Keyman Update for 23 May 2025

This blog reports on significant Keyman product and keyboard development updates over the period from 12 May 2025 — 23 May 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 18.0.236 stable was released in this cycle. Significant updates in these versions include:

• Removed ngrok.exe to prevent malware warning (#13847, #13873)
• Fixed keyboard scale settings for older iOS (#13817)
• Fixed incorrect version metadata (#13853)

Keyman 19.0.35 alpha through 19.0.47 alpha were also released in this cycle. There are some updates:

• Fixed missing Keyman Configuration (#13876)
• Added line numbers for errors in LDML compiler (#13375, #13915)
• Removed flick gesture by releasing at the key’s center (#13683)  
• Updated FirstVoice icon in Android and iOS (#13907,  #13976)
• Updated strings for Italian (#13871)

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

Keyboard updates

New keyboards

• The Dazaga Gourane Karra keyboard is designed for the Dazaga Gourane Karra language (#3511). Thanks to Rieselhilfe.
• The akan keyboard is using the standard qwerty layout for typing in the akan language (#3526). Credit goes to RyanCecil1.
• The experimental Soninke N’ti keyboard is a keyboard to write the Soninke language in the N’ti script (#3532). Appreciation to oyousuf.

Enhanced keyboards

• The Urdu (DVorak) keyboard v1.1 has Cap Lock functionality (#3514). Thanks to Caliph3ubaidUrRe7man.
• The Polytonic Greek (SIL) keyboard v1.8.3 received the following (#3520):
  • Replace Ͷ ͷ with Ϝ ϝ on mobile layout.
  • Fix a bug with shift space emitting final sigma.
• The Kannada WinScript (NLCI) keyboard v2.2 come with (#3527):
  • Add characters to support Tulu and Sanskrit languages.
  • Add Noto Sans Kannada font to support all characters.
• Thanks to dyacob for GFF Amharic keyboard v3.2.1 (#3531) with the mobile features of:
  • “Glow keys” introduced on a trial basis.
  • More consistent input on non-Amharic layers.
  • Help Docs: miscellaneous css refinements.
• The khmer_ldml keyboard v1.1.0 has added reorder rules (#3405).
• The Beria Erfe Phonetic keyboard v1.1 received a mobile layout (#3529).
• Much thanks to Aixther for contributing to the Coptic (Greek) keyboard v2.4 (#3536):
  • Added Ⳳ, ⳳ, ⸴, ⸳.
  • Updated help file.
• Appreciation to Amir Reza Ghareebdost. The Phonetic Farsi keyboard v2.0 come with many updates (#3524):
  • Change the setting key combinations from Ctrl Shift Alt + {number} to Ctrl Shift + {number}.
  • Change the ligature autocomplete combination of ﷲ
  • Add the Scheherazade New font with the keyboard.
  • Change Vowel keycode combinations to be more compatible with text editors
    • From Alt + {key} to Shift + {key}.

Predictive text updates

• Now Available, the Turkmen predictive text for Afghan Turkmen and the Afghan Turkmen keyboard (#315).