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| Versió | Data | Mida | Fitxers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026.9.0Darrera versió | 1 d’octubre del 2026 | — | 64 bits EXE (Inno Setup) Notes de la versióFind full documentation at https://halloy.chat/
Added:
- Animated GIFs support
- Keyboard-driven message focus: navigate and act on messages without mouse
- Links and channel mentions within a message can be focused and opened
- New buffer.focus theme color for the focused message border
- Smooth scrolling
- Support link delimiters (< & >) with markdown formatting
- Ability to configure individual bouncer networks with servers.<name>.networks.<network>
- buffer.server_messages.condense.timestamp setting to control whether a condensed message shows a time range, its start timestamp, its end timestamp, or no timestamp
- Optional font.code setting for code-formatted text
- buffer.nickname.offline supports "dimmed" / { dimmed = float }, and { color = "theme"|"nickname", alpha = ...} so theme offline color and dimming can be combined
- buffer.nickname.color_override rules for assigning colors to specific nicknames
- Optional buffer.self_message theme style for messages sent by yourself
- Config options buffer.channel.nicklist.scrollbar.hidden, sidebar.scrollbar.hidden, and pane.scrollbar.hidden that control whether the nicklist, sidebar, and in-pane scrollbars respectively are enabled or not
- Additional setting for controlling anti-flood burst parameter (servers.<name>.anti_flood.burst); default value has been reduced from 10 to 8
- Expanded servers.<name>.max_connection_attempts to allow unlimited attempts
- Server context menu action to open Channel Discovery with that server selected
- Server messages can be configured to trigger unread in a buffer or not (buffer.server_messages.<server_message>.triggers_unread)
- Sidebar visibility is remembered across application launches
- Settings to control how internal and server buffers are opened from the sidebar (actions.sidebar.internal and actions.sidebar.server)
- Config file path is now shown in config editor
- CTCP actions in private message context menus
- Config option to include ignored nicknames in autocomplete (buffer.text_input.autocomplete.include_ignored)
- file_transfer.send_completion_message setting to control whether a PRIVMSG is sent to the remote user when a file transfer completes.
Fixed:
- Scroll-to-reply when clicking a reply preview
- Allow listing modes by not providing <+|->
- Selection on mutliline messages
- Display RELAYMSG senders correctly
- Receiving an invite will reveal the query with the inviter in the sidebar
- Config editor now properly out-scrolls the cursor
- Anti-flood rate-limiting applied to post-authentication JOINs (and similar on-connect messages)
- Display messages from legacy ISO-8859-1 clients instead of replacing invalid UTF-8 bytes
- Reconnect WebSocket connections when ping writes fail or exceed servers.<name>.ping_timeout
- Avoid bursts of IRC pings after delays
- Text in input box being scrolled/clipped 2px on the left on pane load or when navigating history
- Show registration-required join errors in the channel buffer instead of the server buffer
- Remove blank space above the input after marking a buffer as read
- Don't show another preview from the same message after hiding one
- User avatars are only shown when avatar is included in metadata.preferred_keys
- Expand $HOME or %AppData% when first component in a path setting
- Include/exclude conditions are properly accounted for when highlighting nicknames
- Restrict commonly used (()<>") chars from being used to highlight nicks
- "Apply Colors & Font Styles" button in Theme Editor persists modifications made via the theme editor
- Better support for larger font sizes in modals
- Sanitize incoming DCC filenames against Windows reserved device names, illegal characters, and trailing dots/spaces
- Reject server icons whose decoded dimensions would exceed the maximum GPU buffer size, matching the existing link-preview guard
- Cap the number of concurrently open IRCv3 batches a server can hold open, so a single connection cannot grow memory without bound
- User-specified log levels a |
| 2026.8.0 | 26 de juliol del 2026 | — | 64 bits EXE (Inno Setup) Notes de la versióFind full documentation at https://halloy.chat/
Added:
- Channel Monitor internal buffer for viewing messages from all joined channels
- Config editor internal buffer for editing the config file in-app
- Sidebar
- Collapse & expand servers in sidebar
- Internal buffers (logs, highlights, etc) can be added to sidebar
- Channel, query, and internal buffers can be muted (only shown if an unread/highlight indicator should be shown) via servers.<name>.channels, servers.<name>.queries, and sidebar.internal_buffers.mute
- sidebar.unread_indicator.exclude & sidebar.unread_indicator.include no longer controls highlight indicators
- New sidebar.highlight_indicator.title, sidebar.highlight_indicator.show_on_open_buffers, sidebar.highlight_indicator.exclude, and sidebar.highlight_indicator.include settings for independent highlight control
- Undo/redo in the message input and config editor (ctrl/cmd + z, ctrl/cmd + shift + z)
- Link interactions
- Context menu on channel links
- actions.buffer.click_nickname and actions.nicklist.click_nickname can be used to specify whether a nickname will: open query and how the query is opened, insert nickname in the input box, or no action ("no-action" or "noop"); takes over functionality from buffer.nickname.click and buffer.channel.nicklist.click and adds the ability to perform no action
- actions.buffer.click_channel_name and actions.buffer.click_highlight can be set to no action ("no-action" or "noop") to not open the channel when clicking on the channel name
