Follow the public development history of Neon MultiStream Chat, including platform integrations, emote support, reliability improvements, and release updates.
Current release: v1.3.74
v1.3.74
Velora Point Redeem Notices & IPC Bridge
Connected Velora Point redemption events over the desktop IPC bridge with dedicated gold styling, diamond currency points, and reward metadata.
Added Velora chatter join announcements with deduplication to highlight viewers entering chat.
Fixed Electron preload event binding for Velora redemptions and resolved message deduplication handling.
v1.3.73
Velora Subscriber & Channel Emote Parsing Fix
Added colon-wrapped pattern matching for Velora channel and subscriber emotes (e.g., :KlumaNodders:) so picker and colon-formatted codes render as images rather than literal text.
Preserved all Velora channel emote collections without dropping subscriber tiers during catalog loading.
Expanded sender emote discovery and catalog indexing to recognize colon-prefixed subscriber codes across connected channels.
v1.3.72
Velora Profile Card Text & Mark Fidelity
Replaced the text placeholder with the official supplied gold Velora SVG mark.
Safely convert rich-text profile bios to plain text before displaying them in chat.
v1.3.71
Inline Velora Creator Profile Previews
Recognize direct velora.tv creator links and load their public profile metadata on demand.
Render the avatar, display name, pronouns, live/category status, and bio over the creator banner within the chat message.
Keep generic link previews for all non-profile links.
v1.3.70
Velora Chatter Profile Metadata Cards
Added on-demand profile cards with the public Velora banner, avatar, display name, pronouns, bio, and direct profile link.
Show live state and stream category when that public metadata is available.
Cache opened profiles for the current session to avoid repeated profile requests.
Updated Velora badge resolution to prioritize specific badge slug and name candidates over generic category types like "custom" or "role".
Mapped all Community Staff badge aliases and direct image URLs across active and past messages.
v1.3.65
Fixed System Notice Layout & Permanent Notices Log
Adjusted system notice grid columns and spacing so platform tags never collide with notice text.
Added official asset mapping for Velora Community Staff badges (VeloraCommunityManagement.png).
Renamed the tab to Notices, permanently retaining connection errors, disconnects, and provider updates for the session.
Excluded high-frequency Twitch chat join notices from the permanent Notices history.
v1.3.64
Dedicated Errors History Tab & Compact ALL Label
Shortened the main combined chat tab label to ALL for cleaner layout and extra room in the tab bar.
Added a dedicated Errors tab (and multi-pane platform option) retaining historical connection errors, quota limits, and system notices across the entire session.
Supported live search query filtering and dedicated log clearing inside the Errors tab view.
v1.3.63
Velora Socket Transport & Handshake Reliability
Configured Socket.IO client with dual WebSocket and polling transport fallbacks for maximum connection reliability across varied network topologies.
Streamlined joinChannel handshake acknowledgment to prevent false connection timeout rejections.
Preserved dynamic Velora badge catalog cache across channel re-joins and socket reconnections.
v1.3.62
Kick Chat Keepalive & Chatroom ID Caching
Added 30-second automated keepalive ping intervals on the Pusher WebSocket to prevent intermediate router/proxy timeouts.
Cached resolved Kick chatroom IDs in both memory and the Electron main process, eliminating redundant HTTP calls and Cloudflare edge blocks upon reconnect.
Kick chat reconnects now subscribe instantly to known chatroom channels with zero discovery overhead.
Suppressed repetitive reconnection banners in the chat log on silent network recovery.
v1.3.61
Decoupled YouTube Live State & Quota Protection
Strictly isolate account authorization state from live chat polling — authenticated accounts no longer trigger automatic chat polling.
Restrict broadcast search strictly to confirmed active streams (broadcastStatus=active), ignoring scheduled and upcoming broadcasts.
Eliminate all recursive background retry timers when not live; status checks are strictly on-demand or upon explicit user action.
Add session-sticky quota limit enforcement (quotaBlocked) that instantly stops and locks all YouTube API calls when quota limits are reached.
v1.3.60
Fixed Windows Taskbar & Application Icon
Embed the Neon MultiStream icon and version metadata into the packaged executable.
Ship the application icon with the packaged app so the window icon loads correctly at runtime.
v1.3.59
Updated App Icon
App window, taskbar, and title bar now display the official TeamMidnite icon.
v1.3.58
Velora Event Badge Catalog & Dynamic API Sync
Dynamic sync with Velora badge catalog endpoint (/api/badges/catalog).
