Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Plover v5.2.0 released!

Plover v5.2.0 has been released!!

Features:

Linux

Support determining keyboard layout from Wayland with the wayland-auto layout. (#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)

Thanks as always to our lead dev, the wonderful mkrnr!