- actions.buffer.click_channel_discovery to configure click behavior for channel names in the channel discovery pane (default: "new-pane")
- Allow image preview on URL click (actions.buffer.click_image_url)
- actions.buffer.notifications settings to control how interacting with notifications is handled
- Support displaying a larger version of the card images in-app
- pane.always_show_title_bar_buttons setting to prevent pane title bar buttons from being hidden when the pane is not hovered
- Shortcuts displayed in pane button tooltips (where available/configured)
- follow option for reroute rules (servers.<name>.reroute) to reroute messages to the focused buffer
- Add system keyring support for server, NickServ, channel, SASL, filehost credential, and proxy passwords
- IRCv3
- IRCv3 no-implicit-names support
- servers.<name>.do_not_request can be specified to prevent IRCv3 capability requests (e.g. servers.<name>.do_not_request = [ "labeled-response" ] will prevent labeled-response from being requested from the server)
- servers.<name>.max_connection_attempts setting to control the number of connection of attempts made before autoconnect is automatically disabled (defaults to 10)
- Improved legibility of the returned values of MONITOR list (/monitor L)
- Config option (preview.card.description_decode_html) to decode html strings in preview card descriptions
- runtime.metrics_hinting setting to control whether widgets are rendered using metrics hinting
- Keyboard shortcuts validation (e.g no duplicate key binds)
- servers.<name>.irc_protocol_log settings to enable logging of the IRC protocol messages sent-to / received-from the server
- logs.max_file_count setting to control the number of Halloy log files that are stored on disk
- logs.file_timestamp setting to control what timezone is used for timestamps in log files and log file names
- Explicit portable mode via HALLOY_PORTABLE_DIR environment variable
- Theme editor can be closed via Escape
Fixed:
- Nick highlight improvements
- Handle nick possessives <nick>'s (<nick> should be parsed)
- Skip parsing nicks inside abbreviations (e.g. shouldn't have highlights)
-Notifications no longer immediately dismissed in some Wayland DE(s)
- Sidebar
- Do not show unread/highlight indicators in sidebar for ignored messages
- Show unread indicators for panes hidden by maximize
- Queries specified in configuration correctly added to the sidebar
- Do not copy empty selections to the primary clipboard (i.e |
| 2026.7.2 | 8 de juny del 2026 | — | 64 bits EXE (Inno Setup) Notes de la versióAdded:
- Add clear buffer shortcut to title bar
- Indicate in query if user is offline in its title bar
Fixed:
- Issue where large window size could cause Halloy to crash in certain scenarios
- Correctly support RPL_METADATASYNCLATER
- Issue where input box could lose focus after a filehost, reply, or reaction modal
- Issue where a buffer could jitter in certain particular scroll positions
- Minor issues where input tooltips could fail to reflect current caret position, highlight the correct active argument, show when first the input is first loaded, etc
- Show Display in Configuration docs menu
- Document that servers.<name>.username setting will fall back to servers.<name>.nickname if not set
- Nick completion tooltip no longer shows when there is only a single match
Changed:
- buffer.reply.insert_nick no longer inserts nick when replying in query buffers or to yourself
- Input tooltips are aligned with the input (i.e. inset when text_input.nickname.enabled = true)
- servers.<name>.sasl.plain.username setting will fall back to servers.<name>.nickname if not set
- Replace the Windows MSI package with a per-user Inno Setup installer
Thanks:
- Contributions: @luca020400, @englut, @furudean
- Feature requests: @G00S
- Bug reports: wwWraith, @skizzerz, @ncfavier, @account1009 |
| 2026.7.1 | 2 de juny del 2026 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióFind full documentation at https://halloy.chat/
Fixed:
- Panic when a reply contains a multibyte character near the start of message
- Ensure messages don't get formatted if channel has +c mode (colour filter)
- User highlighting incorrectly matching contraction suffixes
Thanks:
- Contributions: @luca020400, @aniketkotal
-Bug reports: @WinnerWind, @sco1, @classabbyamp, @aniketkotal |
| 2026.7.0 | 28 de maig del 2026 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióFind full documentation at https://halloy.chat/
Added:
- Support for IRCv3 reply client tag
- Support for IRCv3 draft/message-redaction
- Support for IRCv3 metadata display-name, avatar, pronouns, homepage, color, status keys
- IRCv3 bot mode support, with bot icon in buffers and nicklists
- Support for IRCv3 WebSockets
- Support for displaying SVGs
- Notification for reacts (notifications.reaction)
- Theme colors for horizontal rule text and buffer backlog/date separators
- Font size settings the sidebar (sidebar.font_size) and server titles in the sidebar (sidebar.server_font_size)
- The focused buffer is indicated in the sidebar by a thin border (can be configured with the optional theme color buttons.primary.border_active, falls back to buffer.border_selected if no color is configured; set to "#00000000" to disable)
- Two new optional theme colors, buttons.primary.border_active and buttons.secondary.border_active that define border color used to signal secondary state (set to "#00000000" to disable)
- The config buffer.server_messages.condense.max may be used to limit the number of user entries shown in condensed messages
- Setting to close queries when closing query buffer panes (buffer.close.query)
- Configuration options for font stretch (font.stretch)
- The default font is not bundled if default feature iosevka-font is disabled.
