HellionChat/HellionChat/HellionChat.yaml

name: Hellion Chat
author: JonKazama-Hellion
punchline: Chat replacement with privacy controls aligned to EU, US and JP rules — based on Chat 2 (EUPL-1.2)
description: |-
  Hellion Chat is a privacy-focused chat replacement for FINAL FANTASY XIV
  based on the Chat 2 codebase (EUPL-1.2). One feature is intentionally
  removed (the optional webinterface) and a stack of privacy controls is
  added on top. Tabs, channel filters, RGB colours, emotes, screenshot
  mode, IPC integration and the chat replacement window itself work the
  same. The webinterface is intentionally not part of Hellion Chat because
  it serves a different use case from the smaller default footprint this
  plugin is built around.

  On top of that, Hellion Chat adds privacy and data-handling controls
  designed to align with the modern data protection rules that apply
  across the EU, the United States and Japan. By default only your own
  conversations are stored; messages from strangers, NPCs and system
  spam stay out of the database. Retention windows are configurable per
  channel, history can be wiped retroactively, and stored data can be
  exported on demand.

  Key privacy and data-handling features:

  - Channel whitelist with a Privacy-First default
  - Per-channel retention with a daily background sweep
  - Retroactive cleanup with a Ctrl+Shift confirm
  - Export to Markdown, JSON or CSV
  - First-run wizard with three preset profiles (Privacy-First, Casual,
    Full History)
  - Bilingual UI (English and German) with live language switching
  - Independent plugin state — own config file and database directory,
    so Hellion Chat does not share state with upstream Chat 2

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

  Modding & support: join the Hellion Forge Discord at
  https://discord.gg/X9V7Kcv5gR — community for Hellion Chat and
  other Hellion Online Media plugins/tools.
repo_url: https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat
accepts_feedback: true
icon_url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/main/HellionChat/images/icon.png
image_urls:
  - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/main/HellionChat/images/chatWindow.png
  - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/main/HellionChat/images/withSimpleTweaks.png
tags:
  - Social
  - UI
  - Chat
  - Replacement
  - Privacy
changelog: |-
  **Hellion Chat 1.0.0 — Standalone Major Release**

  First fully standalone release. Internal cleanup, no user action
  required — auto-update applies cleanly, configuration and database
  paths unchanged.

  Internal changes:

  - 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
  - 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

  Branding:

  - 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)'
  - 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).

  **Hellion 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).

  **Hellion Chat 0.6.0 — UX Polish: Pop-Out Input + Colour Presets**

  Two opt-in UX features land in the same release. Existing users see
  no change unless they enable the new toggles.

  Pop-out input bar:

  - New global master switch in Settings → Window → Frame: "Enable input
    in pop-outs". Default OFF so existing behaviour is preserved
  - When enabled, every pop-out window grows a compact input bar at the
    bottom (channel-coloured icon button left, text input right). The
    auto-translate picker is intentionally not part of the compact bar
    in v0.6.0 — typical pop-out workflows (FC greeter, club hostess)
    rarely need it there
  - Each pop-out keeps an independent text buffer and history cursor;
    channel changes still apply globally because that is how the FFXIV
    channel API works
  - Up/Down navigates a shared input history singleton across the main
    window and every open pop-out
  - First pop-out opening after the upgrade shows a one-time hint
    banner pointing users to the new toggle

  Chat colour presets:

  - Seven built-in presets above the per-channel colour list in
    Settings → Appearance → Colours: ChatTwo Default, High-Contrast,
    Pastell, Dark-Mode-Tuned, Hellion (brand-coloured, blue/orange
    Arctic Cyan + Ember Glow palette from the Hellion Online Media
    branding spec), plus two bonus mood presets — Night Blue (royal
    blue, classic-cool) and Indigo Violet (royal violet, glitter-mystic)
  - Apply is immediate and overwrites the channels covered by the
    preset; battle-channel colours are left alone so combat tuning
    stays intact

  Configuration migrates from v10 to v11 with a diagnostic log entry;
  no data is reset. Bilingual (English/German) for both new sections.

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

  **Hellion Chat 0.5.4 — WrapText hardening**

  Replaces the unsafe pointer-arithmetic in ImGuiUtil.WrapText with
  Span- and index-based control flow. Closes the persistent CodeQL
  Critical alert "unvalidated local pointer arithmetic" that kept
  re-firing on every shape of the previous fix.

  Hardening:

  - WrapText now allocates a buffer sized by Encoding.UTF8.GetMaxByteCount
    via ArrayPool, validates the actual encoded length against that
    ceiling, and threads the rest of the algorithm through int offsets
    instead of raw byte pointers
  - Pointer arithmetic only happens inside two small private helpers
    (CalcWordWrap and DrawText) that take the pinned base pointer plus
    int offsets sourced from the plugin's own logic, not from any
    virtual-method return
  - Added a 16 KiB upper bound on the buffer rent to prevent a
    pathological input from triggering an unbounded ArrayPool allocation

  No user-visible behaviour change. Word-wrap output is byte-identical
  to v0.5.3.

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

  **Hellion Chat 0.5.3 — Pointer arithmetic hardening**

  Closed CodeQL Critical alert in ImGuiUtil.WrapText by validating the
  encoded byte buffer length via GetByteCount before pointer
  arithmetic. Single-fix patch on top of v0.5.2.

  ---

  Earlier history: https://github.com/JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat/releases