AstralUI changelog

HUD replacement.

Version
2.8.0.141
Updated
1 Nov 2026
Dalamud API
15

1 Nov 2026

  1. 2.8.0.140

    • Backups only under a version number.
    • Import strings past 4 MB, or inflating past 16 MB, refused.
    • Imported profiles keep this install's font and texture folders, font sizes 1 to 200.
    • Fonts and bar textures read from local drives only.
    • Profile names that are not file names refused.
    • HUD layouts outside 1 to 4 ignored.
    • Auras: label decimals capped at 6.
    • Auras: import strings past 8 MB, or inflating past 64 MB, refused.
    • No debug symbols shipped.

31 Oct 2026

  1. 2.8.0.139

    • Its own icon.
  2. 2.8.0.137

    • Profiles and import strings only read AstralUI's own types.
    • Auras: settings files and import strings only read the auras' own types.

30 Oct 2026

  1. 2.8.0.135

    • Settings: GCD circle border colour and thickness.
    • Settings: dispel mark colour on uncropped status icons.
    • Settings: job colour opacities for party cooldown bars.
    • Settings: gap to the edge for plates kept on screen.
    • Settings: the unused partly filled bar colour removed.
    • HUD previews, the tank stance outline and job colour cooldown bars take the theme's panel, bar and border colours.
    • DelvUI's old settings window, grid and HUD drag mode removed, an old profile holding the grid still loading.
    • Auras: the GCD trigger works for Pictomancer and Viper.
    • Astral framework data 1.7.0.0.
  2. 2.8.0.133

    • Settings: icon colour while recharging for party cooldowns and party frame cooldowns.
    • Settings: fill direction for party cooldown bars.
    • Settings: tooltip max width.
    • Settings: the cooldown bar's unused background colour hidden.
    • Settings: no tooltips switch, it turned nothing off.
    • Settings: two unused HUD options removed.
    • Settings: tracked cooldowns no longer grow their saved file at every load.
    • Settings: the Pictomancer palette's state no longer saved.
    • Settings: a grid left on from DelvUI no longer draws.
    • Auras: a bar entry's visibility tab sets hidden until learned and hidden by its look.
  3. 2.8.0.132

    • Settings: clearer, shorter names, in sentence case.
    • Settings: job gauge bars named as in game.
    • Settings: Blue Mage's colours named right.
  4. 2.8.0.131

    • Settings: Switch by job greys each role's jobs while off.
    • Settings: every castbar on Castbar, picked from a list.
    • Settings: castbars copy their settings and look from each other.
    • Settings: MP ticker moved to Other Bars.
    • Settings: parts turned off no longer show in previews.
    • Settings: status picker for status filters.
    • Auras: the picked group outlined on the HUD.
    • Auras: preview the picked group on the HUD, its job only.
    • Hide Default Job Gauges hides Reaper's and Sage's too.
    • Nameplates: Honorific titles read once a second, no errors without Honorific.
  5. 2.8.0.130

    • Settings: Frames tabs in a new order.
    • Settings: Job and Other Bars is now Resource and Cast Bars.
    • Settings: your castbar and mana bar moved to Resource and Cast Bars.
    • Settings: Unit Frames' Player shows your frame alone.
    • Settings: MP ticker beside your mana bar, experience bar on its own tab.
    • Settings: previews show everything and hold still while Live is off.
    • Settings: HUD sample plates spread out, clear of castbars.

29 Oct 2026

  1. 2.8.0.129

    • Settings: previews leave out parts turned off.
    • Settings: plate arrows only on the target preview.
    • Settings: plate previews show only real icons.
    • Settings: upload bar textures from a file.
    • Settings: bar textures preview in a colour of your pick.
    • Settings: Arrow Textures page, an image per side.
    • Settings: imports preview on the HUD before Import.
    • Settings: import errors in plain words.
    • Auras: icon width and height set apart.
    • Auras: a bar's page sets its icon size.
    • Auras: bars take a max width and height.
    • Auras: the strip outlines a bar's bounds.
    • Auras: an entry's style tab is View.
    • Auras: kit reminders take the bar's icon size.
    • Astral framework data 1.6.0.0.
  2. 2.8.0.128

    • Settings: no sideways scrolling.
    • Settings: Job and Other Bars under a heading of their own.
    • Settings: Look, Appearance, Visibility and HUD under Other.
    • Settings: nameplates as Enemies, Allies and General.
    • Settings: a page's view picked from a dropdown in the middle of its strip.
    • Settings: copy all or only the look from another view, under the preview.
    • Settings: previews show attached parts, switchable.
    • Settings: settings a switch turns off show greyed.
    • Settings: a part turned off previews greyed.
    • Auras: Every Aura shows whole names, cut ones on hover.
    • Auras: Every Aura opens on the job's section of the bar.
    • Auras: one job filter for Auras and Every Aura.
    • Auras: settings behind an off switch show greyed.
    • Auras: a hidden group's preview shows greyed.
    • Auras: strip picks on a bar stay picked.
    • Auras: modes and kits follow a job change.
  3. 2.8.0.126