- Customize the character used to indicate a nickname was truncated with display.truncation_character
- Support for draft/chathistory-end message tag
- Setting to mark new messages as read for any open buffer when the buffer is scrolled to the bottom and Halloy is focused (buffer.mark_as_read.on_message)
- Setting to hide the text of messages that contain only a single URL, when the URL's preview is visible (preview.hide_url)
- Nick and channel completion picker
- Runtime graphics settings (graphic backend, vsync, and antialiasing)
Fixed:
- Issue where duplicate messages could appear for sent messages when connecting to a soju bouncer
- Issue where ZNC playback would produce duplicate messages
- Record NICK and QUIT messages returned by draft/event-playback (chathistory)
- Allow multiple file uploads when pasting on macOS
- Preview inclusion conditions would require both channel and user/server_message be specified, when one or the other should be sufficient
- Matching against users for some include/exclude conditions
- Do not hide consecutive nicknames if the user's displayed access levels or bot mode changes
- Link matching:
- Channel link matching on single line only
- Fix link matching for both end of line delimiters & punctuations
- Handle URLs ending with paired delimiters chars when matching links
- Handle leading delimiters when parsing link fragments to match nicks after quotes
- Issue where a shorter highlight word would match instead of a longer one sharing the same prefix
- Issue where unread indicator could appear in sidebar for an open pane that does not have unread messages
- Issue where backlog divider in highlights or logs pane would not update when marking the pane as read
- VERSION and JOIN commands on connect are skipped if server is primary soju server
- tor enabled builds
- Emoji pickers not finding newer emoji like 🙂↕️
- Selection expansion will take precedence over input history navigation (i.e. shift + ↑ will expand the selection to include the top line of input, rather than navigate to the previous input history entry)
- Window title displays buffer name after closing previously last pane
Changed:
- On-join topic messages dropped by default (buffer.server_messages.join_topic), instead the topic banner is enabled by default (buffer.channel.topic_banner)
- Topic messages manually requested via /topic have a distinct setting from topic messages received on join (buffer.server_messages.topic → buffer.server_messages.request_topic & buffer.server_messages.join_topic)
- Badging on server icons used to indicate unread/highlight state (instead of the color of the server i |
| 2026.6.0 | 22 d’abril del 2026 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióFind full documentation at https://halloy.chat/
Added:
- Files can be uploaded to server using `soju.im/FILEHOST` (see the [file uploads guide](https://halloy.chat/guides/filehost) for details)
- `typing`
- Per-server `typing` settings (`servers.<name>.typing`)
- Animate typing dots
- `buffer.typing.style` setting with `padded` and `popped` modes for typing indicators
- Settings to reroute direct PRIVMSG and/or NOTICE messages to another buffer (`servers.<name>.reroute.query` and `servers.<name>.reroute.notice`)
- `channel-context` support (messages with the tag will be automatically rerouted)
- Theme & Display
- `buffer.nickname.color` now supports `{ palette = ["#RRGGBB", ...] }` for nickname colors from a fixed set
- `buffer.server_messages.away` setting to control when automated away messages are shown
- `buffer.server_messages.away` theme setting to control how automated away messages appear
- Setting to control whether unread indicators are shown on open buffers (`sidebar.unread_indicator.show_on_open_buffers`)
- Unread indicators for queries can be hidden via `sidebar.unread_indicator.exclude`
- Ability to customize the arrows used for directional messages such as join, part, quit, kick, and CTCP messages.
