News
Product updates, releases, and announcements from across SIL Language Technology's software and font tools — all in one place.
July 2026
Keyman Update for 3 July 2026
This edition highlights the latest Keyman product and keyboard development updates from 22 June 2026 — 3 July 2026, describing recent progress across the project and contributions from the community. … read more
June 2026
Improved workflow for generating drafts of new books
Updates Users can now draft any book that exists in the selected source, even if that book is not already present in the target project. This makes it easier to start drafting newly available books wi… read more
Improved training book selection directions
Updates An updated warning notice is now displayed to users who still have Translation Suggestions enabled, providing a specific removal date, clearer language, and a contact email link. Improvements … read more
Keyman Update for 19 June 2026
New Anglish keyboards for Ænglish (Old English), along with several updates for Krung, Mara, Tham Lanna, MADHURÂH (SIL), Hindi Flick, Hong Kong, Punjabi Flick, and Arabic W/O Dots keyboards! In additi… read more
Minor update to PrimerPrep – Version 4.03
Fix for Arabic vowel markings in Lesson Texts This minor update includes a fix for Arabic vowel marks (harakat) that were sometimes invisible in the Lesson Texts tab when the text filter was active. K… read more
Improved load times when previewing drafts in the edit and review area
Improvements: Navigating between chapters in the Draft tab is now significantly faster, as the full book’s draft is cached after the first load rather than fetching each chapter individually. Wh… read more
FieldWorks 9.3.9
Release Date: June 15, 2026 For more specifics about version 9.3 and the changes included in it, see the Release notes.… read more
Keyman Update for 5 June 2026
This release cycle highlights the growing impact of Keyman through a community testimony, introduces new keyboards for Hanifi Rohingya, Madurese, Punjabi, and Bayot, and includes updates for Keyman fo… read more
Minor update to PrimerPrep – Version 4.02
Teaching Order no longer lost when loading a project The most important fix in this release corrects a bug where loading a saved project caused the Teaching Order to be recalculated, overwriting the c… read more
Annapurna SIL Release 3.000
We are happy to announce the release of Annapurna SIL version 3.000. This release has additional weights, new Devanagari characters and a variant glyph. Graphite has been removed in this version. Ther… read more
Keyman 19 roadmap update
The March 2026 Keyman 19 roadmap gets a candid mid-year update. An internal review found 363 open issues still assigned to v19. ARM Windows and Mac installer support are on track; CLDR mobile keyboard… read more
Chapter overwrite notifications and previews
Improvements: When a generated draft is applied to a book, the specific chapters that will be overwritten are listed and can be viewed before proceeding. Users can now preview and change the formattin… read more
May 2026
Keyboard App Builder 14.2 Released
Keyboard App Builder 14.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Dictionary App Builder 14.2 Released
Dictionary App Builder 14.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Reading App Builder 14.2 Released
Reading App Builder 14.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Scripture App Builder 14.2 Released
Scripture App Builder 14.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Installers for macOS
This post has good news and bad news on installers for macOS. The good news is that configuration update installers from version 3.19.0 on are now signed and notarized so you can download and run them… read more
Improved reliability when connecting to resources
Improvements:Improved reliability of Paratext resource syncing by ensuring project settings are correctly migrated and updated. Bug Fixes:Fixed an issue where duplicate resource names could cause inst… read more
Keyman Update for 22 May 2026
Keyman 19 alpha (229–236) lands with caps lock and Linux Debian fixes. New keyboards for the Zou and Mising communities join the library, and Lac Viet v3.0 gains Zhuang support. Two new contributors w… read more
Version 3.19.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.19.0 (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
Statistical machine translations will be retired later this year
Updates: Translation suggestions based on the older statistical machine translation tool will be retired later this year. Projects that have this feature turned on will see a banner on the Edit & … read more
Version 1.3.0 is now available
Version 1.3.0 of the Asheninka syllable parsing tool is now available. It has several new features: It adds the original “Hyphen” approach used by the 1987 Hyphen program. It fixes a bug w… read more
Version 1.7.1 of LingTree is now available.
Version 1.7.1 of LingTree is now available. The macOS installer is signed. This version also fixes a bug so that you can change the user interface language. You can download the new version at https:/… read more
New Version of DiagSap: version 1.3.0
DiagSap is a tool to create Philippine-style word diagrams (DiagSap is short for “diagramang sapin-sapin” which is Tagalog for “layered diagram.”) The user documentation is ava… read more
Paratext 9.6 Beta Is Now Available!
It is with great joy we announce to you the availability of Paratext 9.6 beta! On behalf of the development team, we hope and pray that this software is a blessing to you in your work for bringing Go… read more
What’s new in Bloom 6.4 Beta
If you’re running Bloom on the beta channel, you’re an essential part of the Bloom team. Your feedback helps ensure that when the beta becomes the official release, users without easy access to techni… read more
Scripture App Builder 14.1 Released
Scripture App Builder 14.1 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
🎁 Announcing Bloom 6.3
Thank you to everyone who helped us test Bloom 6.3 during its Beta phase! We’re excited to announce that it is now officially released. See what’s new in 6.3: Release Notes How to Upgrade If you’re u… read more
Version 1.6.2 of PAWS is now available
This version allows macOS users to control automatic keyboard switching between fields, including Keyman keyboards. The macOS installer is signed now. This version also fixes a bug so that you can cha… read more
Keyman Update for 8 May 2026
Keyman 19 alpha (224–228) fixes contextual help and caps lock in Windows. Three new keyboards: Khmer Traditional, Shanghai Telex, and poorigbelle for African Darfurain languages, and the Vietnam and C… read more
New major release of PrimerPrep – version 4.00
This new version of PrimerPrep represents a significant step forward in exploring your data for primer design. This release introduces lexicon import, intelligent filtering of example words, and new s… read more
Permissions-related navigation improvements
Improvements: Users can now navigate to and view drafted books even if those books are not yet part of their project. Copyright and licensing information for translations is now displayed in the draft… read more
FLExTrans version 3.15 released
French Interface, Improved Interface for Touch, FLExTools Improvements French translation Implementation Modernized user interface for touch use Installer now prompts you only when Python or XMLmind n… read more
April 2026
Installer for macOS now signed
We now are able to successfully sign, notarize, and run an installer for macOS. Previously, you had to override Apple’s warnings about the installer.… read more
Keyboard App Builder 14.0 Released
Keyboard App Builder 14.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Dictionary App Builder 14.0 Released
Dictionary App Builder 14.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Reading App Builder 14.0 Released
Reading App Builder 14.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Scripture App Builder 14.0 Released
Scripture App Builder 14.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Keyman Update for 24 Apr 2026
A quieter cycle with no core Keyman releases. Two new keyboards arrive: Mon K Nemin (Mon Systems layout) and East Slavic for Ukrainian, Russian, and Belarusian. Hoisan and Mara keyboards receive minor… read more
Onboarding form improvements
Improvements: The language code field in the onboarding form is now pre-filled to reduce user confusion and submission errors. Localization has also been improved for the form. Project admins can now … read more
Idiqlat Release 2.100
We are very pleased to announce a new release of Idiqlat, a font for the East Syriac style of the Syriac script. Changes This release includes the following changes for this version: Moved the lookup … read more
Scheherazade New Release 4.500
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
Performance improvements for community checking
Improvements: Community checking pages load more quickly for projects with lots of questions. The community checking question import confirmation page now displays the correct label when importing que… read more
FieldWorks Version 9.3.8
Release Date: Apr 22, 2026 For more specifics about version 9.3 and the changes included in it, see the Release notes..… read more
Keyman Update for 10 Apr 2026
A holiday-quiet cycle focused on keyboard improvements. Thai Kedmanee (Mattix) v2.0 adds mobile touch layouts; Hong Kong and Cantonese Telex update their character sets. Eight new contributors join, p… read more
Improved error handling and clearer error messages
Improvements: Better error messages are now shown when importing questions from spreadsheets that are missing required columns. Bug Fixes: The formatting options button no longer appears on the draft … read more
March 2026
Sign-up form now hosted on the Scripture Forge site
New Features: The sign‑up form for draft generation is now hosted directly on the Scripture Forge site rather than linking to an external Smartsheet form. Source and reference projects can now be sele… read more
Keyman Update for 27 Mar 2026
Keyman 18.0.249-stable introduces support for complex words in predictive text within Keyman Developer, accompanied by a technical blog explaining the feature. This release cycle also includes Keyman … read more
Improvements for formatting options and adding drafts to projects
Improvements: Users will now be reminded to configure formatting options before requesting a new draft when no formatting settings exist for the previous draft. Project admins can add a draft to a boo… read more
Creating an advanced custom lexical model with Keyman
Want to build a predictive text dictionary with custom logic? This advanced guide explores creating custom lexical models in TypeScript for languages with complex morphology or polysynthetic structure… read more
Bug fixes for adding drafts to projects and importing questions
Bug Fixes: Users now receive a warning during the Add to Project workflow if they select a project they do not have permission to edit. Notes can now be imported from Paratext as Community Checking qu… read more
Last selected destination project is now prefilled when importing drafts
Improvements: The project selected for importing generated drafts is now remembered and automatically filled in the next time you import another draft. Application load times have been improved throug… read more
Draft generation add to project improvements
Improvements: Adding generated drafts to a project is now more intuitive and uses a cleaner dialog The previously selected books to translate are no longer chosen by default when starting a new draft … read more
February 2026
FieldWorks 9.3.7 Beta
Release Date: Feb 27, 2026 For more specifics about version 9.3 and the changes included in it, see the Beta Release notes.… read more
Audio Project Manager 4.5.0 hot-fix release
The Audio Project Manager (APM) development team is pleased to offer the 4.5.0 release of the Audio Project Manager. This is a hot-fix release that fixes one issue some users have had while editing re… read more
Guidance for early New Testament draft generation
New Features: New guidance is now available to help early New Testament projects understand when and how to use incremental drafting and quality estimates. Improvements: Book ranges are now listed con… read more
Offline for maintenance on 25 Feb
Scripture Forge will be unavailable for about 1-2 hours on 25 February 2026 starting at 16:30 UTC for scheduled maintenance. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Thank you for your patie… read more
Dictionary App Builder 13.4 Released
Dictionary App Builder 13.4 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Keyboard App Builder 13.4 Released
Keyboard App Builder 13.4 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Reading App Builder 13.4 Released
Reading App Builder 13.4 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Scripture App Builder 13.4 Released
Scripture App Builder 13.4 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
What's new in Bloom 6.3 Beta
If you’re running Bloom on the beta channel, you’re an essential part of the Bloom team. Your feedback helps ensure that when the beta becomes the official release, users without easy access to techni… read more
How to Get Help in Paratext: A Comprehensive Guide
Paratext offers a robust support ecosystem, ranging from instant in-app answers to comprehensive online training. Explore our guide to find the help you need.… read more
Better default verse reference selection for community checking questions
Improvements: When adding a Community Checking question, the selected verse is now used as the default verse reference. Draft completion status is now reported more reliably on the Generate Draft page… read more
Adapt It Mobile 1.19.0 available for Android, iOS
The Adapt It development team is pleased to announce Adapt It Mobile release 1.19.0 for Android and iOS. Download links: What’s new in Adapt It Mobile 1.19.0: Bug fixes: You can find more information … read more
🥳 Announcing Bloom 6.2
Thank you to everyone who helped us test Bloom 6.2 during its Beta phase! We’re excited to announce that it is now officially released. See what’s new in 6.2: Release Notes Upgrading How to Upgrade I… read more
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 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
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
FieldWorks 9.3.6 Beta
Release Date: Feb 3, 2026 For more specifics about version 9.3 and the changes included in it, see the Beta Release notes.… read more
Create questions from a specific category of Paratext notes
New Features: Questions for Community Checking can now be imported directly from Paratext notes. Use a Paratext tag to mark any notes you want to import as questions. Bug Fixes: Fixed an error that oc… read more
January 2026
Paratext 7 resource compatibility fixes
Improvements: Versification and stylesheets for older resources in Paratext 7 format are now correctly migrated to the Paratext 9 format required for draft generation. Canceled drafts now display deta… read more
FLExTrans version 3.14 released
Localization Support and Improved Live Rule Tester and FLExTools Interfaces Spanish & German added as user interface languages From the installer to FLExTools to the rules file these languages are… read more
Improvements when uploading additional training data files
Improvements: A warning message now appears if an uploaded training data file is not formatted correctly. Full file names for additional training data files are now visible when hovering, even if the … read more
Major restructure to support multiple map sources
Version 0.2.0 implemented a major architectural restructure of the Paratext Diagram Labeler, that enables maps from multiple collections to make use of the same labels without “stepping on each … read more
Now hosted on software.sil.org!
The SIL Map & Illustration Repository is now hosted here at software.sil.org/illustrations. If you’ve been accessing it using the shortcut of tiny.cc/sil-maps, that will now bring you here. … read more
Quotation mark style consistency can more frequently be applied
Improvements: The option to preserve quotation mark style from training data will now appear more often, thanks to an optimized detection process that no longer depends on consistency in the source pr… read more
Faster biblical terms tabs
Improvements: Biblical terms now load faster, especially for users with many notes. Bug Fixes: For Back Translation projects, the supported languages dialog can now be closed.… read more
Minor update to version 3.41 – AI agent
Get help for PrimerPrep from AI! My SIL colleagues have done some great work to set up AI agents that can answer your questions about SIL software (special thanks to ML and DH). These agents are train… read more
December 2025
Training data bug fix
Bug Fixes: Corrected an issue where training data was incorrectly set for languages included in the NLLB foundation model.… read more
Idiqlat Release 2.000
We are very pleased to announce the release of Idiqlat, a new font for the East Syriac style of the Syriac script. The East Syriac style is used primarily by the Assyrians (Church of the East) and Cha… read more
Draft generation bug fixes
Update: The option to enable legacy translation suggestions is no longer available for projects that haven’t already activated them. Bug Fixes: Target project books not used for training data will no … read more
Version 1.2.0.0 is now available
A new version of Asheninka (a Syllable Parser) is now available. To get an installer go to the download page. This version is currently only available in 64-bit versions. This is the first release tha… read more
November 2025
Community checking answer visibility improvements
Improvements: Users with permission to add and edit community checking questions can now view answers to questions they haven’t personally answered. Improved layout for error messages on small screens… read more
Keyboard App Builder 13.3 Released
Keyboard App Builder 13.3 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Dictionary App Builder 13.3 Released
Dictionary App Builder 13.3 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Reading App Builder 13.3 Released
Reading App Builder 13.3 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Scripture App Builder 13.3 Released
Scripture App Builder 13.3 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Busra Release 9.200 – Fixes
We’re pleased to announce the release of Busra version 9.200—an updated version of the Khmer Busra font formerly part of the Mondulkiri project. Changes since version 9.100: OpenType fixes for p… read more
Audio Project Manager 4.4.0 release
The Audio Project Manager (APM) development team is pleased to offer the 4.4.0 release of the Audio Project Manager. This release is a major technology upgrade around the building and packaging of the… read more
Improved formatting previews
Improvements: On the Formatting Options page, the preview now automatically displays the first chapter with a generated draft. Added support for links with titles in footnotes and introductions in som… read more
New Version of LingTree: version 1.7.0
Version 1.7.0 of LingTree is now available. There are several new features: On macOS, one can now set which keyboard to use, even for Keyman. For high and wide trees, add the ability to set the prefer… read more
Version 3.18.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.18.0 (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
New: Template Browser
Version 0.1.7 introduces a built-in template browser to filter and preview the available maps. You can filter by keyword (including chapter reference) and several other diagram properties. (Using the … read more
Labels are now auto-stored in merge files!
What’s Changed Release 0.1.5 implements a significant architectural change to how diagram labels are stored and managed in the Paratext Diagram Labeler application. Instead of storing labels wit… read more
Fixes for fonts and footnotes
Improvements: Verse text in the Insights panel will be rendered with the project font. Bug Fixes: Untranslated footnotes will no longer be erroneously inserted into generated drafts. Corrected an erro… read more
Export to pre-filled IDML or MAPX!
Version 0.1.3 adds the ability to export to pre-filled IDML merge files. (Exporting to pre-filled MAPX files was already available.) If, after editing the exported file, such as to adjust styles and/o… read more
Beta Launch
The Paratext Diagram Labeler launched to beta at the Asia-Pacific Language Technology Workshop in Chiang Mai on October 24. Participants provided enthusiastic and valuable feedback on the workflow and… read more
FieldWorks 9.3.4 Alpha
Release Date: Nov 4,2025 issues fixed in 9.3.4 LT-10590 Include all text metadata (info tab) fields in flextext export. LT-19598 Grammar sketch shows wrong order of slots in affix template. LT-21904 A… read more
All Paratext members now listed on Users page
Improvements: The Users page now lists Paratext members who haven’t yet joined the project in Scripture Forge. Clarified the information requested in the email template when users report an error. Bug… read more
Scriptoria 2 Release
Thank You to Wycliffe UK for Funding Scriptoria 2 We are grateful to Wycliffe UK for funding the development of Scriptoria 2. This major update makes Scriptoria faster, easier to use, and more reliabl… read more
October 2025
Custom font support improved
Improvements: When a project has a custom font configured, it will now be applied consistently across all project text, including questions and answers, draft previews, key term renderings, and notes.… read more
Formatting options for mid-verse paragraph breaks and quotation mark style
New Features: Users can now choose how USFM paragraph break markers are handled in generated drafts and preserve the quotation mark style from the training data. Improvements: Added support for Deemaw… read more
Keyboard App Builder 13.2 Released
Keyboard App Builder 13.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Dictionary App Builder 13.2 Released
Dictionary App Builder 13.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Reading App Builder 13.2 Released
Reading App Builder 13.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Scripture App Builder 13.2 Released
Scripture App Builder 13.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Awami Nastaliq Release 3.400
We are happy to announce the release of Awami Nastaliq version 3.400. This is a maintenance release of Awami Nastaliq. Changes Improved Fixed issues with kerning and collisions. New Added support for … read more
Padauk 6.000 – Better shaping
We are pleased to inform you of the release of Padauk version 6.000. This release includes the following changes for this version: Removed Graphite and old OpenType (mymr and DFLT) shaping support Man… read more
Busra Release 9.100 – Fixes and Improvements
We’re pleased to announce the release of Busra version 9.100—an updated version of the Khmer Busra font formerly part of the Mondulkiri project. Changes since version 9.000: OpenType fixes for p… read more
Faster draft generation
Updates: On September 16, the way that generated drafts display quotation style characters and USFM format markers for paragraph breaks was updated. User settings for changing these options are coming… read more
User-level toggles for enabling or disabling Insights
Improvements: Translators can now enable or disable Insights from the Edit & Review page if Insights have been activated by a project administrator. If the selected draft source lacks content for … read more
September 2025
Inline punctuation editing insights
New Features: Projects can now enable inline editing insights for English-style punctuation and Latin script characters. This feature must be activated by a project administrator via the Settings page… read more
Kedebideri Release 3.001
We are pleased to release version 3.001 of the Kedebideri font. This release fixes the outline of U+16EB7 BERIA ERFE CAPITAL LETTER WASSE The font package is available for download from the Download p… read more
Kedebideri Release 3.000 – Now in Unicode 17.0!
