Plant Base version update for 2026

It’s been a long time since an update for Plant Base was issued, although a great deal of work has been going on in the background!  But it’s here now . . .

Plant Base splash window

This release is very unusual because it involves two program versions for all OS editions.  A lot has changed with operating systems and also the software used … … read more

Extra Keys for Windows version update

Extra keys and Extra Keys Pro are updated to version 3.0.1.
This a very minor update with bug fixes and other small code changes, no other alterations. Due to the bug fixes, all users are recommended to update to this version.

The Linux edition remains at 3.0.0 for now, as the changes above are not relevant.

New versions of Extra Keys and Extra Keys Pro

These are major updates taking both Extra Keys and Extra Keys Pro to version 3.0.0. The user interface of the panel has been extensively revised to give a cleaner and more consistent appearance regardless of the operating system release it’s run on. There are a number of other changes plus some improvements for the Armenian and Georgian key sets.

Extra Keys accent typing panel

Although … … read more

Update to Extra Keys Pro – version 2.2.8

This release of the Pro edition of Extra Keys adds a new key set for the International Phonetic Alphabet. There are also a couple of other very minor changes such as adding selection options to the pop-up menu on the System Tray icon.

There is no change for the standard Extra Keys program and no plan to add the IPA … … read more

Plant Base new version – 2.1.15

A new update of Plant Base has been released today and available on the Download page. This is for desktop/laptop editions – Windows, MacOS and Linux.

Primarily a maintenance release with the main objective of cleaning up and optimising some of the code. It also improves synchonisation between OS editions where a few sections had got out of step. … … read more

Plant Base update version – 2.1.14

An updated version of Plant Base has been released and is available on the Download page. This is for desktop/laptop editions – Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It is another maintenance update with a few small bug fixes plus some other little changes.

On the Plant List Details tab, the records can now be sorted by almost any of the … … read more

Plant Base – new version 2.1.13

New update of Plant Base was released today and is available on the Download page. For all desktop/laptop editions – Windows, MacOS and Linux.

This is only a minor maintenance update with a few small bug fixes and other minor changes. For the Windows edition this includes support for the recently released update of Extra Keys.

However, there is … … read more

Version updates of Extra Keys and Extra Keys Pro

New version updates for both Extra Keys (2.2.4) and Extra Keys Pro (2.2.6) are now available for download.

The most noticeable change is that the key panel window no longer gets the desktop focus when a button or other control is clicked.  This means that the active window does not change, which is most likely the target application for entering … … read more

Updates for Extra Keys and Extra Keys Pro

There are new version updates for both Extra Keys (2.2.3) and Extra Keys Pro (2.2.5).

These are maintenance releases only and are otherwise the same as the previous recent versions.  However, they have some modifications that may help resolve a problem where the keys window fails to open on a few Windows 10 systems.  Not all systems were affected and … … read more

New versions of Extra Keys and Extra Keys Pro

Our popular Windows desktop Extra Keys and the similar Pro edition both have new versions – 2.2.2 and 2.2.4 respectively.

Two new key sets have been added, both in the Latin character range – Austronesian and Esperanto.  Austronesian covers a very wide range of indigenous languages spread across the the Pacific and the islands of Australasia. So it is now … … read more