    • Settings: Player Auras page for your buffs, debuffs and custom effects.
    • Settings: previews bring far parts close instead of shrinking.
    • Settings: choices never cut their text.
    • Settings: tracked cooldowns in two columns, with a filter and search.
    • Settings: party and enemy list previews show one frame by default.
    • Settings: Other Bars greys what its switch turns off, no General.
    • Settings: cast list and kick tracker preview toggles.
    • Settings: the enemy plate preview's target toggle turns off, its parts follow the target size.
    • Auras: a dragged aura lifts out of its bar, a switch fades it in place instead.
  4. 2.8.0.123

    • Settings: nameplates have a page for each kind, tabs in Astral's companion.
    • Settings: a part's preview brings what it sits in: its plates, its unit, the party or the enemy list.
  5. 2.8.0.122

    • Auras: bars, one group per bar with a section per job.
    • Auras: a bar draws its spells' Ready, On cooldown and Active looks, a spell or section can override them.
    • Auras: spells not learned yet take no place, the order fills in as you level.
    • Auras: a bar's lines: per line, a first line or balanced rows, centred, start or end.
    • Auras: New bar, and a bar's page with layout, looks, texts, spells and sections.
    • Auras: kits and modes fill and style a bar's job section.
    • Astral framework data 1.5.0.0 and game 1.11.0.0.
  6. 2.8.0.121

    • No more changelog, grid or old settings windows, the changelog is under Other.
    • HUD text on the default font uses the theme's HUD font and scale.
    • Fonts page lists the theme's font.
    • Auras: previews show on the HUD, no window of their own.
    • Auras: the theme's HUD font by default.
    • Auras: Quick Track timer and keybind fonts.
    • Auras: group texts take a font, the theme's first.
    • Auras: the preview strip fits the group, always centred.
    • Auras: size, gap, per row, growth, show or hide and a menu above the preview.

28 Oct 2026

  1. 2.8.0.119

    • Auras: preview at real size, centred.
    • Auras: the group picker lists only bars.
    • Auras: drag an aura in the preview to reorder or swap it, Escape cancels.
    • Auras: spells dragged onto a bar land where the line shows.
    • Auras: Auras and Every Aura stay on the same bar.
    • Settings: previews stay on while the window is off screen.
    • Settings: sample nameplates in the HUD preview.
    • Settings: target, target of target and focus frames in the HUD preview with nothing targeted.
    • Settings: the HUD preview's party follows Light or Full Party.
    • Settings: previews show a few statuses, casts and health that move, with a Live switch.
  2. 2.8.0.118

    • Auras: bigger preview, filling the strip.
    • Auras: group picker with search and a job filter.
    • Auras: drag auras in the preview to reorder or move them, a gap shows where they land.
    • Auras: spells dragged onto the preview land in the gap.
    • Auras: no plus beside the preview.
    • Settings: job and role colours follow Astral's theme.
    • Settings: show every preview on the HUD.
    • Settings: outline the part of the HUD a page sets up.
    • Settings: "Group disabled" where a preview's group is off.
  3. 2.8.0.117

    • Settings: preview toggles for shields, casts, dispels, combat, deaths, invulns, ready checks, low health and targets.
    • Settings: the job gauge preview shows every job.
    • Settings: previews let go when their page closes.
    • Fixed: a party cooldown list made with its preview on shows it at once.
  4. 2.8.0.116

    • Auras: a group picked at the top over a live preview, Ready, On cooldown or Active.
    • Auras: click, drag, middle click and + on the preview.
    • Auras: find a spell by name or id.
    • Auras: the job's spells as tiles by kit, with the game's text.
    • Auras: quick modes on a spell, a group or every group of the job.
    • Auras: kits as switches in place of the presets.
    • Auras: a group's icon and text looks in one place.
    • Auras: undo.
    • Auras: quick track and keybind look on a page of its own.
    • Auras: an edit reaches every picked aura.
  5. 2.8.0.115

    • Settings: rows a unit or kind lacks stay in place, dimmed.
    • Settings: All and Some give a value to the other units.
    • Settings: Copy from another unit or nameplate kind.
    • Settings: profiles, import, fonts and bar textures in rows.
    • Settings: window clipping, status filters and tracked cooldowns in rows.
    • Settings: a bar beside each colour.
    • Settings: HUD unlock, show and hide and the grid left to Astral's editor.
    • Settings: the old window's dim and style options gone.
  6. 2.8.0.113