We are pleased to release version 3.000 of the Kedebideri font. Kedebideri is the first Unicode font for the Beria Erfe script which is now encoded in Unicode 17.0. The font package is available for d… read more
Audio Project Manager 4.3.2 Release
The Audio Project Manager (APM) development team is pleased to offer the 4.3.2 release of the Audio Project Manager. This release primarily focuses on performance improvements. Each time the program w… read more
Keyboard App Builder 13.1 Released
Keyboard App Builder 13.1 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Dictionary App Builder 13.1 Released
Dictionary App Builder 13.1 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Reading App Builder 13.1 Released
Reading App Builder 13.1 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Access previously-generated drafts
New Features: Previously-generated drafts (from June 2025 onward) can now be viewed and downloaded from the Generate Draft page. Improvements: On the My projects page, projects listed under “Not conne… read more
Scripture App Builder 13.1 Released
Scripture App Builder 13.1 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
August 2025
Draft ready notification e-mails
New Features: Users can now opt to receive an e-mail notification when draft generation is complete. Improvements: The Configure Sources workflow has been reordered: reference data is selected first, … read more
Audio Project Manager 4.3.1 release
The Audio Project Manager (APM) development team is pleased to offer the 4.3.1 release of the Audio Project Manager. This version adds an audio loudness normalization experimental feature to the Deskt… read more
Draft configuration summary
Improvements: The configuration summary table for language models is now displayed on small screens.… read more
Harmattan Release 4.400
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
Lateef Release 4.400
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
Scheherazade New Release 4.400
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
Improved active verse highlighting for RTL languages
Improvements: Verse highlighting in right-to-left (RTL) languages now displays correctly, including placement of active verse indicators and USFM labels. Bug Fixes: Fixed an error that occurred when a… read more
July 2025
Keyboard App Builder 13.0 Released
Keyboard App Builder 13.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Dictionary App Builder 13.0 Released
Dictionary App Builder 13.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Reading App Builder 13.0 Released
Reading App Builder 13.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Scripture App Builder 13.0 Released
Scripture App Builder 13.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Navigate between community checking questions using keyboard
Improvements: Users are now able to navigate between questions in community checking using the tab and enter keys on the keyboard… read more
What's new in Bloom 6.2 Beta
If you’re running Bloom on the beta channel, you’re a vital part of the Bloom team. Your feedback helps ensure that when the beta becomes the release version, users without easy access to technical su… read more
FieldWorks 9.3.0 Alpha
Release Date: July 18, 2025 Changes in version 9.3.0 LT-826 Allow affixes to be overtly reordered. LT-5408 Show which parses are valid in chooser. LT-22181 Crash when clicking the stem dropdown in the… read more
Audio Project Manager 4.3.0 release
The Audio Project Manager development team is pleased to offer the 4.3 release of the Audio Project Manager. This version adds an AI chat bot to the internalization research allowing users to add audi… read more
Expanded community checking permissions and improved UX for additional data for draft generation
Improvements: Users with Paratext roles—consultant, reviewer, archivist, or typesetter—are now automatically authorized to answer community checking questions. Additional training data files are now l… read more
Sync improvements
Improvements: Source projects can now be synced by users with Paratext observer permissions. Additional training data (spreadsheet format) can now be added to any project without requiring a special c… read more
FieldWorks 9.2.10
Release Date: July 10, 2025 Changes in version 9.2.10 LT-21766 Reversal Index Sort Order discrepancy between FLEx and Webonary. LT-21981 Pasted text retains writing system. LT-22002 Crash Occurred whi… read more
FieldWorks 9.2.9 Stable version
We are happy to announce that the release version of FieldWorks 9.2 is now available. Some highlights of what is available in FieldWorks 9.2.9 (stable) that is new since the previous stable version (F… read more
Paratext Newsletter 📰 July 2025
See new Paratext 9.5 features, preview Paratext 10 Studio beta, explore project metrics, and share your Paratext story with the team!… read more
DBL will be out of service for two days in July
The Digital Bible Library (DBL) out of service from Sun, Jul 13 @ 12PM UTC - Tue, Jul 15 @ 12PM UTC for upgrades.… read more
Export option for community checking questions
Improvements: Community checking questions can now be exported as a CSV file. The Review Draft Setup page at the beginning of the the draft generation workflow now displays the short names for each pr… read more
June 2025
Scripture App Builder 12.6 Released
Scripture App Builder 12.6 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Keyboard App Builder 12.6 Released
Keyboard App Builder 12.6 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Dictionary App Builder 12.6 Released
Dictionary App Builder 12.6 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Reading App Builder 12.6 Released
Reading App Builder 12.6 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Audio Project Manager 4.2.0 release
New Features We’ve made some exciting improvements to our platform! Now, each section can have its own scheme, giving you control over assignment and permissions for every step in the workflow. … read more
Fixes for draft source configuration bugs and broken links
Bug Fixes: Resolved errors in project selection on the draft source configuration page. Fixed broken links on the Page Not Found error page.… read more
Announcing the release of Bloom 6.1
Thank you to everyone who helped us test Bloom 6.1 during its Beta phase! We’re excited to announce that it is now officially released. See what’s new in 6.1: Release Notes Upgrading How to Upgrade I… read more
Expanded version restoration functionality
Improvements: If USFM is invalid, you can now restore to a version where it was valid. Bug Fixes: Verse ranges are now correctly listed on the Manage Questions page for Community Checking, instead of … read more
New features in version 3.40
What’s New in PrimerPrep: Smarter Tools for Smarter Lessons The latest update to PrimerPrep is here — with some exciting new features based directly on feedback from users like you! Updates to the Les… read more
Charis Doulos Gentium Andika v7.000
Version 7.000 of the Charis, Doulos SIL, Gentium, and Andika font families is now available. Highlights: New font family names (Charis, Gentium) that allow both 6.200 and 7.000 to be installed at the … read more
Andika Release 7.000
Release 7.000 – Major release with big changes Andika version 7 is a major release with many new additions, enhancements, and improvements. This is a summary of the most notable changes and what… read more
Gentium Release 7.000
Release 7.000 – Major release with big changes Gentium version 7 is a major release with many new additions, enhancements, and improvements. This is a summary of the most notable changes and wha… read more
Doulos SIL Release 7.000
Doulos SIL Release 7.000 – Major release This release is focused on feature refinements, new character support, and diacritic positioning improvements. Both desktop and web fonts are provided in… read more
Charis Release 7.000
Release 7.000 – Major release with big changes Charis version 7 is a major release with many new additions, enhancements, and improvements. This is a summary of the most notable changes and what… read more
May 2025
Warning for unsaved draft configuration settings
Improvements: Added a warning when users navigate away from the draft source configuration page without saving changes. Improved the display of the training book selection page for small screens. Impr… read more
Minor update to version 3.395
This version has some small improvements for those using FreezeArabicForms to analyze the contextual forms of Arabic script texts (see https://github.com/jeffheath-sil/FreezeArabicForms for more detai… read more
Minor update to version 3.39
What’s New in This Version of PrimerPrep We’re excited to introduce some new features based on feedback from users like you! Custom File Icons: PrimerPrep project data files now have a distinctive, cu… read more
FLExTrans version 3.13 released
Cluster Project Support & Production Mode Cluster Support Define which FLEx projects are part of the cluster. New tools: Open Multiple FLEx Projects, Restore Multiple FLEx Projects, Fix FLEx Proje… read more
Version 3.17.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.17.0 (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
FieldWorks 9.2.8 Beta
Release Date: May 9, 2025 Changes in version 9.2.8 LT-9222 “***” appearing between inflectional features and values in Lex Edit and dictionary. LT-12587 “Bulk Edit-List Choice should… read more
Faster draft source configuration
Improvements: Faster saving on the draft source configuration page. The last viewed location in community checking is now saved and will be the default location when returning to community checking. A… read more
Adapt It Mobile 1.18.0 Available for Android, iOS
The Adapt It development team is pleased to announce Adapt It Mobile release 1.18.0 for Android and iOS. Download links: What’s new in Adapt It Mobile 1.18.0 This release is a “mostly invisible” one. … read more
April 2025
Updated visual theme
Improvements: Updated the Scripture Forge website theme with better color contrast and more consistent element display. Community checking questions can now be imported from various spreadsheet format… read more
Minor update to version 3.38
The main change in this new version (3.38) is improved handling of mixed encoding. You might have data with mixed encoding if you used different keyboards to type data in this language over time. If y… read more
DBL resource installation bug fix
Projects without prior connections will no longer trigger errors during installation.… read more
Keyboard App Builder 12.5 Released
Keyboard App Builder 12.5 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Dictionary App Builder 12.5 Released
Dictionary App Builder 12.5 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Reading App Builder 12.5 Released
Reading App Builder 12.5 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Scripture App Builder 12.5 Released
Scripture App Builder 12.5 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Better USFM support for draft generation
Improvements: Draft generation now retains biblical references and additional USFM markers from the source text. Copyright notices will now be displayed for resource tabs. Previously, these notices we… read more
PrimerPrep training video in French
I recently led a session on using PrimerPrep for the Literacy Community of Practice in French-speaking Africa. This session (in French, bien sûr !) was recorded, and is now available in the Training V… read more
March 2025
Sign in with phone number is no longer available
The option to log in to Scripture Forge with a phone number is no longer available. Community checkers who log in via methods like Google or Facebook can edit their answers and correspondence on multi… read more
FieldWorks 9.2.7 Beta
Release Date: Mar. 26, 2025 Changes in version 9.2.7 LT-7810 Ability to clear Inflection Class in Bulk Edit. LT-21730 “Jump to incomplete” should take into account what is showing. LT-2195… read more
Streamlined draft generation settings plus model training with multiple references
Improvements: Project administrators can now configure the drafting sources and reference projects language model training directly from the Generate Draft page itself, instead of the Settings page. M… read more
Paratext 9.5 is Now Available! 🥳
Paratext 9.5 introduces better support for whitespace and invisible characters, Study Bible Additions enhancements, improved inventories, and more...… read more
Adapt It version 6.11.6 bug fix now available
Feature changes in 6.11.6 Bug Fixes in the 6.11.6 update… read more
Audio Project Manager 4.1.0 release
The Audio Project Manager development team is pleased to offer the 4.1 release of the Audio Project Manager. This version updates the dependencies to the latest libraries and adds three AI experimenta… read more
New Version of LingTree: version 1.6.0
Version 1.6.0 of LingTree is now available. There are several new features: Add ability to align mother nodes based on the width of its daughter nodes when using the column-oriented algorithm. Add abi… read more
Updated project level roles and permissions
Improvements: Updated user roles in Paratext no longer require project administrators to run a full sync in Scripture Forge. If a user’s role has changed in Paratext, they can navigate or refres… read more
February 2025
Updated BloomPUB Viewer
We are happy to announce an updated BloomPUB Viewer for Windows. Download here. BloomPUB Viewer allows you to download and view Bloom books on your Windows device. This version includes the following … read more
Improved warnings for potential draft generation problems
Improvements: The Generate draft page has more descriptive warnings when the language codes for source and target projects indicate a potential configuration problem. The warning message now appears w… read more
FieldWorks 9.2.6 Beta
Release Date: Feb. 20, 2025 Changes in version 9.2.6 LT-21772 Implement list and paragraph options. LT-21818 Issues exporting Indian languages to a document: Complex Font. LT-21962 Bulk Edit Reversal … read more
Phonology Assistant 4.1.1 Release
Phonology Assistant 4.1.1 will work with Fieldworks 9.1.x (or later) that is 64-bit. It interacts with the Fieldworks data using the Language and Cultural Model. The change is a fix to the Distributio… read more
Busra font support and resource permission error fixes
Improvements: The Busra font is now supported. Bug Fixes: Corrected errors that occurred when user permissions were removed and then re-added for a resource.… read more
Andika Six Release 6.210 – A renamed version of Andika 6.200
Andika Six is simply a renamed version of Andika v6.200 with no other changes. Andika version 7 will include metrics changes that could cause lines, paragraphs, and pages to reflow. Because of this we… read more
Upload audio files for community checking questions
New Features: Community checking admins can now upload audio files for their questions in addition to recording audio directly within Scripture Forge. Improvements: The buttons in the drafting workflo… read more
Busra Release 9.000
We’re pleased to announce the release of Busra version 9.000—a newly updated version of the Khmer Busra font formerly part of the Mondulkiri project. There have been major changes since version … read more
SayMore Version 3.7 available!
In addition to eliminating a potential security problem, some of the key new features and improvements in this latest version of SayMore include: Enabled suppression of repeated short filename warning… read more
Confirmation page for draft generation selections
Improvements: The generate draft workflow now includes a confirmation page to review your selections before you generate a draft. The process for adding a draft to a project has been standardized for … read more
Announcing the release of Bloom 6.0
Thank you to everyone who helped us test Bloom 6.0 during its Beta phase! We’re excited to announce that it is now officially released. This update brings significant changes, which is why we’ve jumpe… read more
What's new in Bloom 6.1 Beta
If you’re running Bloom on the beta channel, you’re a vital part of the Bloom team. Your feedback helps ensure that when the beta becomes the release version, users without easy access to technical su… read more
January 2025
Adapt It version 6.11.5 Update now available
Feature changes in 6.11.5 Bug Fixes in the 6.11.5 update… read more
FieldWorks 9.2.5 Beta
Release Date: Jan. 24, 202 We are happy to announce the first Beta version of FieldWorks 9.2. Today we are releasing FW 9.2.5 (Beta 1). The work on FW 9.2 (compared to 9.1) has focused on adding the a… read more
Is there a PTXprint mailing list?
Yes, we send out e-mail updates a few times a year. If you’d like to join the list, please fill out the Feedback Form, and don’t forget to check the box at the end giving your consent. Or … read more
How can I learn about the latest features?
PTXprint is actively being developed with several new versions released each month. Often these are maintenance releases with bugs being fixed, but sometimes there are new features included. To keep u… read more
Keyboard App Builder 12.4 Released
Keyboard App Builder 12.4 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Dictionary App Builder 12.4 Released
Dictionary App Builder 12.4 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Reading App Builder 12.4 Released
Reading App Builder 12.4 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Scripture App Builder 12.4 Released
Scripture App Builder 12.4 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Paratext 9.5 compatibility
Improvements: Scripture Forge is now compatible with Paratext 9.5 projects, including support for new whitespace characters. The training step of the draft generation workflow now shows both the targe… read more
New Version of LingTree: version 1.5.4
Version 1.5.4 of LingTree is now available. There are several new features: Automatic keyboard switching between types of items while keying the tree description is now available on both the Windows a… read more
December 2024
Updated sharing setting options
Improvements: Scripture Forge sharing settings have been updated. Admins now have the option to allow Paratext members with a translator role to invite community checkers, commenters, and viewers. Adm… read more
Language code check added to drafting workflow
Improvements: There is a new step at the beginning of the process to generate a draft. There’s a reminder to confirm that the language codes are correct for the projects that will be used to train the… read more
Audio Project Manager 3.3.2 hotfix
This hotfix fixes a small issue in which if the user clicked set all steps complete button while on the Transcribe step and then submitted a transcription without first saving the complete steps, the … read more
Scripture Forge maintenance on 11 December
Scripture Forge will be unavailable for about 2-3 hours on 11 December 2024 starting at 16:30 UTC for scheduled maintenance. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Users who are already lo… read more
Audio Project Manager 3.3.0 and 3.3.1 hotfix
The audio project manager development team and the testers are excited to offer you this latest 3.3 release. This release includes some significant features: simplified and speedier switching between … read more
Audio comments for community checking questions and answers
Updates: The option to enable translation suggestions will no longer appear on the page when a project is being connected to Scripture Forge. Translation suggestions can still be enabled from the sett… read more
Scripture Forge will be unavailable for scheduled maintenance
Scripture Forge will be unavailable for about 2-6 hours on 4 December 2024 starting at 16:30 UTC for scheduled maintenance. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Users who are already log… read more
Paratext Newsletter 📰 Arabic Videos and More!!
Discover 65+ Arabic training videos, and 100+ new videos in other languages. Celebrate Paratext’s 30th anniversary and help fund additional training resources.… read more
FLExTrans version 3.12 released
Rule Assistant Improvements, Replacement Editor, Analytics Rule Assistant Improvements Jump directly to the Live Rule Assistant from the Rule Assistant and vice-versa. Show a portion of the currently … read more
November 2024
Version 3.16.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.16.0 (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
Release 5.100
We are pleased to inform you of the release of Padauk version 5.100. This release includes the following changes for this version: Added Pa’o and Eastern Pwo Karen digits Stack medials verticall… read more
Bug fixes for creating drafts
Bug Fixes: Previously the list of books could take a long time to load when generating a draft. The loading time has been dramatically improved, and a loading indicator has been added. Fixed an error … read more
Paratext 9.5 Beta Is Now Available!
