Keyman Update for 08 November 2024

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).
  • Provide the location of the touch layout keys with issues (#12588).
  • Handle paste of TSV into Wordlist grid (#12594).
  • Several bug fixes (#12595, #12596, #12608, #12622, #12630).
• 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:

• A big thanks to gsghyd (#3165) for creating these new keyboards:
  • Gautami Devanagari keyboard for beginners with limited knowledge of the Devanagari writing system
  • Gautami Bangla/Bengali keyboard for Bangla/Bengali with easy-to-remember key assignments 
• A new experimental MJH Hudum keyboard thanks to gregeck (#3190) 
• A new Dives Akuru Inscript keyboard for the Maldivian language using the Dives Akuru script (#3170)
• A new Sogdian Phonetic keyboard for the Sogdian script (#3177)
• A new Kawi Inscript keyboard for the Kawi script using an Inscript-based layout (#3176)

Keyboard enhancements:

• Thanks to Cathaylaboratory for many updates to:
  • Taiwan Austronesian keyboard v1.1.1: added ⌃ and : on the computer keyboard (#3161)
  • wenchow keyboard v1.1.3: modified touch layout  (#3180)
• Gautami Thamizh/Tamil keyboard v1.0.2: updated welcome.htm, readme.htm and gautami_thamizh_tamil.pdf help files, thanks to gsghyd  (#3165)
• Linear B syllabary keyboard v1.0.1: removed grc from list of languages (#3171)
• Bunong ឞូន៝ង (SIL) keyboard v1.6: added riel sign and numpad layer (#3179)
• greek_polytonic-plus keyboard v2.0: added on-screen keyboard ,thanks to DP-Upstate (#3183)

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)