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| ZMK State Of The Firmware #6 | Cem Aksoylar | Project Contributor | https://github.com/caksoylar | https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7876996 |
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Welcome to the sixth ZMK "State Of The Firmware" (SOTF)!
This update will cover all the major activity since SOTF #5. That was over a year ago (again!), so lots to cover!
Recent Activity
Here's a summary of the various major changes since last time, broken down by theme:
Keymaps/Behaviors
Global quick tap [#1187]
Key toggle [#1278]
Mask triggering modifiers by default in mod morphs and add keep-mods property [#1412]
Fix bug causing stuck keys with combo & hold-tap interactions [#1411]
Add hold-trigger-on-release property for positional hold-tap uses [#1423]
Sticky key fixes [#1586], [#1745]
Parameterized macros [#1232]
Add sensor rotate behaviors to use invoke any behavior from encoders [#1758]
Caps word ignore modifiers [#1330] ?
Tap dances can be used in combos [#1518] ?
Bluetooth and Split Improvements
Release held keys on peripheral disconnect [#1340]
Connections status check fix [#1810]
Option to require passkey input on pairing [#1822]
Multiple peripherals support [#836]
Improve settings_reset shield by making it clear bonds more reliably, and allow it to build for all boards [#1879]
Use directed advertising for split communication and more robust central scanning [#1913] [#1912]
Hardware Support
Encoder support refactor [#1039]
Encoder support in split peripheral halves [#728] [#1841]
Debouncing for direct GPIO driver [#1288]
Add toggle mode support for direct GPIO driver [#1305]
595 shift register driver [#1325]
Add RGB auto off options using idle timeout and USB status [#1010]
EPD initialization improvements [#1098]
MAX7318 GPIO expander driver [#1295]
nice!view support [#1462] with custom status screen [#1768]
Improvements for Seeeduino Xiao BLE [#1293], [d0176f36], [#1545], [#1927]
Wait options during matrix reads and writes [#1385], [#1473] ?
Miscellaneous
Improved customer page support [#1227]
Switch to a reusable user config workflow [#1183] [#1258]
Pre-commit setup and standardize formatting [#1651]
Refactors by Joel [#1269] [#1255] ?
Allow setting BLE connection intervals [#862] ?
Default to 1ms USB HID interval [#1271] ?
Allow configuring battery level report interval [#1303] ?
Display Features
Add setting to invert display colors [#1754]
Add battery percentage option for battery widget [#1563] ?
Refactor to create new peripheral status widget [#1263] ?
Zephyr 3.2
petejohanson helped prepare and test the upgrade of ZMK to Zephyr 3.2 in #1499.
Documentation
Configuration options [#722]
Battery sensor documentation [#868]
New behavior guide [#1268]
Tap dance and hold-tap documentation improvements [#1298]
New shield docs for other interconnects including Xiao, Arduino Uno and Blackpill [#1607]
A new Bluetooth feature page [#1499]
Various improvements and fixes by kurtis-lew, joelspadin, filterpaper, byran.tech, dxmh, caksoylar and many others
New Shields
- Eternal keypad [#1136]
- nullbits SNAP [#1319]
- Aurora Sweep [#1504]
- Aurora Corne [#1520]
- Aurora Lily58 [#1553]
- Aurora Sofle [#1864]
- Aurora Helix [#1873]
- ZMK Uno shield [#1576]
- Waterfowl [#1554]
- Kyria Rev 3 [#1627]
- Leeloo v2 and Leeloo-Micro [#1762]
- Spaceman Pancake [#1400]
- Reviung5 [#1548]
New Boards
- RP2040 boards
- Puchi BLE [#1445]
- nRFMicro 1.3/1.4 (nRF52833) [#912]
- nRF5340 DK [#1562]
- PillBug [#1530]
- Preonic Rev 3 [#1575]
- Corne-ish Zen v2 [#1498] and v1 [#1593]
- Polarity Works CKP family of boards [#1547]
Coming Soon!
Some items listed in the last coming soon section are still under active development.
- Caps/Scroll/Num Lock LED support
- Mouse Keys
- Wired split support
- More modular approach to external boards/shields, custom code, user keymaps, etc.
- More shields and boards
Statistics
Some statistics of interest for ZMK:
- GitHub (lifetime stats)
- 163 Contributors
- 1239 Closed PRs
- 1845 Stars
- 1918 Forks
- Discord Chat
- 7865 total registered (130% up from last SOTF!)
- Website (last 30 days)
- 35.9K page views
- 3.29K new users
Sponsorship
Open Collective Pete Johanson (detail what is used for what)
Thanks!
As we approach the two year birthday for ZMK, I am reminded of how far we have come in such a short time, in large part thanks to the amazing community that has grown around it. I am so grateful to have so many contributors, testers, and user believing in the project and helping make it a joy to work on.