HellionChat/docs/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog — Hellion Chat

Alle nutzersichtbaren Änderungen an Hellion Chat. Das Format orientiert sich an Keep a Changelog, die Version-Nummern folgen Semantischer Versionierung.

Detaillierte Release-Notes pro Version stehen direkt am GitHub-Release und im Plugin-Changelog-Block (HellionChat/HellionChat.yaml → changelog:). Diese Datei fasst die Releases als Überblick zusammen und verlinkt für Details auf die Release-Pages.

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Hellion Chat 1.4.0 — Critical Lifecycle Fixes

First sub-patch of the v1.4.x Polish Sweep series. Seven known lifecycle and race bugs eliminated before any performance refactor sits on top.

• MessageStore disposal no longer triggers GC.Collect globally; Pooling=false on the SQLite connection means there's nothing left to clean up by hand
• PendingMessage and RetentionSweep worker threads are explicitly marked IsBackground=true so the plugin domain can unload during XIVLauncher reload without waiting for them
• EmoteCache image and gif loaders moved from async-void to async Task with a shared task tracker, draining on Dispose so an in-flight load can no longer write to a disposed EmoteImages entry
• DisposeAsync 10s timeout now warns loudly instead of silently leaving the worker behind
• Plugin.Dispose flushes any pending DeferredSaveFrames before tearing services down, so settings changes made in the last few frames before disable are no longer lost
• The v13→v14 config migration now reads the pre-v13 backup and carries HellionThemeWindowOpacity into the new WindowOpacity field instead of falling back to the default 0.85

Modding & support: join Hellion Forge — https://discord.gg/X9V7Kcv5gR

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

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Hellion Chat 1.3.0 - Plugin Integrations: Honorific

First step on the plugin-integration roadmap. HellionChat now listens to Honorific and shows your custom title in the chat header. The slot auto-hides when Honorific is not installed, when no custom title is active, or when you are using the original FFXIV title.

• New "Integrations" settings tab
• Honorific integration with auto-detection and live updates
• "Coming soon" preview of the next five planned integrations: context menu actions, smart notifications, RP status block, ExtraChat channels, and quick DM compose
• Maintainer attribution buttons for Honorific repo and Caraxi
• New service-class pattern under HellionChat/Integrations/

Modding and support: join Hellion Forge - https://discord.gg/X9V7Kcv5gR

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

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v1.2.3 — Theme Expansion (2026-05-06)

Added

• Four new built-in themes:
  • Night Blue — Royal Blue on deep marine, cool tech-dashboard mood
  • Indigo Violet — Royal Violet on deep indigo with a turquoise-mint counter (aurora glitter feel)
  • Forge Merchantman — Patina bronze on workshop slate with warm amber counter (Hellion Forge identity)
  • 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) preserved while keeping every channel separable under red-green colour vision deficiency
• Built-in theme catalogue grown from five to nine

Notes

• No engine changes, no settings touched, no migration
• Default theme unchanged (Hellion Arctic). Existing custom themes keep working.
• Hellion Spectrum covers the ~99 % of CVD cases that are red-green; a Tritan-safe variant could follow in a later cycle if there is demand.

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v1.2.1 — Settings Cleanup (2026-05-06)

Changed

• Settings cards re-sorted thematically: 9 cards remain, each card has one clear job and a one-line subtitle.
• 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) houses font choice, font size and per-channel chat colours.
• Data Management (new) collects retention windows, cleanup, export, the database viewer and the shift-click advanced tools.
• Privacy is now focused on the privacy filter alone.
• Chat absorbs the Auto-Tell-Tabs history-preload slider that used to live under Privacy.
• General groups the keybind mode under Input.

Removed

• Legacy "Style override" option and the unused style-name field — both obsolete since the v1.1.0 themes engine.
• Legacy WindowAlpha slider — if you had it set, the value is auto-migrated to Theme & Layout → Window Style → Window Transparency.
• Unused ShowThemeQuickPicker schema field.

Migration

• v15 → v16 with backup at pluginConfigs/HellionChat.json.pre-v16-backup.
• All other settings preserved unchanged.
• One-time toast on first start if Style override was previously active.

