Astral changelog

Layouts, settings and themes in game.

Version
1.182.0.1
Updated
1 Nov 2026
Dalamud API
15
About Astral

1 Nov 2026

  1. 1.182.0.0

    • Import parts with a warning start unticked, Import waits for the warnings
    • Imported loadouts switch once the switch to the profile is confirmed
    • A .astral the warnings cannot be read from is not taken in
    • Warnings name a plugin's folder by its adapter, read Chat and QoL files in any folder, and list dlls and odd version files
    • A .astral with a file name ending in a dot or space is refused
    • A file nested over 256 levels is refused instead of crashing the game
    • Captures never carry a tester's repository address

  2. 1.181.0.0

    • A plugin's files in a .astral land only where that plugin has files
    • Mods install only into a folder of Penumbra's mod directory
    • Imports refuse names Windows drops or reserves, and a .astral naming Astral's own folders
    • The bus takes requests from this game session only
    • Update the app starts only the desktop app itself
    • A game HUD part writes only the game's own files of your characters
    • Oracle's replay settings and a plugin's local settings stay yours when a profile is applied

31 Oct 2026

  1. 1.180.0.0

    • /astral get <code> brings in a profile from astralxiv.app
    • Get by code on Profiles, Import
    • Astral's plugin repository is astralxiv.app
    • The desktop app's download page is on astralxiv.app

  2. 1.179.2.0

    • Imports refuse a .astral that would write a file outside its folder

  3. 1.179.1.0

    • Imports, Browse installs and updates refuse a .astral unzipping to over 100 MB
    • Files and AstralUI profile strings over 64 MB unzipped are refused too

  4. 1.179.0.0

    • Exports and shared themes name no character, folder or local setting
    • Imports put plugin folders and your character's slots back in place
    • Imports and Browse installs warn of what a collection does
    • An update bringing new warnings waits for you

30 Oct 2026

  1. 1.178.0.0

    • AstralUI 2.8.0.135's settings, its new ones at their defaults in imports
    • AstralUI's GCD circle border follows the theme like its other borders

  2. 1.177.0.0

    • Other plugins' settings show their choices as dropdowns and their framework settings as groups
    • Setting names split at numbers: Cone 2 Enabled
    • Undo puts a removed setting back where it stood
    • Faster settings search, and a faster load on a big install

  3. 1.176.0.0

    • Settings and macro options: shorter names
    • Imports and notes name AstralUI's and Oracle's settings as they do now
    • Astral framework 1.55.0.0: long setting names cut to their column, shown whole on hover

  4. 1.175.0.0

    • AstralUI 2.8.0.133's settings, its new ones at their defaults in imports

29 Oct 2026

  1. 1.174.0.0

    • Moves in the Editor no longer reload AstralUI
    • AstralUI keeps edits with its settings window open
    • The Editor draws auras bars whole, framed by their max width and height
    • Import: hidden suite parts stay hidden in AstralUI, a frame's auras follow their frame
    • Import: the enemy list castbar, the kick tracker, friendly plates, a small party and dispels as the suite has them
    • Import: the plates' mouseover highlight, aura timers kept on, a line on why job gauges stay on
    • Astral framework data 1.6.0.0

  2. 1.173.1.0

    • Import: Oracle's kind marks stay off, BigWigs' spell indicators a line in the report

  3. 1.173.0.0

    • Oracle 0.6 on the Astral framework: its windows in the editor beside the other Astral plugins', their pins kept
    • An import's pictures land when it is applied too

  4. 1.172.3.0

    • Modify: the error note tries again on a click, hides on a right click
    • Quest list: a click on a menu over it stays the menu's
    • Astral framework 1.54.0.0: menus stay off the bar or window that opened them, nested notes line up with their settings

  5. 1.172.2.0

    • Oracle's settings in lower case, as Oracle writes them after its own settings update, read and edit
    • Editor: a plugin whose settings do not read is left out, the rest drawn

  6. 1.172.1.0

    • Quest list: the groups' Order column fits the drag handle
    • Astral framework 1.53.0.0: drag a list's three-dot handle to move an item

  7. 1.172.0.0

    • Auras: bars with a section per job, drawn by their looks, as AstralUI 2.8.0.122 draws them
    • Imports make each Cooldown Manager bar one auras bar
    • Astral data 1.5.0.0 and game 1.11.0.0
    • Needs Astral 0.210.0 or later

  8. 1.171.0.0

    • Game windows a quarter smaller, the old 75 % is the new 100 %
    • Game windows: a size picked before keeps its pixels

