Keyman Update for 14 February 2025

This blog reports on significant Keyman product and keyboard development updates over the period from 03 February 2025 — 14 February 2025.

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

In the 18.0 series, Keyman 18.0.173 alpha through 18.0.188 alpha and 18.0.190 beta through 18.0.192 beta were released in this cycle. Read our Keyman 18.0 released blog for more details. 

Keyman 17.0.335 stable was also released in this cycle. There are some updates: 

• Linux: 
  • Improve compatibility with Gentoo Linux (#12889)
• Android:
  • Fixing reported crashes (#13057)
• iOS: 
  • Fixing reported crashes (#13058)
  • Minimum version of iOS is now 15.0 (#13121)
• Web:
  • Turn off ‘enabled correction’ to prevent predictive correction (#13074)

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

Keyboard updates

New keyboards

• Thanks to Caliph3ubaidUrRe7man for contributing to three keyboards:
  • The Latinized Urdu keyboard is an Urdu keyboard With Latin Alphabets (#3312). 
  • The Arabic W/O Dots keyboard is for typing Arabic Alphabet without the dots like the Olden Days (#3320).
  • The experimental Tengwar keyboard uses Private Use Area codepoints (#3328, #3329, #3332, #3334, #3336, #3339, #3337, #3342).
• The sil_senegal_csk_azerty keyboard is intended to meet the needs of Kassa/Jola-Kasa/diola-kaasa (Latin script), on all platforms (#3315). Credits to madskinner2.
• The Diné Bizaad keyboard is designed to allow typing à la the Navajo font, but producing Unicode characters that are viewable in most modern fonts (#3313). A great effort from mondele.
• The experimental Amuzgo de Guerrero keyboard supports the Amuzgo de Guerrero language of Mexico (#3326).
• The Budukh keyboard is developed by Ken Keyes, and prepared according to the alphabet devised by Adıgözəl Haciyev (#3322).
• The greek_tonizo keyboard is a Polytonic Greek keyboard to type on any device (#3341). Submitted by tonizo2025.
• Introducing the new Mon (SIL) keyboard (#3340, #3343).

Keyboard enhancements

• The Tamil WinScript (NLCI) keyboard v2.2 is able to type U+1133C GRANTHA SIGN NUKTA (#3317).
• The Khmer Angkor keyboard v2.0 has flick gestures, improved documentation, independent vowels and new keyboard layers (#3228).

Predictive text updates

New predictive text

• A predictive text for the Chinese, Min Nan language (#306).

Predictive text enhancements

• The Chenchen Latin v1.1 receives a new name and an updated wordlist (#301). Appreciation to gushmazuko.
• The Latin Dictionary v1.0.2 has changes to the wordlist (#305). Much thanks to quwatsunny.