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21 October 2024
We are very pleased to announce a new release of Harmattan, an Arabic script font designed for use by languages in West Africa. Changes This release includes the following changes for this version: Ne… read more
21 October 2024
We are very pleased to announce a new release of Scheherazade New, an Arabic script font designed in the traditional Naskh style. Changes This release includes the following changes for this version: … read more
21 October 2024
We are very pleased to announce a new release of Lateef, a font intended to be an appropriate style for use in Sindhi and other languages of the South Asian region. Changes This release includes the f… read more
15 October 2024
UI improvements for generating drafts
Improvements: The layout for selecting books and chapters has been adjusted to fit better on smartphones and other small screens. The checkboxes to select books for generating drafts now indicate visu… read more
10 October 2024
Release Date: Oct. 10, 2024 Changes in version 9.2.4 LT-8297 Add ability to reorder fields in detail view. LT-20588 Fix crash in “Affix Process Rule” when clicking on “Column” … read more
10 October 2024
Keyboard App Builder 12.2 Released
Keyboard App Builder 12.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
10 October 2024
Dictionary App Builder 12.2 Released
Dictionary App Builder 12.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
10 October 2024
Reading App Builder 12.2 Released
Reading App Builder 12.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
10 October 2024
Scripture App Builder 12.2 Released
Scripture App Builder 12.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
9 October 2024
Audio Project Manager 3.2.4 (hotfix) Release
Audio Project Manager 3.2.4 hotfix release is a fix to internalization play back. You can read more about all the changes in the 3.2.3 hotfix release. Visit the Audio Project Manager website or the Au… read more
9 October 2024
We are happy to announce the release of Awami Nastaliq version 3.300. This is a maintenance release of Awami Nastaliq. Changes Improved Fixed issue with wasla collisions New Added support for Kashmiri… read more
2 October 2024
New Biblical Terms tab view, plus filtering options
Improvements: Biblical Terms are now displayed in their own tab rather than a panel at the bottom of the editor. Filtering options have been added so the Biblical Terms can be filtered by book, chapte… read more
18 September 2024
User interface localized for Nepali and German
New Features: Scripture Forge UI localization is now available for Nepali and German. Bug Fixes: Admins will no longer see an error message after deleting a project. Existing users can use shared link… read more
16 September 2024
Release Date: Sept. 16, 2024 Changes in version 9.2.3 LT-21672 Implement Table Generation in Word Export. LT-21674 Export all Before/After content as content using the Dictionary-Context style. LT-217… read more
13 September 2024
We are pleased to release version 2.000 of the Kedebideri font. The font package is available for download from the Download page. The Beria Erfe script has received provisional codepoint assignments … read more
11 September 2024
Key term renderings support expanded for generating drafts
Key term renderings will now be used for training machine translation models by default if the target project has renderings added. For training the model, the terms will be matched with the rendering… read more
11 September 2024
Kanchenjunga is a font family for the Kirat Rai script of South Asia. It is named after the third highest mountain in the world. The Kirat Rai script was officially encoded in the Unicode Standard ver… read more
10 September 2024
Add generated drafts to a separate project
New Features: Generated drafts can now be added to a separate project from the project used for training the model. To use this feature, make sure that both projects are connected to Scripture Forge a… read more
10 September 2024
Kanchenjunga is a font family for the Kirat Rai script of South Asia. It is named after the third highest mountain in the world. The Kirat Rai script was officially encoded in the Unicode Standard ver… read more
9 September 2024
FLExTrans version 3.11 released
New Rule Assistant for Automatic Rule Creation FLExTrans now has a Rule Assistant module. It gives you a graphical way to define things like agreement and then it generate the needed Apertium rules au… read more
6 September 2024
Audio Project Manager 3.2.3 (hotfix) Release
Audio Project Manager 3.2.3 hotfix release is a fix to handle an updated version of Audacity 3.6.x. You can read more about all the changes in the 3.2.2 hotfix release. Visit the Audio Project Manager… read more
3 September 2024
Bug Fixes: Syncing will no longer crash for resources when the list of users with access to those resources has changed. Offline messaging and offline project navigation from the my projects page is i… read more
28 August 2024
