A lightweight, native Discord client for Windows

Features

• Show group DM members' overall presence

Fixes

• Cover cleanup process ownership without compiled fixtures
• Measure isolated production startup and restore the client
• Stop media test workers before releasing fixture storage
• Restore profile role actions with atomic member updates
• Shrink update state fixtures and serialize durable staging
• Reduce update fixture I/O and schedule long tests early

and 59 more changes on GitHub

Features

• Show who reacted when hovering a reaction
• Add Server Profile, Boost Perks, members search and bulk ban
• Add the plugin browser: catalog worker, startup gating and Settings UI
• Add plugin catalog providers, check service and journaled installs
• Add the plugin catalog foundation: provider origins, signed index, policy, records

Performance

• Perf harness: replay GPU timing, per-frame API counts, startup attribution

and 22 more changes on GitHub

The first public release. It follows the private 0.1.x previews, with a long list of fixes and a measured performance and memory pass.

Upgrading from 0.1.x

0.1.0 and 0.1.1 can't install later updates on their own: their installer rejects every newer package. Replace that install once by hand with the zip below; from then on MaiCord updates itself from Settings > Updates.

New

• Plugins: Plugin SDK ABI 5 with typed reads of guilds, channels, roles, members, presence, voice and cached messages; batched gateway events; message decorators; context menus on users, messages, channels, guilds, attachments, links and emoji; keybinds; GPU background effects.
• Profiles: rebuilt profile popout and full profile, plus Edit Profile with main and per-server tabs, an image cropper, decoration and effect pickers.
• Messages: `ansi code blocks with coloured underline and strikethrough; merged image galleries for embeds sharing a link; polls with the current layout and vote flow; replies show attachment, sticker and voice placeholders.
• Servers: server banners in the channel header, guild card and settings; still guild icons that animate on hover; badges above icons; thread browser in the header search bar.
• Media: iPhone recordings play, with rotation applied; HEVC streams with an alpha layer decode; animated WebP keeps transparency; Klipy favourites play.
• Emoji shortcodes now come from Unicode, gemoji and emojibase data, with familiar aliases like :slight_smile: and :thumbup:.

Fixed

• Lock-ups when opening popouts for members with many roles.
• Updates failing to install after the account module changed.
• Voice participants missing from the member list, and the call view staying open after a disconnect.
• Mention autocomplete working only while the member list was open.
• Cyrillic and other text turning into substitutes when a single cluster couldn't be shaped.
• Pasted ANSI text being rejected by the composer.
• Settings flicker when opened during the open animation, and the backdrop freezing.
• Server tag cards, member-tab placeholders, channel-name clipping and the taskbar beep on restore.

Faster and lighter

• Startup: the first frame appears in 63 ms, down from 84 ms; the device and pipelines are created off the UI thread.
• Idle: a static channel presents about 2 frames instead of about 52. An overdue typing deadline no longer spins a full core.
• Scrolling: 366 µs of CPU per frame (p50), down from 606 µs.
• Media decoding: JPEG and GIF decode about 5.6× faster, lossless WebP about 8×, with bit-identical output.
• Gateway: SIMD JSON scanning and validation cut producer CPU by 64%; large compressed frames stream instead of failing.
• Memory: media decode threads start only when needed (29 MiB less private memory at startup), and user appearance and activity records are compacted.
• Size: MaiCord.exe and MaiCordAccount.dll together are 7.3 MiB.

Full release notes on GitHub