Keyman Update for 02 August 2024

This blog reports on significant Keyman product and keyboard development updates over the period from 22 July 2024 — 02 August 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 17.0.328 stable was released in this cycle. There are some updates: 

• Android: fixed keyboard size after rotation (#11747)
• Fixed longpress key’s id (#11797)

Keyman 18.0.69 alpha through 18.0.80 alpha were also released in this cycle.

Significant updates in these versions include:

• Windows: backspace no longer delete extra character on TSF (#11884)
• Linux: used the current directory to prevent crashing (#12032)
• Android and iOS: new localization for Polytonic Greek (#11877)
• Updated Portuguese’s localization (#11974)
• Added auto-correction for text prediction (#11866, #11875, #11969, #11970)
• Improved Keyman Developer (#1200, #12008, #11984, #11982, #11965, #11957, #11918, #11910, #11981)

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

Keyboard updates

New keyboards

• Romanian (Popak) ergonomic keyboard is uniquely designed for Romanian language (#2975), a great contribution by mareuo.
• Phonetic Farsi keyboard introduces the Farsi numbers, symbols, letters, diacritics, and more (#2972). Special thanks to alliancecrusader.
• Appreciation to Cathaylaboratory for two keyboards submission:
  • Taigi Viet Telex keyboard is created for Tâi-gí (Taiwanese) pe̍h-ōe-jī. 台語越式telex拍字法，會當拍台語白話字 (#2984, #2992).
  • The taichow keyboard uses for the romanized goetian T’e-ciu-‘wa台州羅馬字輸入法 (#2990).
• The fv_lekwungen keyboard supports typing for the Lekwungen (lək̓ʷəŋən) language (#2989). Much thanks to xyzhelen.
• Glagolitic (Phonetic) keyboard, inspired by a phonetic layout, a keyboard created for the Glagolitic script (#2976).
• Idoma keyboard is built for the Idoma language of North-central Nigeria (#2985, #2992).

Improved keyboards

• A massive contribution from HopsAndHops for polishing documentation, correcting keyboard rules and mobile layouts, and adding changes to these keyboards:
  • Tāłtān keyboard v9.2 (#2977).
  • X̱aayda-X̱aad Kil keyboard v.9.4 (#2986).
  • Haisla keyboard v2.1.3 (#2991).
  • Nedut’en-Witsuwit’en keyboard v9.2 (#2994).
  • Secwepemctsín keyboard v9.3 (#2995).
  • ’Wuìk̓ala keyboard v9.4 included an alternate solution to type Slash in Google Workspace (#2979).
  • Nɬeʔkepmxcín keyboard v9.5.1 resolved keyboard linking issue (#2978).
• Credits to Cathaylaboratory for fixing various bugs, and introduced more keystrokes into:
  • The foochow keyboard v.1.0.1 (#2973).
  • The wenchow keyboard v1.1.1  (#2974).
• Huge shout out to xyzhelen for minor and major enhancements to the keyboards:
  • The hǝn̓q̓ǝmin̓ǝm̓ keyboard v10.2.1 replaced capital theta and schwa with lowercase versions and polished documentation (#2997, #3000).
  • Shashishalhem keyboard v9.2.1 has an improved keyboard documentation (#2999).
  • Halq’eméylem keyboard v.9.2.1 has a newly polished welcome file (#3002).
  • SENĆOŦEN keyboard v9.2.3 comes with an upgraded keyboard documentation (#3003, #3005).
• Simplified Chinese keyboard has reached v1.4 with extended supports for multi-monitor and numerous complex implementations (#64).
• Bukawa keyboard v3.0 has been officially added to the keyboard release category, also provided with long-press keys on the touch layouts (#2987).

Keyboard App Builder 12.0

Keyboard App Builder 12.0 was released on July 20, 2024.

New features and improvements:

• Compatible with Android 5 – 14 (API 21 – 34).
• Extended support for Keyman 17.0.
• Font enhancements, and eliminate Grandroid font rendering libraries.
• Many development and bug fixes.

Full information of KAB is listed in the Release Notes.