Keyman Desktop 8.0 Beta Releases

This is a prerelease version of Keyman Desktop and Keyman Developer. It should be used for testing purposes only.

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Keyman Desktop 8.0 Beta

30 day evaluation (7.9 MB). Build 8.0.353.0, 5 July 2012.

Keyman Developer 8.0 Beta

30 day evaluation (23.7 MB). Build 8.0.353.0, 5 July 2012.

This release addresses 1 issue:

Font helper can crash when a WM_FONTCHANGE is received during render (Keyman Engine, I2968,I2991,I3129,I3172,I3390)

This release addresses 1 issue for Branding Pack users:

Keyman Engine will sometimes fail to load more than 2 keyboards for a process that starts a custom OEM product (Keyman Engine, I3385)

This release addresses 3 issues:

On some systems, the media keys (volume, etc) can interfere with Keyman Desktop (Keyman Engine, I3358)
The Keyman Developer upgrade installer could abruptly restart the system in some situations (Keyman Developer, I3355)
Custom registry setting information is now documented in the Product Installer Developer Help (Keyman Developer, I3360)

This release addresses 1 important issue:

Alt combinations can wrongly trigger menus in some applications, due to bug in fix for I3250 (Keyman Engine, I3301)

This release addresses 4 issues:

Debugger should start Keyman Desktop if it isn't running (Keyman Developer, I3283)
OptionGroups needs to be added to branding XML template (Keyman Developer, I3269)
Add Debug_XMLRenderer DebugPath to allow writing temp .xml file (Keyman Engine, I3269)
Fix blocking of Ctrl+Shift passthrough (Keyman Engine, I3284)