Paratext 9.5 Beta is now available! Please give it a try and share your feedback. We’d love to hear how it works for you!… read more
Improved sync progress indicator
Improvements: During syncing with Paratext, the progress indicator now provides more specific information about the progress of the sync and what step is currently in progress. Bug Fixes: Corrected a … read more
FLExTrans mentioned again in SIL Blog Post
Technology accelerates long-awaited translation for communities in Peru. When SIL Translation Consultant Mark Bean and his family settled in Peru to support communities in their translation efforts, h… read more
Keyboard App Builder 12.3 Released
Keyboard App Builder 12.3 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Dictionary App Builder 12.3 Released
Dictionary App Builder 12.3 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Reading App Builder 12.3 Released
Reading App Builder 12.3 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Scripture App Builder 12.3 Released
Scripture App Builder 12.3 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Faster Scripture Forge drafting
Improvements: Scripture Forge drafting has been updated so that it’s now much faster. Most drafts will now take about 2.5 hours to complete instead of 8. Draft quality should be about the same as befo… read more
October 2024
Improvements for mobile devices and permission change issues
Improvements: The messaging about books that cannot be selected for training and generating drafts is more compact and takes up less screen space. The error message is more clear and accurate when a s… read more
Release 2.300
This is a minor release. Changes for this version include the following: Improved Adjusted glyph shapes for 1214 ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE HHEE 1264 ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE BEE 126C ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE VEE 129C ETHIO… read more
Translation model training bugs fixed
Improvements: Updated the way fonts are displayed for different locale selections. Bug Fixes: Fixed a bug that prevented additional training data files from being used for training a translation model… read more
Release 4.300
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
Release 4.300
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
Release 4.300
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
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
FieldWorks 9.2.4 Alpha
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
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
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
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
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
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
Release 3.300
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
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
September 2024
Adapt It Mobile patch release 1.17.3 available for Android, iOS
The Adapt It development team is pleased to announce Adapt It Mobile patch release 1.17.3 for Android and iOS. Download links: Adapt It Mobile 1.17.3 is a patch release, containing fixes for the move … read more
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
Adapt It Mobile patch release 1.17.2 available for Android, iOS
The Adapt It development team is pleased to announce Adapt It Mobile patch release 1.17.2 for Android and iOS. Download links: Adapt It Mobile 1.17.2 is a patch release, containing a fix for the follo… read more
FieldWorks 9.2.3 Alpha
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
Kedebideri Release 2.000
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
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
Release 2.001
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
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
Release 2.000
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
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
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
Adapt It Mobile patch release 1.17.1 available for Android, iOS
The Adapt It development team is pleased to announce Adapt It Mobile patch release 1.17.1 for Android and iOS. Download links: Adapt It Mobile 1.17.1 is a patch release, containing a fix for a versifi… read more
September 3 bug fixes
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
August 2024
Adapt It Mobile 1.17.0 available for Android, iOS
The Adapt It development team is pleased to announce Adapt It Mobile release 1.17.0 for Android and iOS. You can download Adapt It Mobile from the following sources: What’s new in release 1.17.0 You c… read more
August 27 updates
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
August 21 updates
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
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
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
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
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
August 13 updates
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 that have … read more
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 in… read more
FieldWorks 9.2.2 Alpha
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
August 7 updates
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
July 2024
July 30 updates
Improvements: On the Generate draft page, the latest draft that is being generated is now listed above previously-generated drafts. The Help menu now has icons. Bug Fixes: CTRL+A selects the content f… read more
FieldWorks 9.2.1 Alpha
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
Minor update to version 3.36
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
My Projects page and other updates
New Features: The new My Projects page provides a list of all the projects your account is connected to. Access the page by clicking the Scripture Forge icon at the top of the page or from the user me… read more
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
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
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
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
Adapt It Mobile Patch Release 1.16.4 Available for Android
The Adapt It development team is pleased to announce Adapt It Mobile patch release 1.16.4 for Android!… read more
Solid 1.0 maintenance release
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
July 9 updates
Improvements: When sharing a link for Community Checking, the default option will now be a multi-use link that expires after 14 days. Admins can choose to customize their sharing options and choose a … read more
July 2 updates
Improvements: Previously-generated drafts can be previewed and downloaded while a new draft is being generated. Paratext registry connection issues will less frequently require users to log out and lo… read more
June 2024
What's new in 6.0 Beta
If you run Bloom on the beta channel, you are a crucial part of the Bloom team. Your help ensures that folks who don’t have easy access to technical support get a solid product when the beta becomes t… read more
Updates in June 2024
New features: AI generated drafts can be downloaded as a zip file containing USFM files for each book. Paratext and DBL resources can be added as tabs. Improvements: For AI-generated drafts, the list … read more
🎉 Announcing the release of Bloom 5.6
Thank you to everyone who helped us test Bloom 5.6 while it was in Beta. It is now the Release. See: What’s new in 5.6 Upgrading If you are using an older Release version, Bloom should automatically … read more
Adapt It 6.11.1 update now available
Feature changes and new features in 6.11.1 Bug fixes in 6.11.1 update… read more
Annapurna SIL Release 2.100
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
FieldWorks 9.2.0 Alpha
Release Date: June 11, 2024 You can see a list of the changes at alpha release notes… read more
Minor update to version 3.35
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
Minor update to version 3.33
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
May 2024
Older release notes
Release notes from before June 2024 are posted at https://community.scripture.software.sil.org/t/scripture-forge-announcements/1776.… read more
Pathway 1.18.5 (hotfix)
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
The BEST Way to Print a Draft 📄
Print high-quality Scripture drafts with PTXprint in minutes! Watch our video series to learn about using PTXprint for your drafting and printing needs.… read more
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
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
Pathway 1.18.4 (hotfix)
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
Pathway 1.18.3 (hotfix)
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
Version 3.15.0 Released
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
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
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
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
Update to version 3.31
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
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
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
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
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
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
Audio Project Manager 3.0.0
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
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
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
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
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
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
FieldWorks 9.1.25
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
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
Webinar – Using Paratext and FieldWorks Together 🤝
Paratext and FieldWorks work better together in Paratext 9.4: you can now use FieldWorks data in the Paratext Interlinearizer! Learn more in this webinar.… read more
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
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
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
January 2024
Paratext Newsletter 📰 Jan 2024
Learn about Paratext 9.4 (now released!), new Paratext product owners, new/updated training videos, and using Paratext in additional languages.… read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
Audio Project Manager 2.16.8
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
🎉 Announcing the release of Bloom 5.5
Thank you to everyone who helped us test Bloom 5.5 while it was in Beta. It is now the Release. See: What’s new in 5.5 Upgrading If you are using an older Release version, Bloom should automatically … read more
Annapurna SIL Release 2.000
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
October 2023
Release 3.200
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
August 2023
Release 4.200
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
Audio Project Manager 2.16.6
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
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
FieldWorks 9.1.24
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
Release 4.100
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
Release 1.000
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
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
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
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
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
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
FieldWorks 9.1.22
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
What's new in Bloom 5.5 beta
If you run Bloom on the beta channel, you are a crucial part of the Bloom team. Your help ensures that folks who don’t have easy access to technical support get a solid product when the beta becomes t… read more
🎉 Announcing the release of Bloom 5.4
Thank you to everyone who helped us test Bloom 5.4 while it was in Beta. It is now the Release. See: What’s new in 5.4 Upgrading If you are using an older Release version, Bloom should automatically … read more
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
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
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
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
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
Release 2.201
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
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, F… read more
FieldWorks 9.1.21
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
Version 3.13.0 Released
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
Audio Project Manager 2.16.4 (hotfix)
The Audio Project Manager 2.16.4 release fixes an issue that was reported where shared resources could not be created. Otherwise it is identical to the 2.16.3 Release.… read more
Audio Project Manager 2.16.3
Release Announcement – May 2023 Audio Project Manager (APM) is the next generation Bible translation tool for those implementing an oral strategy in their Bible translation project. APM serves a… read more
Audio Project Manager 2.16.3 detailed changes
Here is a detailed list of the changes for this release: TT-2281 handle error correctly (#1092) TT-3287 process itf/itfs files in chunks (#1177) TT-3315 Only current old vern select plays (#1131) TT-3… read more
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
Release 4.000
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
Release 4.000
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
Release 4.000
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
FieldWorks 9.1.20
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
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
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
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
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
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
FieldWorks 9.1.19
Release Date: March 23, 2023 Bugs fixed in version 9.1.19 LT-20157 Allow spaces in the Language Depot password. Requires FLExBridge 4.0.0 (not included in the FieldWorks patch). LT-21214 Hermit Crab u… read more
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
Audio Project Manager 2.16.2 hotfix
The Audio Project Manager development team is pleased to announce the 2.16.2 hot fix release. This release fixes an issue with phrase back translations being reset when the screen was refreshed. The f… read more
February 2023
Release 3.000
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
Release 3.000
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
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
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
Andika Release 6.200
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
Gentium Plus Release 6.200
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
Doulos SIL Release 6.200
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
Charis SIL Release 6.200
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
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
January 2023
Release 3.100
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
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
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
December 2022
FLExTrans Version 3.7 Released
Sense Linker and Live Rule Tester Improvements Live Rule Tester Choose a different source text from a drop-down list. The Select Words and Select Sentences tabs stay in sync. Improved support for usin… read more
Audio Project Manager 2.16.1 hotfix
December 9, 2022 The Audio Project Manager development team is pleased to announce the 2.16.1 hot fix release. This release fixes an issue in the desktop program that prevented it from logging in. The… read more
FieldWorks 9.1.18
Release Date: December 9, 2022 You can see the details at LT-21209 For more specifics about version 9.1 and the changes included in it, see the release notes… read more
Reading App Builder 10.2 Released
Reading App Builder 10.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Dictionary App Builder 10.2 Released
Dictionary App Builder 10.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Keyboard App Builder 10.2 Released
Keyboard App Builder 10.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Scripture App Builder 10.2 Released
Scripture App Builder 10.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
November 2022
FieldWorks 9.1.17 Release Candidate
Release Date: November 30, 2022 For more specifics about version 9.1 and the changes made, see the beta release notes Bugs fixed in version 9.1.17 LT-17535 Correct crash when adding ‘enter’… read more
Release 2.200
This is a minor release. Changes for this version include the following: Adjusted design of U+1395 ETHIOPIC TONAL MARK KENAT Adjusted width of U+2008 PUNCTUATION SPACE to match full stop Fixed inconsi… read more
Version 3.12.0 / 2.42.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.12.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) and version 2.42.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Note: for Mac use… read more
October 2022
FieldWorks 9.1.16 Release Candidate
Release Date: October 14, 2022 For more specifics about version 9.1 and the changes made, see the beta release notes Bugs fixed in version 9.1.16 LT-21140 Memory problems from duplicate sil:url elemen… read more
Audio Project Manager 2.16.0
Release Announcement – October 2022 Audio Project Manager (APM) is the next generation Bible translation tool for those implementing an oral strategy in their Bible translation project. APM serv… read more
September 2022
FieldWorks 9.1.15 Release Candidate
Release Date: September 27, 2022 For more specifics about version 9.1 and the changes made, see the beta release notes Bugs fixed in version 9.1.15 LT-18315 Letter Headings are now correct if sorting … read more
Release 3.000
Awami Nastaliq 3.000 is a major release of the Awami Nastaliq font. Five fonts from this typeface family are now included in this release: Awami Nastaliq Regular Awami Nastaliq Medium Awami Nastaliq S… read more
FLExTrans Version 3.6 Released
Inflection classes are supported in synthesis and you can use any analysis writing system Support for inflection classes and stem names in synthesis You no longer have to have English as the analysis … read more
Dictionary App Builder 10.1 Released
Dictionary App Builder 10.1 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Keyboard App Builder 10.1 Released
Keyboard App Builder 10.1 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Scripture App Builder 10.1 Released
Scripture App Builder 10.1 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Reading App Builder 10.1 Released
Reading App Builder 10.1 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
August 2022
Payap Lanna Release 1.000
This is the first release of Payap Lanna, a font family that supports the Northern Thai language as written using the Tai Tham (Lanna) script. It includes Regular and Bold weights, and is available fr… read more
FieldWorks 9.1.14 Beta
Release Date: August 22, 2022 For more specifics about version 9.1 and the changes made, see the beta release notes Bugs fixed in version 9.1.14 LT-11482 Export concordance results. LT-19843 Don’… read more
Support for USFM quotation milestones
As of version 4.0, Glyssen will now read and interpret quotation milestones. The qt-s and qt-e markers were added to the USFM standard in version 3.0. Although Paratext does not yet make it easy to en… read more
Support for scriptio continua languages
As of Version 3.2 (released August 11, 2022), HearThis now supports scriptio continua languages by allowing you to specify whitespace characters (regular spaces, zero-width spaces, etc.) that are used… read more
Version 1.2.2 of PAWS available for Windows, Mac, and Linux
Version 1.2.2 of PAWS is now available for download. It allows you to enter the vernacular line of interlinear data and its free translation in separate fields, removing the need to add the free trans… read more
July 2022
FieldWorks 9.1.13 Beta Patch
Release Date: July 27, 2022 For more specifics about version 9.1 and the changes made, see the beta release notes Bugs fixed in version 9.1.13 LT-20768 Pre-populate new templates in text charts. LT-20… read more
SIL Transcriber 2.15.9 hotfix
July 7, 2022 The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.15.9 hot fix release. This release updates the Indonesian localization but otherwise is the same as 2.15.8. The full-feat… read more
SIL Transcriber 2.15.9 hotfix
July 7, 2022 The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.15.9 hot fix release. This release updates the Indonesian localization but otherwise is the same as 2.15.8. The full-feat… read more
June 2022
SIL Transcriber June 2022 release 2.15.8
The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.15.8 release. This release adds the Transcriber work flow tool so it is no longer necessary to jump back and forth to the transcriber … read more
SIL Transcriber June 2022 release 2.15.8
The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.15.8 release. This release adds the Transcriber work flow tool so it is no longer necessary to jump back and forth to the transcriber … read more
Keyboard App Builder 10.0 Released
Keyboard App Builder 10.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Dictionary App Builder 10.0 Released
Dictionary App Builder 10.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Reading App Builder 10.0 Released
Reading App Builder 10.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Scripture App Builder 10.0 Released
Scripture App Builder 10.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Release 2.000
We are pleased to release version 2.000 of the Lateef font family. The font package is available for download from the Download page. Seven weights for this typeface family are included: Lateef ExtraL… read more
SIL Transcriber hotfix 2.15.7
June 23, 2022 The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.15.7 hot fix release. This release fixes an issue in the desktop program that prevented posting to Paratext locally if t… read more
SIL Transcriber hotfix 2.15.7
June 23, 2022 The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.15.7 hot fix release. This release fixes an issue in the desktop program that prevented posting to Paratext locally if t… read more
SIL Transcriber hotfix 2.15.6
June 23, 2022 The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.15.6 hot fix release. This release fixes an issue in the desktop program that prevented posting to Paratext locally if t… read more
SIL Transcriber hotfix 2.15.6
June 23, 2022 The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.15.6 hot fix release. This release fixes an issue in the desktop program that prevented posting to Paratext locally if t… read more
FieldWorks 9.1.12 Beta
Release Date: June 21, 2022 For more specifics about version 9.1 and the changes made, see the beta release notes Bugs fixed in version 9.1.12 LT-20058 Sharing mode now saves Flex changes while Phonol… read more
FLExTrans Version 3.5 Released
Multiple Projects, No Linux Required, Settings Tool and Paratext Import/Export There’s a new folder structure with a sub-folder called WorkProjects. Under this folder you can have multiple FLExT… read more
Phonology Assistant 4.1.0 release
Phonology Assistant 4.1.0 will work with Fieldworks 9.1.x (or later) that is 64-bit. It interacts with the Fieldworks data using the Language and Cultural Model. The biggest change is the addition of … read more
Release 2.000
Changes Removed Alkalami Light font. Removed non Unicode compliant solutions Both desktop and web fonts are provided in a single, all-platforms package on the Download Page. Known issues If you used p… read more
Release 2.000
Changes 2022-06-09 (WSTech team) Ruwudu Version 2.000 (production release) Split Alkalami Light font v1.300 into a new typeface called Ruwudu. Version history is available on the Alkalami History page… read more
Indicate your needs by “voting” on Use Cases
We have created a set of Use Cases on the Community site to try to better understand our users’ needs. Please log in and use the voting mechanism there to express the needs that you or the users in yo… read more
Release 5.001
We are pleased to announce the release of Padauk version 5.001. This release includes the following changes for this version: Added Character Variant feature (cv09) for U+AA6C variant selection in Ope… read more
Localization via Crowdin
The strings that appear in the SayMore user interface can now be localized easily on-line at crowdin.com. To request that a new language be opened up for localization, simply click the Contact button … read more
Version 3.11.0/2.41.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.11.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) and version 2.41.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Note: for Mac use… read more
May 2022
FieldWorks 9.1.11 Beta
Version Date: May 24, 2022 For more specifics about version 9.1 and the changes made, see the beta release notes Bugs fixed in version 9.1.11 LT-08457 Sorting by Occurrence sorts sorts on selected wor… read more
SIL Transcriber Release 2.15.5
May 20, 2022 The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.15.5 release. The key features of this release are the ability to perform the workflow on a section of related passages. … read more
SIL Transcriber Release 2.15.5
May 20, 2022 The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.15.5 release. The key features of this release are the ability to perform the workflow on a section of related passages. … read more
SIL Transcriber Release 2.15.4
May 11, 2022 The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.15.4 release. After the April 2022 Release which had so many problems, we redeployed the cloud portion of the software in… read more
SIL Transcriber Release 2.15.4
May 11, 2022 The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.15.4 release. After the April 2022 Release which had so many problems, we redeployed the cloud portion of the software in… read more
April 2022
Check for Problems
HearThis 3.0 has been released, with the new Check for Problems view!… read more
Release 1.300
