libchewing 0.11.0 Released

2026-01-10

libchewing 0.11.0 Released: 2026-01-10

What’s New in libchewing 0.11.0 (January 10, 2026)

Features
- cli: Now outputs and reads dictionary metadata in source file
- cli: Detects mismatched phrase word count and syllable count
- cli: Ignores empty line or line starts with # when processing dictionary
- editor: Support optional sorting candidates by frequency. Previously the candidates are always sorted by their order in the dictionary.
Developer Features
- New API chewing_handle_KeyboardEvent() can be used to support any keyboard layout combination without updating libchewing. Other keyboard handling API will be deprecated in future release.
- New API chewing_new3() and chewing_get_defaultDictonaryNames() can be used to initialize a chewing context with specific dictionaries enabled.
- New boolean config option chewing.sort_candidates_by_frequency can be set to enable sorting candidates by frequency.
- Rust type SyllableSlice is removed from public interfaces.
- Provide libchewing as a Swift package (C based API only).
Bug Fixes
- Auto shift cursor after candidate selection now moves the cursor to the next phrase instead of the next word.
- Fixed a bug when switching input mode from Chinese to English, the state can be stuck in entering bopomofo.
- Fixed the frequency estimation function used by phrase learning to really take last used time into consideration. Also assign higher frequency to newly learned phrases.
Changes
- SQLite support is now fully optional and disabled by default
- rust: new sqlite-bundled feature can be used to build with bundled sqlite to simplify the build configuration on Windows
- cli: will try to migrate to new schema when dumping chewing.sqlite3 file
- Use less heuristic when calculating phrase segmentation score.
- Reimplement scoring algorithm to use conditional probability.
- cli: init-database will no longer normalize the frequency of single word phrase to zero.
- autolearn: new phrases with break words inside will be learned both with and without the break word.
- rust: simplified dictionary API.
- rust: the DictionaryMut trait is merged back to the Dictionary trait.
- rust: the Editor::set_editor_options now accepts a closure for setting options in place.
Dictionary
- Default symbols.dat now includes commonly used emojis.
- Dictionary data are built directly from the libchewing-data repository
Build
- Bump MSRV to 1.88
Files

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