Changelog

Every plugin's changes, newest first.

1 Nov 2026

  1. Chat1.30.5.0

    • Pattern rules match without backtracking, lookarounds and backreferences count as invalid
    • Caps on windows, tabs, rules and keywords, history settings kept to their sliders
    • The background image is a name in the shared media folder, never a path
    • Item links from chat are checked against the game's items and relinked afresh
    • Conversation tabs cap at 16, further tells show inline
    • Day text logs kept 90 days

31 Oct 2026

  1. Chat1.30.4.0

    • Its own icon

30 Oct 2026

  1. Chat1.30.3.0

    • Settings: shorter, clearer names
    • Astral framework 1.55.0.0: long setting names cut to their column, shown whole on hover

29 Oct 2026

  1. Chat1.30.2.0

    • Bar buttons' Order column and tabs fit the drag handle
    • Astral framework 1.53.0.0: drag a list's three-dot handle to move an item

  2. Chat1.30.1.4

    • Builds with Astral framework 1.52.0.0

28 Oct 2026

  1. Chat1.30.1.0

    • A new line no longer redraws every line on screen for three frames, and smooth scrolling keeps them too
    • Bar buttons and their counts cost less each frame
    • Chat keybinds are asked only where a key or button is set
    • Menus keep their lines while open

  2. Chat1.30.0.0

    • A bar button's icon can be your own picture, a game icon or a glyph
    • Pictures in pluginConfigs/Chat/icons are copied to pluginConfigs/AstralShared/media once
    • Astral framework 1.46.0.0: icon pickers, Naowh's art comes with the framework

26 Oct 2026

  1. Chat1.29.1.0

    • The Astral logo as its icon

  2. Chat1.29.0.0

    • On and off switch in the settings
    • Settings: lines kept, recent tells, scroll speed
    • Settings: text and tab drag distances
    • Settings: name completion letters, completions listed
    • Settings: mention popup time, size, width, place, padding
    • Settings: earlier chat opacity, divider text
    • Settings: idle shadow, shortest scrollbar thumb
    • Settings: find box, menu field, tooltip icon sizes
    • Settings: side tab column, dot size and opacity, pulse low
    • Settings: line bar gap, gap after item icons
    • Settings: channel label padding, chip inset
    • Settings: in-chat button background, lock button
    • Settings: hash colour saturation and brightness
    • Small spacing, tab drop marker and text shadow follow the theme
    • Mention popup shows long lines whole

  3. Chat1.28.0.0

    • named Chat: the command is /chat, settings start fresh, astral framework 1.37.0.0

  4. Chat1.27.7.0

    • Coloured counts keep their full colour while the icons rest dimmed
    • Input text has the chat text's outline and shadow, the channel label its shadow
    • A tell the game hands the input, as from Send Tell, switches to it at once, no space needed

25 Oct 2026

  1. Chat1.27.6.0

    • Friends and free company counts show their number again, not an icon
    • Counts "On its bottom edge" and Count colours, as in Data Bars
    • Naowh look: sidebar counts on the icon's bottom edge, in colour
    • Imported looks start from the Naowh or Astral look they name, not the look in use

  2. Chat1.27.5.0

    • Chat text shadow offset in screen pixels at any scale
    • Astral framework 1.35.0.0: text outline and shadow in screen pixels at any scale

  3. Chat1.27.4.0

    • Mention popup text shadow follows the theme's direction and spread
    • Astral framework 1.34.0.0: text outline and shadow under Appearance, shadow direction and spread

  4. Chat1.27.2.0

    • Friends count shared with Data Bars through Astral.Game 1.6.0.0

24 Oct 2026

  1. Chat1.27.1.0

    • Friends count asks the game every 30 s at most, not every second

23 Oct 2026

  1. Chat1.27.0.0

    • right click on an unlocked window: Lock first, then the tab's lines and Settings
    • /chat native, lock and unlock say what they did; an unknown word prints the usage
    • key binds named from your keyboard; Esc keeps a bind, the X clears it
    • key binds also wait in cutscenes, group pose and events
    • the background image picked by name from `pluginConfigs/AstralShared/media`; an old look's file still draws
    • your own Naowh icons go in `pluginConfigs/AstralShared/media`, shared with Data Bars; the old icons folder still works
    • the panel shadow a soft band; the Astral look keeps its own, a reset Shadow size follows the theme's
    • mentions on the theme's HUD panel, with its outline and shadow
    • tab alerts pulse smoothly; Pulse all the way left is the theme's
    • the tab pulse and idle fade stop with Animations off or reduced motion
    • opacity rows in percent, seconds in the values, keywords as a word list
    • a Dot tab's dot follows the theme's accent until you pick a colour; the old purple becomes the accent
    • Theme in the font rows is the theme's HUD font
    • friends and free company counts: digits in the theme's text-on-accent colour, the pill a little narrower
    • sounds read Sound 1 to Sound 16
    • looks no longer follow the last character at the title screen
    • the Entering line names the duty in Crystalline Conflict, Heaven-on-High and chocobo races too
    • windows' least size grows with the scale
    • Astral framework 1.30.0.0

