This blog reports on significant Keyman product and keyboard development updates over the two week period from 01 April 2024 — 12 April 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 17.0.298 beta through 17.0.308 beta were released in this cycle.

Significant updates in these versions include:

  • Android: prevented crash to keyboards when selection texts are reversed (#11127, #11188)
  • Android: fixed OSK size when rotate (#11134)
  • Mac: modified selected text without being corrupt (#11086)
  • Prevented selected text from being deleted when switching layer (#11032)
  • Fixed Rapid typing crashes (#10778, #10836, #10838, #10840, #10843, #10960)
  • Lexical Model: improved suggestion stability and accessibility (#11164, #11085)
  • Keyman Help: updated Iphone and Ipad banner document for Keyman 17.0 (#11200)

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

Keyboard updates

New keyboards:

Keyboards enhancement:

Predictive text dictionary updates

  • Two newly added predictive text dictionaries are available for Esperanto and Esperanto Ŝava (#248) (#249). Thanks to Tomás Briones.

Keyboard App Builder updates

Keyboard App Builder 11.2 was released on March 28, 2024, with numerous bug fixes:

  • iOS app:
    • Resolved the issue of KAB producing invalid apps.
    • Fixed: Splash screen was not displayed at startup.
  • App Builder for macOS:
    • Implemented a bundled JDK to ensure no errors when creating a new Keystore.
    • A fix on Sonoma 14.2 revolves around the crashed menu bar.

Full information of KAB is listed in the Release Notes.

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