• Back and forward in Files. Swipe with two fingers (the page slides like Safari), use the mouse side buttons, ⌘[ / ⌘] or the new ‹ › buttons; ⌘↑ goes up. Revisited folders appear instantly, with their selection and scroll position.

• The sidebar marks the open feature with an accent-coloured pill.
• The Files column header has a single full-width divider line.

Downloads

• Heidrun-1.6.0-186.dmg  (8.0 MB)

HIM 0.2.0 looks and sounds more like AIM, and adds dark mode, your own colors, and drag-and-drop file sending.

New

• The AIM IM window: your buddy's icon sits in the lower-left corner with no frame, on the light gray it was drawn for.
• The classic AIM sounds are built in: buddy in and out, IM sent and received. Setup still takes your own sound files.
• Dark mode and your own colors: Setup > Theme picks Classic or Dark, and Colors... lets you change any color in HIM, from text and windows to links and the gray behind Buddy Icons.
• Drag and drop: drop a picture or file on an IM window to send it.
• Choose where received files go: Setup > Received files (Downloads/HIM unless you change it).
• Links: web addresses in IMs and chat rooms are clickable and open in your browser.
• Chat rooms: lines relayed from Discord on MacDomain, and from the Hotline Central Hub's Relay, show the real sender: "Tagban: lol (via Discord)".
• Update notice: HIM checks GitHub at startup and shows a one-line notice when a newer version is out. It sends nothing about you.
• BugBot: a suggested buddy for bug reports and ideas. Tell it what happened, send a screenshot if you have one, and it files the report on GitHub.

Fixed

• Linux: clicking a window's title bar (easy to do when a buddy request pops up under the mouse) could leave the window stuck to the pointer.
• Linux: the Flatpak now includes the BadassBuddy icon collection.

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Downloads

• HIM_0.2.0_aarch64.dmg  (12.4 MB)
• HIM_0.2.0_amd64.deb  (13.3 MB)
• HIM_0.2.0_arm64.deb  (13.0 MB)
• HIM_0.2.0_x64-setup.exe  (11.0 MB)
• HIM_0.2.0_x64.dmg  (12.8 MB)
• HIM_0.2.0_x64_en-US.msi  (13.5 MB)
• HIM_v0.2.0_aarch64.flatpak  (11.0 MB)
• HIM_v0.2.0_x86_64.flatpak  (11.4 MB)

A fix for signing up: Get a Screen Name now opens VesperNet's messenger sign-up page, https://agora.vespernet.net/messenger (it went to the wrong page in 0.1.0, so new people couldn't make an account).

Downloads

• Mac (Apple Silicon): HIM_0.1.1_aarch64.dmg · Mac (Intel): HIM_0.1.1_x64.dmg. Both signed and notarized.
• Windows: HIM_0.1.1_x64-setup.exe (or the .msi)
• Linux: .deb for x86_64 and arm64, or the Flatpaks

Downloads

• HIM_0.1.1_aarch64.dmg  (12.3 MB)
• HIM_0.1.1_amd64.deb  (13.2 MB)
• HIM_0.1.1_arm64.deb  (13.0 MB)
• HIM_0.1.1_x64-setup.exe  (11.0 MB)
• HIM_0.1.1_x64.dmg  (12.8 MB)
• HIM_0.1.1_x64_en-US.msi  (13.4 MB)
• HIM_v0.1.1_aarch64.flatpak  (3.5 MB)
• HIM_v0.1.1_x86_64.flatpak  (3.9 MB)

• Hotline: wide user icons are no longer cut off in the Users list. The panel opens wider (280 pixels) and you can drag its left edge to resize it, and icons are drawn at their own size instead of being scaled.

macOS builds are signed and notarized. osx-arm64 is for Apple Silicon, osx-x64 for Intel.

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Downloads

• Invigoration-v2.3.3-linux-x64.tar.gz  (52.9 MB)
• Invigoration-v2.3.3-osx-arm64.zip  (50.8 MB)
• Invigoration-v2.3.3-osx-x64.zip  (53.7 MB)
• Invigoration-v2.3.3-win-x64.zip  (54.6 MB)

The first release of HIM, the Hotline Instant Messenger: a late-90s AIM-style buddy list for the Hotline IM network. It starts out on VesperNet; Get a Screen Name on the Sign On window makes an account.

• Buddy List, IM windows, away messages and auto-responses, offline messages, delivered/read receipts
• HOPE secure sign-on, with ChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption when the server offers it
• Buddy Icons (the Buddy Icons extension, Janus 2.0.16+), including BadassBuddy zips as a searchable gallery
• AIM-style smileys, door sounds, and Hotline servers as chat rooms

| System | File | |---|---| | macOS, Apple silicon | HIM_0.1.0_aarch64.dmg (signed and notarized) | | macOS, Intel | HIM_0.1.0_x64.dmg (signed and notarized) | | Windows | HIM_0.1.0_x64-setup.exe, or the .msi | | Linux | HIM_v0.1.0_x86_64.flatpak / _aarch64.flatpak, or the .deb |

The flatpak needs the GNOME 47 runtime: flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Platform//47, then flatpak install --user HIM_v0.1.0_x86_64.flatpak.

