Keyman Update for 13 September 2024

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
  • Fix crash in debugger when Win+V pressed (#12182).
  • Ensure that version information is always available in published keyboards (#12206).
  • Ensure that package description is always filled out for deployment to Keyman Cloud (#12207).
• Windows, Linux, and Mac
  • Prevent undefined layer states from emitting text with LDML keyboards (#12285).
• Mac
  • Fixes a compatibility issue during Keyman startup on macOS Catalina (#12364).
  • Fixes a compatibility issue for running Keyman on macOS Big Sur (#12246).
• Linux
  • Support custom fonts (and &displayMap) in onboard On Screen Keyboard (#12283).
• Web (Android and iOS)
  • Ensure that keyboards compiled in debug mode load correctly (#12040, #12058).
• Web
  • Prevent corrections from being offered when ‘corrections’ option is disabled (#12226).
  • Reduce size of info text on spacebar in keyboard documentation (#12240).

Keyman 18.0.103 alpha through 18.0.112 alpha were also released in this cycle.

Significant updates in these versions include:

• Windows
  • New SIL Name and Logo integration (#12250, #12327).
  • Right-side modifier keys can now be used for keyboard hotkeys by selecting an option in Keyman Configuration (#12252, #12259).
• Mac
  • Keyboard package information will now appear at the end of the keyboard installation process (#12326).
• Android
  • New UI of font size menu for right-to-left text direction (#12290).
  • Access Longpress delay documentation within the app (#12359, #12367).
• 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).