  9. 1.170.0.0

    • AstralUI: a sidebar group of its own, a row per category, its pages as tabs

  10. 1.169.2.0

    • Modify: a plugin's right click menu has no collections or uninstall, Browse keeps them

  11. 1.169.1.0

    • EllesmereUI import: overlapping party debuffs and boss auras keep their row

28 Oct 2026

  1. 1.169.0.0

    • Sidebar: Installed is Modify, /astral modify opens it
    • Browse: every known repository from the start
    • Browse: a catalogue of Dalamud's repositories alone is read again as Astral loads

  2. 1.168.1.0

    • Editor: undo, redo and Exit put Astral plugins' windows back in game too
    • Editor: moving a QoL bar, docked or not, no longer reloads QoL or clears the undo history
    • Editor: the minimap and quest list take no click while it is open

  3. 1.168.0.0

    • Game windows: text keeps the game's line breaks, the login queue's among them
    • Game windows: words on buttons centred
    • Dialogs and choice lists: text aligned as the game aligns it
    • OK dialogs: text the game changes while up is read again
    • Mirrored windows: text where the game puts it in its box, in the colour it has now
    • Mirrored windows: icons the game dims dimmed, HQ icons, pictures under the icons they frame
    • Mirrored windows: list labels and text boxes read as the game reads them, the drag area left to the frame
    • Astral framework 1.50.0.0: nested settings stand under their parent, one to a line
    • Astral layout 1.28.0.0: button labels centred, line breaks kept, text placed down its box

  4. 1.167.0.0

    • System menu: Dalamud's lines gone
    • Title screen: Astral first in Dalamud's menu, its mark shown while the menu is folded
    • Game windows, More: Astral on the title screen
    • Browse and Installed: installed plugins' rows tinted, on and off apart
    • The picked plugin: Update, Disable or Enable and Collections beside Uninstall

  5. 1.166.0.0

    • Auras: AstralUI's since AstralUI 2.8.0.110, read again in place after an apply
    • Auras: edits go straight into AstralUI
    • Job gauges: read the auras while AstralUI is loaded
    • Says Auras where it said AstralAuras
    • Needs Astral 0.205.0 or later

  6. 1.165.7.0

    • Editor: its overlay and bar stop on repeated errors instead of taking the frame down, said in /xllog
    • Macros: the game's macro names are compared before anything is made
    • Settings pages: rows out of view do no work

  7. 1.165.6.0

    • Editor: the Elements tab draws the rows in view alone
    • Browse and Installed: the rows' texts are measured once

  8. 1.165.5.0

    • Quest list: the fold marks, heading lines and bars are kept between frames, as the text is

  9. 1.165.4.0

    • Minimap: the map draws in a third of the calls, its outline kept between frames

  10. 1.165.3.0

    • The session facts are read whole only on login, logout, a job or a system change

  11. 1.165.2.0

    • Less background work while idle: the plugin list is read once a second, collections and repositories on change
    • Penumbra and the job gauges look at the plugin list only when it changed

  12. 1.165.1.0

    • Logging in no longer stalls a frame while the game windows' layouts reload
    • A look change reloads only the layouts it changed
    • Pins settle once after a login's changes instead of planning for each

  13. 1.165.0.0

    • Sidebar: the Plugins heading is All Plugins, its list Installed
    • Installed opens under its row and folds away on a second click
    • Astral framework 1.48.0.0: a longer size slider, centred plugin switches, the line to nested settings from the middle of the row above, its thickness, corner and inset in the theme

  14. 1.164.1.0

    • Editor: a job change while it is open takes in DelvUI's profile for the job

  15. 1.164.0.0

    • Editor: the bar starts smaller, minus and plus at its ends size it
    • Editor: Undo and Redo left of the logo, as the filter is right of it
    • Editor: the filter and each toggle's two lines centred, the toggles evenly spaced
    • Editor: Exit puts back everything since it opened, windows moved in game too
    • Editor: a fight closes it and it opens again after, changes kept
    • Editor: coordinates from the screen's bottom left
    • Editor: QoL's bars are elements again
    • Plugins turned on update as Astral loads, said in the log
    • Browse: a turned off plugin's update is a plain line, left out of the counts
    • EllesmereUI import: names AstralAuras' Show Hidden Elements switch

  16. 1.163.0.0

    • EllesmereUI import: Oracle's emphasized timer bars grow as BigWigs grows them
    • EllesmereUI import: a centred AstralAuras row keeps the icons it shows on its middle
    • EllesmereUI import: hidden spells leave their place in a centred row, no blank slot
    • EllesmereUI import: a row stays centred through AstralAuras' Show Hidden Elements

