libchewing 0.10.0 Released

2025-07-26

libchewing 0.10.0 Released: 2025-07-26

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 (#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
Files

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gpgv libchewing-0.10.0.tar.zst.asc libchewing-0.10.0.tar.zst

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minisign -Vm libchewing-0.10.0.tar.zst \
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