Keyman Update for 30 August 2024

This blog reports on significant Keyman product and keyboard development updates over the period from 19 August 2024 — 30 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 17.0 Webinar

Watch the full Webinar on What’s new in Keyman 17.0.

Keyman minor releases

Keyman 18.0.91 alpha through 18.0.102 alpha were released in this cycle.

Significant updates in these versions include:

• Android: 
  • Enhanced ENTER key to handle more actions such as previous, next, new line, search and submit (#12125, #12315)
  • Added menu to customize longpress gesture delay time (#12170, #12185)
• Mac: Fixed blank Download Keyboard dialog and incorrect version string (#12233)
• Keyman Developer: Avoid generating a blank .kvk file from LDML (#12278)
• Improve custom wordbreaker output in predictive text (#265, #12229)
• Updated localization string for Czech (#12316)

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

Keyboard updates

New keyboards

• Gautami Thamizh/Tamil keyboard replaced the ISIS (Tamil), a QWERTY-based keyboard for Tamil that does not require the implicit/inherent schwa in consonants to type (#3055).
• Kadu keyboard is an experimental keyboard which uses the Kadu script, invented in 2016, for the Kadu language of Myanmar (#3062).

Improved Keyboards

• Burushaski Girminas (بروشسکی) keyboard v1.26 provides several missing diacritics (#3036). Much thanks to quwatsunny.
• Appreciation to Cathaylaborator for keyboard modifications: 
  • teochew keyboard v1.1: Improved tone marks mechanism, and updated touch-layouts (#3038).
  • wenchow keyboard v1.1.2: Added new keyboard rules, adjusted tone marks, and updated tone marks mechanism (#3044).
  • taichow keyboard v1.0.3: Bug fixed, and added new keyboard rules (#3051).
• Old Hungarian keyboard v1.9 improves mobile layout (#3040, #3046, #3050), credit goes to kovacshvikto:
  • Introduced Long Press keys.
  • Removal of Shift Right-Alt (AltGr) layer.
  • Fixed a bug.
• Introduced Mobile layout to ITRANS keyboards (#3054):
  • Bengali Phonetic (ITRANS) keyboard v1.1.0
  • Hindi Devanagari Phonetic (ITRANS) keyboard v1.4.0
  • Vedic Sanskrit Devanagari Phonetic (ITRANS) keyboard v1.3.0
  • Gujarati Phonetic (ITRANS) keyboard v1.3.0
  • Odia/Oriya Phonetic (ITRANS) keyboard v1.1
  • Gurmukhi Phonetic (ITRANS) keyboard v1.1
• Added support for Mobile to NLCI keyboards v2.1 (#3058):
  • Bengali Winscript (NLCI) keyboard
  • Gujarati WinScript (NLCI) keyboard
  • Gurmukhi Winscript (NLCI) keyboard
  • IPA (NLCI) keyboard
  • Kannada WinScript (NLCI) keyboard
  • Malayalam WinScript (NLCI) keyboard
  • Oriya WinScript (NLCI) keyboard
  • Tamil WinScript (NLCI) keyboard
  • Telugu Winscript (NLCI) keyboard
• Numerous keyboards received Mobile implementation (#3056, #3060):
  • Cherokee Nation Phonetic Basic keyboard v1.1.0
  • Inuktitut – Naqittaut Basic keyboard v1.2
  • Inuktitut – Latin Basic keyboard v1.2
  • Khmer Basic keyboard v1.2
  • Lithuanian Standard Basic keyboard v1.2
  • Sorbian Standard Basic keyboard v1.2
  • Sinhala – Wij 9 Basic keyboard v1.2
  • Aramaic (Hebrew layout) keyboard v1.3
  • Vai (Athinkra) keyboard v1.3
  • Vai Typewriter (Athinkra) keyboard v1.3
• Yiddish Pasekh keyboard v2.0 supports Vav Dagesh and Pe keystrokes (#3047).

New predictive text dictionary

• The first Burushaski word prediction in Perso-Arabic Script is released, thanks to quwatsunny (#269).
• The Teochew text prediction for Tiê-chiu Pe̍h-ūe-jī is now available, contributed by Cathaylaboratory (#264).