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Halloy 2026.10

IRC client written in Rust

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About Halloy

Halloy is an open-source IRC client written in Rust, with the Iced GUI library. It aims to provide
a simple and fast client for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

License: GPL-3.0-or-later
Release info Update on Nov 03, 2026
Release notes Added:
• SQLite history storage, with automatic migration of existing gzip history as buffers are used and loading of history in windows.
• Search buffer to search messages across all servers, channels and queries, opened from the command bar, sidebar menu, a nickname's context menu, the search key binding or /search
• Added buffer.text_input.upload_long_paste to automatically use filehost in case pasted text is too long
• Pane title bar button and shortcut to scroll to the backlog divider
• Condensed message gained support for summary via buffer.server_messages.condense.format = "summary"
• Pressing Tab after /topic fills in the current channel topic for editing
• Highlight matches can be optionally named via the name property
• Notification and highlights matches sound property now accept an array of sounds, in which case they'll be picked at random
• Right-clickable text in the server buffer now offers a context menu
• Added Gopher(+s) / Gemini protocol schemes (make links clickable)
• Added support for IPv6 literal links
• Focus mode can be entered with focus_down, focusing the top-most visible message in the buffer
• Pressing Tab in the config editor inserts an indent, set by config_editor.indent ("tab" by default, or a positive integer from 1 to 8)
• Sidebar typing indicators for queries
• buffer.close.query option "close-buffer" (previous option "close" renamed to "close-pane")
• Setting runtime.smooth_scrolling to control whether smooth scrolling is used
• Setting servers..who_poll_in_flight_limit to control the number of WHO requests sent at once when cap no-implicit-names acked
• Update to Unicode 18.0 emojis

Fixed:
• Colored emojis are now preferred over outline ones
• Closing Halloy hangs while a toast notification is pending on Windows
• Crash when right clicking a message in the server buffer
• Config editor crash when caret is outside the window bounds
• Scroll position being lost when showing the typing indicator with buffer.typing.style =…
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