- Expanded `tooltips` setting to allow hiding auto-complete tooltips
- Commands
- Ability to add optional arguments in custom aliases (`/msg ChanServ op $channel $1?-`)
- `/massmessage` command to send Ergo/Solanum mass-messages
- `/invite` command tooltip and validation provided, and display of `INVITE`-related messages improved
- `//` can be used to escape a leading `/`; in other words, `//topic example` will send the message `/topic example` (not execute the `/topic` command)
- Controls
- Right-click context menu on messages now includes "Copy message" to copy the message text to the clipboard
- Message drafts are remembered across Halloy sessions (can be disabled with `buffer.text_input.persist`)
- <kbd>ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>,</kbd> now opens the config file (<kbd>⌘</kbd> + <kbd>,</kbd> on macOs)
- emacs bindings for <kbd>ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>u</kbd> and <kbd>ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>w</kbd>
- `buffer.text_input.kill_to_clipboard` to control key bindings moving killed text to clipboard
- Windows MSI installer does not automatically start Halloy during passive or quiet installations
Changed:
- Default typing style (`buffer.typing.style`) is now `popped` (from `padded`)
- Moved `typing` settings from `buffer.channel.typing` to `buffer.typing` to clarify that they apply to queries as well as channels
- Moved nicklist nickname settings from `buffer.channel.nicklist` to `buffer.nickname` (`away` and `color`)
- Colons, semicolons and double quotes are no longer considered part of channel names
- Backslash escapes are now only interpreted when escaping markdown formatting characters
- Tooltips will be shown for all commands, even those not available on the server, with an error tooltip shown if the server does not support the command
- Parsed URLs will be displayed with IDN encoded domains (to avoid domain spoofing) and percent-decoded path & later components (for legibility) by default (`display.decode_urls`)
Fixed:
- Server notices with wildcard targets (for example `NOTICE *`) are shown in the server buffer again
- `typing`
- Settings for buffers could get in a stuck state without any way to control them (or see that the state is stuck)
- +typing=done should not be sent when the message is sent
- `chathistory`
- Support for multiline messages
- TARGETS pagination
- More conservative treatment of pagination on reconnect
- Greatly reduced the scope of deduplication to only messages that can be expected to possibly be duplicates
- Receive & apply reactions in queries
- IRC URIs now handle bracketed IPv6 hosts and percent-encoded channel targets correctly
- Fix URLs with non-ASCII characters getting percent-encoded when rendered in buffers
- Filtering for common trailing punctuation and delimiters when linking channel names (and nic |
| 2026.5.0 | 21 de març del 2026 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióFind full documentation at https://halloy.chat/
Added:
- Setting to limit reaction display length (buffer.channel.message.max_reaction_display) and maximum length (buffer.channel.message.max_reaction_chars)
- Emoji and command picker entries are now clickable and insert the selected completion directly into the input.
- Multi-line send support (uses IRCv3 multiline when available; note: incompatible with the current release of soju [v0.10.1], expected to be resolved in a future version)
- Typing indicator support (uses IRCv3 typing)
- Add emoji reactions for supported servers (uses IRCv3 react)
- New "config" option to sidebar.order_channels_by. Uses server.<server_name>.channels to determine order.
- Case insensitive sort of query names in sidebar
- Copied order_channels_by from sidebar to server.<name>, defaults to sidebar.order_channels_by if empty.
- Alias commands (see buffer.commands.aliases)
- Exec command support for generating input from shell command output (see buffer.commands.exec)
- The titlebar now displays the current buffer for each window.
- /plain-me, /format-me, /plain-msg, /format-msg, /plain-notice, and /format-notice commands were added to provide /plain//format functionality to the /me, /msg, and /notice commands
Fixed:
- Improved message length calculation (when known the bytes required to relay a message are included in the calculation, when unknown an estimate is used)
- Prevent interaction leakage behind open modals: clicks, cursor changes, and hover states no longer affect underlying UI while preserving outside-click and Esc to close
- Prevent clicks from passing through completion picker overlays to content behind them (for example nicknames in the buffer).
- Regression that could make the application slow to close
- Apply locale to context menu, copy, and date separator timestamps
- Fixed direct message notifications when excludes are present
- Fixed reloading config for channel sorting.
- Fixed handling of URLs ending with ).
- Auto-format rules are applied to the content of /me, /msg, and /notice commands
Changed:
- Spoilers (/f ||hello world||) now reveal on click instead of hover
Security:
- Fixed file transfer path traversal vulnerability when using DCC
- Config directories and config.toml are now created with owner-only permissions |
| 2026.4.0 | 25 de febrer del 2026 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióFind full documentation at https://halloy.chat/
Added:
- Support for the IRCv3 react client tag.