  17. 1.162.0.1

    • Astral framework 1.47.0.0: the Astral theme after EllesmereUI's sidebar, rows and glows, the name's glow in 16 points
    • EllesmereUI import: bars on the chat take Chat's colours

  18. 1.162.0.0

    • Profiles: a Browse tab for themes from GitHub repositories
    • Browse: each theme's name, author, description and screenshots from its README
    • Browse: Install asks what to take, as importing a .astral does
    • Browse: Update automatically per theme, on by default
    • Browse: settings you changed stay yours through updates
    • Browse: an update says which of your settings it kept
    • Browse: Take the theme's settings puts its own back

  19. 1.161.0.0

    • Minimap: the player, party and direction arrow pictures take a game icon too
    • Minimap: an Image direction arrow
    • Shared themes and collections carry the pictures they use
    • Astral framework 1.46.0.0: icon pickers, Naowh's art comes with the framework

  20. 1.160.0.0

    • Editor: Astral's window steps aside while editing, back after
    • Editor: a bar across the top after EllesmereUI's, dragged anywhere
    • Editor: Exit, Overlay, Grid, Snap, filter, Coordinates, Astral window, Save and exit
    • Editor: Dark overlay, boxes you cannot see through
    • Editor: Ctrl or Alt flips snapping while held, shown on the bar
    • Editor: the filter rings what it finds, fades the rest
    • Editor: coordinates from the screen's middle
    • Editor: the selected box stays on top
    • Editor: Exit puts back only what changed since opening
    • Editor: a pin's question by the mouse
    • Editor: arrow keys and Escape leave text boxes alone

27 Oct 2026

  1. 1.159.0.0

    • Editor: the minimap and quest list stand where they will draw before they have drawn
    • Editor: a minimap or quest list left to the game no longer shows
    • Editor: the minimap's band around its map in whole pixels

  2. 1.158.0.0

    • Shared themes and collections carry every font they draw in, Naowh too
    • An import keeps a font of the same name you have and says so

  3. 1.157.0.0

    • Oracle in place of BossMod Reborn
    • Editor: Oracle's timer bars, notices and countdown
    • EllesmereUI import: BigWigs' bars, messages and countdown into Oracle
    • EllesmereUI import: EXBoss' tankbuster switches into Oracle

  4. 1.156.0.0

    • Minimap: FATE circles show their FATE's icon at any distance, on the edge too
    • Minimap: FATE circles at the game's size, hidden with FATEs
    • Minimap: the map stays on whole pixels, so it keeps its gap to the screen's edge
    • EllesmereUI import: Chat's fonts, colours, input box and friends count as the profile has them
    • EllesmereUI import: Stats' tooltip, breakdown and mode select at the meter's text size
    • EllesmereUI import: the quest list and minimap at WoW's size whatever the game windows' size
    • EllesmereUI import: an import clears window moves and Edit layout pins it replaces
    • EllesmereUI import: QoL's Bars, Cursor and Scenario Guide without their old module switch
    • Astral framework 1.44.0.0: slider boxes show their widest value, the window size slider longer

  5. 1.155.0.0

    • Theme: Astral is the new flat blue look, the old one is Kitty, Naowh is gone from the list
    • Sidebar: the plugin switch sits in the middle of its button
    • Theme: the switch's icon, size, side, alignment and use
    • Theme: gradients or pictures on hovered and chosen rows, tabs and buttons
    • A search under the close button filters the page and its tabs
    • The sidebar search covers Astral's own settings and greys what does not match
    • Astral framework 1.43.0.0

  6. 1.154.0.0

    • Sidebar: Theme first and opened first, then Editor and Profiles, with icons
    • Edit Mode renamed Editor
    • Sidebar: larger centred logo and name with a glow
    • Sidebar: drag its edge to resize
    • Discord and donate buttons beside the CPU usage
    • CPU usage at the bottom right, the version at the end of the sidebar list
    • Settings windows a quarter smaller, the old 75 % is the new 100 %
    • Astral framework 1.42.0.0

  7. 1.153.0.0

    • Text and this window follow the screen height
    • Game windows keep the game's UI scale
    • EllesmereUI import: sizes count from the profile's screen height
    • Astral framework 1.41.0.0