Changes 2022-04-27 (WSTech team) Alkalami Version 1.300 (production release) Added characters to support other languages: U+0600, U+0657..U+0658, U+065D, U+067D, U+0684, U+06A5, U+06E5, U+0761, U+0870… read more
Reading App Builder 9.3 Released
Reading App Builder 9.3 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Keyboard App Builder 3.3 Released
Keyboard App Builder 3.3 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Dictionary App Builder 9.3 Released
Dictionary App Builder 9.3 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
SIL Transcriber April 2022 release 2.15.2
April 2022 The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.15.1 release. After the Spring 2022 Release, there have been a number of requested features so we have decided to move into… read more
SIL Transcriber April 2022 release 2.15.2
April 2022 The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.15.1 release. After the Spring 2022 Release, there have been a number of requested features so we have decided to move into… read more
Kay Pho Du Release 2.000
This is the first public release of Kay Pho Du, a font family that supports languages written using the Kayah Li script. It currently includes one weight – Regular – and is available from … read more
Scripture App Builder 9.3 Released
Scripture App Builder 9.3 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
The little things matter
When text is too little to be legible, you waste time and hurt your eyes squinting. Sorry it took so long to make this better, but Transcelerator 3.1.0 addresses this problem. Now you can use Zoom In … read more
See what happened during the pandemic
Although there hasn’t been a news post in a while, a lot has happened in Glyssen since the release of version 1.1. Here are a few highlights: A complete Old Testament reference text is available… read more
Improved “Record in Parts” experience (plus a glimpse at what’s coming next…)
If you have used a past version of HearThis and experienced problems with recording quality, you will be delighted to learn that the new version of HearThis (2.2.18) released last month addresses this… read more
March 2022
SIL Transcriber 2.14.5 hot fix
SIL Transcriber announces the 2.14.5 hot fix that updates the localization for Indonesian. This is a hot fix on the SIL Transcriber Spring 2022 release.… read more
SIL Transcriber 2.14.5 hot fix
SIL Transcriber announces the 2.14.5 hot fix that updates the localization for Indonesian. This is a hot fix on the SIL Transcriber Spring 2022 release.… read more
SIL Transcriber 2.14.4 hot fix
SIL Transcriber announces the 2.14.4 hot fix that fixes the display and sort of the choices on the compare tool. They will sort by chapter, start and end verse number if they are present in the file n… read more
SIL Transcriber 2.14.4 hot fix
SIL Transcriber announces the 2.14.4 hot fix that fixes the display and sort of the choices on the compare tool. They will sort by chapter, start and end verse number if they are present in the file n… read more
SIL Transcriber Spring 2022 2.14.3 Release
Spring 2022 The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.14.3 release. Based on how we have seen people using our product, the Spring 2022 release provides a flexible tool for tho… read more
SIL Transcriber Spring 2022 2.14.3 Release
Spring 2022 The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.14.3 release. Based on how we have seen people using our product, the Spring 2022 release provides a flexible tool for tho… read more
FLExTrans Version 3.4.1 Released
Download FLExTrans 3.4.1 Bug fixes. Please follow the installation steps if you are installing FLExTrans for the first time.… read more
Minor update to version 3.14
This update (3.14) resolves a small bug in the PrimerPrep program: If you loaded a saved project, the Save Teaching Order menu might not be activated or deactivated properly. So you couldn’t con… read more
Fieldworks 9.1.10 Beta Patch
Version Date: March 10, 2022 For more specifics about version 9.1 and the changes made, see the beta release notes Bugs fixed in version 9.1.10 LT-20754 Promoted senses now bring along more entry leve… read more
Charis Doulos Gentium Andika v6.101 TypeTuner Web
Version 6.101 of the Charis SIL, Doulos SIL, Gentium Plus, and Andika font families is now available. Highlights: The v6 fonts are now available on SIL TypeTuner Web, which allows you to create custom… read more
February 2022
Andika Release 6.101 TypeTuner Web
This is a maintenance release primarily focused on making the v6 fonts available on TypeTuner Web. This enables us to also provide v6 versions of many special-purpose modified fonts, including Literac… read more
Gentium Plus Release 6.101 TypeTuner Web
This is a maintenance release primarily focused on making the v6 fonts available on TypeTuner Web. This enables us to also provide v6 versions of many special-purpose modified fonts, including Literac… read more
Doulos SIL Release 6.101 TypeTuner Web
This is a maintenance release primarily focused on making the v6 fonts available on TypeTuner Web. This enables us to also provide v6 versions of many special-purpose modified fonts, including Literac… read more
Charis SIL Release 6.101 TypeTuner Web
This is a maintenance release primarily focused on making the v6 fonts available on TypeTuner Web. This enables us to also provide v6 versions of many special-purpose modified fonts, including Literac… read more
FieldWorks 9.1.9 Beta Patch
Version Date: February 2, 2022 For more specifics about version 9.1 and the changes made, see the beta release notes Bugs fixed in version 9.1.9 LT-17589 Dialect labels are now available in SFM import… read more
January 2022
FieldWorks 9.1.8 Beta
For more specifics about version 9.1 and the changes made, see the beta release notes Bugs fixed in version 9.1.8 LT-20846 Fix gloss line turns to stars when parse chosen. LT-20858 Go to the right wor… read more
FLExTrans Version 3.3 Released
Download FLExTrans 3.3 The Sense Linker Tool has some good improvements: Complex forms such as phrasal verbs are now displayed in the list. You can now filter the words to link further by not displayi… read more
December 2021
Version 3.10.0/2.40.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.10.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) and version 2.40.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Note: for Mac use… read more
Reading App Builder 9.2 Released
Reading App Builder 9.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Dictionary App Builder 9.2 Released
Dictionary App Builder 9.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Keyboard App Builder 3.2 Released
Keyboard App Builder 3.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Scripture App Builder 9.2 Released
Scripture App Builder 9.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Minor update to version 3.13
This update (3.13) resolves a small bug in the PrimerPrep program: If you added one or more sight words as the first lesson in the teaching order (i.e. before teaching any individual letters), and tri… read more
November 2021
Release 3.300
Changes This release includes the following changes for this version: Added U+061D, U+0870..U+088E, U+0890..U+0891, U+0898..U+089F, U+08B5, U+08C8..U+08D2 Added bold version of glyph for U+08AD ARABIC… read more
Transcelerator 3.0 for Paratext 9.2
Paratext 9.2 has an all-new way of working with plugins that is faster and more powerful. Transcelerator 3.0 uses the new API and is now available! Existing Transcelerator users will only notice a few… read more
FieldWorks 9.1.7 Beta Patch
Version Date: November 12, 2021 For more specifics about version 9.1 and the changes made, see the beta release notes Bugs fixed in version 9.1.7 LT-19629 Adding an audio recording causes the date mod… read more
FLExTrans Version 3.2.1 Released
FLExTools20WithFLExTrans 3.2.1.zip (FLExTrans 3.2.1 with Sense Linker 3.0 & Live Rule Tester 3.2.5) Bug fixes Please follow the installation steps if you are installing FLExTrans for the first tim… read more
SIL Transcriber Audacity Integration 2.13.5 Release
The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the release of Audacity Integration. The Audacity logo appears on the more menu of the Sections and Passages tab of the Audio Project screen… read more
SIL Transcriber Audacity Integration 2.13.5 Release
The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the release of Audacity Integration. The Audacity logo appears on the more menu of the Sections and Passages tab of the Audio Project screen… read more
October 2021
Keyboard App Builder 3.1 Released
Keyboard App Builder 3.1 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Dictionary App Builder 9.1 Released
Dictionary App Builder 9.1 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Reading App Builder 9.1 Released
Reading App Builder 9.1 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Scripture App Builder 9.1 Released
Scripture App Builder 9.1 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
FieldWorks 9.1.6 Beta
For more specifics about version 9.1 and the changes made, see the beta release notes Bugs fixed in version 9.1.6 LT-20397 Fix crash when importing text from Paratext. LT-20703, LT-20782, LT-20773, LT… read more
SIL Transcriber Fall 2021 2.13.4 Release
· Audio Waveform Click to zoom in or out or see the entire waveform. Automatic Segmentation Click to insert segment boundaries. Click to change the parameters so you can control how many segments are … read more
SIL Transcriber Fall 2021 2.13.4 Release
· Audio Waveform Click to zoom in or out or see the entire waveform. Automatic Segmentation Click to insert segment boundaries. Click to change the parameters so you can control how many segments are … read more
September 2021
Language Forge v1.8 Released
Language Forge is an online collaborative dictionary editor that syncs with FLEx. LF v1.8 is a modest release and includes developer improvements that make it easier for us to release improvements in … read more
FieldWorks 9.1.5 Beta
For more specifics about version 9.1 and the changes made, see the beta release notes Bugs fixed in version 9.1.5 LT-18814 Fix crash in “Find in Dictionary” if the lexical entry has any pi… read more
August 2021
Reading App Builder 9.0 Released
Reading App Builder 9.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Keyboard App Builder 3.0 Released
Keyboard App Builder 3.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Scripture App Builder 9.0 Released
Scripture App Builder 9.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Dictionary App Builder 9.0 Released
Dictionary App Builder 9.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
July 2021
FieldWorks 9.0.17
For more specifics about version 9.0 and the changes made, see the release notes Bugs fixed in version 9.0.17 LT-18814 Fix crash in “Find in Dictionary” if the lexical entry has any pictur… read more
Release 3.200
Changes The only change in this release is to add the new Unicode 14.0 codepoints to the honorifics. At this point either the Private Usa Area (PUA) codepoints, or the Unicode 14.0 codepoints will wor… read more
Version 1.0.0.0 is now available
A new version of Asheninka (a Syllable Parser) is now available. To get an installer go to the download page. This version is currently only available in 64-bit versions. Contact us if you need a 32-b… read more
Charis Doulos Gentium Andika v6.001 Quick Fix
This is a quick fix release with one change especially important to users of some macOS apps, esp. TextEdit, Pages, and Nisus Writer Pro. If you have already installed v6.000 and have encountered prob… read more
Release 6.001 Quick Fix
This is a quick fix release with one change especially important to users of some macOS apps, esp. TextEdit, Pages, and Nisus Writer Pro. If you have already installed v6.000 and have encountered prob… read more
Release 6.001 Quick Fix
This is a quick fix release with one change especially important to users of some macOS apps, esp. TextEdit, Pages, and Nisus Writer Pro. If you have already installed v6.000 and have encountered prob… read more
Release 6.001 Quick Fix
This is a quick fix release with one change especially important to users of some macOS apps, esp. TextEdit, Pages, and Nisus Writer Pro. If you have already installed v6.000 and have encountered prob… read more
Release 6.001 Quick Fix
This is a quick fix release with one change especially important to users of some macOS apps, esp. TextEdit, Pages, and Nisus Writer Pro. If you have already installed v6.000 and have encountered prob… read more
June 2021
Notes about new version 6 of some SIL fonts
The SIL Writing Systems Technology Team announced today that there are new versions of the Charis SIL, Doulos SIL, Gentium, and Andika fonts. Many of us use one or more of these fonts. They say: Not… read more
Charis Doulos Gentium Andika v6.000
We’re excited to announce the long-awaited version 6 release of Charis SIL, Doulos SIL, Gentium Plus, and Andika. This release is full of new features and important improvements. Some highlights: new … read more
Release 6.000 – with bold and italic weights!
We’re excited to announce the long-awaited version 6 release of Andika. This release is full of new features and important improvements, including full character support in all styles. The Bold, Itali… read more
Release 6.000 – with a range of bold and italic weights!
We’re excited to announce the long-awaited version 6 release of Gentium Plus. This release is full of new features and important improvements, including full character support in all styles. The Bold,… read more
Release 6.000
We’re excited to announce the long-awaited version 6 release of Doulos SIL. This release is full of new features and important improvements. Note that this is a major upgrade. This may cause document … read more
Release 6.000
We’re excited to announce the long-awaited version 6 release of Charis SIL. This release is full of new features and important improvements. Note that this is a major upgrade. This may cause document … read more
FieldWorks 9.1.4 Beta
For more specifics about version 9.1 and the changes made, see the beta release notes Bugs fixed in version 9.1.4 LT-20525 New ability to add tables to entries/senses. It’s not fully implemented, but … read more
SIL Transcriber 2.12.2 hotfix release
The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.12.2 release. This is primarily a bug fix release but includes a 32 bit version for those who need to use the software offline on Wind… read more
SIL Transcriber 2.12.2 hotfix release
The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.12.2 release. This is primarily a bug fix release but includes a 32 bit version for those who need to use the software offline on Wind… read more
Release 5.000
We are pleased to announce the release of Padauk version 5.000. This release includes the following changes for this version: Added Thai Mon variant glyphs and language support Added Aiton and Phake v… read more
Release 2.100
This release adds support for Ethiopic characters which will be included in the upcoming Unicode 14.0 release. Changes for this version include the following: Added U+1E7E0..U+1E7E6, U+1E7E8..U+1E7EB,… read more
May 2021
FieldWorks 9.1.3 Beta Patch
For more specifics about version 9.1 and the changes made, see the beta release notes Bugs fixed in version 9.1.3 LT-20440 Remember size for Configure Interlinear Lines dialog. LT-20441 Make Configure… read more
Phonology Assistant 4.0.5 security release
Phonology Assistant 4.0.5 will work with Fieldworks 9.0.x (or later) that is 64-bit. It interacts with the Fieldworks data using the Language and Cultural Model. It includes security fixes for the 4.0… read more
FLExTrans Version 3.2 Released
FLExTools20WithFLExTrans 3.2 (FLExTrans 3.2 with Sense Linker 3.0 & Live Rule Tester 3.2.5) Support for doing syntax parsing and tree manipulation. You can now integrate with the program Use PCPAT… read more
SIL Transcriber 2.12.1 Release
The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.12.1 release. The key features in the Spring 2021 release are: a New Project dialog that allows users to identify the solution they ar… read more
SIL Transcriber 2.12.1 Release
The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.12.1 release. The key features in the Spring 2021 release are: a New Project dialog that allows users to identify the solution they ar… read more
Version 3.9.0 / 2.39.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.9.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) and version 2.39.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Note: for Mac user… read more
April 2021
Release 2.200
Changes Improved spacing and kerning involving punctuation Corrected nuqtas in dul character Fixed collision bug that manifested itself in Paratext Fixed other obscure bugs The changes to spacing and … read more
Phonology Assistant 4.0.4 release
Phonology Assistant 4.0.4 will work with Fieldworks 9.0.x (or later) that is 64-bit. It interacts with the Fieldworks data using the Language and Cultural Model. In addition this version fixes an issu… read more
March 2021
Release 3.100
Changes This release includes the following changes for this version: Fixed Graphite bug related to spacing of U+2E41 Fixed OpenType bug with diacritic position (in the context of a shadda) on lam-ale… read more
FieldWorks 9.0.16 Patch
For more specifics about version 9.0 and the changes made, see the release notes Bugs fixed since version 9.0.15 LT-19906 [Linux] Advanced WS view resize shows labels and controls. LT-20299 [Linux] UI… read more
Scripture App Builder 8.6 Released
Scripture App Builder 8.6 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Reading App Builder 8.6 Released
Reading App Builder 8.6 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Keyboard App Builder 2.6 Released
Keyboard App Builder 2.6 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Dictionary App Builder 8.6 Released
Dictionary App Builder 8.6 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
SIL Transcriber 2.11.4 release
The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.11.4 release. The goal of this release was to provide the option for a completely offline experience using the Desktop app. Users have… read more
SIL Transcriber 2.11.4 release
The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.11.4 release. The goal of this release was to provide the option for a completely offline experience using the Desktop app. Users have… read more
FieldWorks 9.0.15
For more specifics about version 9.0 and the changes made, see the release notes Bugs fixed since version 9.0.14 LT-19568 Prevent crash in Ramp when trying to start FLEx after uninstalling Ramp. LT-20… read more
February 2021
SIL Transcriber 2.11.2 and 2.11.3 Release
The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.11.2 and 2.11.3 release. It is a small improvement to the 2.11.0 release and the 2.11.1 release. The goal of this release was to impro… read more
SIL Transcriber 2.11.2 and 2.11.3 Release
The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.11.2 and 2.11.3 release. It is a small improvement to the 2.11.0 release and the 2.11.1 release. The goal of this release was to impro… read more
SIL Transcriber 2.11.1 Release
The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.11.1 release. It is a small improvement to the 2.11.0 release The goal of this release was to provide the option for a completely offl… read more
SIL Transcriber 2.11.1 Release
The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.11.1 release. It is a small improvement to the 2.11.0 release The goal of this release was to provide the option for a completely offl… read more
SIL Transcriber 2.11.0 release
The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.11.0 release. The goal of this release was to provide the option for a completely offline experience using the Desktop app. Users have… read more
SIL Transcriber 2.11.0 release
The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the 2.11.0 release. The goal of this release was to provide the option for a completely offline experience using the Desktop app. Users have… read more
January 2021
Release 2.100
KNOWN ISSUES: There is a significant bug in spacing and kerning with this version of the font. We highly recommend upgrading to version 2.200. Awami Nastaliq 2.100 is a maintenance release of the Awam… read more
Keyboard App Builder 2.4 Released
Keyboard App Builder 2.4 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Dictionary App Builder 8.4 Released
Dictionary App Builder 8.4 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Reading App Builder 8.4 Released
Reading App Builder 8.4 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Scripture App Builder 8.4 Released
Scripture App Builder 8.4 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
December 2020
SIL Transcriber 2.10.0 Release
The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the Winter 2020 release. The goal of this release was to change the Desktop Extension into a Desktop App. The idea is that users should not … read more
SIL Transcriber 2.10.0 Release
The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the Winter 2020 release. The goal of this release was to change the Desktop Extension into a Desktop App. The idea is that users should not … read more
Version 0.7.0.0 Alpha is now available
A new version of Asheninka (a Syllable Parser) is now available. To get an installer go to the download page. This version is currently only available in 64-bit versions. Contact us if you need a 32-b… read more
FieldWorks 9.0.14 Patch
For more specifics about version 9.0 and the changes made, see the release notes Bugs fixed since version 9.0.12 For FieldWorks: LT-16138 Diacritics can now be entered in the first character of a free… read more
November 2020
Minor bug update
This minor update (v3.12) better handles rogue input, such as files with lots of tabs, or with combining diacritics which immediately follow punctuation, spaces, or other unruly combinations. PrimerPr… read more
Scripture Forge Imports Transcelerator Questions!
It is now possible to import questions from Transcelerator (version 1.5.3 or later) so they can be used as part of the online comprehension checking process supported by Scripture Forge.… read more
Version 3.8.0 / 2.38.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.8.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) and version 2.38.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Note: for Mac user… read more
Keyboard App Builder 2.3 Released
Keyboard App Builder 2.3 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Dictionary App Builder 8.2 Released
Dictionary App Builder 8.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Reading App Builder 8.3 Released
Reading App Builder 8.3 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Scripture App Builder 8.3 Released
Scripture App Builder 8.3 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Release 3.000
Changes This release includes the following changes for this version: Renamed font to Scheherazade New Resizing Resized glyphs to better fit standard Arabic script fonts Adjusted line-spacing to refle… read more
SIL Transcriber 2.9.2 release
The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the these additions to the Fall 2020 release. These changes are available on the full-featured web edition and the offline-only desktop exte… read more
SIL Transcriber 2.9.2 release
The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the these additions to the Fall 2020 release. These changes are available on the full-featured web edition and the offline-only desktop exte… read more
October 2020
SIL Transcriber 2.9.1 Release
The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the these additions to the Fall 2020 release. These changes are available on the full-featured web edition and the offline-only desktop exte… read more
SIL Transcriber 2.9.1 Release
The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the these additions to the Fall 2020 release. These changes are available on the full-featured web edition and the offline-only desktop exte… read more
Keyboard App Builder 2.2 Released
Keyboard App Builder 2.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Dictionary App Builder 8.2 Released
Dictionary App Builder 8.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Reading App Builder 8.2 Released
Reading App Builder 8.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Scripture App Builder 8.2 Released
Scripture App Builder 8.2 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Phonology Assistant 4.0.2 release
Phonology Assistant 4.0.2 will work with Fieldworks 9.0.11 (the latest release) that is 64-bit. It interacts with the Fieldworks data using the Language and Cultural Model. In addition, this version f… read more
FieldWorks 9.0.12 Patch
For more specifics about version 9.0 and the changes made, see the release notes Bugs fixed since version 9.0.11 LT-19115 Display Grammatical Categories even when not localized. LT-19236 Fix keyboard … read more
SIL Transcriber 2.9.0 fall 2020 release
The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the Fall 2020 release. We’ve listened to your feedback and updated the entire user experience to simplify starting and managing transcriptio… read more
SIL Transcriber 2.9.0 fall 2020 release
The SIL Transcriber development team is pleased to announce the Fall 2020 release. We’ve listened to your feedback and updated the entire user experience to simplify starting and managing transcriptio… read more
September 2020
New version of LingTree: version 1.2.4
Version 1.2.4 of LingTree is now available. It has one fix: Sometimes when copying data from some versions of MS Word, the resulting LingTree file could not be loaded again. (The string passed to the… read more
FieldWorks 9.0.11
For more specifics about version 9.0 and the changes made, see the beta release notes. Bugs fixed since version 9.0.10 LT-16151 Type-ahead no longer displays duplicates. LT-16726 Fix the ability to sc… read more
August 2020
Keyboard App Builder 2.1 Released
Keyboard App Builder 2.1 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Dictionary App Builder 8.1 Released
Dictionary App Builder 8.1 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Reading App Builder 8.1 Released
Reading App Builder 8.1 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Scripture App Builder 8.1 Released
Scripture App Builder 8.1 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
What’s new in version 3?