- Correctly record window size if window is maximized
Fixed:
- High CPU usage when opening very large buffers
- Window state is saved even if altered shortly before quitting
- Default dimmed value for server messages no longer overrides dimmed = false set for individual server message kinds
- Issue where context menu items would not respond to clicks
- Filters are loaded on first connection to server via bouncer-networks and updated on config file reload
- Compatibility with ZNC's backlog service
- Markdown formatting inside code spans is properly ignored
Security:
- Improve link preview management to mitigate spam-driven resource abuse |
| 2026.3.0 | 25 de febrer del 2026 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióFind full documentation at https://halloy.chat/
Added:
- Support requesting window attention (setting urgency) for notifications (notifications.<type>.request_attention)
- Default server message pseudo-type, allowing the default values for server message types to be user-specified
- Default internal message pseudo-type, allowing the default values for internal message types to be user-specified
- Add setting to specify queries to be added to the sidebar after connecting to a server
- Added ability to disconnect on SASL authentication failure
- Setting to configure font line height (font.line_height)
- Ability to add multiple keybinds for a single shortcut
- Sidebar actions can now be configured separately for channel and query buffers (actions.sidebar.channel, actions.sidebar.query)
- URL context menu now supports Hide Preview / Show Preview
- New shortcuts:
- new_horizontal_buffer (not bound by default)
- new_vertical_buffer (not bound by default)
- quit_application (defaults to Ctrl+Q on linux, not bound on Windows/MacOS)
- Expand show_access_levels to allow all access levels (in addition to highest or no access levels) in buffer/nicklist/input
- Configuration setting to allow locale specification used when formatting timestamps
- Configuration setting to include chantypes / prefixes when sorting channels in the sidebar
- When leaving a server (via context menu on sidebar entry or /quit), the server will not be automatically removed from the sidebar
- Manual disconnection from a server will disable auto-reconnect
- Disconnected servers can be connected to via the "Connect to server" entry in the context menu for its sidebar entry
- Servers can be prevented from connecting on launch (or configuration reload) with the servers.<name>.autoconnect setting
- /connect (without an argument) and /reconnect can be used in open buffers for disconnected servers to (re-)connect to the server
- /join (without an argument) can be used in channel buffers where the channel is not joined in order to (re-)join the channel
Fixed:
- Channel mode in pane headers not updating immediately after mode changes
- Cycle next/previous (unread) buffer shortcuts work from an empty pane
- Virtualize message rendering to improve buffer performance
- Default proxy used when checking for an update
- Detect system locale when formatting timestamps with locale-specific stftime formats
- When changing connection details for server (e.g. address, port, SASL authentication, etc) the connection details will be properly updated and the connection re-initiated
- Server configurations are properly updated when reloading configuration file
Changed:
- Condensed server messages are now enabled by default for nick changes, joins, parts, and quits
- The default condensed server message icon is now "none"
- sidebar.user_menu.show_new_version_indicator setting has been changed to check_for_update_on_launch to clarify that it prevents the check for an update
- Default settings:
- buffer.server_messages.condense.messages: [] → ["change-host", "change-nick", "join", "part", "quit"]
- sidebar.padding.buffer: [5,5] → [4,4]
- sidebar.spacing.server: 12 → 6
Fixed:
- When joining a channel fails (for example, invite-only or channel full), we now show the failure reason |
| 2026.2.0 | 2 de febrer del 2026 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióFind full documentation at https://halloy.chat/
Added_
- Settings to disable (selectively, or for the entire server) confirmation of delivery for sent messages
- Setting to adjust inner spacing and outer padding for panes (pane.gap.inner, pane.gap.outer)
- Setting to style unread query buffers as highlights in the sidebar (sidebar.unread_indicator.query_as_highlight)
- Settings to configure card and image preview dimensions
- Support for transparent background.
Fixed:
- Buffer not showing history until resize
- Previews are fetched through the same proxy as the server (or default proxy) for HTTP/SOCKS5 proxies
- No longer highlight nickname mentions in sent messages in certain scenarios
- Filters applied to one server will no longer hide query panes for other servers
-Card preview description text is now limited in height to prevent excessive text display
Changed:
- No longer highlight matches in sent messages
- No longer show notifications for messages where the relevant buffer is open and Halloy is focused |
| 2026.1.0 | 28 de novembre del 2025 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióFind full documentation at https://halloy.chat/
Added:
- Added Open URL entry to URL context menus
- Setting to not hide consecutive if previous message was a image preview
- Channel discovery buffer to view all channels on a server (using LIST). Can be opened via sidebar button or command bar.
- Setting to hide server icons in sidemenu
- Setting to adjust buffer padding and server spacing in sidemenu
- Setting to adjust entry padding in context menus
- Support for configuring a regex-based allowlist of URL patterns for Preview
- Setting to open a new pane, replace current pane, or open a new window after /join
- Emoji, channel, and user completion can be used with commands
- Auto-completion (emoji/channel/user) will auto-complete at the text cursor (instead of the end of the current input)
- Insert-nickname will place the nickname at the text cursor (instead of end of the current input)
- Backlog separator can be customized with a custom color and text (with the ability to remove text from it)
- Setting to disable unread indicators for specified channels/servers
- Users and messages can be filtered using regular expressions
- Added ability to set default QUIT and PART reason
