Keyman Update for 2 February 2024

This blog reports on significant Keyman product and keyboard development updates over the two week period from 20 January 2024 — 2 February 2024.

As always, you can follow all of our development online at github.com/keymanapp/keyman, and you may find the Keyman Development Status Site at status.keyman.com both interesting and slightly overwhelming!

Keyman minor releases

Keyman 16.0.145 stable was released in this cycle. It includes some minor maintenance updates, and the following important changes:

• FirstVoices Keyboards: Updated Hul̓q̓umin̓um̓ and Kwadacha Tsek’ene keyboards (#10285)
• Keyman Developer: Update of ngrok to v3 (#10360)

Keyman 17.0.249-alpha through 17.0.258-alpha were also released in this cycle.

Significant updates in these versions include:

• Our Android and iOS apps’ auto-correct / prediction banner has received a major update: it now handles long suggestions more intuitively, shortens the space given to short suggestions, can show up to 8 suggestions at once, and is scrollable if some of them cannot fit on the screen. (#7934)
• Keyman Developer now includes basic LDML keyboard editing and testing (#10459)
• Keyman Developer now supports ngrok v3 (#10359)
• Keyman Core on Windows, Linux, and macOS supports full normalization for LDML keyboard output (#10390)
• Font resources now scale more consistently and reliably on touch and web keyboards (#10506)
• Keyman for Linux now supports Ubuntu Noble, ends support for Lunar (#10561)

The full list of updates can be viewed in the version history.

Keyboard updates

• The Ezdiki / Ezidi language keyboard, supporting the Yezidi script for Kurdish, is now available, with thanks to Haji Sabri and Adil Eazdeen. (#2522)
• The Tagdal (SIL) keyboard has just been released, for the Tagdal language central Niger, in Latin script. (#2523)
• The IDC Deseret keyboard is now available. IDC Deseret is designed to facilitate transcription of written manuscripts. It does not rely on QWERTY mnemonics but introduces a two-row pattern of unvoiced/voiced for the consonants (#2511, #2528). Contributed by sigilante.
• Esperanto Plus keyboard has been updated to version 3.0.1, with changes such as adding the ‘radiko’ key to the touch layout, adding Caps Lock support, improved documentation, and a ‘mns’ shortcut for ‘Mi ne scias’ (#2527, #2529), many thanks to anvalon.
• chinuk_wawa was updated to version 1.4, adding a longpress j for touch devices (#2526), credit to cachang.