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
1.30.4.0
Its own icon
30 Oct 2026
1.30.3.0
Settings: shorter, clearer names
Astral framework 1.55.0.0: long setting names cut to their column, shown whole on hover
29 Oct 2026
1.30.2.0
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
1.30.1.4
Builds with Astral framework 1.52.0.0
28 Oct 2026
1.30.1.0
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
1.30.0.0
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
1.29.1.0
The Astral logo as its icon
1.29.0.0
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
1.28.0.0
named Chat: the command is /chat, settings start fresh, astral framework 1.37.0.0
1.27.7.0
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
1.27.6.0
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
1.27.5.0
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
1.27.4.0
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
1.27.2.0
Friends count shared with Data Bars through Astral.Game 1.6.0.0
24 Oct 2026
1.27.1.0
Friends count asks the game every 30 s at most, not every second
23 Oct 2026
1.27.0.0
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
1.26.0.0
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
1.25.1.0
strips above and below the chat spread their buttons by default
19 Oct 2026
1.25.0.1
Astral.Game 1.4.0.0: DelvUI's plate bar fill and cast bar read from its profile
1.25.0.0
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
1.24.4.0
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
1.24.3.0
/chat clear stays cleared
1.24.2.0
the main menu grows from its button towards the screen's middle
18 Oct 2026
1.24.0.4
Astral.Game 1.3.0.0: DelvUI's plate cast bar read from its profile
15 Oct 2026
1.24.0.0
Show timestamps in the chat's right-click menu
14 Oct 2026
1.23.1.0
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
1.23.0.0
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
1.22.0.0
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
1.21.2.0
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
1.21.1.0
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
1.21.0.0
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
1.20.0.0
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
1.19.0.0
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
1.18.1.0
fresh install on Naowh: window sized and placed for your screen, not on the game chat
1.18.0.0
Tab in an empty box switches tabs, Shift+Tab goes back
a line read in one tab is read in all of them
1.17.0.0
Naowh look updates reach existing installs
fresh install on Naowh: its window, tabs and chat settings too
1.16.1.0
Naowh: smaller text, dimmer tabs, no input gap, no job icons
Naowh strip: wider, housing and mount guide earlier
1.15.0.0
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
1.14.0.0
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
1.13.0.0
friends button opens the party list in a duty
new icons for jump to bottom, gear condition and eleven menu shortcuts
1.12.1.0
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
1.12.0.0
job colours and tags for players from other worlds
bars: spacing at 0 is Fill, buttons spread over the bar
1.11.0.0
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
1.10.1.0
sticky tabs keep party and other group channels when you are not in the group
1.10.0.0
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
1.9.1.0
Astral framework 1.11.0.0: no hitch on the first frame after load
no errors every frame when loaded from a debug build
1.9.0.0
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
1.8.0.0
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
1.7.6.0
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
1.7.5.0
settings: long lists draw only the rows in view
settings: less work every frame on Behaviour, Windows and Rules
2 Oct 2026
1.7.3.0
tabs and the session take memory as they fill, not up front
patterns typed on the way to a rule are no longer kept
1.7.2.0
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
1.7.1.0
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
1.7.0.0
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
1.6.1.0
a tell tab with new messages flashes in the tell colour
1.6.0.0
tab text opacity, for the open tab and for the others
Naowh: open tab light grey, the others darker
1.5.0.0
NaowhUI's friends, free company, copy, settings and main menu icons included
Astral framework 1.4.4.0: less work every frame
1.4.0.0
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
1.3.0.0
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
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