2025.8

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

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

Find 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

Find 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

Find 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

Find 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

Find 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

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