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June 2026
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
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
May 2026
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
January 2026
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
June 2025
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
May 2025
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
April 2025
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
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
July 2024
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
June 2024
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
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
March 2022
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
December 2021
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 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
August 2020
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
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