Changelogs
Streamer.bot Chat
The latest updates and improvements for Streamer.bot Chat and Overlay
📅 September 2, 2026
✨ What's New
- Added Twitch GIF support for chat and overlay
- By default, GIF's are shown in the chat feed and collapsed in overlay (configurable in settings)
- Split platform settings into separate pages for Twitch, YouTube, and Kick exclusive settings
- Added per-event style overrides for all chat events
- Default styles can be configured per-platform, and then granularly overidden per-event
- Support for this feature in the overlay is planned for a future update
- Added ability to explicitly hide events from the chat feed and the event feed, respectively
- Added randomized event previews for all events in settings
- YouTube event support added for:
- New Subscriber
- Jewels Gifted
- Membership Gifts
- Added the ability to toggle display of chat badges in both the chat feed and the overlay
- Added additional highlighted types for chat messages:
- Subscribers
- Broadcaster Account
- Bot Account
- Added ability to manually add users to the highlighted, ignore, and ignore highlights lists in settings
🛠️ Improvements & Updates
- Updated YouTube events for payload changes in v1.1.0-alpha
- YouTube ban and timeout events now properly remove associated messages from chat and overlay
- Improved handling of input queries when completing slash commands
🐛 Fixes
- Updated parsing of YouTube emojis in legacy and current versions of Streamer.bot
- Fixed autocompletion when using the
/actionslash command - Fixed broken ban/unban links in Kick user details modal
📅 August 26, 2026
✨ What's New
- 7TV Overlay Emotes Support
- Added
Animate Emotestoggle in settings for disabling animated emotes - Added
AVIFandWEBPsupport for animated emotes when supported by browser and emote provider
🛠️ Improvements & Updates
- Many performance related improvements behind the scenes
- Updated event rows to prefer platform color highlight by default
- Improved handling of emote spacing in chat messages
- Updated YouTube Super Chat styles to match highlighted event styles
- Improved default text shadow in
Chat Overlaymode - Pronouns badge will now properly scale with the configured font size
- Improved sizing and alignment of user avatars
- Moved default user avatar next to username. Preserved previous far-left avatar slot for Twitch Shared Chat source avatar
🐛 Fixes
- Miscellaneous payload fixes for
Streamer.bot v1.1.0-alpha - Fixed quick action platform override not applying to
Kick - Fixed an issue preventing pronouns from loading in certain scenarios
- Twitch Announcement events in
Chat Overlaywill now properly wrap
📅 August 19, 2026
✨ What's New
- Local font family support
- Added optional ability to override font family via text entry
- New
Chat Overlaysettings for toggling display of user avatars and pronouns
🛠️ Improvements & Updates
- Added additional data-attribute properties for event row CSS targeting (to match previous chat row changes)
- Improvements to user avatar sizing and alignment across Twitch, YouTube, and Kick chat messages
🐛 Fixes
- Tab key now properly selects items when autocompleting
@username,:emote, or!command - Collapsed global and user quick action items now properly execute their associated actions
- Fixed an issue where username aliases were not being properly resolved on Twitch chat messages
📅 August 12, 2026
✨ What's New
- Major UI refactor, underlying library updates
- Initial Twitch Shared Chat support added, with broadcaster avatar displayed when active
- New settings layout with sidebar navigation
- Add new overlay
Message Layoutconfiguration optionInline: Display messages inline with the usernameStacked: Display the username stacked above the messageBlock: Display messages as a separate block to the right of the username
- Add new overlay
Message Styleconfiguration optionText: Display messages as text and no background or outlineSoft: Display messages with a soft backgroundSubtle: Display messages with a soft background and outlineOutlined: Display messages with an outline
- Add additional
[data-attribute]properties for chat element CSS targeting - Add configuration option for displaying avatars in chat message rows
- Add support for Twitch and Kick avatars (YouTube previously supported)
- Add support for
YouTube Memberships Giftedevents - Add
Chat Browser Dockpage to settings area
🛠️ Improvements & Updates
- Improved virtual list performance and stability
- Updated sub-navigation layout for monitored YouTube broadcast selection
- Removed background from chat overlay, defaulting to transparent
- No CSS overrides required in browser sources anymore
- Normalized chat message DOM structure across Twitch, YouTube, and Kick message.
🐛 Fixes
- Handle an error in Kick Gift Sub events when recipients are missing from the event payload
- Prevent custom font from applying to quick action dropdowns
- Added a graceful fallback when emote or badge image URL fails to load
📅 August 5, 2026
🐛 Fixes
- Updated chat overlay to properly preserve cleared history on full reload
📅 July 30, 2026
🐛 Fixes
- Fixed an issue with First Words using the configured highlight color for First Message
- Updated First Words detection for Twitch and Kick chat messages
📅 May 1, 2026
🛠️ Improvements & Updates
- Remove color lighten modification and use Twitch username colors directly