- /connect command to temporarily connect to a server
- Setting for the font size of messages that contain only emojis
Fixed:
- No longer any delay in showing a tooltip after hovering
- Ignored users will not be suggested by user auto-completion
- Channel auto-completion works with all channel prefixes specified by the server
- Number pad enter now sends messages instead of adding a new line
- Join & monitor commands sent automatically on connection respect TARGMAX limits specified by the server
- /sysinfo is cleared from input when sent, and is recorded to the buffer even if the server doesn't support echoes
- Channel and user links in messages in the highlight buffer
- Remember fullscreen state across sessions
Changed:
- Keybindings for macOS default to Emacs-like by default, to match native text-input behavior |
| 2025.12.0 | 28 de novembre del 2025 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióFind full documentation at https://halloy.chat/
Added:
- Ability to exclude previews from specific server messages (e.g. topic, part, quit)
- Ability to expand & contract condensed messages via left-click
- Ability to hide nickname for consecutive messages from the same user
- Ability to hide the indicator when a new version of Halloy is available
- Ability to set Emacs-like keybindings for text input
- Ability to specify a distinct sound for each match highlight set
- Border radius on both image previews and cards displaying images through meta tags (configurable)
- Change-host and kick server messages messages can be condensed
- Context menu added to text input when right clicking
- Context menu item added to server-wide buffers to close all queries
- Exit application from user menu
- Fuzzy matching when searching in command bar
- Keyboard shortcuts can now be unset
- Messages that fail to send are dimmed and marked, and can be deleted or re-sent (for servers that support the echo-message capability)
- Per server custom proxy configuration option
- Reload Halloy by sending SIGUSR1 on Unix system
- Setting to disable file transfers (DCC), removing it from the UI
- Setting to notify for every message in a channel
- /plain command to send text with automatic formatting disabled
- Whowas instead of Whois action in context menu for offline nicknames
Fixed:
- Channels with the same name as servers now appear before servers when searching in command bar
- Flickering logo on Welcome screen
- Hide jitter in backlog divider caused by read marker updates when marking read on send
- Larger fonts (and font sizes) can be used without blanking out the input box
- NumLock status respected in input box & shortcuts
- Server messages reporting an inability to send to a nick/channel are routed to the relevant buffer
- Standard Exif rotation data is used when displaying images
Changed:
- Buffer context menu items in sidebar are sorted alphabetically
- By default the backlog separator is hidden when all messages in a pane have been marked as read (buffer.backlog_separator.hide_when_all_read)
- Unicode nicknames are now supported
- User menu configuration moved to [sidebar.user_menu] section |
| 2025.11.0 | 29 d’octubre del 2025 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióFind full documentation at https://halloy.chat/
Fixed:
- Regression when loading chat history in a channel
Thanks:
- Bug reports: @Erroneuz |
| 2025.10.0 | 28 d’octubre del 2025 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióFind full documentation at https://halloy.chat/
Added:
- /sysinfo command to send system information to current buffer
- Copy URLs from context menu by right-clicking on links
- Settings to condense multiple consecutive server messages into a single abbreviated message
- /detach command to detach from channels (soju feature)
- Support for USERINFO CTCP query
- Configurable anti-flood protection for servers that do not advertise SAFERATE
- Channel modes will be retrieved on joining a channel (to be shown in the pane title bar)
- Display own nickname next to text input field
- Server messages can be dimmed (enabled by default), to lessen their visual impact relative to user messages
- Context menu to timestamps that shows the message date, and will copy the timestamp to the clipboard when clicked
- Setting to open new buffers scrolled to the bottom (rather than scrolled to the last unread message, the default and current behavior)
- macOS: Ability to adjust content rendering to account for titlebar
- Setting to remove all window decorations
- New sounds: Zone, Bloop, Drop, Tweep.
Fixed:
- Enforce delay between notifications
- Larger fonts (and font sizes) can be used without blanking out the sidebar or pane title bar(s)
- The primary clipboard (with copy on selection & paste with middle click) is supported on Linux
- Sound effects are now properly reloaded when config file is refreshed from within the application
- Filters are applied only to the server they are specified for
- Filters are renormalized properly when ISUPPORT is updated
- Crash when typing /bouncer into the message box
- Scroll state no longer changes rapidly when long previews for URL(s) are present in history
- Sidebar menu always takes one click to open (would sometimes require two clicks)
Changed:
- The logs pane will only contain log messages since the last of launch of Halloy (i.e. for the current session only)
- Always show version number in user menu
Thanks:
- Contributions: @Toby222, @Frikilinux, @4e554c4c, @apollo7321, @Bartkk0, @seraxis
- Bug reports: @Toby222, @deepspaceaxolotl, @zhelezov, @Erroneuz, @dgz0, @csmith, @otonoton, @mefistoso
- Feature requests: @j0lol, @xcfrg, ThePendulum, i_like_halloy |
| 2025.9.0 | 27 de setembre del 2025 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióFind full documentation at https://halloy.chat/
Added:
- Added different unread icons for highlights vs regular unread messages
- Setting to change icons for unread messages and unread highlight messages
- Setting to change server icon size
- Setting to control spacing between messages in buffers
- Ability to specific multiple themes which then gets picked randomly at launch
- Notification indicator on sidebar menu for warning & error log messages
- Ability to mark as read on buffer close only if scrolled to the bottom of the buffer (new default behavior)
- /part, /topic, /mode, /kick, and /ctcp commands can have their target(s) argument skipped when it can be inferred from context (e.g. /topic will target the current channel by default when used in a channel buffer)
