Keyman Update for 26 April 2024

This blog reports on significant Keyman product and keyboard development updates over the two week period from 15 April 2024 — 26 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 17.0.309 beta through 17.0.315 beta were released in this cycle.

Significant updates in these versions include:

• Keyman for iOS:
  • Inserts a space when replacing selected texts (#11179).
• Keyman for Mac:
  • Handles text replacement responses for first key press location detection (#11190).
• Mobile web (Android and iOS):
  • Correctly handles the behavior of selected texts and keyboard outputs when switching layers (#11232).
  • Adjusts the timing of multi-tap gestures (#11246).
• Keyman Developer:
  • Improvement in stability and usability (#11244, #11272).

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

Keyboard updates

New keyboards:

• Three new keyboards for typing Sitelen Pona, a logographic writing system for the popular constructed language Toki Pona. Many thanks to RebeccaRGB.
  • Sitelen Pona (Wakalito, UCSUR) keyboard uses glyph components (radicals) similarly to how they would be written by hand (#2696).
  • Sitelen Pona (Pochin, UCSUR) keyboard uses sequences of one to three keystrokes (#2699). 
  • Sitelen Pona (Lentan, UCSUR) keyboard uses the spelling of words in Latin script (#2700).
• A new experimental Wenchow keyboard was released for üe-tsiu-ó, with appreciation to Cathaylaboratory (#2678,  #2698).
• A new Belgian (Typewriter) keyboard is now available, thanks to  mauriiu  (#2685, #2710).
• Unifon keyboard, a new experimental keyboard designed for the Unifon alphabet, can now be downloaded thanks to mauriiu (#2684). 
• Now available, Cham Phonetic (SIL) keyboard, a new keyboard for the Eastern Cham language using the Cham script (#2708).
• A new Manichaean keyboard for languages using the Manichaean script can now be downloaded (#2711). 

Keyboard enhancements:

• The ausephon keyboard has been upgraded to version 11.0: added many diacritics, and corrected and updated support files. Expressing gratitude to  benaustralia (#2705, #2706).
• Updated the experimental Naija Type keyboard to version 56: added Cicipu slash o. Credit to rowbory (#2704). 
• The Dega keyboard has now been enhanced to version 3.1: added grave characters for Koho (#2713). 
• Updated help pages for DevU-Mike’s keyboard, Awngi & Xamtanga keyboard, Gurage (Legacy) keyboard and N’Ko (SIL) keyboard, (#2719). 
• Huge applause to rmlockwood for adding many changes to:
  • Balochi Urdu keyboard  v1.6: added new keys
  • Balochi InPage keyboard v1.6: added new keys 
  • Balochi Persian keyboard v1.6: added new keys.