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Recent Posts

Scripture Forge
12 February 2026

February 12 maintenance

Scripture Forge will be unavailable for about 1-2 hours on 12 February 2026 starting at 16:30 UTC for scheduled maintenance. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Update: Maintenance is c… read more

BJCree
11 February 2026

BJCree Release 7.000

SIL Global is pleased to announce the release of version 7.000 of the BJCree font. The BJCree (‘Baie-James’ [James Bay] Cree) font is a Canadian Syllabics font in the style preferred by Cr… read more

Scripture Forge
10 February 2026

Improved guardrails for selecting training data

Improvements: Improved detection of books that can be used for training data so that empty books are no longer accidentally selected. The Translation Overview page now shows a clearer error message wh… read more