Keyman Update for 28 February 2025

This blog reports on significant Keyman product and keyboard development updates over the period from 17 February 2025 — 28 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

Keyman 18.0.193 beta through 18.0.203 beta and 19.0.1 alpha through 19.0.9 alpha were released in this cycle. Significant update in these versions include:

• Developer
  • Add INFO messages for kmc copy and kmc generate (#13200).
  • Use ‘desktop’ for target in OSK fill temp keyboard (#13271).
  • Handle line breaks in debugger correctly (#13334).
  • Fix double action of editor hotkeys in debugger (#13345).
• Windows
  • New icons in Keyman configuration (#13294).
• Linux
  • Remove support of Ubuntu 20.04 Focal (#13202, #13203, #13206).
• Android
  • Update system keyboard height consistently (#13273).
  • Direct to keyboard picker when WebView fails (#13352).
• Web
  • Provide more informative and explicit errors when modules fail (#13269).
• Localization
  • Further Mon translation (#13241).
  • More translation for Czech (#13242).
  • Updated localization for Polytonic Greek (#13277).
  • Khmer translation (#13364).

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

Keyboard updates

New keyboards:

• A new experimental khmer_ldml keyboard in LDML format based on the Khmer Angkor keyboard for the Khmer script(#3273) 
• A new Irula Tamil WinScript keyboard based on the Tamil WinScript (NLCI) Keyboard Layout  (#3319)
• A new Programmer Dvorak keyboard for Programmers, thanks to Caliph3ubaidUrRe7man (#3335)
• A new Kcho (SIL) keyboard for Mün Chin and Daai Chin languages in Myanmar (#3356)
• A new vietnam keyboard for Vietnamese, thanks to Cathaylaboratory (#3359)

Keyboard enhancements:

• Greek Tonizo keyboard v1.0.1: rename from greek_tonizo to ‘Greek Tonizo’, thanks to tonizo2025 (#3351)
• Huge thanks to  Caliph3ubaidUrRe7man for updating several keyboards such as:
  • Tengwar keyboard v1.3: change some character placements and fonts (#3355)
  • Arabic W/O Dots keyboard v1.0.1: change language ID from ar-Arab to ar (#3357)
  • Easy Arabic keyboard v1.1: update layouts (#3348)
• Winchus keyboard v1.1: beta version thanks to alex-larkin (#3354)

Predictive text dictionary updates

• Temiar predictive text v1.2: revise some spelling and remove some unwanted words (#307)