Emoji Keyboard Changelog

What's new in Emoji Keyboard 8.0.0

Aug 23, 2023
  • Updated emoji assets to JoyPixels version 8.0, with Unicode 15.0 compatibility
  • New emoji include shaking face, new shades of hearts, moose, jellyfish, flute, and more
  • Hint: interested in the evolution of emoji? use the search term "uc15" to see all unicode 15.0, "uc14" for 14.0 and so on!

New in Emoji Keyboard 7.0.0 (Aug 10, 2022)

  • Updated emoji assets to JoyPixels version 7.0, with Unicode 14.0 compatibility

New in Emoji Keyboard 6.5.1 (Apr 27, 2021)

  • Maintenance update
  • Minor bug fixes and improvements

New in Emoji Keyboard 6.5.0 (Feb 22, 2021)

  • Updated to JoyPixels 6.5, with Unicode 13.1 compatibility

New in Emoji Keyboard 6.0.2 (Nov 6, 2020)

  • Scroll overflow adjustment

New in Emoji Keyboard 6.0.1 (Jul 2, 2020)

  • Category scroll adjustment
  • Prevent scroll to middle when emoji clicked

New in Emoji Keyboard 6.0.0 (Jun 24, 2020)

  • Updated icons to JoyPixels 6.0
  • Now Unicode 13 compatible

New in Emoji Keyboard 5.5.2 (May 27, 2020)

  • notification banner bugfix

New in Emoji Keyboard 5.5.1 (May 7, 2020)

  • Removed leading/trailing space around emoji on auto insert
  • Added setting to turn off auto insert

New in Emoji Keyboard 5.5.0 (May 7, 2020)

  • Updated to JoyPixels 5.5, including Unicode 12.1 compatibility
  • Emoji arrow nav bugfix

New in Emoji Keyboard 5.0.4 (Jan 15, 2020)

  • Permissions update

New in Emoji Keyboard 5.0.3 (Sep 17, 2019)

  • Prevent auto insert on Gmail (causing formatting errors)
  • Code point updates

New in Emoji Keyboard 5.0.2 (Aug 29, 2019)

  • Improvements to scroll functionality
  • Auto input improvements for Facebook, Twitter, and standard text fields
  • Emoji search improvements

New in Emoji Keyboard 5.0.0 (Jul 14, 2019)

  • Update to JoyPixels 5.0 icons
  • Inclusion of all gender variants when available, including non-binary
  • Updated search keyword database
  • Bugfixes and improvements to auto insert
  • Fix for panel window not closing when opening popout

New in Emoji Keyboard 4.6.0 (May 17, 2019)

  • Rebrand from EmojiOne to JoyPixels
  • Bugfix for emoji arrow navigation
  • Updated nav icons

New in Emoji Keyboard 1.8.2 (Jun 25, 2018)

  • Improvements to search, including fix for bug that was cutting off results in some instances, plus updated keywords

New in Emoji Keyboard 1.8.1 (Jun 25, 2018)

  • This update marks the official deprecation of the Auto Replace feature within the keyboard
  • Users can now install the Emoji Swap by EmojiOne extension for complete, compartmentalized Auto Replace functionality
  • This change is required to comply with Chrome's single function extension policy

New in Emoji Keyboard 1.8.0 (Jun 25, 2018)

  • Patch to resolve reported performance issues

New in Emoji Keyboard 1.7.9 (Jun 25, 2018)

  • Fix for bug that was causing issues with YouTube playback quality selection
  • Improvement to overall performance by reordering script timing

New in Emoji Keyboard 1.7.8 (Jun 25, 2018)

  • Minor improvements to DOM parsing
  • Update to analytics tracking of Non Personally Identifiable Information (see Analytics section below for more details)

New in Emoji Keyboard 1.7.7 (Nov 6, 2017)

  • Bugfix for chatfuel.com which caused emojis to render abnormally large
  • Optimization to GA tracking code

New in Emoji Keyboard 1.7.6 (Aug 22, 2017)

  • Fixed bug where SVG ids conflicted with on page ids. This should fix bugs relating to Facebook videos not autoplaying (or playing at all) as well as pages in the AWS Console not loading.

New in Emoji Keyboard 1.7.5 (Aug 22, 2017)

  • Maintenance/Emoji Swap comm update

New in Emoji Keyboard 1.7.4 (Jun 29, 2017)

  • Unicode 10 emojis are here! Now you can insert and auto replace mermaid, vampire, zombie, and dozens more of the just-released set.
  • Build includes auto insert bug fix for Slack web client
  • Also includes updated keyword set

New in Emoji Keyboard 1.7.3 (May 15, 2017)

  • Support for auto replace on Google Plus
  • Prevent auto replace from running in XML files
  • Added basic support for auto replace on Wikipedia
  • Added class attribute to each auto replaced emoji parent element
  • Updated keyword set

New in Emoji Keyboard 1.7.2 (Apr 6, 2017)

  • Auto replace fixes for various Facebook post sizes
  • Updated keyword set

New in Emoji Keyboard 1.7.1 (Feb 28, 2017)

  • Emoji 4.0 gender based roles are finally here!
  • improvements to auto replace page load speed
  • improvements to panel load time
  • updated keywords list
  • improved Unicode matching and output conformity

New in Emoji Keyboard 1.7.0 (Feb 6, 2017)

  • Build includes brand-new EmojiOne version 3.0 emojis!
  • Improvements to auto replace on Facebook and Twitter
  • Inclusion of auto replace for ASCII (smiley) characters