Downloads

• HIM_0.1.0_aarch64.dmg  (4.0 MB)
• HIM_0.1.0_amd64.deb  (5.0 MB)
• HIM_0.1.0_arm64.deb  (4.7 MB)
• HIM_0.1.0_x64-setup.exe  (3.4 MB)
• HIM_0.1.0_x64.dmg  (4.4 MB)
• HIM_0.1.0_x64_en-US.msi  (4.7 MB)
• HIM_v0.1.0_aarch64.flatpak  (3.2 MB)
• HIM_v0.1.0_x86_64.flatpak  (3.6 MB)

VivaHX has a new home. News is posted here again, and the Software page keeps track of every Hotline client, server, tracker and bot we know of, with a post whenever one of them has a new release.

• Protocol Console: Export… saves the shown transcript as a log file.

• Uploads to classic Hotline servers stalled at 0 bytes. The client sent the transfer handshake twice; it now sends it once, as the original Heidrun did.

Downloads

• Heidrun-1.5.1-168.dmg  (7.9 MB)

• Video
• Video chat and screen sharing, on servers that support it
• A dockable Video panel shows everyone's camera and screen, plus your own preview
• Choose a camera in Settings → Voice
• Camera tiles keep the same order, by user, instead of shuffling between calls
• Voice
• Fixed occasional audio problems after joining or rejoining voice
• Themes and Icons
• Themes now color the whole window, not just the chat
• Richer chat colors, and each nickname keeps its own color
• New icons that match the desktop and follow the theme's colors
• The original pixel-art icons live on in the new Classic theme
• New Neon Doll theme
• Settings → General can keep the system's window colors around a themed chat
• Files
• The file browser is now its own window, one per connection
• Clearer layout, with labeled Download and Upload buttons
• Right-click a file for Open, Preview, Get Info, Rename, Delete and more
• User Interface
• Slimmer window chrome, so chat gets much more of the window
• The server banner and connection status now sit in the header bar
• The status bar is gone, and the toolbar is optional (off by default)
• Pane titles and action bars can be hidden
• Chat tabs stay hidden until there is a second conversation
• Settings opens with Ctrl+,
• Hotline Protocol
• Fixed file transfers with Windows clients and servers
• macOS
• GtkHx now asks for camera and microphone access

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Downloads

• GtkHx-v1.4.0-macos-arm64.zip  (32.9 MB)
• GtkHx-v1.4.0-macos-x86_64.zip  (35.0 MB)
• GtkHx-v1.4.0-win64.zip  (70.4 MB)
• GtkHx-v1.4.0.flatpak  (11.0 MB)

• Clans & Groups, next to +: every clan and group your character is in, with your rank, the member count and its description. Press + on one to list its members by name and rank; members who come online, join a game or change rank update as it happens.
• Clan chat opens as a channel tab, as it does in the game; Open Chat does the same for a group.
• Names show as StarCraft II shows them: <TAG> Name, with the clan tag a little smaller and no #123 code. In the Full user list, each person's BattleTag sits underneath.

• Stats: /stats Name, or right-click someone and choose Stats. You get wins and losses (overall, ranked and classic), games played, play time, APM and when the character was made.
• Check if Online (right-click): someone listed in the channel who isn't really logged on (a login stuck by a server reset) is hidden from the user list. Typing /whois does the same.
• The user list's right-click menu works again: right-clicking a person selects them first.

• Message length limits, with a counter in the send box: 255 characters for StarCraft II, 223 for classic Battle.net and StarCraft: Remastered. Longer text is cut at the limit.
• StarCraft II doesn't send unknown /commands as chat any more. Start a line with // to send one that begins with /.
• A new channel tab starts with "Entered channel.", instead of a blank log.

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Downloads

• Invigoration-v2.3.2-linux-x64.tar.gz  (52.9 MB)
• Invigoration-v2.3.2-osx-arm64.zip  (50.8 MB)
• Invigoration-v2.3.2-osx-x64.zip  (53.7 MB)
• Invigoration-v2.3.2-win-x64.zip  (80.2 MB)

• Single-file downloads always ship the flattened file object. The server sent a bare data fork unless the Heidrun-only resourceForkSupport flag was negotiated, so classic clients (and Heidrun ≤ 1.4 against classic servers) misread downloads. Fresh downloads, resumes (data-fork remainder + full resource fork) and large files now all frame per the Hotline spec; the flag is a no-op.

• Pins heidrun-protocol 1.1.1 (FILP decode on the client side of the same fix).