Improvements: On the Generate draft page, the book selection buttons show an indication of the percentage of the book that has already been translated. SIL TTF fonts are now supported. When a new user… read more
21 August 2024
Improvements: Error messages differentiate between invalid USFM formatting errors and unsupported USFM tags. Bug Fixes: Duplicate note IDs will no longer prevent projects from syncing with Paratext. V… read more
19 August 2024
Audio Project Manager 3.2.2 (hotfix) release
Audio Project Manager 3.2.2 hotfix release is a fix to handle the Phrase back translation and whole back translation steps when there is no audio for the passage. You can read more about all the chang… read more
15 August 2024
Reading App Builder 12.1 Released
Reading App Builder 12.1 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
15 August 2024
Scripture App Builder 12.1 Released
Scripture App Builder 12.1 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
14 August 2024
SheetSwiper 2.0 – XLSX support
A new version of the classic tool SheetSwiper is now available. The update to 2.0 includes the ability to open both XLSX and XLS files. This version works on Windows 10/11. For downloads and more info… read more
13 August 2024
Improvements: After a generated draft has been applied to a project, the “Add to project” button changes to “Re-add to project.” The Auto Draft tab will only open automatically for chapters th… read more
12 August 2024
Audio Project Manager release 3.2.1
Audio Project Manager version 3.2 adds ❶ a new tool allowing recordings to be marked as to where the verse boundaries are. Then when the user is transcribing, the verse numbers can be automatically … read more
9 August 2024
Release Date: August 3, 2024 Changes in version 9.2.2 LT-20849 Fix words cut off in RTL baseline views. LT-21586 Export/Import Phonology. LT-21708 In word export, fix caption character styles. LT-2172… read more
7 August 2024
Improvements: Generated drafts will now always follow the same USFM structure as the source project, regardless of the USFM structure for the target book. The unsupported font message now links direct… read more
25 July 2024
Release Date: July 25, 2024 Changes in version 9.2.1 LT-10373 Fix Try A Word crashes. LT-19859 Update FLEx Chart XLingPap. LT-21582 Pass variant inflection features to Hermit Crab. LT-21611 XAmple now… read more
25 July 2024
The main change in this new version (3.36) is improved project handling. The File menu now contains the more familiar options of New, Open, Save and Save As for manipulating your project. PrimerPrep n… read more
22 July 2024
Keyboard App Builder 12.0 Released
Keyboard App Builder 12.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
22 July 2024
Dictionary App Builder 12.0 Released
Dictionary App Builder 12.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
22 July 2024
Reading App Builder 12.0 Released
Reading App Builder 12.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
22 July 2024
Scripture App Builder 12.0 Released
Scripture App Builder 12.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
12 July 2024
Solid is a Windows program that can be used to check, clean up, and convert standard format lexicon data. Solid 1.0 is a bug fix release based on updated SIL dependencies. It should be used instead of… read more
11 June 2024
Release 2.100 This release addresses an issue in Wambule texts that have implosives that were in use before characters for Sindhi implosives were encoded in Unicode. There also were TypeTuner correcti… read more
11 June 2024
Release Date: June 11, 2024 You can see a list of the changes at alpha release notes… read more
11 June 2024
This new version of PrimerPrep (version 3.35) has a few new features: A Give Feedback option has been added to the Help menu Longer affixes are marked in preference to shorter ones Error handling has … read more
5 June 2024
This update shifted all of the interface and help file localization into Crowdin. You won’t notice many changes in the program itself, but it is now a lot easier to translate PrimerPrep into oth… read more
20 May 2024
Pathway 1.18.5 is a hotfix that works with .net 4.6.2 and later. It has been tested to work with 32-bit and 64-bit versions of FieldWorks 8.x and 9.x… read more
18 May 2024
Scripture App Builder 11.4 Released
Scripture App Builder 11.4 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
18 May 2024
Reading App Builder 11.4 Released
Reading App Builder 11.4 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
17 May 2024
Pathway 1.18.4 is a hotfix that works with .net 4.8.1 which Windows 11 computers get as an automatic update. It does this by claiming to support dot net 4.6.2 which has the features Pathway needs to w… read more
17 May 2024
Pathway 1.18.3 is a version of Pathway that works with .net 4.8.1 which Windows 11 computers get as an automatic update. Earlier versions of Pathway weren’t working with .net 4.8.1.… read more
9 May 2024
XLingPaper version 3.15.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Note: for Mac users upgrading to this version from versions before 3.7.5, plea… read more
9 May 2024
