v2.9.0

Changes

keymaps:

• Add console keymap for Mac swiss german keyboards.

libkbdfile:

• Detect archive type based on content.
• Add support for decompressing files without using utilities. Use
  ELF_DLOPEN_METADATA if possible.

utils:

• loadkeys: Add --tkeymap to dump the keymap as text.

New Contributors

• @wismill made their first contribution in #132
• @legionus made their first contribution in #137
• @sertonix made their first contribution in #144

Full Changelog: v2.8.0...v2.9.0

v2.8.0

Changes

keymaps:

• Add Georgian font (LatCyrHebKa-16_GIA.psfu) and keymap (i386/qwerty/ge).
• Add new i386 azerty afnor keymap (i386/azerty/fr-afnor).
• Disable characters >=U+F000 in qwertz/de_alt_UTF-8.

libkeymap:

• Support KT_DEAD2 diacritics.
• Fix memory leaks.

utils:

• kbd_mode: support Disabled mode (K_OFF).

build-sys:

• configure: Restore the old behavior when using gzip.
• configure: Disable lex implementations other than flex.

other:

• tests: Fix tests on powerpc.
• tests: Add build and check on other architectures (x86_64, s390x, ppc64el).
• tests: Add valgrind check in unit tests.
• tests: Add sparse check and fix detected warnings.
• tests: Add tests to increase code coverage.
• tests: Check all distributed keymaps for loadability.

New Contributors

• @AdamWill made their first contribution in #127

Full Changelog: v2.7.1...v2.8.0

v2.7.1

Changes

setfont:

• Fixed regression in argument parsing. Allow arguments and options to
  be mixed.

dumpkeys:

• Fixed dumpkeys on pc and non-pc architectures. The value of keycode 0
  has a special meaning, but on some architectures (like powerpc)
  keyboards may generate keycode zero.

Full Changelog: v2.7...v2.7.1

v2.7

Changes

libkeymap:

• Add API to get/set keymap keywords.
• Export functions to convert the value to kernel code.
• Fix double kbdfile open.
• Dump action codes for keycode 0.

libkfont:

• Fix buffer allocation for doubled font.
• Check console mode.

keymaps:

• Add hcesar layout, for portuguese speaking countries.
• Update Colemak-DH keymaps with upstream changes.
• sv-latin1.map: make Ctrl+AltGr+9 act as Ctrl+].

fonts:

• Remove non-free Agafari fonts.

build-sys:

• Use autoconf 2.72.
• Do not substitute variables from configure.
• Makefiles cleanup.
• Fix build warning.

other:

• Add configure option to control keymaps compression.
• Update man pages.
• Remove deprecated startup scripts.
• Remove outdated docs.
• Update translations (from translationproject.org)

New Contributors

• @jwilk made their first contribution in #110
• @andhe made their first contribution in #119

Full Changelog: v2.6.4...v2.7

v2.6.4

Changes

• Use AX_ADD_FORTIFY_SOURCE to avoid redefining _FORTIFY_SOURCE by @thesamesam in #103
• Do not look up include files in the current working directory by @daandemeyer in #105

New Contributors

• @thesamesam made their first contribution in #103
• @daandemeyer made their first contribution in #105

Full Changelog: v2.6.3...v2.6.4

v2.6.3

Changes

libkfont:

• Don't look for fonts in the current directory.

showkey:

• Add parameter to allow to change timeout.

po:

• Update po files.

Full Changelog: v2.6.2...v2.6.3

v2.6.2

Changes

loadkeys:

• Don't look for keymap in the current directory.

keymaps:

• Add colemak mod-dh keymaps.

Full Changelog: v2.6.1...v2.6.2

v2.6.1

Changes

libkfont:

• Fix font saving from linux kernel if KD_FONT_OP_GET_TALL is available.
• Respect font height when writing psf2 header.

keymaps:

• Create new 'mac-fr' layout for contemporary French Macs.

New Contributors

• @ToCodeABluejay made their first contribution in #98

Full Changelog: v2.6.0...v2.6.1

v2.6.0

Changes

libkfont:

• Leverage KD_FONT_OP_GET/SET_TALL font operations. The new
  KD_FONT_OP_GET/SET_TALL font operations allow to load fonts taller
  than 32 pixels by dropping the VGA-specific vertical pitch limitation
  (requires kernel 6.2 or later).
• Use threadsafe strtok_r.
• Increase soname version.

setvtrgb:

• Fix read from pipe. The pipe is not rewindable, but we don't really
  need to rewind() but we need to unread one character.

keymaps:

• i386/dvorak/dvorak-de.map: Add dvorak-de.map from console-data.
• i386/qwerty/is-latin1.map: the circumflex should also be available in
  its original level-3 position.
• i386/qwerty/la-latin1.map: Convert the characters expressed in Latin-1
  to the named constants, to ease up transition to Unicode.
• pine/en.map: New version of pinephone keyboard map file.

unimaps:

• Add mapping for U+25CF. The unicode maps in font files like
  eurlatgr.psfu and cp850-8x16.psfu have an entry for U+25CF, but the
  plaintext unimap files do not.

tests:

• Use strace to track syscalls. Now strace is powerful enough to show
  ioctls specific to console configuration.

po:

• Update translations (from translationproject.org).

New Contributors

• @mbfarah made their first contribution in #82

Full Changelog: v2.5.1...v2.6.0

v2.6-rc1

Changes

libkfont:

• Leverage KD_FONT_OP_GET/SET_TALL font operations. The new
  KD_FONT_OP_GET/SET_TALL font operations allow to load fonts taller
  than 32 pixels by dropping the VGA-specific vertical pitch limitation
  (requires kernel 6.2 or later).
• Use threadsafe strtok_r.
• Increase soname version.

setvtrgb:

• Fix read from pipe. The pipe is not rewindable, but we don't really
  need to rewind() but we need to unread one character.

keymaps:

• i386/dvorak/dvorak-de.map: Add dvorak-de.map from console-data.
• i386/qwerty/is-latin1.map: the circumflex should also be available in
  its original level-3 position.
• i386/qwerty/la-latin1.map: Convert the characters expressed in Latin-1
  to the named constants, to ease up transition to Unicode.
• pine/en.map: New version of pinephone keyboard map file.

unimaps:

• Add mapping for U+25CF. The unicode maps in font files like
  eurlatgr.psfu and cp850-8x16.psfu have an entry for U+25CF, but the
  plaintext unimap files do not.

tests:

• Use strace to track syscalls. Now strace is powerful enough to show
  ioctls specific to console configuration.

New Contributors

• @mbfarah made their first contribution in #82

Full Changelog: v2.5.1...v2.6-rc1