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v1.2.0 — Layout Refresh (2026-05-05)

Added

• Sidebar tab modernization: icon-only at fixed 44 px, tooltip on hover, vertical accent pill for active tab
• Top tabs: accent underline pill replaces background fill on active tab
• Per-tab custom icons in Settings → Tabs (15-glyph FontAwesome picker)
• Bottom status bar (22 px): channel indicator, privacy badge, counters, tells, version — updates 1×/sec
• Card rows as default message render: sender header in channel color, subtle border between cards
• Compact-Density toggle in Appearance: switches back to single-line [HH:mm] Sender: Text layout
• Auto-Tell tabs: per-partner hashed icon (7-glyph pool: envelope/star/heart/bell/bookmark/flag/fire) plus hashed color (12-color palette) — 84 distinct icon+color combinations
• Unread indicator: pulsing red dot in the top-right corner of any sidebar tab icon with unread messages, 2-second sine-wave pulse, respects Configuration.ReduceMotion

Changed

• Migration v14 → v15: deprecated Configuration fields HellionThemeEnabled and HellionThemeWindowOpacity removed
• Appearance settings cleaned: legacy theme-engine bindings replaced by Themes tab (introduced in v1.1.0)

Fixed

• Settings save no longer wipes chat history by default — the heavy ClearAllTabs + FilterAllTabsAsync cycle now only runs when a filter-relevant setting actually changed (Privacy filter, persisted channels, per-tab channel selection). Cosmetic changes keep the in-session chat intact
• Identifier-based MessageList restore in Configuration.UpdateFrom plus TempTab skip in ClearAllTabs/FilterAllTabs ensure persistent tabs and Auto-Tell tabs both survive the save
• Sidebar buttons now align vertically with the first message row (top padding mirrors the chat header toolbar height)
• Sidebar child window no longer paints the top padding area with its frame background
• Status bar version slot (vX.Y.Z · Hellion) no longer clips its rightmost character

Notes

• Polish phase (animations, theme crossfade, header quick-picker) follows in v1.3.0
• Top-Tab icon prefixes were considered but dropped: Dalamud's default font atlas does not include FontAwesome codepoints, so mixed-font in a single TabItem label renders as tofu. Underline pill alone is the v1.2.0 visual treatment for top tabs. Resolution would require Font-Atlas merge at FontManager level — out of scope.

[1.1.0] — 2026-05-05 — Theme Foundation

Erster großer UI-Cycle nach v1.0.0. Theme-Engine, fünf Built-In-Themes, Custom-Themes via JSON, Settings-Card-Grid.

Hinzugefügt

• Theme-Engine mit fünf Built-In-Themes: Hellion Arctic (Default), Chat 2 Klassik, Event Horizon, Moonlit Bloom, Mint Grove.
• Settings → Themes mit Mini-Mockup-Preview pro Theme. Klick auf eine Card switcht sofort das ganze Plugin (Chat, Settings, Pop-Out).
• Custom-Themes via JSON in pluginConfigs/HellionChat/themes/. Beim ersten Start wird example-theme.json als Vorlage abgelegt.
• Optional Theme-Chat-Channel-Colors: Themes können eigene Channel-Farben mitliefern. Beim Switch erscheint ein Banner mit Übernehmen / Behalten — nie automatisch.
• Settings-Card-Grid: neue Übersicht beim Öffnen, Card-Klick führt in die Detail-Ansicht der Section. Breadcrumb + ESC führen zurück.
• docs/THEME-AUTHORING.md als Anleitung zum Schreiben eigener Themes, mit Hellion-Forge-Branding.

Geändert

• Plugin-Icon auf Hellion Forge Hammer (vorher ChatTwo-Derivat).
• Settings-Detail-View verwendet die volle Breite — die zweite Tab-Liste links ist weg, weil die Card-Übersicht den Wechsel übernimmt.
• HellionStyle.PushGlobal ist jetzt theme-driven (PushGlobal(theme, opacity)) statt const-palette-driven.
• Configuration v13 → v14: alle User landen auf hellion-arctic. Wer den Upstream-Look will, wählt chat2-classic in Settings → Themes.

Veraltet

• Configuration.HellionThemeEnabled und HellionThemeWindowOpacity bleiben für ein Release lesbar als Safety-Net, werden aber nicht mehr ausgewertet. Entfernung geplant in v1.2.0.

Sicherheit

• Custom-Theme-JSON-Loader prüft schemaVersion, Pflichtfelder und Hex-Format. Ungültige Themes werden mit Warning übersprungen, das Plugin lädt mit Built-Ins weiter.

Intern

• 51 lokale Unit-Tests (Theme-Records, Registry, JSON-Round-Trip, Sanity pro Built-In-Theme). Tests sind gitignored.

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[1.0.3] — 2026-05-04 — Polish patch

Vier kleine Polish-Items aus dem Backlog gebündelt:

