This blog reports on significant Keyman product and keyboard development updates over the period from 02 September 2024 — 13 September 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 17.0.329 stable was released in this cycle. There are a number of notable changes, including:
- Keyman Developer
- Windows, Linux, and Mac
- Prevent undefined layer states from emitting text with LDML keyboards (#12285).
- Mac
- Linux
- Support custom fonts (and &displayMap) in onboard On Screen Keyboard (#12283).
- Web (Android and iOS)
- Web
Keyman 18.0.103 alpha through 18.0.112 alpha were also released in this cycle.
Significant updates in these versions include:
- Windows
- Mac
- Keyboard package information will now appear at the end of the keyboard installation process (#12326).
- Android
- More Italian translation (#12408).
The full list of updates can be viewed in the version history.
Keyboard updates
New keyboard:
- A new Meroitic Cursive keyboard for the Meroitic language using the Meroitic Cursive script is now available for download (#3071).
- A new Palmyrene keyboard for the Palmyrene script as used by Official Aramaic (#3073).
- A new Old Permic keyboard based on a phonetic layout (using a US Qwerty layout) (#3077).
- A new pinyin typer keyboard for Chinese pinyin, thanks to Cathaylaboratory (#3074).
Keyboards enhancement:
- Thanks to dotland for updating the keyboards:
- Armenian Mnemonic R keyboard v1.2.0: add combining acute and grave (#3070).
- Russian Mnemonic R keyboard v1.1.0: add quote, doublequotes and remove deadkeys (#3066).
- Armenian Mnemonic keyboard v1.2.0: add combining acute and update icon (#3069).
- Kirat Rai – INSCRIPT keyboard v1.1.1: add rules, phone layout and update font (#3081, #3085).
- Colchis Latin keyboard v1.5: changed language tag (#3080).
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