Plover

Features

- Same as `v4.0.0rc5`
- See [NEWS.md](https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/blob/main/NEWS.md) for the features included in the `v4.0.0.dev` and `v4.0.0rc` versions.

Features

User Interface

- Renamed the 'Scan' button in the serial port configuration window to 'Refresh', to (hopefully) more accurately convey that it simply lists all available serial ports. (1640)
- Added a button to the Plugins Manager for installing plugins via Git URL. (1700)

Linux

- Added keyboard emulation and capture using uinput, compatible with X11, Wayland and anything else on linux and bsd. (1679)

Bugfixes

Windows

- Fixed backspace scancode and swapped page up/down. (1697)

API

New

- Renamed the `=retrospective_*` macros to simply `=retro_*`. The previous names are retained for backwards compatibility, but are now deprecated. (1639)

- *Skipped for technical reasons.*

- *Skipped for technical reasons.*

Features

Core

- Added a configurable delay between key presses, to accommodate applications that can't handle fast keyboard emulation. (1633)

Bugfixes

Core

- Closes serial ports upon disconnection to ensure clean reconnections. (1636)

User Interface

- Update the tray icon to "disconnected" when a serial-over-USB machine is unplugged. (1560)

API

Breaking Changes

- Dropped support for Python 3.7. (1634)

New

- Introduces the `GenericKeyboardEmulation` interface which automatically handles output delay. (1633)

Features

Core

- updated config to use tox4 (1592)
- Implement first-up chord send for keyboard machine. (1611)

User Interface

- Added Traditional Chinese (zh-TW) translation. (1404)

Linux

- Update GitHub Actions from Ubuntu 18.04 to 22.04. (1597)

macOS

- Update GitHub Actions from macOS 10.15 to 12. (1598)
- Changes the Plover icon on macOS to match Big Sur-style icons. (1632)

Windows

- Update GitHub Actions from Windows 2019 to 2022. (1598)

Bugfixes

User Interface

- Fix "add translation" dialog ignoring the stylesheet's background color for the translation and stroke text. (1571)

Windows

- Fixed an issue which caused tests to fail on windows due to case sensitive filepaths. (1599)

API

No significant changes.