20 Oct 2026

  1. Chat1.26.0.0

    • the main menu, the strips above and below the chat, gil, gear condition and the readouts moved to Data Bars
    • your bars go over to Data Bars at its first run; the chat window gives back the room its strips took
    • Data Bars' friends menu opens a tell here

  2. Chat1.25.1.0

    • strips above and below the chat spread their buttons by default

19 Oct 2026

  1. Chat1.25.0.1

    • Astral.Game 1.4.0.0: DelvUI's plate bar fill and cast bar read from its profile

  2. Chat1.25.0.0

    • new bar buttons with readouts: clock, zone, coordinates, combat, item level, currency
    • clock: local, server or Eorzea time, 12 or 24 hours; a click opens Timers
    • zone: with its area or the area alone, cut to a width
    • coordinates: 0-2 decimals, hidden in duties if set
    • combat: only in combat if set
    • currency: one item's count, by its id

  3. Chat1.24.4.0

    • Astral framework 1.28.0.0: snap reach, resize edges and tooltip distance in screen pixels at any scale
    • the input box's resize edge in screen pixels too

  4. Chat1.24.3.0

    • /chat clear stays cleared

  5. Chat1.24.2.0

    • the main menu grows from its button towards the screen's middle

18 Oct 2026

  1. Chat1.24.0.4

    • Astral.Game 1.3.0.0: DelvUI's plate cast bar read from its profile

15 Oct 2026

  1. Chat1.24.0.0

    • Show timestamps in the chat's right-click menu

14 Oct 2026

  1. Chat1.23.1.0

    • windows show in Astral's layout studio by their first tab
    • Astral framework 1.24.0.0: settings pages and placed windows listed for Astral

  2. Chat1.23.0.0

    • Settings manager: loadouts of the chat's settings per character, job and role, shared as text; looks stay apart
    • default job colours from Astral.Data; SGE and BLU as the palette
    • the game's chat and main menu are hidden through the framework's addon arbiter, so no fight with other Astral plugins
    • the roster, the friends list, the text icons and the game's item tooltip come from Astral.Game
    • Astral framework 1.23.0.0: one font search order for every plugin; HUD colours and sizes under Appearance

  3. Chat1.22.0.0

    • the game's chat and chat box show while any part of Chat is stopped after errors, with one line in chat saying so; Chat takes over again by itself after 30 s (longer after repeats) or a zone change, with the lines from the gap
    • every callback runs behind its own latch: look sync, sending, alerts, player actions, the friend list entry, the plugin check

  4. Chat1.21.2.0

    • Code ready for API 16: links, auto-translate tokens and names read without Dalamud's payload classes
    • Astral framework 1.22.0.0: the newest framework loaded polls the style files and skins Dalamud for all

8 Oct 2026

  1. Chat1.21.1.0

    • the scale mode follows the theme's again: the framework's System mode read as Fixed since 1.15.0.0; System is a choice under Scale by
    • Astral framework 1.20.0.0: the built-in looks follow the plugin's defaults

  2. Chat1.21.0.0

    • the Naowh look is aki's chat: General, Battle and FC tabs following the last line, the sidebar and micro menu as set there, text and input +4, tabs +2, a shadow and no outline
    • settings and looks are read as they are; the steps that carried files from 1.x forward are gone
    • a new look scales with the screen height from 1440

  3. Chat1.20.0.0

    • font sizes stand off the theme's text size: text, tabs, input and a tab's own size are so many points from it
    • Counts font: the friends, free company, gil and durability readouts, 2 pt under the text size
    • Naowh: text, tabs and input +4, counts -2; Astral framework 1.19.0.0: Naowh text size 12

  4. Chat1.19.0.0

    • friends and free company counts are drawn 6 pt under the text size
    • Astral framework 1.18.0.0: Font size under Scale moves the text, tabs, input and counts along with every Astral plugin; tall fonts at their own size again

5 Oct 2026

  1. Chat1.18.1.0

    • fresh install on Naowh: window sized and placed for your screen, not on the game chat

  2. Chat1.18.0.0

    • Tab in an empty box switches tabs, Shift+Tab goes back
    • a line read in one tab is read in all of them

  3. Chat1.17.0.0

    • Naowh look updates reach existing installs
    • fresh install on Naowh: its window, tabs and chat settings too

  4. Chat1.16.1.0

    • Naowh: smaller text, dimmer tabs, no input gap, no job icons
    • Naowh strip: wider, housing and mount guide earlier

  5. Chat1.15.0.0

    • friends count no longer drops or misses friends
    • bars: counts as a badge or as text under, above, left or right of the icon
    • Naowh: counts are text, under the icon on side bars
    • bars: text gap for gear and gil, Auto spaces the text like a button

