Plover 5.0.0 Documentation

Have you read the docs for Plover 5.0.0? Well, you should!

Plover2CAT 4.0.0 alpha prerelease

plants writes:

Plover2CAT v4.0.0 is now in alpha pre-release.
Thanks to mkrnr for doing all the work in converting to Qt6.
Please install the alpha version by:
1) press the Git button in the plugin manager
2) paste the Github link https://github.com/greenwyrt/plover2CAT into the little dialog that pops up

If there are any issues, please either make an issue on Github or contact me on the Discord.

Plover 5 Officially Released!!

Woohoo! Plover 5 is finally officially here!!! A beautiful thing and a long time coming. Infinite thanks to everyone who's worked so hard to get us here over the past many years -- especially the magnificent mkrnr, who has been leading the project impeccably for ages. I am so grateful to see Plover 5 finally arrive! Open Steno Forever!!

Plover v5.0.0rc1 Released!

Plover v5.0.0rc1 has been released!

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.

Library Roof With Jarne Blade

I was on vacation in Montana this past week, so I don't have much in the way of steno news, but I did bring my Jarne Blade with me in my backpack, and that thing continues to be pretty freaking cool.

Javelin Website Updates

Jeffrey writes:

Javelin's website is now built to use wasm.

Users shouldn't notice any difference (other than things just working better), but if you see anything weird, please let me know.

Other changes:
- Jarne firmwares have a change that will improve battery life. Both main & pair firmwares will require updating to 2025-08-17 or later
- Added a few missing keys in the visual editor under Miscellaneous category -- Execute, Help, Menu, Select, Stop, Again, Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Find
- Console scripts can now be 8x larger.
- There's a new infrared web tool.

Jeffrey and the Jarne Blade!!

Last week I got to meet the amazing Jeffrey Lim, aka Tharelia, inventor of Javelin, the Jarne, and the Jarne Blade, in person!

And he generously gave me a Jarne Blade of my own!! I love this thing so much. I can't even tell you. It's so TINY! And the keys are slightly heavier than the ones on my beloved featherlight Jarne, but they're so shallow that the actuation pressure matters much less than it does with taller keys. I'm planning to use it primarily for fiction writing anyway, rather than captioning, so even if I'm a little slower on it, that's no problem. It's so portable, it fits easily in a pocket -- I even wrote a few paragraphs onto my phone with each half in one of the pockets of my shorts, and that worked shockingly well. I'm so in love with this little device. And Jeffrey was an absolute joy to hang out with. I'm so grateful to him and everything he's done for the Open Steno community!