v0.9.1

What's New in libchewing 0.9.1 (October 26, 2024)

• Bug Fixes

  • Disable automatic selections snapshot which introduced more problems then
    what it tried to solve. (introduced in v0.9.0)

• Build

  • Statically link C runtime on Windows
  • Use vcpkg on Windows

Full Changelog: v0.9.0...v0.9.1

v0.9.0

What's New in libchewing 0.9.0 (August 11, 2024)

• Features

  • Support two new input modes:
    • Fuzzy mode - support prefix search, partial zhuyin search, toneless input.
    • Simple mode - like the traditional input method on Windows 95 which does
      not perform any intelligent phrasing.
  • Allow space key for pagination regardless of space_is_select_key mode.
  • Merge DOWN and SPACE key behavior in pagination.
  • A new option to disable fullwidth toggle key.
  • Workman layout support.
  • Load embedded mini dictionary if system dictionaries were not found.
  • Automatically load extra dictionaries found in search path
    • ${CHEWING_PATH}/dictionary.d/*.dat
  • Automatic snapshot selections when the curser is moved.

• Developer Features

  • BREAKING: Remove language_mode and character_form methods (Rust).
  • BREAKING: Remove unused pinyin.tab file
  • BREAKING: Remove most unused C code but keep compat C headers.
  • Bump minimum supported Rust version to 1.77
  • Enable ELF symbol versioning. All existing symbols are marked as version
    CHEWING_0.5 and new symbols from this release are marked as CHEWING_0.9.
  • A new set of configuration API:
    • chewing_config_has_option
    • chewing_config_get_int
    • chewing_config_set_int
    • chewing_config_get_str
    • chewing_config_set_str
  • New API to get runtime library version:
    • chewing_version
    • chewing_version_major
    • chewing_version_minor
    • chewing_version_patch
    • chewing_version_extra
  • New API to acknowledge output buffers:
    • chewing_ack
  • Define version macros
    • CHEWING_VERSION_MAJOR
    • CHEWING_VERSION_MINOR
    • CHEWING_VERSION_PATCH

• Bug Fixes

  • Separate special handling by pinyin variants (#298)
  • Panic when selecting phrases backwards at the end of buffer. (introduced in
    v0.8.0)

• Dictionary

  • Default dictionary updates and fixes (#331)

• Performance

  • Optimize K shortest path algorithm to handle long pre-edit buffer. This
    allowed us to remove the special DP algorithm and keep only the graph search
    based algorithm in conversion.

• Testing

  • Add benchmarks for the conversion module
  • Add tests for options and default values
  • Add test for chewing_config_set_str
  • Test chewing_config_set_str with chewing.keyboard_type
  • Allow switching keyboard layout in genkeystroke
  • Add test for simple engine symbol input
  • Support new editor options in the fuzzer.
  • Generate test cases from fuzzer input.

• Miscellaneous Tasks

  • Drop outdated ChangeLog
  • Add option to turn off tests run
  • Use system corrosion if available
  • Regenerate chewing.h using latest cbindgen
  • Include CTest and use the built-in BUILD_TESTING option
  • Manage SQLite dependency with CMake
  • Print status about SQLite3 module
  • Remove unused test files
  • Bump Corrosion to v0.5
  • Fix building without using CMake presets
  • Force linking chewing_version obj file
  • Append git describe to version string for unreleased version.

• New Contributors

  • @chenrui333 made their first contribution in #560
  • @wusyong made their first contribution in #582

Full Changelog: v0.8.5...v0.9.0

v0.9.0-rc.3

What's New in libchewing 0.9.0-rc.3 (July 28, 2024)

• Bug fixes

  • Add back 0.5.x compat C headers. (introduced in v0.9.0-rc.1)
  • Panic when connecting symbol to symbol or symbol to phrase. (introduced in v0.9.0-rc.1)
  • Panic when selecting phrases backwards at the end of buffer. (introduced in v0.8.0)
  • Panic when autocommit in select mode triggered by the simple engine. (introduced in v0.9.0-rc.2)

• Testing

  • Support new editor options in the fuzzer.
  • Generate test cases from fuzzer input.

• Misc

  • Append git describe to version string for unreleased version.