- /cleartopic command to remove a channel's topic (will target the current channel by default when used in a channel buffer)
- Ability to hide and theme kick server messages
- Setting to control whether or not to restore on launch the panes that were open when Halloy last closed
- Setting for split axis chosen as the shorter dimension of the focused pane (new default behavior)
- Setting for split axis chosen as the shorter dimension of the largest splittable pane
- soju.im/bouncer-networks support
- Setting to hide the backlog divider when all messages in the buffer have been read
- Setting to specify whether nickname highlighting is case sensitive
- Setting to hide topic changes
Fixed:
- Receiving files over DCC will no longer stall when sender stops accepting received receipts
- Attempting to navigate to the next/previous unread buffer, when there is no such buffer, will no longer clear the buffer
- Window position is now validated, preventing windows from opening on disconnected monitors
- When kicked from a channel the kick message will be broadcast in the server buffer (which remains open) as well as in the channel history (which is closed on kick)
- Preview images with large dimensions will not be displayed if larger than the allowed buffer size
- Do not activate the mark as read buffer when blocked/hidden messages are unread in the buffer
- Nickname highlighting is case insensitive by default (and uses the server's specified casemapping)
- Nickname changes properly broadcast in all channels user is in
- Page up/down behavior moves by consistent page length, and will no longer get stuck at the top of a buffer
- file_transfer.save_directory is now affected by path substitutions (tilde expansion & relative path prefixing)
Changed:
- Relative paths in configuration files are now prefixed with config dir |
| 2025.8.0 | 31 de juliol del 2025 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióFind full documentation at https://halloy.chat/
Added:
-Clear buffers with /clear command
- Notification indicator on sidebar menu for application updates and file transfers
Fixed:
- Nicknames in query was always shown as offline
- macOS now properly prioritizes XDG config directory (~/.config/halloy) over user config directory (~/Library/Application Support/halloy) |
| 2025.7.0 | 27 de juliol del 2025 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióFind full documentation at https://halloy.chat/
Added:
- Ability to ignore nicknames on server level or on a per-channel basis
- Ability to truncate nicknames in buffer
- New option to customize the appearance of offline nicknames
- Specify whether nicknames in buffers appear with the user's current status or status at time of sending the message
- Log level filtering for the log buffer (ctrl + l) and log file
- Per toast type setting for showing content in toasts
- Ability to hide nick and mode change server messages
- Context menu item added to server-wide buffers to mark all messages as read
- Auto-accept file transfers, with support for nick and mask filtering
- Adjustable scrollbar sizing
Fixed:
- Sidebar menu is now drawn with the correct offset
- Prevent messages with previews from shifting position on hover
- Recognize registration completion on older servers without capability negotiation (i.e. send on_connect, umodes, etc.)
Changed:
- Optimized message loading by implementing lazy loading: buffers now load only enough messages to fill the visible area instead of always loading 500+ messages.
- The [buffer.away] section has been split into [buffer.channel.nicklist] and [buffer.nickname] for greater flexibility
- Colorize the level text in log buffer based on theme
- Scrollbars now use a dedicated scrollbar color instead of horizontal_rule
- Tor is now an optional feature. Build with --features tor to enable Tor proxy support
- Topic "set at" time is now shown with local timezone offset, instead of UTC's
Thanks:
Contributions: @4e554c4c, @KE0VVT, @englut, @KaiKorla, @root-goblin
Bug reports: @darienm, @mercster, @ChrisRenfrow, @glguy
Feature requests: @rossburton, death916, @Celeo, @TehPeGaSuS, @gdluca, @darienm, @RealKindOne, @Tahomaru, @tribly |
| 2025.6.0 | 14 de juny del 2025 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióFind full documentation at https://halloy.chat/
Added:
- New application icon
- Show channel mode in panel if available
- Configuration options for font weight and bold weight
- /delay <seconds> command that can be used to control the timing of commands sent on connect
- Configuration option for the ordering of servers in the sidebar
Fixed:
- Handling of RPL_NOWAWAY & RPL_UNAWAY to reflect user's own AWAY state
- Draft messages are saved while navigating message history (i.e. pressing ↑ then ↓ in the input box will restore an unsent message after displaying sent message history)
Thanks:
- Contributions: @englut, @KaiKorla, @kit-ty-kate, @mhegreberg, @ohhskar, Rune Seir
- Bug reports: @awbradle
- Feature requests: @darienm, @kasper93, @auronandace, @n-kalosha |
| 2025.5.0 | 6 de maig del 2025 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióFind full documentation at https://halloy.chat/
Added:
- Ability to show a modal prompt before opening a URL
- WHOIS command now accepts optional server parameter
- CTCP requests through commands and user context
- Title bar button and keyboard shortcut to mark a buffer as read (will update the read marker as well, if the read-marker capability is available)
- Mark as Read settings to control when buffers are automatically marked as read
- /hop command. /hop parts the current channel and joins a new one
- Settings to limit passwords read from a file to the first line of the file only (on by default)
- Receive WALLOPS messages in the server buffer (color configurable in themes)
Changed:
- Clicking to insert a username will now use same suffixes specified for autocomplete
- Emoji picker will only show once there are two characters after : (by default, configurable)
- Autocomplete will match users based on how recently they were seen in the channel (by default, configurable)
- Include & exclude settings for previews apply to queries as well as channels |
| 2025.4.0 | 15 de març del 2025 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióFind full documentation at https://halloy.chat/ (Yes, we got a new fancy domain!)