Support for official Velora event badges including Pride Month 2026, New Year 2026, Christmas 2025, and Halloween 2025.
Automatic animated and static asset rendering for all present and future catalog badges.
v1.3.57
Official Velora Badge Artwork Mapping
Render verified official Velora PNG badge assets for Broadcaster, VIP, Bot, and Staff.
Retain clean vector provider badge fallbacks for customizable or unmapped badge types.
Deterministically award the pink camera Broadcaster badge only when the sender ID or username matches the connected channel owner.
Preserve legitimate user badges without discarding them when the broadcaster speaks.
v1.3.53
YouTube Live Chat & User Profile Avatars
Re-enable YouTube Live chat connection card and dedicated tab with active polling and message sending.
Support both youtube.readonly (view account & chat) and youtube (manage live chat) OAuth scopes.
Restore user profile image avatars for all signed-in NeonLogin accounts and linked platforms.
v1.3.52
Twitch join notices
Announce viewers on JOIN lines only, with no PART/leave notices.
Expire each notice after 20 seconds and deduplicate per user for 60 seconds so repeats do not flood the log.
Never announce the connector's own anonymous or logged-in nickname.
v1.3.51
YouTube Chat Temporarily Disabled
Disable YouTube status, message, emote, and send requests behind the YOUTUBE_CHAT_ENABLED flag.
Keep the YouTube tab and connection card visible, clearly marked OFF.
v1.3.50
Twitch Point Redeem Fix
Restore the redemption broker on the server so redemption requests no longer return Service Unavailable.
Allow already-linked Twitch accounts to re-authorize so missing redemption permission can be granted without unlinking.
Show a clickable Reconnect action on the Twitch card and retry automatically after re-authorization.
v1.3.49
Twitch Channel Point Redeems
Receive custom reward redemptions through Twitch EventSub, including rewards without viewer input.
Display the viewer, reward title, typed input, and point cost without duplicating the IRC message.
Prompt existing users to reconnect Twitch once when the redemption permission is missing.
v1.3.48
Responsive Platform Tabs
v1.3.47
Historical Velora Badges
v1.3.46
Linked Message Author Alignment
v1.3.45
Preview Layout and Velora Badges
v1.3.44
Clickable Links and Rich Previews
v1.3.43
Galaxy Stars Restored
v1.3.42
Kick same-origin chat recovery
Resolves every linked Kick slug from its account ID instead of relying on a hardcoded or stale locally saved username.
Falls back to Kick's real same-origin web context when its edge rejects direct background chatroom discovery.
Detects subscription timeouts and provider rejections, reports them clearly, and reconnects with bounded backoff.
Does not require users with an existing valid Kick link to reconnect their account.
v1.3.41
Kick chat recovery and subscriber-emote fix
Moves Kick chatroom discovery into the desktop browser session so Kick no longer rejects the renderer request origin.
Reports Kick as connected only after the channel subscription is confirmed, with visible failures and automatic retries.
Fixes historical Velora subscriber emotes when channel or emote capitalization differs between provider responses.
Renames the visible application to “Neon MultiStream Chat” and moves the version into the Connections panel.
v1.3.40
VPZone follow event recovery
Fixes VPZone follows and other recent events disappearing from the combined chat after a socket reconnect, because VPZone replays recent events on every connection.
Accepts the per-connection event replay after each reconnect while preventing duplicate floods against messages already rendered.
v1.3.39
Velora registration referral links
Adds a “Register on Velora” link to the desktop connection card and the add-channel form, opening velora.tv/register?ref=Kluma in your browser.
Promotes Velora on the Neon Multistream product page with its official gold mark, a platform badge, and a create-account call to action.
Swaps generic placeholder icons for the official Kick, VPZone, and Velora brand marks in the product page platform badges.
Renders official Kick and VPZone logos in desktop chat badges and connection cards instead of K and V text placeholders.
Fixes restored Velora chat history by requesting it with the resolved channel UUID, so historical messages and their subscriber emotes now load.
v1.3.38
External Velora subscriber emotes
Discovers a Velora sender's channel emote set when they use subscriber emotes outside their own channel.
Caches external emote catalogs and rerenders the original message as soon as its asset is available.
v1.3.37
Gigantified Velora emotes
Increases Velora emotes from 42px to 52px when a message uses Gigantify.