Version 1.6.1 of PAWS is now available
This version fixes a bug on version 1.6.0: if one went to the Help menu item / Resources page, one could not get back to any other page. … read more
9 May 2024
Audio Project Manager 3.1.1 (hotfix)
Release Announcement – May 9, 2024 Audio Project Manager 3.1.1 hotfix release is a fix to help a few users who reported the program was crashing while loading their data. The crash seemed to be … read more
7 May 2024
Version 1.6.0 of PAWS is now available
Version 1.6.0 of PAWS is now available for download at https://software.sil.org/paws/download/. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. The Parser and Writer for Syntax (PAWS) has two purposes. The… read more
6 May 2024
It has been quite a while since PrimerPrep was updated… The major change in this version, you probably won’t even notice. The underlying user interface has been updated to more modern stan… read more
1 May 2024
Audio Project Manager 3.1.0 (hotfix)
Release Announcement – May 2024 The big feature for Audio Project Manager 3.1.0 hotfix release is that on the desktop when back translations were transcribed and exported, there were errors tryi… read more
30 April 2024
Keyboard App Builder 11.3 Released
Keyboard App Builder 11.3 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
30 April 2024
Dictionary App Builder 11.3 Released
Dictionary App Builder 11.3 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
30 April 2024
Reading App Builder 11.3 Released
Reading App Builder 11.3 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
30 April 2024
Scripture App Builder 11.3 Released
Scripture App Builder 11.3 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
25 April 2024
Release Announcement – April 2024 The big feature for Audio Project Manager 3.0.0 release is Incremental publishing. With this feature, Audio Project Manager is connected to a web site and cell … read more
24 April 2024
FLExTrans version 3.10.1 released
Source features in the bilingual lexicon, FlexTools 2.3.1 Inflection feature and class abbreviations are now included on the source side of the Bilingual Lexicon. This means you no longer have to dele… read more
28 March 2024
Keyboard App Builder 11.2 Released
Keyboard App Builder 11.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
28 March 2024
Dictionary App Builder 11.2 Released
Dictionary App Builder 11.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
28 March 2024
Reading App Builder 11.2 Released
Reading App Builder 11.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
28 March 2024
Scripture App Builder 11.2 Released
Scripture App Builder 11.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
25 March 2024
Release Date: March 25, 2024 Changes in version 9.1.25 LT-21212 Add code to prevent duplication of custom fields and help track down what is causing them. LT-20890 Fonts specified in Dictionary-SenseN… read more
22 February 2024
New Version of LingTree: version 1.4.0
Version 1.4.0 of LingTree is now available. It adds use of automatic keyboard switching between types of items while keying the tree description. This is currently only available on the Windows versio… read more
21 February 2024
FLExTrans mentioned in SIL Blog Post
Linking data between similar languages accelerates translation efforts in the Philippines. When members of the Ayta Mag-Antsi community heard the book of Ruth read aloud in their language for the firs… read more
7 February 2024
New Version of LingTree: version 1.3.0
Version 1.3.0 of LingTree is now available. It allows you to include abbreviations within a tree node. You can set the font for abbreviations to use a small caps font. When you open a tree description… read more
3 February 2024
FLExTrans version 3.10 released
FlexTools 2.3, Interface improvements FLExTrans now uses FlexTools 2.3 and Python 3.11 which is now part of the FLExTrans install. (Python 3.11 or higher will work with FLExTrans) The Live Rule Tester… read more
9 January 2024
Easily specify passages to record by 1 verse instead of by sentence
With the release of HearThis 3.4.0, it is now possible to specify that certain passages are to be broken out by verse rather than by sentence-ending punctuation. HearThis has for years allowed for mod… read more
7 December 2023
Keyboard App Builder 11.1 Released
Keyboard App Builder 11.1 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
7 December 2023
Reading App Builder 11.1 Released
Reading App Builder 11.1 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
7 December 2023
Dictionary App Builder 11.1 Released
Dictionary App Builder 11.1 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
7 December 2023
Scripture App Builder 11.1 Released
Scripture App Builder 11.1 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
17 November 2023
Audio Project Manager (2.16.9) – hot fix
The Audio Project Manager 2.16.9 is a hot fix for Audio Project Manager 2.16.8. It improves syncing of the project data between the browser (or desktop) and the cloud data storage. When we released 2.… read more
16 November 2023
