Drupal now has a messenger service, powered by the class Drupal\Core\Messenger\Messenger. Here is how you can add HTML to the message:

use Drupal\Core\Render\Markup;
\Drupal::messenger()->addStatus(Markup::create('Your settings have been saved. <a href="/">Go to the homepage</a>'));

 

 

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