v2.5.0 beta 1

What's Changed

• Major: Twitch follower emotes can now be correctly tabbed in other channels when you are subscribed to the channel the emote is from. (#4922)
• Major: Added /automod split to track automod caught messages across all open channels the user moderates. (#4986, #5026)
• Major: Moderators can now see restricted chat messages and suspicious treatment updates. (#5056, #5060)
• Minor: Migrated to the new Get Channel Followers Helix endpoint, fixing follower count not showing up in usercards. (#4809)
• Minor: Moderation commands such as /ban, /timeout, /unban, and /untimeout can now be used via User IDs by using the id:123 syntax (e.g. /timeout id:22484632 1m stop winning). (#4945, #4956, #4957)
• Minor: The /usercard command now accepts user ids. (/usercard id:22484632) (#4934)
• Minor: Added menu actions to reply directly to a message or the original thread root. (#4923)
• Minor: The /reply command now replies to the latest message from the user. Due to this change, the message you intended to reply to is now shown in the reply context, instead of the first message in a thread. (#4919)

More Changes

• Minor: The chatter list button is now hidden if you don't have moderator privileges. (#5245)
• Minor: Live streams that are marked as reruns now mark a tab as yellow instead of red. (#5176, #5237)
• Minor: Allowed theming of tab live and rerun indicators. (#5188)
• Minor: The Restart on crash setting works again on Windows. (#5012)
• Minor: Added an option to use new experimental smarter emote completion. (#4987)
• Minor: Added support for FrankerFaceZ channel badges. These can be configured at https://www.frankerfacez.com/channel/mine - currently only supports bot badges for your chat bots. (#5119)
• Minor: Added support to send /announce[color] commands. Colored announcements only appear with the chosen color in Twitch chat. (#5250)
• Minor: The whisper highlight color can now be configured through the settings. (#5053)
• Minor: Added an option to always include the broadcaster in user completions. This is enabled by default. (#5193, #5244)
• Minor: Added a warning message if you have multiple commands with the same trigger. (#4322)
• Minor: Chatters from message history are now added to autocompletion. (#5116)
• Minor: Added support for the {input.text} placeholder in the Split -> Run a command hotkey. (#5130)
• Minor: Added --activate <channel> (or -a) command line option to focus or add a certain Twitch channel on startup. (#5111)
• Minor: Added the --incognito/--no-incognito options to the /openurl command, allowing you to override the "Open links in incognito/private mode" setting. (#5149, #5197)
• Minor: Added the ability to change the top-most status of a window regardless of the Always on top setting (right click the notebook). (#5135)
• Minor: Added the ability to show AutoMod caught messages in mentions. (#5215)
• Minor: Added the ability to configure the color of highlighted AutoMod caught messages. (#5215)
• Minor: Updated to Emoji v15.1. Google emojis are now used as the fallback instead of Twitter emojis. (#5182)
• Minor: Added icons for newer versions of macOS. (#5148)
• Minor: Added more menu items in macOS menu bar. (#5266)
• Minor: Improved color selection and display. (#5057)
• Minor: Added a System theme setting that updates according to the system's color scheme (requires Qt 6.5). (#5118)
• Minor: Normalized the input padding between light & dark themes. (#5095)
• Minor: The account switcher is now styled to match your theme. (#4817)
• Minor: Added a fallback theme field to custom themes that will be used in case the custom theme does not contain a color Chatterino needs. If no fallback theme is specified, we'll pull the color from the included Dark or Light theme. (#5198)
• Minor: Added a new completion API for experimental plugins feature. (#5000, #5047)
• Minor: Added a new Channel API for experimental plugins feature. (#5141, #5184, #5187)
• Minor: Introduce c2.later() function to Lua API. (#5154)
• Minor: Added --safe-mode command line option that can be used for troubleshooting when Chatterino is misbehaving or is misconfigured. It disables hiding the settings button & prevents plugins from loading. (#4985)
• Minor: Added wrappers for Lua io library for experimental plugins feature. (#5231)
• Minor: Added permissions to experimental plugins feature. (#5231)
• Minor: Added missing periods at various moderator messages and commands. (#5061)
