Halloy 2026.9.0

What's new in 2026.9.0

Find 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 …

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