4 Oct 2026

  1. Chat1.14.0.0

    • gil button, short (36.2K) or full
    • Naowh strip: inventory, crafting log and party finder in, recommendations and support desk out
    • inventory icon, mount guide uses the minion guide icon
    • side bar: first icon lines up with the tab text

  2. Chat1.13.0.0

    • friends button opens the party list in a duty
    • new icons for jump to bottom, gear condition and eleven menu shortcuts

  3. Chat1.12.1.0

    • friends count refreshes every second, no setting
    • gear condition colours come from the theme (text to danger)
    • gear condition colours the icon only; the percent is an option

  4. Chat1.12.0.0

    • job colours and tags for players from other worlds
    • bars: spacing at 0 is Fill, buttons spread over the bar

  5. Chat1.11.0.0

    • job colours for cross-world party members
    • bars: start and end padding
    • gear condition changes colour as it drops, colours under Buttons
    • gear percent lines up with its icon
    • main menu: text only, optional keybinds
    • Astral framework 1.12.1.0: unlocked border is 1 px

  6. Chat1.10.1.0

    • sticky tabs keep party and other group channels when you are not in the group

  7. Chat1.10.0.0

    • friends count refreshes on its own, every 30 s; the time is under Buttons
    • Astral framework 1.12.0.0: settings window at least 600 by 700, lists drop columns that do not fit

  8. Chat1.9.1.0

    • Astral framework 1.11.0.0: no hitch on the first frame after load
    • no errors every frame when loaded from a debug build

  9. Chat1.9.0.0

    • Astral framework 1.10.0.0: settings window fits its content
    • settings lists keep their columns in a narrow window
    • looks are picked under Appearance, This plugin; the Looks page is gone
    • colours of its own for the chat
    • a look picked for the chat brings its theme's corners and fonts
    • unlocked windows show a thicker border, edges and corners light up under the mouse
    • main menu hangs off its button, upwards from the strip under the chat
    • menus, the floating input and the completion list stay on screen
    • a folded window keeps its height when dragged
    • an unlocked first window takes the mouse even with click-through on
    • item tooltips as wide as every other tooltip
    • Windows page: Position counts from the bottom left

  10. Chat1.8.0.0

    • tabs have a chat mode: sticky, persistent or follow
    • a tab can have a channel of its own
    • leaving a conversation tab no longer leaves the input on Tell
    • "Remember the channel per tab" is now each tab's mode

3 Oct 2026

  1. Chat1.7.6.0

    • Astral framework 1.5.0.0: faster settings, no hitch on first open
    • chat windows: far less work every frame, most of all with outlined text
    • settings name each part that stopped after errors
    • stopped parts start again on a zone change or /chat native
    • the game's main menu comes back if hiding it keeps failing

  2. Chat1.7.5.0

    • settings: long lists draw only the rows in view
    • settings: less work every frame on Behaviour, Windows and Rules

2 Oct 2026

  1. Chat1.7.3.0

    • tabs and the session take memory as they fill, not up front
    • patterns typed on the way to a rule are no longer kept

  2. Chat1.7.2.0

    • text outline drawn in four passes instead of eight
    • less work every frame: closed menus, hiding the game's chat, incoming lines
    • memory for known players no longer grows all session

  3. Chat1.7.1.0

    • a line shown in two windows is no longer laid out again every frame
    • Find checks only new lines as they arrive
    • less work while a link is hovered or a player menu is open

  4. Chat1.7.0.0

    • tab alerts: steady, pulse or off, set apart for tell tabs
    • tabs with new messages stay in the accent colour at 80%
    • tell tabs pulse their text in the tell colour, no glow behind

  5. Chat1.6.1.0

    • a tell tab with new messages flashes in the tell colour

  6. Chat1.6.0.0

    • tab text opacity, for the open tab and for the others
    • Naowh: open tab light grey, the others darker

  7. Chat1.5.0.0

    • NaowhUI's friends, free company, copy, settings and main menu icons included
    • Astral framework 1.4.4.0: less work every frame

  8. Chat1.4.0.0

    • colours follow the Appearance page, "This plugin" included
    • colour settings left the chat's own pages; colours changed there go back to the theme's
    • Naowh: 70% background, no border, white tab text, outline without shadow, no input box
    • Naowh: 31 px sidebar icons, jump to newest at the foot of the sidebar
    • NaowhUI's icons when their PNGs are in pluginConfigs/Chat/icons
    • Astral framework 1.4.3.0: settings no longer jump back after an edit, changed marks only when a value differs

  9. Chat1.3.0.0

    • profiles are looks now and follow the Astral theme: Naowh theme, Naowh chat
    • tabs, filters, rules and settings are one set, kept when the look changes
    • Looks page in place of Profiles; old profile strings still import
    • old settings kept in Chat/Chat.v5.json