiziert90/ChatTwo, EUPL-1.2).
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**Hellion Chat 0.2.0 — Webinterface removed**
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The upstream webinterface has been removed in its entirety. It
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serves a different use case from the smaller default footprint
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this fork is built around, namely remote access to chat from a
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second device. Aligning it with the data minimisation defaults
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Hellion Chat ships with would have meant a substantial rebuild.
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Removing it was the cleaner path for this particular fork.
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What changed in this release:
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- Settings tab "Webinterface" is gone, the corresponding
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Configuration fields (WebinterfaceEnabled / AutoStart / Password /
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Port / AuthStore / MaxLinesToSend) are dropped and stale entries
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fall out of the JSON on the next save automatically
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- The whole ChatTwo/Http tree, the bundled Svelte frontend in
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websiteBuild.zip and the WebinterfaceUtil helper are deleted
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- Watson.Lite (the HTTP server) and Newtonsoft.Json (only used by
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the webinterface JSON wire format) are removed from the
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package references
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- DbViewer's "Chat2 JSON Export" button is dropped because it
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serialised the database into the webinterface message protocol;
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the Privacy tab's MessageExporter (Markdown, JSON, CSV with
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channel and date filters) covers the same ground without the
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proprietary shape
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- About tab notes the absence so users coming from Chat 2 do not
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look for it
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- Configuration version bumps from 7 to 8 with a one-shot
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notification (EN + DE)
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No changes to the privacy filter, retention sweep, first-run wizard
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or export pipeline. Existing chat history is preserved.
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Based on Chat 2 1.35.3 (upstream Infiziert90/ChatTwo, EUPL-1.2).
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**Hellion Chat 0.1.2 — About tab rebrand, DBViewer polish**
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- About tab now shows Hellion-specific maintainer, license, EU/US/JP
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disclaimer and SQUARE ENIX disclaimer instead of the inherited
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Chat 2 contact info; original ChatTwo translator credits stay
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visible under a clearly labelled upstream tree node
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- Localization clarified: Hellion-specific German strings are
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maintained by the fork maintainer, the Crowdin contributor list
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only covers the inherited upstream strings
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- Cherry-picked DBViewer UI improvements from upstream Chat 2
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(auto-scroll-reset on page change, tooltips on date reset,
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folder export, page arrows, localized export-running messages)
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- README rewritten in the Hellion project style with a tech-stack
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table, architecture tree, database column list, install guide,
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upstream-sync workflow notes and project-status checklist
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**Hellion Chat 0.1.1 — Packaging and migration fixes**
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- Plugin icon now ships inside the bundle, so the Hellion logo
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renders locally in the Dalamud plugin list once installed (the
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previous release relied only on the remote IconUrl)
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- Plugin icon downsampled from 1024×1024 to 256×256 to match the
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rendered size; loads faster and caches better
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- Migration from upstream Chat 2 is more robust: each file move is
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wrapped individually, a locked SQLite database no longer aborts
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the rest of the migration, and a warning notification fires when
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any file is held open (with a hint to disable Chat 2 and restart
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the game)
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- README ships a step-by-step migration guide (fresh install versus
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coming from Chat 2) and a troubleshooting section with manual
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recovery commands for Linux and Windows
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**Hellion Chat 0.1.0 — Initial fork release**
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Privacy
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- Channel whitelist filter in MessageStore.UpsertMessage with a
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Privacy-First default (own conversations only)
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- Per-channel retention with a 24-hour idempotent background sweep
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- Retroactive cleanup with a Ctrl+Shift confirm and VACUUM
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- Export to Markdown / JSON / CSV via Dalamud's file dialog
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Onboarding
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- First-run wizard with three profiles: Privacy-First / Casual /
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Full History
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- Configuration migration that seeds defaults on update
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- One-shot migration from upstream Chat 2's pluginConfigs layout
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- Migrate3 idempotency recovery for half-migrated databases
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Look & feel
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- Localized UI (English and German) with live language switching
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- Industrial HUD theme with cyan-teal action accents, slate-violet
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tabs, amber active highlights and a window-opacity slider
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Based on Chat 2 1.35.3 (upstream Infiziert90/ChatTwo, EUPL-1.2).
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