    • Settings: in Astral's companion, a tab per category.
    • Settings: auras inside the settings, /aa opens them there.
    • Settings: Other holds profiles, import, fonts, bar textures and the changelog.
    • Settings: previews and page actions inside each page.
    • Settings: party frames and party cooldowns one page each.
  7. 2.8.0.112

    • Settings: new window in Astral's look, pages by what they draw.
    • Settings: a live preview of the page at the top, click a part for its settings.
    • Settings: a unit's frame, mana bar, castbar and statuses on one page.
    • Settings: nameplates by kind, job gauges by role and job.
    • Settings: main settings first, the rest under More options.
    • Settings: search every page from the sidebar.
    • Settings: reset and export per page, unlock and show the HUD in the header.
    • Castbar and who's talking icons stay visible next to game windows.
  8. 2.8.0.110

    • Auras: AstralAuras moved in, /astralauras or /aa.
    • Auras: first start copies AstralAuras' or DelvCD's auras.
    • Auras: settings in Astral's look, every aura in one list with search.
    • Auras: drag auras to reorder or into groups, Ctrl or Shift for several.
    • Auras: pick spells by job and drag them onto the list.
    • Auras: presets per job, quick track, keybind labels.
    • Auras: copy a tab's settings from one aura to another.
    • Auras: a label can use the theme's HUD font.
    • Auras: Show Hidden Elements is a switch.
    • Auras: nothing drawn while AstralAuras or DelvCD is on.
    • Auras: less work each frame.

26 Oct 2026

  1. 2.8.0.109

    • The Astral logo as its icon.
  2. 2.8.0.108

    • Enemy nameplate castbars: the kick hint does less work each frame.
  3. 2.8.0.107

    • Enemy nameplates: low health pulse time and lowest alpha settings.
    • Enemy nameplates: empty part alpha setting for the textures.
    • Enemy nameplates: stacking stickiness in pixels for Lowest on Screen.
    • Enemy nameplates: arrow texture and strata level settings.
    • Nameplates: sign strata level setting.
    • Enemy nameplate castbars: interrupted text setting.
    • Castbars: cast list sign offset and gap, name and target widths, tenths settings.
    • Castbars: cast list targets take Use Role Color.
    • Kick tracker: tenths setting.
    • Kick tracker: names take Use Role Color.
    • Party frames: targeted spells border settings.
  4. 2.8.0.106

    • Renamed AstralUI: /astralui or /aui, settings in pluginConfigs/AstralUI.
    • First start copies DelvUI's settings.
    • Enemy nameplates: stacking.
    • Enemy nameplates: target, focus target and soft target arrows.
    • Nameplates: signs, the enemy sign icon moved in.
    • Enemy nameplate castbars: kick hint.
    • Castbars: cast list.
    • Kick tracker.

25 Oct 2026

  1. 2.8.0.105

    • Nameplates: range alpha counts from the player or the camera, whichever is nearer.
  2. 2.8.0.104

    • Castbars: less work each frame while not casting.
    • Enemy nameplates: textures, off screen enemies and the sign icon do less work each frame.
    • Enemy nameplate castbars: interrupted text measured once.
    • Enemy nameplate castbars: an error reading interrupts is logged once.
  3. 2.8.0.103

    • Enemy nameplates: only Off Screen Enemies keeps them on screen.
    • Enemy nameplates: Off Screen Enemies holds the target too, in combat or not.
    • Nameplates: no target plate mirrored from behind the camera.
    • Enemy nameplates: other plugins see exactly the plates drawn.
  4. 2.8.0.102

    • Enemy nameplates: softer target glow, under every plate's texts and debuffs.
    • Enemy nameplates: low health pulse.
    • Enemy nameplates: other plugins can follow the plates held at the screen edge.

21 Oct 2026

  1. 2.8.0.101

    • Enemy nameplates: target glow.
    • Enemy nameplates: off screen enemies held at the screen edge.
    • Enemy nameplates: sign icon, also left of the name.
    • Enemy nameplate castbars: interrupted casts and who interrupted.

20 Oct 2026

  1. 2.8.0.100

    • Unit frames: combat indicator.
    • Party frames: targeted spells.
    • Enemy nameplates: target, focus target and mouseover textures.

