v0.10.0

[kanru]

What's New in libchewing 0.10.0 (July 26, 2025)

• Features

  • New keyboard layout Colemak.
  • cli: New --fix option enables auto correction for simple tsi.src errors
  • cli: Allow multiple whitespace in dictionary source file

• Developer Features

  • New API chewing_bopomofo_String() can be used to retrieve current bopomofo string in the buffer. This deprecates the old non-thread safe chewing_bopomofo_String_static.
  • New API chewing_cand_string_by_index() can be used in UILess mode to query candidate string from candidate list.

• Changes

  • BREAKING: System dictionary loader now loads base and extra dictionary separately. (Rust)
  • Simple mode now always auto-commit after candidate selection to align with ㄅ/半 experience.

• Bug Fixes

  • chewing_keystroke_CheckAbsorb() correctly return true when a keystroke was absorbed due to error.
  • chewing_commit_preedit_buf() does not return error when the bopomofo buffer is empty, to match previous behavior.
  • chewing_clean_preedit_buf() does not return error when the bopomofo buffer is empty, to match previous behavior.
  • Avoid panics in chewing_new()
  • Don't panic when conversion fails
  • Don't panic when symbols table contains empty line
  • Avoid opening empty symbol table
  • Skip malformed lines in abbrev table
  • Handle special symbol input normally when easy symbol is enabled
  • Ignore zero-length phrases
  • Use correct %AppData% path on Windows
  • Fallback to Windows default sys path
  • Use correct search path separator on Windows
  • Check file existence with Windows quirks
  • Ensure to reload dictionary after flush buffers
  • Esc key clears buffer in simple mode
  • Correctly allocate and free array returned to C FFI
  • Initialize learned user phrase freq with orig_freq
  • Ensure user phrase takes precedence

• Dictionary

  • Add alternative sound for 麼
  • Removed some inconsistent phrases (dict: remove some inconsistent phrases #709)

• Build

  • Do not link to libcmtd on Windows
  • Bump corrosion to 0.5.1 to fix rustup breaking change
  • Bump MSRV to 1.85
  • Bump tools and testhelper to 2024 edition
  • Stop updating mini.dat for every build
  • Move C headers to the capi module
  • Remove unused cargo-vet settings
  • Clean-up porting layer usage in tests
  • Add upper bound to cmake_minimum_required version
  • Enable cli test
  • Stop depending on the directories crate

New Contributors

• @shawn111 made their first contribution in add basic PinyinVariant info #667
• @New9c made their first contribution in feat: Adding Colemak #674
• @xunil-cloud made their first contribution in feat(cli): allow multiple whitespace in dictionary source file #679

Full Changelog: v0.9.1...v0.10.0

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This discussion was created from the release v0.10.0.