ANN: libchewing 0.10.0 Released

[Kan-Ru Chen]

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https://github.com/chewing/libchewing/releases/tag/v0.10.0

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What's New in libchewing 0.10.0 (July 26, 2025)
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* Features
- New keyboard layout Colemak.
- cli: New --fix option enables auto correction for simple tsi.src errors
- cli: Allow multiple whitespace in dictionary source file

* Developer Features
- New API `chewing_bopomofo_String()` can be used to retrieve current bopomofo
string in the buffer. This deprecates the old non-thread safe
`chewing_bopomofo_String_static`.
- New API `chewing_cand_string_by_index()` can be used in UILess mode to query
candidate string from candidate list.

* Changes
- BREAKING: System dictionary loader now loads base and extra dictionary
separately. (Rust)
- Simple mode now always auto-commit after candidate selection to align with
ㄅ/半 experience.

* Bug Fixes
- `chewing_keystroke_CheckAbsorb()` correctly return true when a keystroke
was absorbed due to error.
- `chewing_commit_preedit_buf()` does not return error when the bopomofo
buffer is empty, to match previous behavior.
- `chewing_clean_preedit_buf()` does not return error when the bopomofo
buffer is empty, to match previous behavior.
- Avoid panics in `chewing_new()`
- Don't panic when conversion fails
- Don't panic when symbols table contains empty line
- Avoid opening empty symbol table
- Skip malformed lines in abbrev table
- Handle special symbol input normally when easy symbol is enabled
- Ignore zero-length phrases
- Use correct %AppData% path on Windows
- Fallback to Windows default sys path
- Use correct search path separator on Windows
- Check file existence with Windows quirks
- Ensure to reload dictionary after flush buffers
- Esc key clears buffer in simple mode
- Correctly allocate and free array returned to C FFI
- Initialize learned user phrase freq with orig_freq
- Ensure user phrase takes precedence

* Dictionary
- Add alternative sound for 麼
- Removed some inconsistent phrases (#709)

* Build
- Do not link to libcmtd on Windows
- Bump corrosion to 0.5.1 to fix rustup breaking change
- Bump MSRV to 1.85
- Bump tools and testhelper to 2024 edition
- Stop updating mini.dat for every build
- Move C headers to the capi module
- Remove unused cargo-vet settings
- Clean-up porting layer usage in tests
- Add upper bound to cmake_minimum_required version
- Enable cli test
- Stop depending on the directories crate

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/chewing/libchewing/compare/v0.9.1...v0.10.0

Happy hacking,
Kan-ru