Undated

  1. 2.8.0.0

    • Fixing plugin errors with Beastmaster.
  2. 2.7.0.1

    • Fixed Summoner's Bars.
    • Fixed Party List context menu not working.
  3. 2.7.0.0

    • Added support for Patch 7.5 and Dalamud API 15.
    • Fixed a bug with status tooltips sometimes missing information in the description.
  4. 2.6.2.2

    • Made resetting party cooldowns more reliable after a wipe.
  5. 2.6.2.1

    • Re-added the unengaged color for hostile enemies in the nameplates settings.
  6. 2.6.2.0

    • Updated Enemy Nameplates state colors so they behave the same way as the default nameplates: * Added Engaged, Unengaged, Claimed and Unclaimed colors for enemy nameplates. * Some of the older settings were removed, you might need to tinker with the new colors in `Nameplates > Enemies > Health Bar`.
    • New attempt to fix the cursor sometimes getting stuck (specifically with `/delvui mouse on`).
  7. 2.6.1.1

    • Fixed a bug introduced in the last version with some item cast names.
  8. 2.6.1.0

    • Added new features for Cast Bars: * Added a "Truncate Cast Name" setting that will attempt to truncate the current cast name if the text wouldn't fit inside the bar. * Made the player cast bar replicate the exact cast name shown by the default UI. This will reflect changes that other plugins might make to your casts, like VanillaPlus' "Cast Bar Aetheryte Names" feature.
    • Added "Brotherhood Extra Chakra Color" setting for Monk's Chakra bar.
    • Added "Bloodfest Extra Cartridges Color" setting for Gunbreaker's Powder Gauge bar.
  9. 2.6.0.0

    • Added support for Patch 7.4 and Dalamud API 14.
  10. 2.5.1.1

    • Fixed Hotbars visibility.
    • Fixed enemy list cast bars.
    • Fixed Limit Break bar.
    • Fixed window clipping around chat bubbles.
  11. 2.5.1.0

    • Improved logic around hotbars visibility.
    • Fixed the plugin sometimes not disposing correctly.
    • Fixed showing the wrong alliance in cross-world parties.
    • Fixed the players not updating properly in cross-world parties.
  12. 2.5.0.1

    • Added support for chat player bubbles.
  13. 2.5.0.0

    • Added support for Patch 7.3 and Dalamud API 13.
    • Fixed nameplate colors sometimes not being correct.
  14. 2.4.0.2

    • Added the `[level:adjusted]` text tag.
    • Fixed friendly NPCs nameplates showing as hostile.
    • Fixed cooldowns swipe animation not respecting the Window Clipping settings.
  15. 2.4.0.1

    • Fixed crash when logging out.
  16. 2.4.0.0

    • Added support for Patch 7.2 and Dalamud API 12.
  17. 2.3.1.7

    • Added a "Hide when Dead" setting to Status Effects lists. * This was always on by default, now it can be changed.
    • Fixed Party Frames sorting.
  18. 2.3.1.6

    • Fixed Party Frames showing the wrong names.
    • Fixed Party Leader indicator.
  19. 2.3.1.5

    • Fixed Party Frames status icons.
  20. 2.3.1.4

    • Fixed Party Frames issues with Chocobos.
  21. 2.3.1.3

    • Fixed Party Frames sometimes showing empty bars.
  22. 2.3.1.2

    • Fixed Party Frames enmity indicators.
    • Fixed Ready Check Status icon not disappearing.
  23. 2.3.1.1

    • Fixed Party Frames preview mode.
    • Fixed Enemy Nameplates.
  24. 2.3.1.0

    • Fixed several issues with the Party Frames and Party Cooldowns.
    • Fixed Ready Check Status icon in the Party Frames.
    • Removed the Player Order Override setting from Party Frames: * This is now possible through the game's systems. * In order to simplify the logic, DelvUI's Party Frames will follow the order in the game's party list at all times.
  25. 2.3.0.0

    • Added support for Patch 7.1 and Dalamud API 11.
  26. 2.2.1.2

    • Fixed Shadowed Vigil showing up in Party Cooldowns for characters below lvl 92.
    • Fixed some elements like castbars not being click through.
  27. 2.2.1.1

    • Removed `Misc > HUD Options > Support Special Mouse Clicks` setting: * This has been replaced with the `/delvui mouse on/off` command. * This feature should only be used by players that have actions bound to special mouse buttons that otherwise wouldn't work when hovering DelvUI elements.
    • Added a Window Clipping setting for third party plugins: * This setting can be used to prevent DelvUI elements to be drawn on top of other plugins. * Please note that this requires the developers of each plugin to implement the feature. * Umbra already supports this as of version 2.2.17.
    • Fixed inconsistencies with mouse clicks on various DelvUI elements.
  28. 2.2.1.0

    • Added `Misc > HUD Options > Support Special Mouse Clicks` setting: * This setting should only be used if you have actions bound to special mouse buttons such as mousewheel, M3, M4, etc. * If you don't use those mouse buttons, you should leave this setting disabled.
    • Fixed DelvUI elements "eating" mouse clicks from other windows that are on top of them.