What’s New in Version 3 (through 3.11) The most recent changes to PrimerPrep are: Cross-platform compatibility: PrimerPrep can now be run easily on Linux platforms. Internationalization: In addition t… read more
Keyboard App Builder 2.0 Released
Keyboard App Builder 2.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Reading App Builder 8.0 Released
Reading App Builder 8.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Scripture App Builder 8.0 Released
Scripture App Builder 8.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Dictionary App Builder 8.0 Released
Dictionary App Builder 8.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Version 3.7.5 Available
XLingPaper version 3.7.5 (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, please see: Using a new version … read more
July 2020
Paratext Incompatibility Resolved
The problem with Paratext should be fixed now. If you have upgraded to the latest version of Paratext and are still experiencing difficulties, please post with the version of Paratext you have install… read more
June 2020
FieldWorks 9.0.9 Release Candidate
For more specifics about version 9.0 and the changes made, see the beta release notes. Bugs fixed since version 9.0.8 LT-19688 Fix crash switching to Lexicon Edit after Bulk Edit delete all entries. L… read more
SIL Transcriber 2 release 0.8.8
The SIL Transcriber 2 development team is happy to announce the 0.8.8 release. It is a web app but also provides a Desktop Extension for those who need to be able to work off line without an Internet … read more
SIL Transcriber 2 release 0.8.8
The SIL Transcriber 2 development team is happy to announce the 0.8.8 release. It is a web app but also provides a Desktop Extension for those who need to be able to work off line without an Internet … read more
SIL Transcriber 2 release 0.8.6
The SIL Transcriber 2 development team is happy to announce the 0.8.6 release. It is a web app but also provides a Desktop Extension for those who need to be able to work off line without an Internet … read more
SIL Transcriber 2 release 0.8.6
The SIL Transcriber 2 development team is happy to announce the 0.8.6 release. It is a web app but also provides a Desktop Extension for those who need to be able to work off line without an Internet … read more
Release 2.000
Changes The most significant change to this version is the addition of a bold typeface. There are other major changes to this version: Added a bold typeface Added support for all characters in the Ara… read more
SIL Transcriber 2 release 0.8.5
The SIL Transcriber 2 development team is happy to announce the 0.8.5 release. It is a web app but also provides a Desktop Extension for those who need to be able to work off line without an Internet … read more
SIL Transcriber 2 release 0.8.5
The SIL Transcriber 2 development team is happy to announce the 0.8.5 release. It is a web app but also provides a Desktop Extension for those who need to be able to work off line without an Internet … read more
May 2020
New version of LingTree: version 1.2.2
Version 1.2.2 of LingTree is now available. It fixes two bugs for the case where the tree description has a left wedge (<) or a right wedge (>) in it: Migrating from an old version of LingTree … read more
Version 3.7.0 / 2.37.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.7.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) and version 2.37.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Note: for Mac user… read more
URGENT: Paratext 9.0.100.87 is incompatible with Transcelerator
The Paratext development team made a recent change in the plugin code that inadvertently broke the interface Transcelerator uses. They are aware of the problem, but have not yet identified a fix, and … read more
SIL Transcriber 2 release 0.8.4
The SIL Transcriber 2 development team is happy to announce the 0.8.4 release. It is a web app but also provides a Desktop Extension for those who need to be able to work off line without an Internet … read more
SIL Transcriber 2 release 0.8.4
The SIL Transcriber 2 development team is happy to announce the 0.8.4 release. It is a web app but also provides a Desktop Extension for those who need to be able to work off line without an Internet … read more
Keyboard App Builder 1.0 Released
Keyboard App Builder 1.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Dictionary App Builder 7.1 Released
Dictionary App Builder 7.1 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Reading App Builder 7.1 Released
Reading App Builder 7.1 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Scripture App Builder 7.1 Released
Scripture App Builder 7.1 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
SIL Transcriber 2 release 0.8.2
The SIL Transcriber 2 development team is happy to announce the 0.8.2 release. It is a web app but also provides a Desktop Extension for those who need to be able to work offline without an Internet c… read more
SIL Transcriber 2 release 0.8.2
The SIL Transcriber 2 development team is happy to announce the 0.8.2 release. It is a web app but also provides a Desktop Extension for those who need to be able to work offline without an Internet c… read more
FieldWorks 9.0.8 Release Candidate
For more specifics about version 9.0 and the changes made, see the beta release notes. Bugs fixed since version 9.0.7 LT-18559 Remove bogus letter headings caused by some tertiary ignorable cases. LT-… read more
April 2020
Dictionary App Builder 7.0 Released
Dictionary App Builder 7.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Reading App Builder 7.0 Released
Reading App Builder 7.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Scripture App Builder 7.0 Released
Scripture App Builder 7.0 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Keyboard App Builder 0.9 (Beta) Released
Keyboard App Builder 0.9 (beta) was released today. The first public beta release of Keyboard App Builder is now available to download. On the new website you can find downloads, documentation, freque… read more
Updated download links
I updated the download links that were broken yesterday.… read more
Updated download links
I updated the download links that were broken yesterday.… read more
SIL Transcriber 2 ver 0.7.5
We are happy to announce the release of beta version of SIL Transcriber 2.0. It is a web app but also provides a Desktop Extension for those who need to be able to work offline without an Internet con… read more
SIL Transcriber 2 ver 0.7.5
We are happy to announce the release of beta version of SIL Transcriber 2.0. It is a web app but also provides a Desktop Extension for those who need to be able to work offline without an Internet con… read more
March 2020
SILKin 2.4 Provides Automatic Back-Ups to Reduce Data Loss
If a SILK file becomes corrupted, or if the computer crashes, it has been possible to lose a lot (or all) of the data. SILKin 2.4 creates back-up copies of SILK files every time the User saves their f… read more
Screens and Menus Now in French or English
SILKin 2.2 has been “Internationalized.” All the text that appears on screen or in menus can be displayed in French or English. Users may select their preferred language from the Menu bar.… read more
January 2020
Release 1.200
Changes Added many characters required for codepage 1252 and macRoman Deleted many Latin characters not required for codepage 1252 and macRoman Added Arabic script characters: U+063F, U+0751, U+08C3 (… read more
December 2019
FLExTrans Version 2.0 Released
FLExTools20WithFLExTrans 2.0 (FLExTrans 2.0 with Sense Linker 2.2.1 & Live Rule Tester 3.1.2) – December 12, 2019 FLExTrans now is compatible with FLEx 9. Please follow the installation step… read more
November 2019
Mac Users: Work-around for Mac OS X Catalina
On November 12, 2019, XMLmind sent the following email with links to its FAQ page for what to do to get the XMLmind XML Editor to run on Mac OS X Catalina: Hello, We have added this two FAQs for those… read more
Version 3.6.0 / 2.36.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.6.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) and version 2.36.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This new version o… read more
October 2019
Mac Users: do *not* upgrade to Catalina
One XLingPaper user upgraded his Mac OS X to Catalina and discovered that the XMLmind XML Editor does not work with this new Mac OS. He could not navigate to open files, any linked/referenced files in… read more
September 2019
Release 2.000
መልካም አዲስ ዓመት! Happy New Year! This release includes the following changes for this version: Added U+02D0 (ː), U+034F (CGJ), U+2423 (␣), U+25CA (◊) Improved design of U+1256 (ቖ) so the top flag touches… read more
Release 4.000
This version includes the following changes: Added glyphs to support minority languages Improved support for rendering minority languages, especially Khamti, Sgaw Karen, Tai Liang, and Asho Chin Added… read more
August 2019
FieldWorks 9.0.7 Release Candidate
After upgrading to this version, the data will not open in any version prior to 9.0.4, so make a backup before upgrading. If you are sharing data with others, the entire team should use a version of F… read more
July 2019
Dictionary App Builder 5.6 Released
Dictionary App Builder 5.6 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Reading App Builder 5.6 Released
Reading App Builder 5.6 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
Scripture App Builder 5.6 Released
Scripture App Builder 5.6 has been released. Please refer to the Release Notes for more details.… read more
June 2019
Release 2.000
Awami Nastaliq 2.000 is a major release of the Awami Nastaliq font. This release supports additional languages and provides improvements to glyph shapes and connections. Changes to this font include: … read more
May 2019
Version 3.5.0 / 2.35.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.5.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+) and version 2.35.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This new version of XLingP… read more
April 2019
FLExTrans Version 1.7 Released
FLExToolsWithFLExTrans 1.7 (FLExTrans 1.7 with Sense Linker 2.2.1 & Live Rule Tester 3.1.2) FLExTrans now has a Testbed feature! Run the Testbed after making changes to your system (e.g. a new tra… read more
March 2019
Version 0.5.2.0 Alpha is now available
Version 0.5.2.0 Alpha of Asheninka: a Syllable Parser is now available. It has two bug fixes: When a grapheme environment contains two or more grapheme natural classes, sometimes the parser failed to … read more
FieldWorks 9.0.6 Beta
After upgrading to this version, the data will not open in any version prior to 9.0.4, so make a backup before upgrading. If you are sharing data with others, the entire team should use a version of F… read more
February 2019
Release 1.204
Annapurna SIL font version 1.204 is a maintenance release that fixes some Graphite bugs involving alternate renderings of the half forms of ya and removing duplicates in classes.… read more
New version of LingTree: version 1.2.1
Version 1.2.1 of LingTree is now available. The basic difference between the previous version is that the new one has a French user interface.… read more
WeSay 1.6.10 and translations
We are pleased to announce the release of WeSay 1.6.10 for Windows and Linux. All interface languages have been updated with the latest translations from Transifex, and three new interface languages a… read more
January 2019
Release 1.0.0
The SIL Transcriber allows an individual or team to transcribe and upload multiple tasks from multiple projects to Paratext or other applications. Version 1 will install sample data. Once the user is … read more
Release 1.0.0
The SIL Transcriber allows an individual or team to transcribe and upload multiple tasks from multiple projects to Paratext or other applications. Version 1 will install sample data. Once the user is … read more
Draft versions of French and Spanish questions
The latest version (1.3.9, released today) of Transcelerator now includes French and Spanish versions of all questions, answers, and notes. Most of these are “auto-translated and have not been c… read more
December 2018
Beta Release (0.3.8)
The SIL Transcriber Beta allows an individual or team to transcribe and upload multiple tasks from multiple projects to Paratext or other applications. The beta release adds Indonesian as a language i… read more
Beta Release (0.3.8)
The SIL Transcriber Beta allows an individual or team to transcribe and upload multiple tasks from multiple projects to Paratext or other applications. The beta release adds Indonesian as a language i… read more
Andika and the visually impaired
SIL International’s Andika font was designed specifically with new readers in mind, but its features may help the visually impaired in similar ways. The primary goal—to assist new readers Andika is a … read more
Alpha 3 Release Notes
The SIL Transcriber Alpha 3 allows an individual or team to transcribe and upload multiple tasks from multiple projects to Paratext or other applications. The alpha 3 release adds the ability to creat… read more
Alpha 3 Release Notes
The SIL Transcriber Alpha 3 allows an individual or team to transcribe and upload multiple tasks from multiple projects to Paratext or other applications. The alpha 3 release adds the ability to creat… read more
Glyssen 1.1 Released!
We are pleased to announce the release of Glyssen 1.1. As announced in October, the major new feature in this version of Glyssen is the addition of support for direct access to data from live Paratext… read more
November 2018
Alpha 2 Release Notes
The SIL Transcriber Alpha 2 allows an individual or team to transcribe and upload multiple tasks from multiple projects to Paratext or other applications. The program has been localized into 9 languag… read more
Alpha 2 Release Notes
The SIL Transcriber Alpha 2 allows an individual or team to transcribe and upload multiple tasks from multiple projects to Paratext or other applications. The program has been localized into 9 languag… read more
Version 3.4.0 / 2.34.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.4.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+) and version 2.34.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This new version of XLingP… read more
Released Alpha version 1
The first release SIL Transcriber, Alpha 1, includes the basic “Happy path” functions of the program. It allows a task to be created and transcribed. Once transcribed it can be reviewed and uploaded t… read more
Released Alpha version 1
The first release SIL Transcriber, Alpha 1, includes the basic “Happy path” functions of the program. It allows a task to be created and transcribed. Once transcribed it can be reviewed and uploaded t… read more
FieldWorks 9.0.5 Beta
After upgrading to this version, the data will not open in any version prior to 9.0.4, so make a backup before upgrading. If you are sharing data with others, the entire team should use a version of F… read more
October 2018
Next big feature: “live” access to Paratext data
From the early days, Glyssen has been limited to using a Text Release Bundle as the source for the text. By preventing direct access to a Paratext project, Glyssen encouraged users to avoid trying to … read more
2018 in review
With the advent of version 1.0 (released in January 2018), Glyssen is capable of producing a script that can be opened in HearThis for the purpose of doing a field-based recording. Work on a full-scal… read more
PAWS-produced PC-PATR grammar and FLEx
Version 1.1.0 of PAWS has instructions for how to use the PC-PATR grammar it produces with FieldWorks Language Explorer (aka FLEx). To see the instructions: Download and install version 1.1.0 of PAWS … read more
September 2018
What’s new in version 2.7?
What’s New in Version 2.7 Below is a brief listing of the new features of version 2.7. • Rewrote UI localization feature for flexibility. • Add user interface (UI) localization for Spanish. In the Opt… read more
FieldWorks 9.0.4 Beta
FieldWorks 9.0 now has a 64-bit Windows version, a new installer, and fixes a lot of older bugs. The main features of this release are as follows: Large project Improvements FieldWorks 9.0 introduces … read more
August 2018
Version 1.3 – Internationalization!