Full Changelog: v0.9.0-rc.2...v0.9.0-rc.3

v0.9.0-rc.2

What's New in libchewing 0.9.0-rc.2 (July 22, 2024)

• Features
  • Revert mode switch notifications change.
  • Make simple engine compatiable with Plain Zhuyin in ibus-chewing.
  • Automatic snapshot selections when the curser is moved.
• Developer Features
  • Define version macros
    • CHEWING_VERSION_MAJOR
    • CHEWING_VERSION_MINOR
    • CHEWING_VERSION_PATCH

Full Changelog: v0.9.0-rc.1...v0.9.0-rc.2

v0.9.0-rc.1

What's New in libchewing 0.9.0-rc.1 (July 16, 2024)

• Features

  • Support two new input modes:
    • Fuzzy mode - support prefix search, partial zhuyin search, toneless input.
    • Simple mode - like the traditional input method on Windows 95 which does
      not perform any intelligent phrasing.
  • Allow space key for pagination regardless of space_is_select_key mode.
  • Merge DOWN and SPACE key behavior in pagination.
  • A new option to disable fullwidth toggle key.
  • Workman layout support.
  • Load embedded mini dictionary if system dictionaries were not found.
  • Show notification about mode switches triggered by input.
  • Automatically load extra dictionaries found in search path
    • ${CHEWING_PATH}/dictionary.d/*.dat

• Developer Features

  • BREAKING: Remove language_mode and character_form methods
  • BREAKING: Remove unused pinyin.tab file
  • BREAKING: Remove most unused C code
  • Bump minimum supported Rust version to 1.77
  • Enable ELF symbol versioning. All existing symbols are marked as version
    CHEWING_0.5 and new symbols from this release are marked as CHEWING_0.9.
  • A new set of configuration API:
    • chewing_config_has_option
    • chewing_config_get_int
    • chewing_config_set_int
    • chewing_config_get_str
    • chewing_config_set_str
  • New API to get runtime library version:
    • chewing_version
    • chewing_version_major
    • chewing_version_minor
    • chewing_version_patch
    • chewing_version_extra
  • New API to acknowledge output buffers:
    • chewing_ack

• Bug Fixes

  • Separate special handling by pinyin variants (#298)

• Dictionary

  • Default dictionary updates and fixes (#331)

• Performance

  • Optimize K shortest path algorithm to handle long pre-edit buffer. This
    allowed us to remove the special DP algorithm and keep only the graph search
    based algorithm in conversion.

• Testing

  • Add benchmarks for the conversion module
  • Add tests for options and default values
  • Add test for chewing_config_set_str
  • Test chewing_config_set_str with chewing.keyboard_type
  • Allow switching keyboard layout in genkeystroke
  • Add test for simple engine symbol input

• Miscellaneous Tasks

  • Drop outdated ChangeLog
  • Add option to turn off tests run
  • Use system corrosion if available
  • Regenerate chewing.h using latest cbindgen
  • Include CTest and use the built-in BUILD_TESTING option
  • Manage SQLite dependency with CMake
  • Print status about SQLite3 module
  • Remove unused test files
  • Bump Corrosion to v0.5
  • Fix building without using CMake presets
  • Force linking chewing_version obj file

• New Contributors

  • @chenrui333 made their first contribution in #560
  • @wusyong made their first contribution in #582

Full Changelog: v0.8.5...v0.9.0-rc.1

v0.8.5

What's New in libchewing 0.8.5 (July 8, 2024)

• Changed

  • Bump default Corrosion version to v0.5

• Bug fixed

  • Hanyu Pinyin empty rime handling. (#585, introduced in v0.8.0, reported by Jidanni)
  • Printable non A-Z chars should output symbols in pinyin. (#592, introduced in v0.8.0, reported by Jidanni)

Full Changelog: v0.8.4...v0.8.5

v0.8.4

What's New in libchewing 0.8.4 (Jun 1, 2024)

• Bug fixed
  • Config options were incorrectly reset after certain operations. (introduced in v0.8.0)
  • Incorrect mapping for KB_DVORAK and KB_DVORAK_HSU layouts. (introduced in v0.8.0)
  • Installation failure if build with testing off. (introduced in v0.8.3)

Full Changelog: v0.8.3...v0.8.4

v0.8.3

What's New in libchewing 0.8.3 (May 25, 2024)

• Changed

  • Simplified build options on the Windows platform.
  • Enabled CTest BUILD_TESTING option to disable tests.
  • Default uses system Corrosion if available.

• Bug fixed

  • Fix more wrong Hsu (許氏) keyboard fuzz conversion (ㄍㄧ to ㄐㄧ and ㄍㄩ to ㄐㄩ) (introduced in v0.8.0)

Full Changelog: v0.8.2...v0.8.3

v0.8.2

What's New in libchewing 0.8.2 (May 21, 2024)

• Bug fixed
  • Wrong Hsu (許氏) keyboard fuzz conversion (ㄍㄧ to ㄐㄧ and ㄍㄩ to ㄐㄩ) (introduced in v0.8.0)
  • Wrong symbol map location when building as a CMake submodule.

Full Changelog: v0.8.1...v0.8.2

v0.8.1

What's New in libchewing 0.8.1 (May 15, 2024)

• Buf fixed
  • Fail to build on aarch64 due to type mismatch. (introduced in v0.8.0)

Full Changelog: v0.8.0...v0.8.1