• Hide bei New Game+ Menü: Optionaler globaler Toggle der Hellion Chat (und alle weiteren Plugin-Fenster wie Settings, DB-Viewer, Pop-Outs) ausblendet, solange das NG+-Menü offen ist. Settings → Fenster → Rahmen, Default aus. Skipt analog zum bestehenden LoadingScreens-Pattern den gesamten WindowSystem.Draw()-Pfad.
• Channel-Selector-Färbung: Optionales Tinting des Channel-Auswahl-Knopfs (Comment-Icon) neben dem Eingabefeld in der aktuellen Channel-Farbe. Settings → Aussehen → Chat-Farben, Default an. Konsistent zur bestehenden Eingabetext-Färbung, ExtraChat-Override wird übernommen.
• (De)Buff-Icon Aspect-Ratio-Fix: PayloadHandler.InlineIcon quetschte alle Hover-Icons auf 32×32. Status-Icons mit nicht-quadratischen Dimensionen (Debuffs mit Pfeil-Indikator) sind jetzt aspekt-erhaltend geshrinkt. Eigenständige Float-Math-Implementierung mit Zero-Size-Guard statt Cherry-Pick aus dem offenen ChatTwo PR #157 (der hatte eine int-Division-Falle).
• HideState-Logging-Sweep: Alle HideState-Transitions (Battle/Cutscene/User/Override plus die Pop-Out-Spiegelung) loggen sich auf Verbose-Level. Aus by default, Aktivierung via /xllog set HellionChat verbose für Bug-Report-Diagnose.

Release-Notes 1.0.3

[1.0.1] — 2026-05-04 — Window Position Recovery

Fixes an off-screen-window scenario the user could end up in after a monitor disconnect or display layout change between sessions. An automatic one-shot bounds check on the first draw after plugin load snaps the window back into the visible viewport, and a new "Reset Window Position" button in Settings → Window → Frame serves as the manual escape hatch for edge cases.

Bundled housekeeping since v1.0.0: documentation restructured into docs/, stale ChatTwo/* paths in repo configs cleaned up, Pidgin parser library bumped from 3.3.0 to 3.5.1, GitHub Actions bumps for actions/setup-dotnet (4 → 5) and github/codeql-action (3 → 4).

Release-Notes 1.0.1

[1.0.0] — 2026-05-03 — Standalone Major Release

Erste vollständig eigenständige Version. Code-Namespace, IPC-Kanäle und Source-Tree-Struktur wurden auf HellionChat.* konsolidiert. Plugin verweigert den Start bei aktivem Upstream Chat 2 (bilinguale Konflikt-Meldung). SQLite-Native auf 3.50.3 gepinnt (CVE-2025-6965, CVE-2025-7709). Tab-Layout-Default für neue Installationen und für User auf Config-Version 12 oder älter neu strukturiert (5 thematische Tabs statt 6+ kitchen-sink). Sweep aus Critical- und Major-Findings aus dem Codebase-Audit eingearbeitet.

Release-Notes 1.0.0

[0.6.1] — 2026-05-03 — Pop-Out Discoverability & /tell Auto-Pop-Out

Pop-Out-Button im Chat-Header sichtbar, einmaliger Hint-Banner für die Pop-Out-Funktionalität. Neue Einstellung "Neue /tell-Tabs direkt als Pop-Out öffnen". Pop-Out-Input ist jetzt standardmäßig aktiv. Bugfixes: Ghost-Windows bei LRU-Drop / Logout, Dead-Zone unter dem Input-Bar bei aktivem Hint-Banner.

Release-Notes 0.6.1

[0.6.0] — 2026-05-03 — UX Polish: Pop-Out Input + Colour Presets

Zwei opt-in UX-Features. Pop-Out-Fenster bekommen optional eine kompakte Eingabe-Bar mit channel-farbigem Icon-Button und unabhängigem Text-Buffer pro Pop-Out. Sieben Built-in-Color-Presets (Klassik, High-Contrast, Pastell, Dark-Mode-Tuned, Hellion, Night Blue, Indigo Violet) zum One-Click-Apply. Konfigurations-Migration v10 → v11.

Release-Notes 0.6.0

[0.5.4] — 2026-05-02 — WrapText Hardening

ImGuiUtil.WrapText von Pointer-Arithmetik auf Span- und Index-basierten Control-Flow umgestellt. Schließt das wiederkehrende CodeQL-Critical-Alert "unvalidated local pointer arithmetic" dauerhaft. Keine nutzersichtbare Verhaltensänderung — Word-Wrap-Output ist byte-identisch zu 0.5.3.

Release-Notes 0.5.4

[0.5.3] — 2026-05-02 — Pointer Arithmetic Hardening

Erster Anlauf zur Schließung des CodeQL-Critical-Alerts in ImGuiUtil.WrapText. Encoded-Byte-Buffer-Length wird vor der Pointer-Arithmetik via GetByteCount validiert.

Release-Notes 0.5.3

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Frühere Versionen

Releases vor 0.5.3 (Bootstrap-Phase 0.1.0 bis 0.5.2) sind direkt am GitHub-Release-Stream einsehbar:

Alle Releases

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Pflege-Hinweis

Die Source-of-Truth für den nutzersichtbaren Changelog ist der changelog:-Block in HellionChat/HellionChat.yaml. repo.json und der GitHub-Release-Body werden daraus gespeist. Diese Datei (docs/CHANGELOG.md) ist eine kuratierte Zusammenfassung mit Verweis auf die Release-Pages und wird beim Versions-Bump manuell ergänzt.