For everyone who has been waiting for the past few years for Transcelerator to support translation of questions from a source language other than English, your wait is (almost) over! With the advent o… read more
July 2018
PAWS now can produce a PC-PATR syntactic parser grammar file
Version 1.0.0 of PAWS will produce a draft of a PC-PATR grammar file based on all the answers given. Currently, you can use such a PC-PATR file with CARLA Studio. Work is in progress for a stand-alone… read more
PAWS now on Windows, Mac and Linux
Version 1.0.0 of PAWS is released. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. See https://software.sil.org/paws/download/.… read more
Release 1.100
We are pleased to announce the release of the Alkalami (pronounced al-KA-la-mi) v1.100 font. The only change in this release is a change to the qaf-based characters: isolate now has tail; tail on fina… read more
May 2018
Version 8.1 of the XMLmind XML Editor works with XLingPaper
While there was an issue with version 8.0 of the XMLmind XML Editor, it appears that version 8.1 works fine with XLingPaper.… read more
FLExTrans Version 1.6 Released
FLExToolsWithFLExTrans.zip 1.6 (FLExTrans 1.6 with Sense Linker 2.2.1 & Live Rule Tester 3.0) The Live Rule Tester Tool has a great new feature for previewing the synthesis result for a word or wo… read more
Version 3.3.0 / 2.33.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.3.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+) and version 2.33.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This new version of XLingP… read more
Pathway 1.17.6 hot fix release
Pathway 1.17.6 is a hot fix that adds the ability to the boot strap program to detect if Paratext 8 is installed and install the BTE version if it is. This version is only needed for Windows. 1.17.5 i… read more
Pathway 1.17.5 release
Pathway 1.17.5 is designed to work well with FieldWorks 9.0 alpha as well as Fieldwoks 8.3.x and Paratext 7.5 as well as 8.0. It has been tested on Wasta and Ubuntu, bionic, xenial, and trusty. A numb… read more
April 2018
Release 1.101
Awami Nastaliq 1.101 is a maintenance release of the Awami Nastaliq font. Changes to this font include: Fixed bug in positioning of final reh Known Issues with the font Hamza feature does not work on … read more
Release 1.100
Awami Nastaliq 1.100 is a maintenance release of the Awami Nastaliq font. This release supports additional languages and provides improvements to glyph shapes and connections. Changes to this font inc… read more
March 2018
New version of LingTree: version 1.0.0
This new, completely re-written version of LingTree runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux operating systems. It has the same functionality as the older, Windows-only version with the exception that it … read more
FieldWorks 8.3.12
FieldWorks for Windows will work with Paratext 8. FieldWorks for Linux will have to wait until version 9 to support Paratext 8. Most machines already have .Net 4.6.1 installed. But, especially on Wind… read more
Do not install or upgrade to version 8.0.0 of the XMLmind XML Editor
As you may have learned, there is a new version of the XMLmind XML Editor (version 8.0.0). While it does load XLingPaper documents, it breaks the “Convert interlinear line to wrd elements”… read more
Please do not install the new version of the XMLmind XML Editor yet
Today, XMLmind released a new version of the XMLmind XML Editor (aka XXE) which XLingPaper uses. It looks like the new version has a change which breaks XLingPaper’s configuration. Please do not… read more
February 2018
FLExTrans Version 1.5.1 Released
FLExToolsWithFLExTrans.zip 1.5.1 (FLExTrans 1.5.1 with Sense Linker 2.2.1, Live Rule Tester 2.2.1 & Set Up Transfer Rule Grammatical Categories Tool 1.0) The new Set Up Transfer Rule Grammatical C… read more
Release of Phonology Assistant 3.6.4
The 3.6.4 release of Phonology Assistant works with FieldWorks 8.3.x and 9.x 32-bit versions. It has also been updated to work with the Speech Analyzer 3.1 and the Speech Analyzer MSEA 3.1.0.141. Thes… read more
January 2018
Version 3.2.3 / 2.32.3 Released
This is a maintenance bug fix release. The main bug fix is for the default XeLaTeX way of producing PDF. Version 3.2.0/2.32.0 fixed a problem whereby in some cases the table of contents would show … read more
FLExTrans Version 1.5 Released
FLExToolsWithFLExTrans.zip 1.5 (FLExTrans 1.5 with Sense Linker 2.2, Live Rule Tester 2.2 & Source/Target Viewer 1.0) The new Viewer tool displays the Apertium source or target file in a more read… read more
Pathway 1.17.0 release
Pathway 1.17.0 is designed to work well with FieldWorks 9.0 alpha as well as Fieldwoks 8.3.11 and Paratext 7.5 as well as 8.0. The primary goal was to have a program that didn’t loose or add dat… read more
December 2017
WeSay 1.6 Release Candidate
We are pleased to announce the final release candidate of WeSay 1.6 which is 1.6.6. If no urgent problems are found in this release then it will be released as the stable version in early 2018. What&#… read more
FieldWorks 8.3.11
FieldWorks for Windows will work with Paratext 8. FieldWorks for Linux will have to wait until version 9 to support Paratext 8. Most machines already have .Net 4.6.1 installed. But, especially on Wind… read more
Dictionary App Builder 3.0 Released
Dictionary App Builder 3.0 is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. You can use it to build customised Android and iOS apps. What’s new in DAB 3.0? Initial release of Dictionary App Builder for … read more
Release 1.203
Annapurna SIL font version 1.203 is a maintenance release that fixes some Graphite bugs involving reph position chaining rules and a conjunct half-form. An OpenType rule for the “ra halant ra ha… read more
Scripture App Builder 4.1 Released
Thank you very much for your feedback on Scripture App Builder 4.0, released a couple of weeks ago. Since then we have been able to fix a lot of issues and provide a few enhancements, and these are no… read more
Reading App Builder 4.1 Released
Reading App Builder 4.1 is available today for Windows, Mac and Linux. You can use it to build customised Android and iOS reading apps. What’s New in RAB 4.1… read more
November 2017
Version 0.5.0.0 Alpha is now available
A new version of Asheninka (a Syllable Parser) is now available. To get an installer go to the download page. Here is a summary of the new features of this version: Add ability to use environments to … read more
Scripture App Builder 4.0 Released
Scripture App Builder 4.0 is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. You can use it to build customised Android and iOS apps. What’s new in SAB 4.0? The user i… read more
FieldWorks 8.3.10
FieldWorks for Windows will work with Paratext 8. FieldWorks for Linux will have to wait until version 9 to support Paratext 8. Most machines already have .Net 4.6.1 installed. But, especially on Wind… read more
Version 3.2.0 / 2.32.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.2.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+) and version 2.32.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This new version of XLingPa… read more
October 2017
Scripture Forge v1.1 released
The Scripture Forge development team is happy to announce the release of Scripture Forge version 1.1. This version includes the following new features: Text and Question List views now have sortable c… read more
Fall Creator’s Update
Microsoft has corrected the problems with version 1703, which have been around since last Spring. The fix was released October 17. Although you will be able to get the update by doing ‘Check for… read more
FLExTrans Version 1.4 Released
FLExToolsWithFLExTrans.zip 1.4 (FLExTrans 1.4 with Sense Linker 2.2 and Live Rule Tester 2.0) Main modules: Use the Windows 10 Linux subsystem for the Apertium piece.… read more
Release 2.600
Tai Heritage Pro now works on Windows 10 in most Office 2016 applications and Edge. This release includes the following changes: Fixed several bugs in the OpenType code. The fonts should now work in O… read more
September 2017
WeSay 1.6 Beta 1
We are pleased to announce the first beta release of WeSay 1.6 What’s New in 1.6? Version 1.6 provides a new feature to choose either Definition (default) or Gloss as the Meaning field. You can … read more
New version of LingTree: version 0.7.5
This version fixes a bug: when storing font sizes (for non-terminal, lexical, and gloss fonts), the value was stored as a floating point number (e.g., 14.25), but LingTree was reading it back in as an… read more
August 2017
What’s new in version 2.6?
What’s New in Version 2.6 Below is a brief listing of the new features of version 2.6. • Add an “Add all” and “Delete all” options to Item Selection dialog boxes. • Add General… read more
Pathway 1.16.1 released
Pathway 1.16.1 is designed to work well with FieldWorks 8.3.9 and Paratext 7.5 or 8.0. It is a hotfix for 1.16.0 and so includes all the changes made there plus: Libre Office / Open Office TD-4841 rem… read more
Pathway 1.16.0 released
Pathway 1.16.0 is designed to work well with FieldWorks 8.3.9 and Paratext 7.5 or 8.0. It adds support for audio and video outputs as well as fixing a number of bugs (see below). This release doesn… read more
July 2017
FieldWorks 8.3.9
FieldWorks for Windows will work with Paratext 8. FieldWorks for Linux will have to wait until version 9 to support Paratext 8. Most machines already have .Net 4.6.1 installed. But, especially on Wind… read more
Release 2.000
SIL International is pleased to announce the release of version 2.000 of the Tagmukay font. Tagmukay is a font with support for the Tawallammat Tamajaq language using the Tifinagh script (known as Shi… read more
Release 1.000
SIL International is pleased to announce the release of version 1.000 of the Awami Nastaliq font. Awami is an Urdu word meaning “of the people”, “of the common population” or “public”. It is an Arabic… read more
Why Learn to Use XLingPaper document available
For anyone wondering why they might want to learn how to use XLingPaper, there is now a document outlining benefits for the author, the reader, and the publisher. It gives 36 reasons for the author, 1… read more
June 2017
Version 3.1.1 / 2.31.1 Released
A new version of XLingPaper is now available. This minor update has several fixes and some enhancements: Improve Linux installers Add ability to have contents in the back matter instead of in the fron… read more
Language Science Press is now accepting XLingPaper documents
Sebastian Nordhoff of Language Science Press (http://langsci-press.org/index) says that they have a way now to receive XLingPaper XML documents and turn them into their LaTeX format. This is good news… read more
Windows 10 Creators Update Warning
The latest major Microsoft update for Windows 10, the Windows 10 Creators Update or the 1703 update will cause the FieldWorks program to crash and reduce the performance of the Paratext program (both … read more
May 2017
Release 1.000
We are pleased to announce the official release of the Alkalami (pronounced al-KA-la-mi) font. Alkǎlami is the local word for the Arabic “qalam”, a type of sharpened stick used for writing on wooden b… read more
New SIL Font News announcements list
If you wish to receive announcements about updates to any of our SIL fonts, please subscribe to our SIL Font News Google Group. This is not a discussion list, it is purely a place for SIL to give news… read more
Version 3.1.0 / 2.31.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.1.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+) and version 2.31.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This new version of XLingPa… read more
April 2017
FieldWorks 8.3.8
We are glad to announce that FieldWorks version 8.3.8 is now being released as stable. This version fixes the remaining problems we have seen with version 8.3. This version doesn’t work with Paratext … read more
Pathway 1.15.14 released
Pathway 1.15.14 is designed to work well with FieldWorks 8.3.7 and Paratext 8.0. It adds a new export for HTML5. The HTML5 can also play the audio files that may be included in the FieldWorks 8.3 proj… read more
XLingPaper with the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.4
As noted in a previous post, large documents could take a long time to load with version 7.2 (and 7.3) of the XMLmind XML Editor. There is good news: the recently released version 7.4 of the XMLmind X… read more
FieldWorks 8.3.7 RC2
FieldWorks 8.3 introduces the ability to upload dictionary data directly to Webonary.org and makes it significantly easier to configure dictionary data for all kinds of output (print or electronic). R… read more
Version 0.4.0.0 Alpha is now available
A new version of Asheninka (a Syllable Parser) is now available. To get an installer go to the download page. Here is a summary of the new features of this version: Added a “Try a Word” di… read more
March 2017
Release 1.200
We are pleased to announce the release of LateefGR v1.200. This Graphite-only release of Lateef is the first significant update of this font since its initial release in 2005. Changes since then inclu… read more
Release 3.003
Padauk version 3.003 is a maintenance release. It was built using ttfautohint 1.6 which now has support for the Myanmar script. The previous version used an old ttfautohint version with a bug that cau… read more
FieldWorks 8.3.5Beta5
Bugs fixed since 8.3.4 Beta4 LT-18073 Fix crash leaving Lexicon Edit before Dictionary Preview pane refreshes. LT-18068 Fix crash in ‘Upload to Webonary’ process when two entries reference… read more
Scripture App Builder for Mac Released
We are pleased to announce the first release of Scripture App Builder for the Apple Mac. As well as building Android apps, this version of SAB enables you to build iOS apps for the iPhone and iPad. In… read more
Phonology Assistant on Linux with Wine
— Following a suggestion in an email on the FLEx discussion list from May 6, 2015, I got this to work by installing the most recent version of PA in a 32-bit wine prefix, as follows: Following i… read more
February 2017
New Web site up and running!
Our new web site is up and running! Check it out at http://software.sil.org/asheninka/.… read more
Release 1.202
AnnapurnaSIL (a Devanagari script font) version 1.202 is a maintenance release fixing two issues. One was in Graphite where reph was skipping the aakar after the ya. The second was an issue on Windows… read more
January 2017
FieldWorks 8.3.4 Beta4
Just after we released FW 8.3.3, a number of users reported odd behavior with the display. This only affects anyone who has adjusted the DPI settings on their Windows machine, but the effects were sig… read more
FieldWorks 8.3.3 Beta3
The main focus of FieldWorks 8.3 has been improving the ability to configure your dictionary and publish it to the web. This version contains bug fixes and enhancements the the previous version. Bugs … read more
New website, XXE 7, New Versions Released
First, XLingPaper has a new website at http://software.sil.org/xlingpaper. Feel free to check it out. We will keep the old website up for at least another couple of months. Second, some have noticed t… read more
FLExTrans Version 1.3.10 Released
FLExToolsWithFLExTrans.zip 1.3.10 (FLExTrans 1.3.10 with Sense Linker 2.2 and the new Live Rule Tester 2.0) Live Rule Tester: Support for advanced Apertium transfer using 3 rule files. Main modules: b… read more
FLExTrans Version 1.3.9 Released
FLExToolsWithFLExTrans.zip 1.3.9 (FLExTrans 1.3.9 with SenseLinker 2.1 and the new Live Rule Tester 1.0.2) Support for a scripture text as the text to translate… read more
XLingPaper with the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.3+
Beginning with version 7 of the XMLmind XML Editor (aka XXE), XMLmind is offering their Personal Use License again (they ceased doing so after version 5.3). While this is good news, there are some def… read more
FieldWorks 8.3.2 Beta2
The main focus of FieldWorks 8.3 has been improving the ability to configure your dictionary and publish it to the web. This version contains bug fixes and enhancements to the previous version. Bugs f… read more
Release v5.000 Font Subsets
This release includes Regional Font Subsets for Charis SIL, Doulos SIL, Gentium Plus and Andika (v5.000). These fonts contain both OpenType and Graphite smart font rendering. This is the first release… read more
Release v5.000 Font Subsets
This release includes Regional Font Subsets for Charis SIL, Doulos SIL, Gentium Plus and Andika (v5.000). These fonts contain both OpenType and Graphite smart font rendering. This is the first release… read more
Release v5.000 Font Subsets
This release includes Regional Font Subsets for Charis SIL, Doulos SIL, Gentium Plus and Andika (v5.000). These fonts contain both OpenType and Graphite smart font rendering. This is the first release… read more
Release v5.000 Font Subsets
This release includes Regional Font Subsets for Charis SIL, Doulos SIL, Gentium Plus and Andika (v5.000). These fonts contain both OpenType and Graphite smart font rendering. This is the first release… read more
December 2016
Release v5.000 Font Subsets
This release includes Regional Font Subsets for Charis SIL, Doulos SIL, Gentium Plus and Andika (v5.000). These fonts contain both OpenType and Graphite smart font rendering. This is the first release… read more
Help with adding Semantic Domains
Recently we have worked on making it easier to add semantic domains to an existing lexicon. The next release of FLEx will have various tools that should help: There is now a Find in the semantic domai… read more
FieldWorks 8.2.8
The primary new features in FieldWorks 8.2 are: Upgrade mercurial to fix some Send/Receive problems. The FLEx Send/Receive functionality is now using a new version of the underlying version control sy… read more
FieldWorks 8.3.0 Alpha
The main focus of FieldWorks 8.3 has been improving the ability to configure your dictionary and publish it to the web. The primary new features in FieldWorks 8.3 are: One-button publish to Webonary. … read more
FieldWorks 8.0.10
Archive to SIL’s REAP repository. – It is now possible to use a command in FLEx (in the File menu) to start up RAMP and prepare an upload package of a FieldWorks backup file for submission… read more
FieldWorks 8.1.4
The primary new features since 8.0.10 are: The “Find” function now searches in Definition and Reversal (when the user has chosen an Analysis language for the search), and those columns sho… read more
FieldWorks 8.2.9
The primary new features in FieldWorks 8.2 are: Upgrade mercurial to fix some Send/Receive problems. The FLEx Send/Receive functionality is now using a new version of the underlying version control sy… read more
Check out the new Pathway product web site
The new Pathway product web site is available at software.sil.org/pathway. This site has a new look and feel as well as an easier way to find and download the latest version of the software, optional … read more
Updated Phonology Assistant web site
Check out the new Phonology assistant web site. This brings Phonology Assistant in line with the SIL Product sites and will promote easier installation and use. Let me know if you have any suggestions… read more
Release of Phonology Assistant 3.6.2
3.6.2 updates the dependencies and installer so that it uses the latest version of .net, NuGet and the SIL Palaso library. As such, it doesn’t change program functionality. Here is a list of the… read more
Version 0.3.0 Alpha Released
Asheninka (a Syllable Parser) is a tool to explore using several different algorithms for parsing orthographic words into syllables. It can also insert discretionary hyphens in words. See http://softw… read more
November 2016
Sprint 1.15.4 changes
CSS Parser TD-4688 Akoose bullets are duplicated TD-4683 Remove Css Rules with errors using CssSimpler TD-4653 Move inline styles to CSS Common Code TD-4156 Reversal entry doesnot appear in linux pdf … read more
Release 3.002
Version 3.002 has added optimization in the build process which reduces some of the table sizes (mainly GPOS and GSUB) which also reduces the file sizes. This is important for web servers since speed … read more
Reading App Builder 3.0 Released
Reading App Builder 3.0 has been released. This new version includes: Share app Added optional ‘Share App’ item in the app menu. Gives the app user the choice of: Sharing a link to the app… read more
Scripture App Builder 3.0 Released
Scripture App Builder 3.0 has been released. This new version includes: Multiple book collections Add two or more translations to the app. Display in Single Pane, Two Pane or Verse-By-Verse layout. Us… read more
FieldWorks 8.2.8
The primary new features in FieldWorks 8.2 are: Upgrade mercurial to fix some Send/Receive problems. The FLEx Send/Receive functionality is now using a new version of the underlying version control sy… read more
FieldWorks 8.3.1 Beta
FieldWorks 8.3.1 Beta is now available for download. This version of FieldWorks contains a model change, therefore, projects opened in it will no longer work with previous versions (including the Alph… read more
FLExTrans Version 1.3.8 Released
FLExToolsWithFLExTrans.zip 1.3.8 (FLExTrans 1.3.8 with SenseLinker 2.1 and the new Live Rule Tester 1.0.1) – November 8, 2016 Sense Linker now has checkboxes for the Link It column… read more
Known Issues in v5.000
U+0327 COMBINING CEDILLA and U+0328 COMBINING OGONEK do not consistently position properly under some characters (such an U+014A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ENG) in Graphite, but they do in OpenType. This sh… read more
Known Issues in v5.000
U+0327 COMBINING CEDILLA and U+0328 COMBINING OGONEK do not consistently position properly under some characters (such an U+014A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ENG) in Graphite, but they do in OpenType. This sh… read more
Known Issues in v5.000
U+0327 COMBINING CEDILLA and U+0328 COMBINING OGONEK do not consistently position properly under some characters (such an U+014A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ENG) in Graphite, but they do in OpenType. This sh… read more
Known Issues in v5.000
U+0327 COMBINING CEDILLA and U+0328 COMBINING OGONEK do not consistently position properly under some characters (such an U+014A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ENG) in Graphite, but they do in OpenType. This sh… read more
FLExTrans Version 1.3.7 Released
FLExToolsWithFLExTrans.zip 1.3.7 (FLExTrans 1.3.7 with SenseLinker 2.0.1 and the new Live Rule Tester 1.0) Sense Linker now has checkboxes for the Link It column… read more
October 2016
FLExTrans Version 1.3.6 Released
FLExToolsWithFLExTrans.zip 1.3.6 (FLExTrans 1.3.6 with SenseLinker 2.0.1 and the new Live Rule Tester 1.0)… read more
September 2016
Release 3.001
Version 3.001 fixes a bug that changes lower ASCII characters from being marks to spacing characters. In many apps, this bug caused these characters to be stripped of their spacing and resulted in a j… read more
August 2016
Reading App Builder 2.0 Released
Reading App Builder 2.0 has been released. This new version includes: A new all-in-one aeneas installer for Windows: replacing the complex manual install of each component, and including significant s… read more
Scripture App Builder 2.0 Released
Scripture App Builder 2.0 has been released. This new version includes: A new all-in-one aeneas installer for Windows: replacing the complex manual install of each component, and including significant… read more
June 2016
SIL’s Global Publishing Services now accepting XLingPaper
For those of you who might want to submit a manuscript to the Global Publishing Services department of SIL International, we are pleased to announce that they are now accepting manuscripts in both XLi… read more
Sprint 1.15.3 changes
CSS Parser TD-4643 handle CssSimpler when multiple classes on an element TD-4653 Move inline styles to CSS TD-4672 Handle CSS sibling rules for writing system abbreviations TD-4681 Handle audio elemen… read more
FLExTrans Version 1.3.5 Released
FLExToolsWithFLExTrans 1.3.5.zip FLExToolsWithFLExTrans 1.3.5 (with SenseLinker 2.0)… read more
Release 3.0
This release has support for the complete Myanmar blocks of The Unicode Standard version 9.0. The following are the additions and changes: Add mym2 OpenType support Support minority languages in OpenT… read more
Version 2.29.0 Released
XLingPaper version 2.29.0 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This new version of XLingPaper has a number of improvements and bug fixes. The main highlights are: Allow publisher style sheet … read more
May 2016
Reading App Builder 1.0 Released
Reading App Builder 1.0 has been released. The first public release of Reading App Builder is now available to download. Thank you to everyone in language teams around the world who have sent feedback… read more
Scripture App Builder 1.11 Released
Scripture App Builder 1.11 has been released. This new version includes: performance improvements for drawing borders around the text; an ‘Export Subtitles’ wizard, allowing you to use the… read more
FLExTrans Version 1.3.4 Released
FlexTrans 1.3.4.zip FLExTrans Version 1.3.4 Bug fixes. Allow features through. Skip interlinear bundles where only the lexical entry is unlinked.… read more
April 2016
Spelling Restrictions Removed in Version 2.1
In response to User feedback, nearly all restrictions have been removed from the characters allowed in kin terms and in names. All characters in all UTF character sets are now legal, including hyphens… read more
Features Added for Version 2.0
As requested by field workers, SILKin now can handle adoption, clans, and other non-genealogical relationships. To make this as versatile as possible, we have added User Defined Properties (UDPs) that… read more
New Features for Version 1.2
Users may now create as many charts as they want for a single Context. There is still only one database of people and families, but the population can be spread over any number of charts. This keeps c… read more
New Features for Version 1.1
A snap-to-grid option has been added to chart drawing. It is activated by default. When the User creates a new person or family on a Family Tree chart, their symbol “snaps” to the nearest … read more
FLExTrans Version 1.3 Released
FlexTrans 1.3.zip FLExTrans Version 1.3 Allows for processing of infixes and circumfixes.… read more
Release 1.001
We are pleased to announce the release of the Harmattan font version 1.001. It is available for download here: Download Harmattan Changes in this version: Changed internal font names Changed space of … read more
March 2016
Glyssen Beta Version 0.10 Released!
