QMK Monthly Issue 5

merlin · July 1, 2019, 4:37pm

Announcements

Merlin renounces BMC forever and claims he was using ISO the whole time (fake news)
Breaking Changes- We have a new process for merging changes that are risky or change behavior. The first time we run this process will be during July/August.
We’re happy to announce that zvecr has joined QMK as a collaborator, we’re honored to have him. Zed has been responsible for adding a fair number of keyboards, fixing bugs and help lead infrastructure improvements in conjunction with Drashna.

Firmware Updates

matrix_scan now properly returns changed status to OLED driver (#5984) by XScorpion2
- Fixes Issue #5982: OLED not turning off after timeout
Fix TO() and DF() calling layer_state_set_[kb,user] twice (#6003) by fauxpark
Add Belgian layout for sendstring (#6008) by kimat
Add additional pin defs for Teensy 3.x and LC (#6035) by zvecr
Parameterise STM32 I2C pin modes and timing parameters (#5671) by tzarc
- Allows specifying the timing parameters for non-F303 STM32 microcontrollers via config.h
Fix i2c split encoder (#6059) by noogies/bakingpy and drashna
- Fixes an issue with Rotary Encoder support on split keyboards communicating over I2C (#6058)
Moving rgb typedefs into a single location (#5978) by XScorpion2
Removal of Copyrighted Sounds and Songs (#5905 by drashna; #6200 by fauxpark)
Fixing OLED Driver for 128x64 displays (#6085) by XScorpion2
Add SH1106 OLED support (#5787) by datagrok
Fix backlight breathing on C6 (#6102) by fauxpark
Set default I2C clock speed to 100kHz for split_common (#6161) by nooges
- Fixes #5569: Bad Lag sometimes happens with I2C on split boards
Fix breathing always on for soft PWM (#5983) by fauxpark
Updated AVR-GCC on MacOS to version 8 (#6077) by noogies/bakingpy

Configurator Updates

New Features
- Online keyboard tester
  - In honor of Elite Keyboards’ website going dark (RIP), we have added a simple keycode tester to Configurator, so you can see what the browser sees when you hit a key. Gone but not forgotten, you will be remembered Switch Hitter!
  - ISO support based on language detection (zekth)
  - More beautiful logging (zekth)
- Keyboard input for LT and MT aliases
  - Consistent with other QMK keycodes, you can now enter the code using your keyboard rather than only dragging
- Load default keymap when available (zekth)
- Printable Keymap i18n files (zekth)
- Make ISO keycodes the default for non-US browsers (zekth)
- Warn user when not using Firefox or Chrome browsers (zekth)
- Load Keymap JSON from URL (zekth and noroadsleft)
- Remove all keys from a layer
Fixes
- Fix FR Translation Typos (zekth)
- Security Fixes (github)
- Infrastructure (upgrade node to 11)
- Selection style (jackhumbert)
- Layer change bug (zekth)
New Default Keymaps (noroadsleft)
- Keyboards Beginning with C (35 boards)
- Keyboards Beginning with D (14 boards)
- Keyboards Beginning with E
- KBD67 rev2
- PrimeKB Prime_E (holtenc)
New Colorways (submitted by zekth)
- GMK Bento by biip
- GMK Plum by Jessica
- GMK Yuri by T0mb3ry
- GMK Terminal by TheKeyCompany

New Boards

Contributors:

yanfali, mechmerlin, noroadsleft, skully

pixelpusher · July 1, 2019, 9:39pm

ooh, i like the type tester! I can finally uninstall switch hitter!

Manofinterests · July 1, 2019, 10:43pm

MVP Features right here:

Especially that last one. Thtas’s going to save us some time!