This blog reports on significant Keyman product and keyboard development updates over the period from 28 October 2024 — 08 November 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 17.0.331 stable and 17.0.332 stable were released in this cycle. There are a number of notable changes, including: 

  • Android
    • Hide word suggestion on password fields (#12466).
  • Linux
    • Fix the download dialog that occasionally only renders a blank screen (#12616).

Keyman 18.0.132 alpha through 18.0.138 alpha were also released in this cycle.

Significant updates in the alpha versions include:

  • Developer
    • kmc generate is a new tool that allows you to create a new keyboard or lexical model project from a template. This will replace most aspects of kmconvert. (#11014).
    • kmc copy allows you to copy a keyboard or lexical model project to a new name and folder (#12555).
  • Linux
    • Support Keyman for Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin (#12614).

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

Keyboard updates

New keyboards:

Keyboard enhancements:

Predictive text dictionary updates

  • Bunong Wordlist v1.3: updated script of text prediction (#281)
  • Jarai v1.2: updated script of text prediction (#282)
  • Chuon Nath Dictionary v1.1: fixed incorrect word  (#290)
  • Brao Lexical Model v1.4: added a new wordlist and updated script of text prediction (#284, #285)
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