Karabiner Elements Versions Save

• 📦 Download
• 📅 Release date
  • Nov 20, 2021
• ⚡️ Improvements
  • Added System Extensions tab to EventViewer.
  • Added a workaround for macOS's ioreg command issue that consumes high CPU usage on macOS Monterey.

• 📦 Download
• 📅 Release date
  • Nov 3, 2021
• 💥 Breaking changes
  • macOS 10.15 support has been dropped.
• ✨ New Features
  • Supported Touch ID on Magic Keyboard.
  • Supported application launcher keys (Mail, Browser, Calculator, etc.) which are belong to HID Consumer Usage Page and Application Launch Buttons Usage.
  • Add new features for writing your own settings:
    • Added software_function.iokit_power_management_sleep_system.
• 🐛 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue that an alert window appears in an incorrect position on macOS 12 Monterey.
• ⚡️ Improvements
  • Update application icons. (Thanks to Kouji TAMURA)
  • EventViewer is rewritten in SwiftUI.

• 📦 Download
• 📅 Release date
  • Sep 6, 2021
• 🐛 Bug Fixes
  • Fix an issue that shell_command does not set environment variables (HOME, USER, etc.).

• 📦 Download
• 📅 Release date
  • Sep 3, 2021
• ✨ New Features
  • Add new features for writing your own settings:
    • Added software_function.cg_event_double_click.
    • Added software_function.set_mouse_cursor_position.
    • Added set_notification_message.
• 🐛 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue that karabiner.json parse error message is not shown in Preferences > Log if the error message contains corrupted characters.
• ⚡️ Improvements
  • Changed to log the output of shell_command into console_user_server.log.
  • The notification window transparency will be increased when the mouse cursor is hovered.

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• 📅 Release date
  • Jun 20, 2021
• ⚡️ Improvements
  • Improved temporary directory handling to reduce the frequency of mds process accessing it.
  • Improved mouse_key.speed_multiplier handling when it is used with to.modifiers, the modifier is retained while speed_multiplier is active.
  • The caps lock LED manipulation has been enabled by default.
    • Note: This change applies to newly connected keyboards.
  • Several Objective-C code around GUI has been rewritten in Swift + SwiftUI.

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• 📅 Release date
  • Apr 4, 2021
• 🐛 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue that Karabiner-Elements stops working with virtual_hid_keyboard is not ready. Please wait for a while. error message when you kill karabiner_console_user_server process manually.
• ⚡️ Improvements
  • Changed to terminate virtual HID devices immediately after quit Karabiner-Elements.

🔔 Notes for Mac computers with Apple Silicon (Apple M1) users

macOS Big Sur 11.2 or earlier has an issue within memory management and HID device handling that causes kernel panics on Mac computers with Apple Silicon. The virtual device that is used internally by Karabiner-Elements triggers this issue, and a kernel panic might be caused at macOS shutdown.

We confirmed that this issue has been fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.3 Beta. Please use macOS Big Sur 11.3 Beta or later versions if you are facing the kernel panic issue.

• 📦 Download
• 📅 Release date
  • Jan 29, 2021
• 🐛 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue that installer requires Rosetta 2 on Apple Silicon Macs.
• 💥 Breaking changes
  • Changed the default function of f4 key to spotlight, f5 key to dictation, f6 key to f6.
    • Note: This change will be applied when you create a new profile.
  • Changed to Karabiner-Elements does not modify f1-f12 keys on touch bar.
  • The caps lock delay of Karabiner Virtual HID Keyboard has been removed. The state of caps lock will be changed immediately after you press the caps lock key.
• ✨ New Features
  • Supported sticky modifier keys
  • Added apple_vendor_keyboard_key_code and apple_vendor_top_case_key_code to event definitions.
    • apple_vendor_keyboard_key_code
    • apple_vendor_top_case_key_code
• ⚡️ Improvements
  • Updated in-app screenshots to Big Sur.
  • Added the close button to notification window.

• 📦 Download
• 📅 Release date
  • Oct 30, 2020
• 🔔 Important Notes
  • Restarting macOS is required after upgrading from v13.0.0.
    The following alert will be shown after upgrade. Please follow the instructions.
    
• 🐛 Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue that Karabiner-DriverKit-VirtualHIDDevice might crash when caps lock key is pressed in some environments.

• 📦 Download
• 📅 Release date
  • Oct 4, 2020
• 💥 Breaking changes
  • macOS 10.12 - 10.14 support has been dropped.
• ✨ New Features
  • Supported macOS Big Sur (11.0)
  • Supported both Intel-based Macs and Apple Silicon Macs.
  • Changed the virtual keyboard and mouse implementation to DriverKit from deprecated kernel extension.
• ⚡️ Improvements
  • Improved preferences window messages.
  • Partial support for comments in karabiner.json configuration file.
    • Supported reading json file with comments.
    • Limitation: The json comments will be removed if you change the json from Preferences GUI or command line interface.

About Legacy System Extension alert

This release still uses the kernel extension (aka legacy system extension), so the following alert will be shown.

We are working to migrate to a newer mechanism, DriverKit, from kernel extension and we plan to support it at Karabiner-Elements 13.0.0. It will take a little more time. Please wait.

Changes

• ✨ New Features
  • event_changed_if and event_changed_unless has been added to conditions.
• ⚡️ Improvements
  • Improved sending f1-f12 keys in complex modification (e.g., "change command+e to f2") by ignoring media key mappings for these keys.
  • Improved caps lock LED handling.
  • Improved uninstaller adding the kernel extension staging area clean up.
  • Improved complex modifications json checker.
  • "Check for updates" has been improved.
    • Updated Sparkle signing to EdDSA (ed25519) from DSA.
    • URL of appcast.xml has been updated.