Releases: opensteno/plover
v5.2.2
Plover v5.2.2
⚠️ Important Notice
Version 5 updates the graphical interface library from PyQt5 to PySide6, which means graphical plugins need to be migrated.
Please check the Unsupported Plugins List before installing this version.
Installation
To install Plover, please follow the Installation Guide on our wiki.
Changelog
Features
No significant changes.
Bugfixes
User Interface
- Hide Wayland keymap help text when not on Linux and improve wording. (#1817)
macOS
- Fixed startup hang when launching Plover on Intel Macs (#1820)
API
No significant changes.
Release History
For a detailed list of changes in this and all previous versions, see NEWS.md.
v5.2.1
Plover v5.2.1
⚠️ Important Notice
Version 5 updates the graphical interface library from PyQt5 to PySide6, which means graphical plugins need to be migrated.
Please check the Unsupported Plugins List before installing this version.
Installation
To install Plover, please follow the Installation Guide on our wiki.
Changelog
Features
Core
- Update PySide dependency to allow Arch Linux AUR to be packaged. (#1775)
Bugfixes
No significant changes.
API
No significant changes.
Release History
For a detailed list of changes in this and all previous versions, see NEWS.md.
v5.2.0
Plover v5.2.0
⚠️ Important Notice
Version 5 updates the graphical interface library from PyQt5 to PySide6, which means graphical plugins need to be migrated.
Please check the Unsupported Plugins List before installing this version.
Installation
To install Plover, please follow the Installation Guide on our wiki.
Changelog
Features
Linux
- Support determining keyboard layout from Wayland with the
wayland-autolayout. (#1807) - Avoid unnecessary rapid modifier key press/release while typing. (#1810)
macOS
- Add appearance configuration option. (#1786)
Windows
- Add appearance configuration option. (#1786)
Bugfixes
Core
- Fix a corner case in
plover -s (script). (#1803)
User Interface
- Fix default window sizes and extensions config table. (#1789)
- Update Thea's name and email. (#1792)
- Remove broken use_timeout checkbox in serial options. (#1793)
- Make the plugin manager handle some exceptional cases. (#1802)
macOS
- Hide the Start Minimized setting on macOS due to bug in macOS 26. (#1788)
API
Core
- Migrate HID library to cython-hidapi. (#1812)
Release History
For a detailed list of changes in this and all previous versions, see NEWS.md.
v5.1.0
Plover v5.1.0
⚠️ Important Notice
Version 5 updates the graphical interface library from PyQt5 to PySide6, which means graphical plugins need to be migrated.
Please check the Unsupported Plugins List before installing this version.
Installation
To install Plover, please follow the Installation Guide on our wiki.
Changelog
Features
Core
- Add support for Plover HID protocol based on plover-machine-hid plugin by dnaq. (#1777)
User Interface
- Dynamically update individual status icons while loading dictionaries. (#1400)
macOS
- Add code signing and notarization for macOS app. (#1769)
Bugfixes
Core
- Update frontmatter in GPLv2 license file; no substantive change to the license (#1779)
API
No significant changes.
Release History
For a detailed list of changes in this and all previous versions, see NEWS.md.
v5.0.0
Plover v5.0.0
⚠️ Important Notice
Version 5 updates the graphical interface library from PyQt5 to PySide6, which means graphical plugins need to be migrated.
Please check the Unsupported Plugins List before installing this version.
Installation
To install Plover, please follow the Installation Guide on our wiki.
Changelog
No changes compared to Plover v5.0.0rc1.
Release History
For a detailed list of changes in this and all previous versions, see NEWS.md.
v5.0.0rc1
Plover 5.0.0rc1
⚠️ Important Notice
Version 5 updates the graphical interface library from PyQt5 to PySide6, which means graphical plugins need to be migrated.
Please check the Unsupported Plugins List before installing this version.
Installation
To install Plover, please follow the Installation Guide on our wiki.
Changelog
Features
Linux
- Refactor Uinput to use pipe instead of select with timeout. (#1760)
- Passthrough keyboard shortcuts. (#1761)
- Uinput: refactor initialization and cleanup. (#1765)
Bugfixes
No significant changes.
API
No significant changes.
Release History
For a detailed list of changes in this and all previous versions, see NEWS.md.
v5.0.0.dev3
Plover 5.0.0.dev3
Warning: Version 5 updates the graphical interface library from PyQt5 to PySide6 which requires graphical plugins to be migrated.
Installation Guide
Read the Installation Guide to see which file you need to download.
v5.0.0.dev3 (2025-07-14)
Features
Core
- Allow higher priority dictionaries to delete entries from others. (#1160)
- Improve orthography rules for
^ifysuffixes. (#1680) - Reduce installer file size. (#1741)
Linux
- Add dvorak keymap support for uinput users. (#1746)
Bugfixes
Core
Windows
- Do not consider extended scan codes in Windows keyboard capture. (#1357)
API
No significant changes.
v4.0.3
Plover 4.0.3
Plover is going through a huge overhaul to make for a better experience for our users, and developers, too.
Warning: Version 4 is a major change and the configuration file it creates is not compatible with Plover 3 or earlier. Please backup your
plover.cfg
Installation Guide
Read the Installation Guide to see which file you need to download.
v4.0.3 (2025-07-12)
Features
No significant changes.
Bugfixes
Core
- Update plover-plugins-manager and related Python dependencies. (#1750)
API
No significant changes.
v5.0.0.dev2
Plover 5.0.0.dev2
Warning: Version 5 updates the graphical interface library from PyQt5 to PySide6 which requires graphical plugins to be migrated.
Installation Guide
Read the Installation Guide to see which file you need to download.
v5.0.0.dev2 (2025-06-14)
Features
Core
- Integrate BuildResources into BuildUi to simplify UI plugin migration to Plover v5. (#1735)
Bugfixes
Core
- Fix installation of plugins via git URL. (#1733)
Linux
- When inputting Unicode with uinput the code now uses space to finalize the Unicode character instead of enter. (#1731)
API
No significant changes.
v4.0.2
Plover 4.0.2
Plover is going through a huge overhaul to make for a better experience for our users, and developers, too.
Warning: Version 4 is a major change and the configuration file it creates is not compatible with Plover 3 or earlier. Please backup your
plover.cfg
Installation Guide
Read the Installation Guide to see which file you need to download.
v4.0.2 (2025-06-05)
Features
No significant changes.
Bugfixes
Linux
- When inputting Unicode with uinput the code now uses space to finalize the Unicode character instead of enter. (#1731)
API
No significant changes.