• Minor: Improved Streamlink documentation in the settings dialog. (#5076)
• Minor: The installer now checks for the VC Runtime version and shows more info when it's outdated. (#4847)
• Minor: All sound capabilities can now be disabled by setting your "Sound backend" setting to "Null" and restarting Chatterino. (#4978)
• Minor: Added an invisible resize handle to the bottom of frameless user info popups and reply thread popups. (#4795)
• Minor: Updated the flatpakref link included with nightly builds to point to up-to-date flathub-beta builds. (#5008)
• Minor: Image links now reflect the scale of their image instead of an internal label. (#5201)
• Minor: IPC files are now stored in the Chatterino directory instead of system directories on Windows. (#5226)
• Minor: 7TV emotes now have a 4x image rather than a 3x image. (#5209)
• Minor: Add reward.cost reward.id, reward.title filter variables. (#5275)
• Minor: Change Lua CompletionRequested handler to use an event table. (#5280)
• Minor: Changed the layout of the about page. (#5287)
• Minor: Add duration to multi-month anon sub gift messages. (#5293)
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue where certain emojis did not send to Twitch chat correctly. (#4840)
• Bugfix: Fixed the /shoutout command not working with usernames starting with @'s (e.g. /shoutout @forsen). (#4800)
• Bugfix: Fixed capitalized channel names in log inclusion list not being logged. (#4848)
• Bugfix: Trimmed custom streamlink paths on all platforms making sure you don't accidentally add spaces at the beginning or end of its path. (#4834)
• Bugfix: Fixed a performance issue when displaying replies to certain messages. (#4807)
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue where certain parts of the split input wouldn't focus the split when clicked. (#4958)
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue in the /live split that caused some channels to not get grayed-out when they went offline. (#5172)\
• Bugfix: User text input within watch streak notices now correctly shows up. (#5029)
• Bugfix: Fixed selection of tabs after closing a tab when using "Live Tabs Only". (#4770)
• Bugfix: Fixed input in the reply thread popup losing focus when dragging said window. (#4815)
• Bugfix: Fixed the Quick Switcher (CTRL+K) sometimes showing up on the wrong window. (#4819)
• Bugfix: Fixed the font switcher not remembering what font you had previously selected. (#5224)
• Bugfix: Fixed too much text being copied when copying chat messages. (#4812, #4830, #4839)
• Bugfix: Fixed issue on Windows preventing the title bar from being dragged in the top left corner. (#4873)
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue where Streamer Mode did not detect that OBS was running on MacOS. (#5260)
• Bugfix: Remove ":" from the message the user is replying to if it's a /me message. (#5263)
• Bugfix: Fixed the "Cancel" button in the settings dialog only working after opening the settings dialog twice. (#5229)
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue where the setting Only search for emote autocompletion at the start of emote names wouldn't disable if it was enabled when the client started. (#4855)
• Bugfix: Fixed an empty page being added when showing the out of bounds dialog. (#4849)
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue preventing searching a redemption by it's title when the redemption contained user text input. (#5117)
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue where reply context didn't render correctly if an emoji was touching text. (#4875, #4977, #5174)
• Bugfix: Fixed the input completion popup sometimes disappearing when clicking on it on Windows and macOS. (#4876)
• Bugfix: Fixed Twitch badges not loading correctly in the badge highlighting setting page. (#5223)
• Bugfix: Fixed double-click text selection moving its position with each new message. (#4898)
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue where notifications on Windows would contain no or an old avatar. (#4899)
• Bugfix: Fixed headers of tables in the settings switching to bold text when selected. (#4913)
• Bugfix: Fixed tooltips appearing too large and/or away from the cursor. (#4920)
• Bugfix: Fixed thread popup window missing messages for nested threads. (#4923)
• Bugfix: Fixed an occasional crash for channel point redemptions with text input. (#4949)
• Bugfix: Fixed triple-click on message also selecting moderation buttons. (#4961)
