xkbcommon

xkbcommon is a library implementing the XKB specification for handling keyboard descriptions, including loading them from disk, parsing them and handling their state. It is mainly meant for client toolkits, window systems, and other system applications.

Currently that includes:

• Wayland
• kmscon
• GTK
• Qt
• Clutter
• KWin
• and others

It is also used by some XCB applications for proper keyboard support.

Releases

Our git repository on GitHub always contains the most up-to-date development code. Patches and feedback should ideally be submitted against the latest code in git.

Our latest API- and ABI-stable release is 1.12.2 (release notes)

You may find the past release announcements, including NEWS and checksums, on the wayland-devel mailing list archives:

• 1.12.2 October 20, 2025
• 1.12.1 October 17, 2025
• 1.12.0 October 10, 2025
• 1.11.0 August 8, 2025
• 1.10.0 May 21, 2025
• 1.9.2 May 7, 2025
• 1.9.1 May 2, 2025
• 1.9.0 April 26, 2025
• 1.8.1 March 12, 2025
• 1.8.0 Feb 4, 2025
• 1.7.0 Mar 24, 2024
• 1.6.0 Oct 8, 2023
• 1.5.0 Jan 2, 2023
• 1.4.1 May 21, 2022
• 1.4.0 Feb 4, 2022
• 1.3.1 Sep 10, 2021
• 1.3.0 May 1, 2021
• 1.2.1 Apr 7, 2021
• 1.2.0 Apr 3, 2021
• 1.1.0 Mar 4, 2021
• 1.0.3 Nov 23, 2020
• 1.0.2 Nov 20, 2020
• 1.0.1 Sep 11, 2020
• 1.0.0 Sep 5, 2020
• 0.10.0 Jan 18, 2020
• 0.9.1 Oct 20, 2019
• 0.9.0 Oct 19, 2019
• 0.8.4 Feb 22, 2019
• 0.8.3 Feb 8, 2019
• 0.8.2 Aug 5, 2018
• 0.8.1 Aug 3, 2018
• 0.8.0 Dec 15, 2017
• 0.7.2 Aug 4, 2017
• 0.7.1 Jan 18, 2017
• 0.7.0 Nov 11, 2016
• 0.6.1 Apr 8, 2016
• 0.6.0 Mar 16, 2016
• 0.5.0 Oct 18, 2014
• 0.4.3 Aug 19, 2014
• 0.4.2 May 15, 2014
• 0.4.1 Mar 27, 2014
• 0.4.0 Feb 2, 2014
• 0.3.2 Nov 22, 2013
• 0.3.0 Apr 1, 2013
• 0.2.0 Oct 23, 2012

Bugs

You are welcome to report any bugs you may encounter to the GitHub issue tracker.

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