2025.1

Find full documentation at https://halloy.squidowl.org/.

Added:

• Image and card previews for url links
• Ability to disable dimming of usernames when away
• Ability to customize autocomplete sorting direction and completion suffixes
• Ability to hide command descriptions
• Ability to set delay before triggering notifications
• Ability to toggle fullscreen
• Ability to exclude and include notifications.
• New IRCv3 extensions support
  • chathistory
  • setname
  • Standard Replies
• Case mapping support via ISUPPORT
• Restore last known window position and size at launch
• Date separators in buffers when day changes
• Show nickname in user-context menu
• Tor support as a proxy option

Fixed:

• Long username & password combinations could cause SASL authentication to fail
• nick_password_command is now working as intended
• Don't add suffix (: ) to prompt if there is no valid nick to autocomplete
• Append .toml filename when saving themes on macOS
• Highlight notifications are correctly triggered for /me actions

Changed:

• Changed focus buffer shortcuts to include ctrl (⌘ on macOS) to avoid interfering with default text input shortcuts for word navigation (⌘ + ←, ⌘ + →)

2024.14

Fixed:

• CPU spiking due to memory leak in upstream crate.

2024.13

Added:

• Highlight buffer to view highlights across all servers. Can be opened via sidebar button or command bar.
• Logging buffer to view logs. Can be opened via sidebar button or command bar.
• New hotkeys
  • Toggle channel topic (Ctrl + Alt + t (macOS: ⌘ + ⌥ + t))
  • Toggle file_transfers buffer (Ctrl + j (macOS: ⌘ + j))
  • Toggle logs buffer (Ctrl + l (macOS: ⌘ + l))
  • Toggle theme editor window (Ctrl + t (macOS: ⌘ + t))
• New configuration options
  • Dynamically select dark or light theme based on OS appearance. See configuartion.
  • Ability to define a shell command for loading a NICKSERV password. See configuration
  • Ability to define a shell command for loading a SASL password. See configuration
  • Show/hide sidebar button to view logs. See configuration
  • Ability to align nicknames above messages. See configuration.

Fixed:

• Inverted scrolling direction.
• Only highlight if user nick isn't part of another word.
• Errors from password commands are now caught and displayed to the user.

Removed:

• Configuration options:
  • [sidebar.buttons] in favor for the new User Menu

2024.12

Added:

• Multi-window support: Pop out panes into separate windows.
• In-app theme editor with ability to with share it via a halloy:// URL.
• Clickable users and channels in buffers.
• New configuration options
  • Ability to include or exclude channels for server messages (join, part, etc.). See configuration.
  • Ability to color nicknames within channel messages. See configuration
  • Ability to define a shell command for loading a server password. See configuration
• Enable support for IRCv3 msgid

Fixed:

• Regression where messages sent to ZNC virtual users were routed to the wrong buffer (e.g. *status routed to status).
• Timeouts that could occur while Halloy was running in the background.

Changed:

• Default Ghost sequence changed to REGAIN.

2024.11

Added:

• New configuration options
  • Right aligning nicks in buffers. See configuration.
  • Right aligning nicks in nicklist. See configuration.
  • Hiding chghost messages. See configuration.
  • Overwrite nicklist width in channels. See configuration.
  • Show/hide user access levels in buffer and nicklist. See configuration
  • buffer_focused_action added to sidebar to enable actions a focused buffer. See configuration.
  • Notification for direct messages. See notification configuration.
• Enable support for IRCv3 Monitor and extended-monitor

Fixed:

• Expanded recognized login notifications (used to join channels that report themselves as requiring registration after logging in)
• Messages with multiple targets are correctly recorded into multiple buffers (and/or multiple times into the same buffer) client-side.
• Messages sent with a STATUSMSG prefix are recorded and indicated in the corresponding channel.
• Ability to position the sidebar at the top, bottom, right, or left. See Sidebar configuration.
• /mode requires too many parameters for certain commands.