Keeps ordinary Velora emotes at their existing larger size.
v1.3.36
Velora emote and effect reliability
Delivers the Velora emote catalog with the confirmed chat connection to eliminate the post-connect loading race.
Corrects compound glow and galaxy selectors so their individual colors render accurately.
Restricts the animated star field to galaxy effects.
v1.3.35
Velora chat emotes
Loads Velora public and channel-aware emote collections when chat connects.
Renders exact emote codes using Velora animated WebP assets.
v1.3.34
Official Velora chat icon
Replaces the placeholder Velora chat V with the supplied SVG mark.
Uses the icon on both the connection card and Velora message badges.
v1.3.33
Velora handshake reliability
Resolves a Velora channel to its provider UUID before subscribing to real-time chat.
Reports Connected only after Velora confirms the channel join.
Adds handshake timeouts, actionable errors, and an Experimental label while stability testing continues.
v1.3.32
Real-time Velora chat effects
Replaces the initial polling connector with Velora real-time Socket.IO chat.
Renders Velora glow, galaxy, rainbow, and Gigantify message effects.
Carries pronouns, badges, author colors, timestamps, and message deletion events into the unified chat.
v1.3.31
Velora public chat
Adds Velora as a first-class chat tab and pane option.
Reads public Velora channel chat with automatic polling, retries, and message deduplication.
Saves the selected Velora channel per identity and clearly labels the connector as read-only.
v1.3.30
Persistent Twitch connection keepalive
Sends an active Twitch IRC keepalive every minute so quiet chats remain connected.
Reconnects only when Twitch fails to answer the connection keepalive instead of treating normal chat silence as a dead socket.
Uses the same stable connection health checks for primary and extra Twitch chats.
v1.3.29
Chat scrolling and new-message follow
Fixes the chat viewport so mouse-wheel and scrollbar navigation work normally.
Automatically follows new messages while the viewer is at the bottom.
Preserves the current position when the viewer scrolls up to read older messages.
v1.3.28
Long-running multichat stability
Keeps primary and extra Twitch chats alive with watchdogs and automatic reconnects.
Prevents emote refreshes from disabling Twitch connection monitoring.
Bounds chat memory use and batches rendering and history writes so busy chats remain responsive.
v1.3.27
Current Alejo pronouns API
Uses Alejo Pereyra's current api.pronouns.alejo.io/v1 API, matching current Chatterino.
Keeps the legacy API as a migration fallback.
Rechecks missing pronouns after two minutes instead of caching them for 30 minutes.
v1.3.26
Twitch badges and pronouns
Renders official Twitch global and channel-specific badge images from Twitch Helix.
Shows opt-in Twitch pronouns from Alejo Pereyra's Pronouns API beside chat identities.
Caches pronoun results and keeps symbolic badge fallbacks when either service is unavailable.
v1.3.25
VPZone offline chat connection
Discovers linked VPZone accounts through the authenticated broker even when the initial NeonLogin payload omits VPZone fields.
Connects to VPZone public read-only chat when OAuth tokens are missing, including while the stream is offline.
Refreshes expiring VPZone OAuth tokens and preserves automatic WebSocket recovery.
v1.3.24
Twitch profile avatar
Shows the signed-in user's current Twitch profile picture in the desktop header.
Uses a generic Twitch logo when Twitch has no profile picture or the image cannot load.
v1.3.23
Official Twitch chat glyph
Replaces the generic Twitch T chat marker with the recognizable Twitch logo glyph.
v1.3.22
Always-on Twitch and VPZone chat recovery
Reconnects Twitch chat automatically after network interruptions, computer sleep, and stale IRC connections.
Keeps retrying VPZone chat after WebSocket or broker failures instead of remaining disconnected.
Detects silent VPZone connection failures with heartbeat checks and repairs them automatically.
v1.3.21
Compact default window sizing
Opens the desktop window at 578 × 1000 by default.
Keeps the window resizable with a 578-pixel minimum width to protect the platform tabs.
v1.3.20
Linked-chat empty-state correction
Hides Set up connections when a chat provider is already linked or configured.
Shows a quiet connected-state message while waiting for chat activity.
Shows a distinct no-results message when filtering chat.
v1.3.19
Account-isolated chat and connection security fix
Isolated saved chat history and monitored channels by NeonLogin identity.