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VivaHX is back
[ General News ] posted by VivaHX September 29, 2026

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.

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Heidrun 1.5.1
[ Clients ] posted by VivaHX September 27, 2026
Added
  • Protocol Console: Export… saves the shown transcript as a log file.
Fixed
  • 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

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GtkHx v1.4.0
[ Clients ] posted by VivaHX September 26, 2026
  • 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

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Invigoration v2.3.2
[ Clients ] posted by VivaHX September 25, 2026
StarCraft II clans and groups
  • 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.
StarCraft: Remastered
  • 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.
Chat
  • 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.
Proxies

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Downloads

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Heidrun Server 1.5.1
[ Servers ] posted by VivaHX September 16, 2026
Fixed
  • 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.
Notes
  • Pins heidrun-protocol 1.1.1 (FILP decode on the client side of the same fix).
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Hotline Navigator v0.3.0
[ Clients ] posted by VivaHX September 5, 2026
v0.3.0

This release fills in a substantial part of Navigator’s Hotline protocol support: interrupted transfers can resume, entire folders can be transferred, modern trackers are supported, and compatible servers can display custom GIF avatars.

Text handling also gets a deeper cleanup. Navigator now negotiates UTF-8 consistently across live chat, history, news, and file names, while keeping MacRoman compatibility with classic servers. Private conversations gain media attachments, file sizes and dates are handled more accurately, and saved passwords move into encrypted storage.

New Features
  • Resumable file transfers — Interrupted downloads retain partial data and can resume when the remote file still matches. Uploads support classic resume offsets and modern partial-file verification, restarting when a safe resume is unavailable.
  • Folder transfers — Download folders from the file browser or use Upload Folder on desktop. Nested and empty folders are supported, with checks that keep received paths inside the destination folder.
  • Modern trackers and server discovery — Trackers support v1, v2, and v3, including authenticated listings and optional certificate-validated TLS. Server bookmark information can display advertised ports, transports, and features.
  • Custom GIF avatars — Set or clear an avatar on compatible servers. Avatars appear in user lists, user details, and grouped chat, with classic icons as a fallback.

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Downloads

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Mobius v0.23.1
[ Servers ] posted by VivaHX August 23, 2026

Fixes:

  • Added CA cert into Docker build so the new RSS feed actually feature works
Changelog
  • 0690729 Fix news import error capitalization
  • 6364ee2 Include CA certificates in Docker image

Downloads

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Heidrun protocol and CLI 1.0.0
[ Misc ] posted by VivaHX June 21, 2026

First stable release of the Heidrun Hotline protocol package.

Ships HeidrunCore (wire types + Network.framework client), HeidrunNIOClient (cross-platform SwiftNIO client), and the heidrun CLI.

Capabilities negotiated via DATA_CAPABILITIES (0x01F0):

  • Large-file transfers (>4 GiB) — 64-bit sizes, 24-byte HTXF handshake, 64-bit FFO fork headers; single-file and folder.
  • UTF-8 text encoding — opt-in UTF-8 for all strings (chat, names, news, …); macOS Roman otherwise.

Plus Heidrun extensions (0xE000 band): emoji avatars, resource-fork framed downloads. Self-signed TLS, tracker registration/listing, news, file transfers.

The wire format is additive and backward-compatible: every extension degrades gracefully against peers that don't negotiate it. See docs/PROTOCOL-EXTENSIONS.md.

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Hotline Modern v0.9.1
[ Misc ] posted by VivaHX June 4, 2026
Hotline Modern v0.9.1 — Hotfix Corrections critiques
  • Tracker connectivity : remplace localhost par 127.0.0.1 pour éviter les problèmes de résolution DNS IPv6
  • Bootstrap config : valide la joignabilité d'un tunnel avant de le mettre en cache (timeout 3s)
  • URLs périmées : nettoyage automatique des tunnels trycloudflare morts au démarrage
  • Tracker local préservé : ne supprime jamais localhost:9998 quand on ajoute un tunnel
  • public-config.json : vidé pour ne plus pointer vers un tunnel mort
APK Android

hotline-modern.apk — 4.0 MB, debug build

Downloads

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Heidrun Spirit 1.0.0
[ Bots ] posted by VivaHX June 3, 2026

Initial public release.

A standalone Hotline chatterbot built on the 1998 MegaHAL Markov engine (© Jason Hutchens, GPL-2.0). Swift revival of the 2002 Heidrun's Spirit plug-in — connects to any Hotline server, replies to chat, learns as it reads, persists its brain across restarts.

Cross-platform via heidrun-protocol's HeidrunNIOClient: runs on macOS (launchd) and Linux (Docker).

See README.md for configuration. deploy/ ships a LaunchDaemon plist; Dockerfile + docker-compose.yml cover the Linux path.

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 Clients
- Heidrun 1.5.1
- GtkHx v1.4.0
- Invigoration v2.3.2
- Hotline Navigator v0.3.0
- Mobius Client v0.3.1
 Servers
- Heidrun Server 1.5.1
- Mobius v0.23.1
- Lemoniscate v0.1.7
- Hotline Server 1.9.1
- Hotline Docker images
 Trackers
- Magnetron v0.4.0
- Argus
- hltracker (Visual Basic)
 Bots
- Heidrun Spirit 1.0.0
- Hotline Discord Bridge 1.0.0a
- Hotline2IRCRouter
 Misc
- Heidrun protocol and CLI 1.0.0
- Hotline Modern v0.9.1
- Caps
- CreateList
- hotline (Ruby gem)

 

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