Added:
- All toast notifications now display the server name
- Server messages (join, part, etc.) are now user-aware and will color nicknames accordingly
- Actions will be colored with the same features as regular messages (nicknames, urls, etc)
- Shortcuts for cycling buffers with unread message(s)
- Cycle to next buffer with unread message(s) ctrl + `
- Cycle to previous buffer with unread message(s) ctrl + ~
- Navigate commands & emoji picker with↑ & ↓ (as well as Tab &Shift +Tab)
- Expanded command completion and error checking/reporting
- Various shortcuts for https://themes.halloy.chat/
- The Command Bar now includes a "Discover More Themes" action, which opens the website
- The Theme Editor now has a "Share Theme with Community" option that opens the submit page with the theme payload pre-filled
- Ability to adjust alpha value of away users
- New action settings section with settings to control how to open buffers in response to various user actions
Fixed:
- No longer freezes under Wayland when window(s) are not visible
- Emoji picker is no longer case sensitive (i.e. 🤔 and :THINKING: will both match 🤔)
- Full support for the /notice command
- Message text will no longer be truncated to the first word
- Sent notices appear in message history
- /notice <targets> (without any message text) will open a pane for the target(s) without sending a message
- /msg <targets> supports more than one target when opening pane(s) without sending a message
Changed:
- Improved font rendering on Windows for better readability
- Sidebar buffer action settings have been moved to the new action settings section
- sidebar.buffer_action → actions.sidebar.buffer
- sidebar.buffer_focused_action → actions.sidebar.focused_buffer |
| 2025.3.0 | 15 de març del 2025 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióFind full documentation at https://halloy.squidowl.org/.
Added:
- Highlights by regex and words
- Time remaining is now displayed during file transfers
- Sidebar now automatically adjusts its width based on content
- Ability to customize default pane splitting direction (vertical or horizontal)
- Clicking a nickname is now configurable. The default behavior has changed to open a query.
- Ability to quit Halloy through commandbar and keyboard shortcut
- New shortcuts for scrolling a buffer:
- Scroll buffer up a page pageup (Fn + ↑ on macOS)
- Scroll buffer down a page pagedown (Fn + ↓ on macOS)
- Scroll to top of buffer ctrl + ↑ (⌘ + ↑ on macOS)
- Scroll to bottom of buffer ctrl + ↓ (⌘ + ↓ on macOS)
Changed:
- [file_transfer.save_directory] is now default download path for transfers. If set, files will be downloaded there by default. Otherwise, you'll be prompted to choose a location
- Ability to dynamically select dark or light theme based on OS appearance.
- /msg <target> (without any message text) will now open a pane for the target without sending a message
- Text input of the active pane will remain focused after all actions
- Focus last known active pane on launch
- Changed maximize / restore buffer shortcuts to ctrl + shift + ↑ / ctrl + shift + ↓ (⌘ + shift + ↑ / ctrl + shift + ↓ on macOS) to prevent collision with new scroll shortcuts |
| 2025.2.0 | 15 de febrer del 2025 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióFind full documentation at https://halloy.squidowl.org/.
Added:
- Emoji picker accessible via : in text input
- Automatically replace :shortcode: with corresponding emoji
- Added an option to show or hide images in preview cards by default
Fixed:
- infinite_scroll was defaulting to false, contrary to its documented default value. Now defaults to true
- A rare issue where the app opens smaller than when closed
- Closing the application while it is minimized (on Windows) causes it to open with the wrong size and position next time
- TLS connection issue on Windows (10+)
Tooling:
- Iced bumped to 97f1db3783dca5a4f60a9f89668613de4dfe9edd |
| 2025.1.0 | 29 d’octubre del 2024 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióFind 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 (⌘ + ←, ⌘ + →) |
| 2024.14.0 | 29 d’octubre del 2024 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióFixed:
CPU spiking due to memory leak in upstream crate. |
| 2024.13.0 | 28 d’octubre del 2024 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióAdded:
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 | 4 de setembre del 2024 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióAdded:
- 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 | 4 de setembre del 2024 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióAdded:
- 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. |
| 2024.9 | 30 de juliol del 2024 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióAdded:
- 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 |
| 2024.1 | 5 d’agost del 2024 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióAdded:
- 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. |
| 0.0.2024.8 | 5 de juliol del 2024 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióAdded:
- 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. |
| 0.0.2024.7 | 5 d’abril del 2024 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióAdded
- 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. |
| 0.0.2024.6 | 5 d’abril del 2024 | — | 64 bits MSI Notes de la versióAdded
- File transfer support (see [file transfer configuration](https://halloy.squidowl.org/configuration/file_transfer.html))
- Adjust WHO polling for servers without `away-notify` (see [server configuration](https://halloy.squidowl.org/configuration/servers.html))
- Tooltips on application buttons (see [tooltips configuration](https://halloy.squidowl.org/configuration/tooltips.html)).
- Sidebar menu buttons (see [sidebar configuration](https://halloy.squidowl.org/configuration/sidebar.html#sidebarbuttons-section)).
- 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](https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/app-icons) |