#libxkbcommon 1.13.0 is out!

The highlight of this release is the introduction of the #XKB extensions directories,
a new mechanism to facilitate keyboard layout packaging and distribution.

See https://xkbcommon.org/doc/current/packaging-keyboard-layouts.html for further details.

Release notes: https://xkbcommon.org/doc/current/release-notes.html

#libxkbcommon 1.12.1 is out!

It fixes #X11-related issues mentioned previously: https://mastodon.social/@Wismill/115382727525348448

Release notes: https://xkbcommon.org/doc/current/release-notes.html#libxkbcommon-1121--2025-10-17

It turns out that #libxkbcommon 1.12 uncovered some issues with the X11 ecosystem, resulting in broken keyboard input in some #X11 apps in Wayland sessions.

First reported in this #ArchLinux issue: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/libxkbcommon/-/issues/3

I filed multiple fixes:

libxkbcommon-x11: https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/pull/871

xserver: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/2082

libx11: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/merge_requests/292

Hopefully this mess will get fixed soon.

#libxkbcommon has now an introspection tool, useful to visualize what files are actually loaded.

You can use it on the whole XKB tree too!

https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/blob/master/doc/introspection.md

#libxkbcommon 1.12.0 is out!

The highlight of this release is the performance improvements for keymap handling:
- about 1.6× speedup at *serializing* with default options;
- about 1.7× speedup at *parsing* keymaps serialized by libxkbcommon, otherwise at least 1.1×.

Release notes: https://xkbcommon.org/doc/current/release-notes.html#libxkbcommon-1120--2025-10-10

#libxkbcommon 1.11 has been published: https://xkbcommon.org/doc/current/release-notes.html.

The highlight of this release is the new #xkb text format V2, that enables to fix decade-old issues inherited from the #X11 ecosystem!

«Guillemet» users, rejoice! In Fedora 41, all the «bits and pieces» are finally in place to once again allow for typing out our «beloved» quotation marks. Due to a pretty «obscure» mismatch in the keyboard handling stack used by basically all Linux systems, it has been «impossible» to type them out for a good while. I can happily report that this is no longer the case. Whatever the fix is, it's finally on my «Fedora 41 beta» system.

https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/issues/435

#Fedora #Fedora41 #libxkbcommon