Release Announcement – November 2023 The latest release (2.16.8) focused on addressing user-reported issues and adding new features. The biggest user pain point was that content created on the d… read more
8 November 2023
Release 2.000 – Additional characters and new features Note that this is a major upgrade that may cause document reflow as some glyphs widths have changed and linespacing has been adjusted. Firs… read more
23 October 2023
We are happy to announce the release of Awami Nastaliq version 3.200. This is a maintenance release of Awami Nastaliq. This release supports only a few new characters. However, it enables support for … read more
28 August 2023
Changes This release includes the addition of two characters. No other changes were made to the font. New Added: FDFA ARABIC LIGATURE SALLALLAHOU ALAYHE WASALLAM FDFB ARABIC LIGATURE JALLAJALALOUHOU K… read more
23 August 2023
Release Announcement – August 2023 Audio Project Manager (APM) is the next generation Bible translation tool for those implementing an oral strategy in their Bible translation project. APM serve… read more
17 August 2023
FLExTrans Version 3.9.1 Released
Compatible with Fieldworks 9.1.22 and higher In version 9.1.22 of Fieldworks, there were compatibility issues between Fieldworks and FlexTools. This 3.9.1 version of FLExTrans includes the newest libr… read more
11 August 2023
Release Date: August 11. 2023 Changes in version 9.1.24 LT-17493 Hook up Help topic for Exemplar field. LT-20859 Update FLEx Bridge automatically. LT-21573 Fix crash when trying to look at entries tha… read more
11 August 2023
Changes This release includes the following changes for this version: New Added: FD42 ARABIC LIGATURE RADI ALLAAHU ANHAA FD47 ARABIC LIGATURE ALAYHI AS-SALAAM FDCF ARABIC LIGATURE SALAAMUHU ALAYNAA FD… read more
2 August 2023
Kanchenjunga is a font family for the Kirat Rai script of South Asia. It is named after the third highest mountain in the world. Please note that this font is using codepoints that are not officially … read more
2 August 2023
FLExTrans Version 3.9 Released
Clickable Links, Sense Links, Generate Module FLExTrans now creates clickable hyperlinks from the source project sense to the target project sense. The hyperlinks are named according to the target ent… read more
27 July 2023
Keyboard App Builder 11.0 Released
Keyboard App Builder 11.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
27 July 2023
Dictionary App Builder 11.0 Released
Dictionary App Builder 11.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
27 July 2023
Reading App Builder 11.0 Released
Reading App Builder 11.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
27 July 2023
Scripture App Builder 11.0 Released
Scripture App Builder 11.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
26 July 2023
Release Date: July 26. 2023 Changes in version 9.1.22 LT-20038 Fix yellow box crash with metathesis rule in HermitCrab parser. LT-20665 Don’t add new publications to entries in the Publish in En… read more
14 July 2023
Kay Pho Du Release 3.000 – More Weights
This release adds Bold, SemiBold, and Medium weights to this font family for the Kayah Li script. Since this is a major release be aware that line and paragraph lengths may change slightly. Specific c… read more
14 July 2023
This release xxx Both desktop and web fonts are provided in all-platforms packages on the Download page.… read more
14 July 2023
Kay Pho Du Release 3.000 – More Weights
This release adds Bold, SemiBold, and Medium weights to this font family for the Kayah Li script. Since this is a major release be aware that line and paragraph lengths may change slightly. Specific c… read more
29 June 2023
Scripture App Builder 10.4 Released
Scripture App Builder 10.4 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
29 June 2023
Reading App Builder 10.4 Released
Reading App Builder 10.4 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
29 June 2023
Dictionary App Builder 10.4 Released
Dictionary App Builder 10.4 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
29 June 2023
Keyboard App Builder 10.4 Released
Keyboard App Builder 10.4 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
23 June 2023
This is a minor release. Changes for this version include the following: Fixed bug in TypeTuner support for cv46 tswa alternate Known issues There are no known issues. Download the release packages fr… read more
31 May 2023
FLExTrans Version 3.8 Released
HermitCrab Synthesis, Settings via Menu, Export Unlinked Senses, FlexTools Interface Improvements Support for HermitCrab synthesis – For target projects that use HermitCrab for their parsing system,… read more
25 May 2023
Release Date: May 25. 2023 Changes in version 9.1.21 LT-14240, LT-16220 FieldWorks no longer crashes clicking OK if you pick no inflection features in Cat. Edit. LT-18415, LT-20851 The grammatical inf… read more
18 May 2023
XLingPaper version 3.13.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Note: for Mac users upgrading to this version from versions before 3.7.5, plea… read more
21 April 2023
Producing PDF takes a long time on small document
