xkbcommon

xkbcommon is a library for handling of keyboard descriptions, including loading them from disk, parsing them and handling their state. It's 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.

If you're still confused, you might want to take a look at our documentation to find out more.

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 1.7.0.

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

• 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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