  8. 1.152.0.0

    • Sidebar: Edit Mode, Theme and Profiles, then Astral plugins and Plugins
    • Sidebar: the Astral logo before its name, no install line under it
    • Sidebar: headings larger than the rows under them, rows indented under a heading
    • Window size slider beside the close button, for this window alone
    • Every plugin in the sidebar turns on or off from its dot
    • Right click a plugin in the sidebar to update, disable, uninstall or pick its collections
    • Uninstall asks once
    • CPU usage in smaller text, no memory line
    • Astral framework 1.40.0.0

26 Oct 2026

  1. 1.151.0.0

    • Sidebar: Edit Mode, then Astral plugins, Look, Setup and Plugins
    • Astral plugins: each plugin a row of its own, its pages tabs over the page, Macros under them
    • Edit layout is Edit Mode, with Astral's options as its Options tab
    • Plugins: All Plugins, each plugin's pages as tabs, and Browse
    • Browse: the plugin manager in one page, with Installed, Updates, UI reskins and Repositories
    • Browse: the catalogue is read as Astral loads, so icons show
    • UI reskins install and uninstall in one click
    • Astral theme: a Theme tab with the plugins' looks and AstralUI colours, the preview in its own window
    • Astral theme: Game windows as a tab, its parts as sections
    • Home, Game HUD, Game UI theme, Status and Log are gone
    • /astral dump writes a file for bug reports
    • The class quest reminder is QoL's now
    • Nested settings hang under their row with a line
    • Astral framework 1.39.0.0

  2. 1.150.0.0

    • Edit layout: its boxes over the Astral plugins' windows, which no longer take its presses
    • Edit layout: Astral's minimap and quest list show from the start
    • Edit layout: Hidden elements shows the game's windows Astral replaces
    • Edit layout: no game main menu while a QoL bar holds its button
    • Edit layout: match width, match height and anchor buttons on an element, once or following

  3. 1.149.0.0

    • Shared plugins start as every plugin that is on, kept on and keeping its settings
    • A new blank collection turns on the kept-on plugins that are off
    • Imports no longer note Astral.json's settings type
    • Says collection where it said astral collection
    • The Astral logo is its icon

  4. 1.148.0.0

    • Astral plugins: a plugin's own lists, QoL's modules with their switches
    • Search and a plugin's settings window find pages in those lists
    • Astral framework 1.38.0.0

  5. 1.147.0.0

    • Says Astral for itself and the app for the desktop app
    • Status, Log and Options are on the Astral page, /astral options opens Options

  6. 1.146.2.0

    • Custom emotes: /hairball is gone

  7. 1.146.1.0

    • Named Astral in the plugin installer

  8. 1.146.0.0

    • Settings: a size for all game windows, and for the system menu, menus, tooltips, loot rolls, countdown and quest list
    • Settings: an icon size for every window
    • Minimap: camera view opacity and length, area opacity, zoom step
    • Minimap: time of day on mouseover works
    • Quest list: padding, gap beside icons, bar height, plus and minus size
    • Ready check: how long the lines stay, the gap between them
    • Duty pop outline, countdown fade, loot rolls width
    • 3D drag speed and opening distance
    • Inventory: bag highlight time and opacity, double click on or off
    • Recent market items, summon refusal time, Astral in the system menu
    • Layouts: party finder slots, duty list columns, achievement and challenge rows, trade lines, choice list height
    • Edit layout keeps its switches, drag distance, grid and box opacity are settings
    • The keep or revert question can be moved
    • Dev build swaps follow Tell me when Astral changed something
    • Rows that need installs are greyed while installs are off
    • AstralUI and AstralAuras by name

  9. 1.145.0.0

    • Import: the data bars, repair, cursor and guide into QoL, one loadout with its alerts, readouts and co-tank bar
    • Import: QoL's settings at its data version 1, the co-tank bar's debuffs in units
    • Edit layout: QoL's bars beside its other windows, a bar pinned to one of them, sizes down to 1

  10. 1.144.0.0

    • AstralUI and AstralAuras in place of DelvUI and DelvCD, upstream's builds still reloaded in place
    • Import: plate stacking, target arrows, signs and the kick hint into AstralUI's plates
    • Import: the kick tracker and cast list into AstralUI's
    • AstralUI 2.8.0.107's settings at their defaults in a new profile
    • Edit layout: Chat's side tab column at its own width

  11. 1.143.0.0

    • Quest list: the Duty List and the guide's quests drawn by Astral, beside the minimap
    • Its settings under Game windows, Windows, /astral questlist opens them
    • /astral unlock moves it when it stands on its own
    • Import: the quest tracker lands in the quest list