I recently got a new laptop with Windows 11. Producing the PDF (via XeLaTeX) always took a long time, even on a small document. Remember that we note that XeLaTeX takes longer to run the first time yo… read more
14 April 2023
Changes This release includes the following changes for this version: New Added Kyrgyz language support Added Arabic-style (rounded) versions of chevron quotes New features: cv49 – Heh Doachashm… read more
14 April 2023
Changes This release includes the following changes for this version: New Added Wolof language support New features: cv49 – Heh Doachashmee cv74 – Inverted Damma Added: U+061D ARABIC END O… read more
14 April 2023
Changes This release includes the following changes for this version: New Added Medium and SemiBold weights Added Arabic-style (rounded) versions of chevron quotes Added Bold calligraphic honorifics (… read more
12 April 2023
Release Date: April 12, 2023 Bugs fixed in version 9.1.20 LT-21414 Change the service that we use to gather anonymous usage information for those users who have opted in. For more specifics about vers… read more
30 March 2023
Keyboard App Builder 10.3 Released
Keyboard App Builder 10.3 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
30 March 2023
Dictionary App Builder 10.3 Released
Dictionary App Builder 10.3 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
30 March 2023
Reading App Builder 10.3 Released
Reading App Builder 10.3 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
30 March 2023
Scripture App Builder 10.3 Released
Scripture App Builder 10.3 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
25 March 2023
Version 1.3.1 of PAWS available for Windows, Mac, and Linux
Version 1.3.1 of PAWS is now available for download. This has fixes to the output files where automatically generated glosses are now marked as glosses instead of being plain text.… read more
22 March 2023
SayMore 3.5 supports additional media formats
SayMore 3.5 was just released! This new version adds support for .m4a files and several other previously unsupported media formats.… read more
22 February 2023
Changes New Added OpenType language support for Hausa Added characters: U+0870 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH ATTACHED FATHA U+0872 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH RIGHT MIDDLE STROKE U+0874 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH … read more
22 February 2023
We are pleased to release version 3.000 of the Ruwudu font family. The font package is available for download from the Download page. Four weights for this typeface family are included: Ruwudu Regular… read more
22 February 2023
Lisu Bosa v2.000 – First full release
This is the first full release of the complete Lisu Bosa and Lisu Bosa Lolo font families. These fonts support the complete range of Unicode characters for the Lisu (Fraser) script. They include: Eigh… read more
8 February 2023
Version 1.3.0 of PAWS available for Windows, Mac, and Linux
Version 1.3.0 of PAWS is now available for download. The French user interface and writer output have been improved. For all three user interface languages, it allows you to enter the vernacular line … read more
6 February 2023
Release 6.200 – New features and additional character support This release is focused on adding features and 300+ glyphs, including support for over 180 additional characters mostly from Unicode… read more
6 February 2023
Release 6.200 – New features and additional character support This release is focused on adding features and 240+ glyphs, including support for over 180 additional characters mostly from Unicode… read more
6 February 2023
Release 6.200 – New features and additional character support This release is focused on adding features and 240+ glyphs, including support for over 180 additional characters mostly from Unicode… read more
6 February 2023
Release 6.200 – New features and additional character support This release is focused on adding features and 240+ glyphs, including support for over 180 additional characters mostly from Unicode… read more
6 February 2023
Charis Doulos Gentium Andika v6.200
Version 6.200 of the Charis SIL, Doulos SIL, Gentium Plus, and Andika font families is now available. Highlights: 240+ new glyphs supporting over 180 additional characters mostly from Unicode 14 and 1… read more
30 January 2023
This is a maintenance release of Awami Nastaliq. Changes Improved Fixed a kerning bug that manifested as disappearing glyphs Fixed some minor kerning/collision/spacing bugs Both desktop and web fonts … read more
30 January 2023
HearThis Android 1.0.1 released
A new version of HearThis Android is now available. This version is compatible with more modern versions of Android and addresses a couple usability defects that made the beta version difficult to use… read more
24 January 2023
Pathway 1.18.1 Release Updated
The Pathway 1.18.1 release brings Pathway up to date with the latest code libraries. We realized the first posting was not signed but it is signed now. Instead of the bootstrap program which was alway… read more