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+# Introduction
+libevdev is a wrapper library for evdev devices. it moves the common tasks when dealing with evdev devices into a library and provides a library interface to the callers, thus avoiding erroneous ioctls, etc.
+
+The eventual goal is that libevdev wraps all ioctls available to evdev devices, thus making direct access unnecessary.
+
+This wiki page is largely a placeholder, documentation about libevdev and examples are available in [the API documentation](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/libevdev/doc/latest/).
+
+# Releases
+- stable: [1.11.0 - released Feb 01, 2021](https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/input-tools/2021-February/001557.html)
+- [API documentation[](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/libevdev/doc/latest/)
+
+# Older releases
+All released versions can be found at: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/libevdev/
+
+# git Repository
+https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libevdev/libevdev
+
+# Documentation
+- For current and previous releases: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/libevdev/doc/
+- For current development version https://www.freedesktop.org/software/libevdev/doc/latest/
+
+# Downloads
+Source tarballs are available http://www.freedesktop.org/software/libevdev/