We’re proud to announce Glyssen Beta version 0.10. Our prayer is that Glyssen will serve language communities by providing audio Scriptures more quickly and accurately. Features available in Bet… read more
Sprint 1.14.1 changes
Common Code TD-4011:Text overlaps with Picture TD-4460 Two page numbers appeared it on same page TD-4461 Creator label missing in Linux dialog TD-4553 Page number in footer same placement on all pages… read more
Dictionary App Builder 1.0 Released
Dictionary App Builder 1.0 was released today. The first public release of Dictionary App Builder is now available to download. Thank you to everyone in language teams around the world who have sent f… read more
February 2016
Sprint 1.14.0 changes
Common Code TD-4011:Text overlaps with Picture TD-4460 Two page numbers appeared it on same page TD-4461 Creator label missing in Linux dialog Epub TD-4267 Epub output when number in the dictionary TD… read more
Now in French
The PAWS user interface is now in French. In addition the draft of a practical grammar can be output in French (as well as English and Spanish).… read more
New version of LingTree: version 0.7.4
This version fixes a bug: The check box for the “Show ‘flat’ view of lexical and gloss items” parameter option is not retained in the configuration file so that the option is n… read more
December 2015
Sprint 1.13.4 changes
Epub3 TD-4403 Crash exporting to EPUB from Flex and Paratext TD-4491 Flex to Epub exception throw Open Office Writer LT-16655 combine lexical relation with single header. TD-3546 picture placements TD… read more
Andika New Basic 5.500
Andika New Basic is a limited-character-set (no extended IPA or Cyrillic) version of Andika that includes regular, bold, italic and bold-italic faces. Andika New Basic gives a preview of what a whole … read more
November 2015
Scripture App Builder 1.6 Released
Scripture App Builder 1.6 has been released. This new version includes: a change to audio file distribution, to allow you to specify different audio sources for different audio files, e.g. some files … read more
New SIL Font News announcements list
If you wish to receive announcements about updates to any of our SIL fonts, please subscribe to our SIL Font News Google Group. This is not a discussion list, it is purely a place for SIL to give news… read more
Release 5.000
This release includes the following changes for this version: Added Stylistic Sets to the font for OpenType support of previously Graphite-only features Added Character Variants to the font for OpenTy… read more
Release 5.000
This release includes the following changes for this version: Added Stylistic Sets to the font for OpenType support of previously Graphite-only features Added Character Variants to the font for OpenTy… read more
Release 5.000
This release includes the following changes for this version: Added Stylistic Sets to the font for OpenType support of previously Graphite-only features Added Character Variants to the font for OpenTy… read more
Release 5.000
This release includes the following changes for this version: Added Stylistic Sets to the font for OpenType support of previously Graphite-only features Added Character Variants to the font for OpenTy… read more
ChorusHub has a home!
ChorusHub has been available for a while now, but it has never had its own home. As part of SIL’s Send/Receive suite it seemed to deserve one. Hopefully this site will serve you well.… read more
Version 2.28.0 Released
XLingPaper version 2.28.0 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. (Mac users: please do not upgrade to El Capitan yet. We are working on a solution for why it does not work correctly with XLingP… read more
What’s new in version 2.5?
What’s New in Version 2.5 Below is a brief listing of the new features of version 2.5. • Added more graphemes to pre-defined grapheme list. • Added a prompt to clear or not clear the current gra… read more
Gentium Basic 1.102
Although the Gentium Basic and Gentium Book Basic fonts are older than the Gentium Plus font, and have a much smaller character repertoire, they have some wonderful features that are still missing fro… read more
October 2015
PrimerPro training in Bangkok
In Bangkok, Thailand, a PrimerPro training event was held from 5-8 October 2015. At this training event there were10 participants representing five languages (Bangla, Nepali, Setswana, Sinhala and Tam… read more
Scripture App Builder 1.5 Released
Scripture App Builder 1.5 has been released. This new version makes use of recent improvements to automated audio-text synchronization using aeneas, including: the ability to detect the length of a he… read more
September 2015
Scripture App Builder 1.4 Released
Scripture App Builder 1.4 has been released. This new version includes: Contents Menu: An optional user-friendly home screen menu to help the user find books, stories and sections. Add items with titl… read more
August 2015
Release 2.100
Changes This release includes the following changes for this version: Added Scheherazade Bold font Slight improvements in design of the Regular face: U+060C ARABIC COMMA U+061B ARABIC SEMICOLON U+065D… read more
Scripture App Builder 1.3.1 Released
Scripture App Builder 1.3.1 has been released. This is a minor release, mainly containing a few bug fixes reported by users. It includes one handy new feature for modifying book names. Book names look… read more
July 2015
Font not showing correctly in the editor and in default PDF on Windows 7
Recently, there have been two cases reported where a font was not displaying correctly in the XMLmind XML Editor and in the default PDF output. In both cases it was on Windows 7 and in both cases the … read more
Scripture App Builder 1.3 Released
Scripture App Builder 1.3 has been released. This version includes: Export to HTML: Click on book(s) and right-click ‘Export to HTML’. Preview the book formatting in your browser (IE, Fire… read more
FLExTrans Version 1.1 Released
FlexTrans 1.1.zip FLExTrans Version 1.1 Handles irregularly inflected forms. Handles morphology on initial component of a complex form. Preserves case on words.… read more
Version 2.27.0 Released
XLingPaper version 2.27.0 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This new version of XLingPaper has a number of improvements and bug fixes. The main highlights are: Allow abbrRef elements where… read more
June 2015
Scripture App Builder 1.2 Released
Scripture App Builder 1.2 has been released. This version includes: an optional footer message at the bottom of each page or chapter, phone number links in the about box and footers, as well as some i… read more
New SIL Font News announcements list
If you wish to receive announcements about updates to any of our SIL fonts, please subscribe to our SIL Font News Google Group. This is not a discussion list, it is purely a place for SIL to give news… read more
New SIL Font News announcements list
If you wish to receive announcements about updates to any of our SIL fonts, please subscribe to our SIL Font News Google Group. This is not a discussion list, it is purely a place for SIL to give news… read more
New SIL Font News announcements list
If you wish to receive announcements about updates to any of our SIL fonts, please subscribe to our SIL Font News Google Group. This is not a discussion list, it is purely a place for SIL to give news… read more
New SIL Font News announcements list
If you wish to receive announcements about updates to any of our SIL fonts, please subscribe to our SIL Font News Google Group. This is not a discussion list, it is purely a place for SIL to give news… read more
New SIL Font News announcements list
If you wish to receive announcements about updates to any of our SIL fonts, please subscribe to our SIL Font News Google Group. This is not a discussion list, it is purely a place for SIL to give news… read more
May 2015
Scripture App Builder 1.1 Released
Scripture App Builder 1.1 has been released. We appreciate very much the response from users around the world who have sent feedback since the first release last month. Many thanks to Anton for design… read more
FLExTrans Version 1.0 Released
FlexTrans 1.0.zip FLExTrans Version 1.0… read more
Blazing a trail for Paratext Plugins
Not only is Transcelerator a great program in its own right, it also served to blaze the trail for the creation of Paratext plugins. If you have some programming experience and you use Paratext, at so… read more
April 2015
Scripture App Builder 1.0 released!
Scripture App Builder 1.0 released the 9th April 2015. The first public release of Scripture App Builder is now available to download. Thank you to everyone in language teams around the world who have… read more
Writing Presentations in XLingPaper
An XLingPaper user has written an interesting blog post on how he has used XLingPaper’s content control mechanism to make it easier to write a single document and use it for a paper, a handout, and sl… read more
Release 1.000
We are pleased to announce the release of the Harmattan font for West Africa. It is available for download here: Download Harmattan The original font on which Harmattan was based was an SIL Open Font … read more
March 2015
Scripture App Builder 1.0 Released
Scripture App Builder 1.0 was released today. The first public release of Scripture App Builder is now available to download. Thank you to everyone in language teams around the world who have sent fee… read more
Release 1.200
This release has support for the complete Devanagari block of The Unicode Standard version 7.0. The following are the additions and changes: Added glyph U+0978 from the Devanagari block Added half for… read more
What’s new in version 2.41?
Version 2.41 has a new licensing agreement. It now follows the MIT open source license. It also includes a few bug fixes.… read more
LingTranSoft – Information on Linguistic Software
For a broad review of linguistic and translation software from SIL and elsewhere, visit LingTranSoft.… read more
Tutorials and Training Videos
There are over a hundred videos on the Language Technology Channel that can help you learn how to use SIL software.… read more
Language Technology News Podcast
For the most up-to-date Language Technology news, watch the Language Technology Podcast on Vimeo.… read more
February 2015
WeSay 1.5 release version
WeSay 1.5 is now considered the official “release version.” The Windows version can be downloaded here: WeSay 1.5.39 for Windows MSI | 52.82 MB | 15 Feb 2017 and there are installation instructions fo… read more
December 2014
Announcing WeSay 1.5 Release Candidate
A release candidate of WeSay 1.5 is now available. The Windows version can be downloaded here: WeSay 1.5.37-ReleaseCandidate for Windows MSI | 53 MB | 18 Dec 2014 and there are installation instructio… read more
What’s new in version 2.4?
What’s New in version2.4? Below is a brief listing of the new features of version 2.4. · The Frequency Count searches add a new option to display percentages as well as counts for each grapheme.… read more
October 2014
WeSay 1.5 Beta for Linux and Windows
After a significant pause, a development team has been working on WeSay for Linux for the last several months. The focus has been on getting it to run on the Precise and Trusty versions of Ubuntu Linu… read more
Announcing WeSay 1.4
WeSay 1.4 has now been declared stable. Here’s what’s new in WeSay 1.4, which Windows users can download here: WeSay 1.4.55 for Windows MSI | 21 MB | 22 Oct 2014 Gather by SIL CAWL in Indonesian The g… read more
August 2014
Version 2.26.0 Released
XLingPaper version 2.26.0 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This new version of XLingPaper has a number of improvements and bug fixes. The main highlights are: Add ability to copy a table … read more
May 2014
Version 2.25.0 Released
XLingPaper version 2.25.0 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This new version of XLingPaper has a number of improvements and bug fixes. The main highlights are: Add a command to convert a p… read more
February 2014
Release 2.020
This release includes the following changes for this version: Fix language-specific OpenType rendering for Sindhi, Urdu, Kurdish Download the release packages from the Previous Versions – Downlo… read more
December 2013
Release 1.500
This release includes the following changes for this version: Improved design of U+1396 and U+1399 (metrics changed for these characters) Added character variants Added variant glyphs for U+2D93..U+2D… read more
September 2013
Version 2.24.0 Released
This new version of XLingPaper has a number of improvements and bug fixes. The main highlights are: Allow a tablenumbered element to contain an image file (which, presumably, will be of a table). Add … read more
Release 2.010
This release includes the following changes for this version: Fix rendering of mixtures of upper and lower combining marks Fix Graphite shaping for U+08AC ARABIC LETTER ROHINGYA YEH Reduce font size b… read more
August 2013
Release 2.000
This release includes the following changes for this version: Looser line-spacing (leading) to better support languages using many combining marks Added support for Unicode 5.1, 6.0 and 6.1 Arabic add… read more
June 2013
Release v4.114 (maintenance release)
This maintenance release of Charis SIL doubles the speed of rendering lower ASCII text in Graphite. Thus, when Mozilla Firefox/Gecko (version 24+) or a future version of LibreOffice is used, then this… read more
May 2013
Version 2.23.0 Released
The main highlights are: Improved publisher style sheet capabilities to handle new things like those required by UNDSIL theses and other publishers, including an “author over date” referen… read more
March 2013
SayMore at the ICLDC 2013
I recently had a stimulating time at the 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation at the University of Hawaii. There are so many warm, friendly, and energetic people wor… read more
February 2013
Version 2.21.0 Released
The main highlights are: Add ability to publisher style sheets to control the indent for any second and following interlinear line groups and to control the vertical space between any second and follo… read more
November 2012
WeSay on Linux
WeSay is available for older versions of the Linux Ubuntu distribution, Lucid being the most recent. There are two releases available, wesay-stable and wesay. The wesay release is our development rele… read more
Announcing WeSay 1.3
Here’s what’s new in WeSay 1.3, which Windows users can download here: WeSay 1.3.78 for Windows MSI | 21 MB | 17 May 2013 Display glosses in Gather by Semantic Domain Task If you configure this task s… read more
445 Page Grammar Book Produced via XLingPaper Published
Uppsala Universitet has recently published The Gilaki Language, a 445 page book. This is an English translation and expansion of the original work Giljanskij jazyk by V.S. Rastorgueva, A.A. Kerimova, … read more
October 2012
Release 1.100
This release adds support for additions to The Unicode Standard versions 5.2 and 6.0. Added glyphs (with OpenType and Graphite support) from the Devanagari block 0900, 093A..093B, 094E..094F, 0955..09… read more
Version 2.20.0 Released
The main highlights are: Add ability to produce an EBook in EPUB format (requires installing Calibre). Add capability to “frame” a portion of content, including margins and background colo… read more
August 2012
Release v1.510 (maintenance release)
The only change in this maintenance release is a change in the Graphite feature identifiers from integers to 4-character alphanumeric tags. This was required because although Mozilla Firefox has now i… read more
Release 1.004
The only change in this maintenance release is a change in the Graphite feature identifiers from integers to 4-character alphanumeric tags. This was required because although Mozilla Firefox has now i… read more
Release v4.112 (maintenance release)
The only change in this maintenance release is a change in the Graphite feature identifiers from integers to 4-character alphanumeric tags. This was required because although Mozilla Firefox has now i… read more
Release v4.112 (maintenance release)
The only change in this maintenance release is a change in the Graphite feature identifiers from integers to 4-character alphanumeric tags. This was required because although Mozilla Firefox has now i… read more
July 2012
Version 2.19.0 Released
The main highlights are: Add command to convert selected text to a langData element. See section 11.41 “Convert selected text to langData” in the User Documentation. Add command to convert… read more
Things SayMore Does Not Do
We want to save you time if SayMore isn’t for you, so we’ll try to keep this page up to date with things folks have asked about that they can’t do with SayMore. SayMore Does Not… …run on Mac or Linux,… read more
June 2012
New WeSay Screencasts
David Rowbory in Nigeria has contributed five screen-casts he made to help people he has taught to use WeSay. Thanks David! Do you have videos or other materials you could share with the rest of us?… read more
April 2012
Announcing WeSay 1.2
Here’s what’s new in WeSay 1.2, which Windows users can download here: WeSay 1.2.12 for Windows MSI | 21 MB | 07 Oct 2016 Improved FLEx Collaboration We have made various changes to smooth the process… read more
March 2012
Solid 0.16 Release
A new version of Solid is available. You can download it here. Solid 0.16 adds a Writing Systems tool for bulk changing of the writing systems settings. Other fixes include: Writing Systems exceptions… read more
January 2012
Version 2.18.0 Released
The main highlights are: Improved the default PDF output: added a way to hyphenate based on the language of the document. See section 11.39 “Get the default PDF output to hyphenate for a non-Eng… read more
September 2011
Release v1.508 (official release)
The only change in this official release is: Removed the VDMX table (to resolve issues related to line-spacing and clipping) Download the newest release packages from the Download Page. Download v1.50… read more
Release v4.110 (official release)
The only change in this official release is: Removed the VDMX table (to resolve issues related to line-spacing and clipping) Download the newest release packages from the Download Page. Download v4.11… read more
Release v4.110 (official release)
The only change in this official release is: Removed the VDMX table (to resolve issues related to line-spacing and clipping) Download the newest release packages from the Download Page. Download v4.11… read more
Release 1.002
This is a minor update – Removed the VDMX table (to resolve issues related to line-spacing and clipping) Download the release packages from the Previous Versions Page.… read more
Version 2.17.0 Released
The main highlights are: Added a way to quickly increase the size of tables, whether that table was newly added or already exists. See section 6.1.1 “Increase Table Size” in the User Docum… read more
August 2011
Release v1.506
Changes in this release: Double-encoded the SIL PUA characters which were added to Unicode 5.2 and 6.0 (using ttfremap) Corrected problem with coverage tables (using ttfsortcover) Changed version numb… read more
Release v4.108 (official release)
List of changes for this version: Encoding changes: Double-encoded the SIL PUA characters which were added to Unicode 5.2 and 6.0 U+0526 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHHA WITH DESCENDER U+0527 CYRILLIC SMA… read more
Release v4.108 (official release)
List of changes for this version: Encoding changes: Double-encoded the SIL PUA characters which were added to Unicode 5.2 and 6.0 U+0526 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHHA WITH DESCENDER U+0527 CYRILLIC SMA… read more
July 2011
Maintenance release 1.001
This release added ligature glyphs and smart code support for minority languages: 0930 with 0941 and 093C 0931 with 0941 0931 with 0941 and 093C 0930 with 0942 and 093C 0931 with 0942 0931 with 0942 a… read more
Release 1.000
One font from this typeface family is included in this release: Andika Regular Work is ongoing to provide italic, bold and bold-italic weights. Features Andika supports all of the smart font features … read more
June 2011
Gentium v1.03
Changes in this release: Changed licensing to the SIL Open Font License version 1.1 Download the newest release packages from the Download Page. Download v1.03 of the release packages from the Previou… read more
April 2011
Version 2.16.0 Released
The main highlights are: Added documentation for publisher style sheets. Floats: changed the implementation of the location attribute when it is set to “here”: the float will not be implem… read more
Version 2.15.0 Released
On March 23, 2011 version 2.15.0 of XLingPaper was released. It works with Windows, Mac, and Linux. The main highlights are: Added a web page output that pays attention to an associated publisher styl… read more
February 2011
Release 1.005
This release includes the following changes for this version: Change to Open Font License Added SIL TypeTuner tables to make it possible to access alternate behaviors of the fonts. To download fonts w… read more
December 2010
Initial release 1.0
First public release under the SIL Open Font License.… read more
November 2010
Release v1.504
Changes in this release: Added codepage bits for 1251 (Cyrillic), 1257 (Windows Baltic), 1258 (Vietnamese) Download the newest release packages from the Download Page. Download v1.504 of the release p… read more
SayMore 0.5 Now Available
We’ve just released version 0.5 of SayMore. As with all odd-valued releases, we assume this is beta-quality. Please download it here, and let us know your experiences with it, good or bad. Here are ma… read more
Solid 0.13 Released
A new version of Solid is available. You can download it here. Solid 0.13 improves the export to Lift to support version 0.13 of the Lift format, currently used by WeSay and FLEx. Other fixes include:… read more
October 2010
SayMore 0.3 Now Available
SayMore 0.3 is now available for Download. The major changes are: Custom Fields, with auto-type ahead. You can now add new Genres. In 0.1, we called a recording and its associated files a Session. In … read more
July 2010
Preview Now Available
We’re pleased to announce the beginning of the “preview” phase of SayMore. To get it, head over to the Downloads page. Expect to see new versions coming out regularly from now on. This stage is all ab… read more
June 2010
Using the Internet to Collaborate on a Dictionary
WeSay is the best tool for collaborating with others on collecting and describing words, whether you are in the same village or across the world or both. Here’s a guide to setting up collaboration usi… read more
Using Collaboration Notes
Collaboration is more than just sharing changes. It turns out that as soon as you start working with others using Send/Receive, you find you want to write notes to them. So we added the ability to att… read more
Viewing the History of Changes
Like most things in WeSay, you, the Advisor, need to turn on the collaboration features which are appropriate for your project. There are two optional tasks you can enable if you want: These show up o… read more
WeSay Dictionary Collaboration
Since we first introduced WeSay a couple years ago, we’ve heard one request over and over: “Make it so that multiple people can collaborate on the dictionary.” We’ve now delivered on that, and you can… read more
January 2010
Merging LIFT Dictionary Files
If you aren’t yet using the new collaboration features of WeSay, you may have multiple versions of your dictionary out there. Here are a few notes on ways to get them together. The simplest case is wh… read more
June 2009
More Control Over “Missing Info” Tasks
WeSay has always had Tasks which would show you just the words that needed some more information in a particular field. However, the selection of which entries to show was pretty blunt: if the field h… read more
May 2009
Release v4.106 (official release)
List of changes for this version: Design changes: Adjusted attachment points on: U+04FA U+04FB U+1D68 U+1D69 U+1D6A fi and fl ligatures Lowered U+00A1 INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK and U+00BF INVERTED QUE… read more
April 2009
Release v4.106 (official release)
List of changes for this version: Design changes: Adjusted attachment points on: U+04FA U+04FB fi and fl ligatures fixed advance of t-caron slight adjustment of U+02D0 MODIFIER LETTER TRIANGULAR COLON… read more
Art of Reading Comes to WeSay
Illustrations always cheer up an otherwise drab dictionary. Until now, you had to put in a lot of work to find or create illustrations, get the rights to them, and hook them into your dictionary. With… read more
January 2009
Collecting Audio with WeSay
For a long time, I’ve had the crazy idea that audio should be just another kind of “writing system”. I’m happy to say that now, crazy or not, you can set up a project to like this: Notice the circles … read more
Single-Click Printing
In my last post, I mentioned that three levels of printing WeSay dictionaries are taking shape: Useful for everyday WeSay users, with no training. Good enough for final publication of many projects, w… read more
Open In Lexique Pro
WeSay really wants to focus on gathering data. It really doesn’t want to become a full-powered dictionary layout system. Ideally, there would be an invisible, friction-free means of getting a simple d… read more
Which WeSay?