Changed:

• Reworked themes to add better customization possibilities
  • NOTE Old theme files are not compatibile with the new format. However all the themes in the theme community has been updated to the new format.
• Unread indicator has changed from a boolean value to a enum. See Sidebar configuration.
• Renamed sidebar.default_action to sidebar.buffer_action.
• Auto-completing (with tab) a nickname at the beginning of the input line will append ': ' (colon space). Otherwise, a space is appended to the completion.

Removed:

• Removed hex configuration option for server messages and nicknames.
  • hex was previously used to overwrite a color value. This is now done through the new theme format.

Notes:

• In backlog you might see two text markers (∙). This is because we didn't want to update the entire history, when we updated the way we construct text components. New history from this release wont have multiple markers.
• Your old themes are broke since we updated to a new format. Find themes in the new format here: theme community.

2024.10

Added:

• Small icon in sidemenu when a new release is available
• Enable support for IRCv3 chghost, account-notify, and extended-join

Removed:

• Persistent window position and size due to an upstream bug

NOTE
Due to a bug in an upstream library that affected Windows, we had to release an update earlier than planned. As a result, this update contains fewer changes than a typical release.

2024.9

Added:

• Rich formatted and clickable URLs
• Text formatting through /format command. For more details, see text formatting guide.
• Support for CTCP queries CLIENTINFO, PING, SOURCE, and VERSION
• Custom notification sounds. Use your own sounds or select from a few new built-in options. For more details, see notification configuration.
• Support DCC Send requests with spaces in the filename
• Reload config button in Sidebar

Fixed:

• Text input missing key presses in certain instances
• Connection timeout when UI is suspended on an offscreen workspace due to channel backpressure
• Raw commands are passed through unmodified
• AWAY command cuts off the away message

2024.8

Added:

• Ability to open irc:// and ircs:// URL schemes
• Ability to overwrite nickname colors by providing a hex string (see buffer configuration).
• Ability to overwrite server & internal message colors by providing a hex string (see buffer configuration).
• Configurable shortcuts for "Leave Buffer" and "Toggle Sidebar" actions (see keyboard shortcuts configuration).
• Ability to remember window position and size when reopened.
• Ability to hide unread indicators in sidebar (see sidemenu configuration)

Fixed:

• UTF-8 channel name rendering in sidebar and in pane title bars.

2024.7

Added:

• Reload configuration file from within the application (Ctrl + r (macOS: ⌘ + r))
• Allow configuration of internal messages in buffer (see buffer configuration)
• User information added to context menu
• Support for IRCv3 CAP NEW and CAP DEL subcommands
• Enable support for IRCv3 multi-prefix, message-tags, WHOX, and UTF8ONLY
• Dynamic commands and tooltips added to command auto-completion via ISUPPORT
• Added support for socks5 proxy configuration (see proxy configuration)
• Added support for http proxy configuration (see proxy configuration)

Changed:

• Simplified onboarding experience for users without a config.toml file
• MacOS will now also look in $HOME/.config/halloy for config.toml.
• Context menus can be dismissed by pressing Escape
• Join channels that report themselves as requiring registration after logging in

Fixed:

• No longer automatically reconnects to a server after using the /QUIT command.

2024.6

Added:

• File transfer support (see file transfer configuration)
• Adjust WHO polling for servers without away-notify (see server configuration)
• Tooltips on application buttons (see tooltips configuration).
• Sidebar menu buttons (see sidebar configuration).
• Display current version, and latest remote version in command bar
• Allow reading passwords from files in server configuration
• Allow configuration to specify a server's NickServ IDENTIFY command syntax

Fixed:

• Accept '@' in usernames to support bouncers that use the user@identifier/network convention
• Prevent rare scenario where broadcast messages' timestamp would not match time the messages are received
• Fix SASL on macos by using RUSTLS backend

Changed:

• MacOS icon to better follow Apple's Human Interface Guidelines