• Bugfix: Fixed badge highlight changes not immediately being reflected. (#5110)
• Bugfix: Fixed emotes being reloaded when pressing "Cancel" in the settings dialog, causing a slowdown. (#5240)
• Bugfix: Fixed double-click selection not correctly selecting words that were split onto multiple lines. (#5243)
• Bugfix: Fixed some emotes not appearing when using Ignores. (#4965, #5126)
• Bugfix: Fixed a freeze from a bad regex in Ignores. (#4965, #5126)
• Bugfix: Fixed lookahead/-behind not working in Ignores. (#4965, #5126)
• Bugfix: Fixed Image Uploader accidentally deleting images with some hosts when link resolver was enabled. (#4971)
• Bugfix: Fixed a rare crash with the Image Uploader when closing a split right after starting an upload. (#4971)
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue on macOS where the Image Uploader would keep prompting the user even after they clicked "Yes, don't ask again". (#5011)
• Bugfix: The usercard button is now hidden in the User Info Popup when in special channels. (#4972)
• Bugfix: Fixed support for Windows 11 Snap layouts. (#4994, #5175)
• Bugfix: Fixed some windows appearing between screens. (#4797)
• Bugfix: Fixed a crash that could occur when clicking More messages below button in a usercard and closing it quickly. (#4933)
• Bugfix: Fixed a crash that could occur when using certain features in a Usercard after closing the split from which it was created. (#5034, #5051)
• Bugfix: Fixed a crash that could occur when using certain features in a Reply popup after closing the split from which it was created. (#5036, #5051)
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug on Wayland where tooltips would spawn as separate windows instead of behaving like tooltips. (#4998, #5040)
• Bugfix: Fixes to section deletion in text input fields. (#5013)
• Bugfix: Fixed avatar in usercard and moderation button triggering when releasing the mouse outside their area. (#5052)
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug where buttons would remain in a hovered state after leaving them. (#5077)
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue where you had to click the reply button twice if you already had that users @ in your input box. (#5173)
• Bugfix: Fixed popup windows not persisting between restarts. (#5081)
• Bugfix: Fixed splits not retaining their focus after minimizing. (#5080)
• Bugfix: Fixed Copy message copying the channel name in global search. (#5106)
• Bugfix: Fixed some Twitch emotes sizes being wrong at certain zoom levels. (#5279, #5291)
• Bugfix: Fixed a missing space when the image uploader provided a delete link. (#5269)
• Bugfix: Reply contexts now use the color of the replied-to message. (#5145)
• Bugfix: Fixed top-level window getting stuck after opening settings. (#5161, #5166)
• Bugfix: Fixed link info not updating without moving the cursor. (#5178)
• Bugfix: Fixed an upload sometimes failing when copying an image from a browser if it contained extra properties. (#5156)
• Bugfix: Fixed tooltips getting out of bounds when loading images. (#5186)
• Bugfix: Fixed split header tooltips showing in the wrong position on Windows. (#5230)
• Bugfix: Fixed split header tooltips appearing too tall. (#5232)
• Bugfix: Fixed past messages not showing in the search popup after adding a channel. (#5248)
• Bugfix: Fixed pause indicator not disappearing in some cases. (#5265)
• Bugfix: Fixed the usercard popup not floating on tiling WMs on Linux when "Automatically close user popup when it loses focus" setting is enabled. (#3511)
• Bugfix: Fixed moderator-only topics being subscribed to for non-moderators. (#5056)
• Bugfix: Truncated IRC messages to be at most 512 bytes. (#5246)
• Bugfix: Fixed a data race when disconnecting from Twitch PubSub. (#4771)
• Bugfix: Fixed messages not immediately disappearing when clearing the chat. (#5282)
• Bugfix: Fixed highlights triggering for ignored users in announcements. (#5295)

New Contributors

• @GongBingWong made their first contribution in #4848
• @libklein made their first contribution in #4854
• @h3o66 made their first contribution in #4867
• @baines made their first contribution in #4922
• @crazysmc made their first contribution in #4998
• @gremble0 made their first contribution in #5013
• @fraxxio made their first contribution in #5061
• @Manfred made their first contribution in #5148
• @KleberPF made their first contribution in #5172
• @Heryin made their first contribution in #5263

Full Changelog: v2.4.5...v2.5.0-beta.1