Our approach to software development requires that we “ship early, ship often”. We listen carefully to you, and try to quickly respond to your requests (though at this point, we’re way behind on many … read more
New Dashboard
It’s been a wild year for our team, and if all you do is follow this blog, you’d think we disappeared. Eric has moved to Microsoft (lucky them!), I’ve moved from Thailand to the USA and then Papua New… read more
November 2008
Release 1.001
This release includes the following changes for this version: Change to Open Font License Added SIL TypeTuner tables to make it possible to access alternate behaviors of the fonts. To download fonts w… read more
August 2008
WeSay on the Eee 900
The Eee is, so far, the best selling of the new wave of 4P computers; laptops which are characterized by low Price, adequate Performance, Portability, and low electrical Power requirements. Now, this … read more
May 2008
Release v4.104 (official release)
This version supports Unicode 5.1! In this font, the 17 of our PUA characters that were added to Unicode 5.1 are accessible by both the PUA and Unicode codepoints. This is the only change in this rele… read more
Release v4.104 (official release)
This version supports Unicode 5.1! In this font, the 17 of our PUA characters that were added to Unicode 5.1 are accessible by both the PUA and Unicode codepoints. This is the only change in this rele… read more
Release v4.102 (official release)
This version supports Unicode 5.0! This font fixes a bug which was in version 4.100: In InDesign and XeTeX (and probably any other application which uses true small caps) the OpenType small cap featur… read more
Andika Basic Release 1.000
As an SIL “Basic” font, Andika Basic has: OpenType and Graphite smart code for diacritic placement A few useful OpenType and Graphite features Support for a few more recent additions to Un… read more
April 2008
Gentium Basic v1.100
Basic Font Information Gentium (“belonging to the nations” in Latin) is a Unicode typeface family designed to enable the many diverse ethnic groups around the world who use the Latin scrip… read more
March 2008
Release v4.102 (official release)
This version supports Unicode 5.0! This font fixes a bug which was in version 4.100: In InDesign and XeTeX (and probably any other application which uses true small caps) the OpenType small cap featur… read more
January 2008
Using WeSay from Other Applications
Recently, we were asked to make a way for a user of a translation program to make use of WeSay, without leaving the program they’ve been trained on. The native speaker-user will want to: See which wor… read more
November 2007
Add Semantic Domains using WeSay
WeSay now lets the user edit the semantic domains of a sense from the Dictionary Browse and Edit tab, as an alternative to gathering words using the Gather by Semantic Domain task. To see how this wor… read more
Simple and Advanced Sorting
One of the last big features for version 1 of WeSay has been in a for while. Someone (I won’t mention any names) did a great job on it but didn’t blog about it. So I’ll see if I can do it justice. In … read more
September 2007
Configuration Tool Remodel
One of the benefits of being stuck at home recovering from Dengue Fever is I feel like it’s ok to splurge a bit on stuff that I want to do, rather than have to do. For example, while we have always pu… read more
Pictures in Dictionary Entries
I’ve been working on simple support for pictures in WeSay: When you choose a picture, it is copied to the pictures sub-folder of the WeSay folder. So everything stays together. Some more things to do … read more
August 2007
Updated Roadmap
We’ve updated the WeSay Roadmap, here. Primarily, we’re aiming to finish up Relations (which support sub-entries), Sorting, and Internationalization. We hope the sorting is simple for the 80% of folks… read more
June 2007
Email My Work
It’s really satisfying to arrive at a stage where we can put some of the icing on the WeSay cake. Our next build will include a feature we’ve talked about from day one. This lets a user send his proje… read more
May 2007
WeSay Action Addins
Starting with this next release, you or a friendly programmer can create an small .Net dll, add it to the WeSay program directory, and then immediately use it within WeSay and the WeSay Configuration … read more
Oh, the pain…
…of having to listen to your own recorded voice for hours on end. That’s what I’m going through for you, folks, as I put together a series of instructional videos for this Preview version of WeSay. He… read more
April 2007
WeSay Roadmap
We’re just shy of our first “alpha” (which we’re going to call a “preview”). This means we have to catch up on doing some of those non-coding things like documentation, release notes, etc. Here’s a pr… read more
Our First OLPC
Though it was stranded by our university closing down for Thai New Year, Alan delivered our OLPC test machine yesterday. It may look like a toy, but it feels very substantial. Heavy, even. I think Kin… read more
Collect Words by Semantic Domains
It’s been awhile since we’ve posted but that does not mean we haven’t been active. I’ve added a new task to collect words by semantic domains. There is substantial evidence that we organize words in o… read more
February 2007
A Better, Faster Find
A couple weeks ago, a potential user approached us wanting to use WeSay to keep a simple dictionary of words he had encountered while language learning. Right away, he wrote back and said he needed th… read more
January 2007
Release v4.100 (official release)
This version supports Unicode 5.0! This official release includes the following changes: New features: Open o alternate (affects: U+1D97 , U+1D53 , U+1D10 , U+0186 , U+0254 ) Chinantec tones (affects:… read more
Release v4.100 (official release)
This version supports Unicode 5.0! This official release includes the following changes: New features: Open o alternate (affects: U+1D97 , U+1D53 , U+1D10 , U+0186 , U+0254 ) Chinantec tones (affects:… read more
Multilingual Option Lists
Any dictionary program needs to help the user be consistent when entering field that have a closed set of values, e.g. parts of speech. FLEx calls these Possibility Lists, Toolbox has Range Sets. WeSa… read more
Andika Design Review v0.001
We greatly appreciate each person who tested the Andika Design Review fonts and took the time to complete the feedback form — some in great detail! But that was just what we needed to better understan… read more
Multiscribe
One of the goals of WeSay is to support user interfaces in languages with scripts that require complex shaping. Microsoft Windows has the ability to render complex scripts using their shaping engine c… read more
December 2006
Using Python To Read a FieldWorks Lexicon
Well, it’s Christmas break for me, which usually means my head gets hungry to learn something new. Alas, that hasn’t happened yet, but I did try something new. I got into Python for .Net and used it t… read more
November 2006
Networked WeSay?
I got some more great questions this morning: “Couldn’t we just put a WeSay front-end onto FLEx (FieldWorks Language Explorer)? It uses the same underlying stuff, doesn’t it?” Nothing is currently sha… read more
WeSay for the Mac?
We’ve received the second request for a Mac version: How hard would it be to compile on the Mac? Seems like it couldn’t be that hard, could it, since your aim is cross-platform? At the worst, it could… read more
A Little UML
WeSay has never claimed (or intended) to do “Extreme Programming“. While we are into the goals of Agile processes, we know that one size doesn’t fit all. For example, we are doing a fair bit of Test-D… read more
Orthography Development with WeSay
John Duerksen, who is working with a cluster of Bantu languages, gave us a load of ideas for how WeSay might fit into their process. I have to write up my notes anyhow, so I’ll do it here in case it s… read more
CTC 2006 Presentation
Whew. I’m getting too old for international conferences, or at least ones that entail a full week and a 12 hour time shift. I just returned yesterday from North Carolina, and of course my head is brim… read more
October 2006
New Screenshots
We’ve been pumping out a bunch of new features in the last few weeks… it’s been great to have a long run without technical snags, for a change. Some new features include: Multiple scripts per field Ad… read more
Introducing the Dashboard
Since it’s been awhile since we’ve blogged, I figured I’d give a little status report. We just finished getting the dashboard task to be functional. The dashboard displays the current task as well as … read more
September 2006
Localization
I am dictating this blog using Microsoft Vista’s built in speech recognition. I have been using speech recognition for over five years now, and I’m very excited about the quality I’m seeing. Back to W… read more
Still Alive
No, we haven’t expired, just gotten lazy about blogging. Maybe it would help if we ever got comments (hint hint). Anyways, here is a five-minute blog just to list some of what we should have been blog… read more
August 2006
This Isn’t Prototype Anymore
Thanks to Cathy, we now have a revamped skin on our wiki. We also have acquired so update your bookmarks. I have been working on two areas of WeSay. The first is our data access layer. Db4o provides a… read more
Sam the Helper Hero (Programmer Personas)
This past week, Eric and I have been designing and starting to implement the code framework for WeSay. I have rarely had a chance to do this kind of “green fields” architecture before, but I have done… read more
So Long Prototype
Today we broke ground on “the real thing”. All of the prototype code has been put away (still in the code repository, of course) and we are starting from scratch. The prototype has served us well, hel… read more
New Mockups
I’ve updated our mockups here, based on the work that Berm, Eric and I did last week. They are not 100% faithful to what we are actually planning, especially on the OLPC version (where we won’t be spe… read more
July 2006
In Search of “Hairy Basil”
Wednesday we said goodbye to the last of our guests who flew over to discuss collaborating on applications for language development on low-power computers. Everyone seems to have had a good time, or a… read more
Against a Brick Wall
After two discouraging days of trying to get Mono to work on the OLPC image, I have finally figured out why I was up against such a brick wall. The first problem I had was that the Mono installer for … read more
Configuration Mockups
Besides buying paint for the office (which we fear may now end up looking like a coffee house), I drew up some mockups of a configuration application, here.… read more
Dabbling in Spring.Net
Today’s main task was to get FieldWorks Language Explorer to build on my machine, so that I can work on adding the ability for users to import and export the forth-coming xml dictionary interchange fo… read more
June 2006
It’s Pretty Fast, Too
One of the things that’s been bugging us for the past couple weeks has been performance. Sure it’s fast on our machines but what about our target machine. There is quite a difference there. So I was f… read more
WeSay: Words Prototype Results, Part I
These have been an exciting last few days, as our prototype has got to the place where we can start getting some questions answered. Happily, our quick tests (just looking at the Windows Task Manager)… read more
Lazy NodeStore
Our prototype is finally starting to shape up. I spent the past few days figuring out how to do lazy loading into a GTK TreeView. Normally, you would pass all the data to the TreeStore which would the… read more
Towards a Prototype
As we have written before, we are beginning our project by checking out the technical feasibility of running a graphical, mono based dictionary application on the most demanding of a target platforms,… read more
31 Flavors, 400 Volts, and 1 Million of Anything
This afternoon, Eric and I first went shopping for office plants, then did a Thai language study session in the nearby ice cream shop. Doesn’t sound like we were working very hard, does it? Here’s our… read more
Light at the End of this Tunnel
We started out the day today with our goal of getting our test app running on mono on OLPC. Mono doesn’t come with the OLPC distribution so we will need to add it. This led us to try to download the O… read more
The Slog Continues
Normally, software development really is fun. So much so, we sometimes neglect the parts that aren’t fun. Recognizing this, we decided upfront to tackle the high risk and no fun parts of this project,… read more
New Wiki and Blog
This morning we decided to not continue the fight with our confluence installation and have instead switched to use WordPress for our blog and MediaWiki for our wiki. John is switching our content ove… read more
Shiny New Logo
Reading over our first two blog entries, I realize that we haven’t explained our work context here. While we are getting help from people in both Calgary and California, Eric and I are co-located in C… read more
Web Site Up (sorta)
WeSayHome.org is almost usable. Special thanks to Visa and Eric. We’ll be using JIRA for issue tracking (requests, bugs, tasks, etc.). Today Eric got MySQL running as the back-end for Confluence and J… read more
May 2006
Office Almost Ready
Eric, Alan, and I spent the morning at our new office, which is almost ready to move into. In this picture, the guys are putting some “frosting” across our front wall so that we have a lit… read more
January 2006
Release v4.0.02 (official release)
This official release includes the following changes: Released under SIL Open Font License (OFL) license Fixed attachment points: U+0414 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DE U+0434 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DE U+04… read more
Release v4.0.14 (official release)
This official release (r1) includes the following changes: Released under SIL Open Font License (OFL) license Fixed attachment points: U+0414 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DE U+0434 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DE… read more
December 2005
Release v4.0.02.b2 (public beta)
Beta Release Note: This is not the official release of this font although it has been tested internally and is highly functional. This is a public beta release. Please do not redistribute this public … read more
Release v4.0.14 (public beta 2)
This is not the official release of this font although it has been tested internally and is highly functional. This is a public beta release. Please do not redistribute this public beta font. This pub… read more
November 2005
Gentium v1.02
Changes in this release: Changed licensing to the SIL Open Font License Included FontLab source files Fixed some duplicate PostScript glyph names Fixed italic angle Download the newest release package… read more
October 2005
Release v4.0.02.b1 (public beta)
Beta Release Note: This is not the official release of this font although it has been tested internally and is highly functional. This is a public beta release. Please do not redistribute this public … read more
Release v4.0.14.b1 (public beta 1)
This is not the official release of this font although it has been tested internally and is highly functional. This is a public beta release. Please do not redistribute this public beta font. This pub… read more
June 2005
Release 1.000
This release includes the following changes for this version: Original release for OpenType and AAT Download the release packages from the Previous Versions – Download Page.… read more
Release 1.000
This release includes the following changes for this version: Original release for OpenType and AAT Download the release packages from the Previous Versions – Download Page.… read more
October 2004
Release v4.0.12 (maintenance beta)
This maintenance beta contains the following changes: Existing shapes were changed U+F25B (hook M) was changed U+04BB (Cyrillic lowercase h) was changed U+F134, U+F135 were changed New Characters were… read more
April 2004
Release v4.0.10 (official release)
This version does not work with the first Graphite engine. Download the newest release packages from the Download Page. Download v4.0.10 of the release packages from the Previous Versions Page.… read more
Release v4.0.04
If you plan to use the Graphite capabilities of the font and you are using an older Graphite engine, such as in FieldWorks 1.1 (or earlier), WorldPad 1.6 (or earlier) or SILA Beta 2 RC1 (Mozilla), you… read more
November 2003
Gentium: Providing Type to the World
Interview with Victor Gaultney, creator of Gentium Reprinted by permission from The LISA Newsletter: Globalization Insider XII/4.3. Copyright the Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA) and… read more
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