Keyman Update for 9 May 2025

This blog reports on significant Keyman product and keyboard development updates over the period from 14 April 2025 — 9 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 19.0.24 alpha through 19.0.34 alpha were released in this cycle. Significant updates in these versions include:

• Keyman for iOS
  • Support for keyboard scaling setting of older iOS versions (#13773).
• Keyman for Android
  • Show Alert dialog for missing languages of a keyboard package (#13786).

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

Keyboard updates

New keyboards

• A new Hindi Flick is an experimental mobile keyboard layout designed for Hindi, utilizing a flick input method (#3445, #3454). Thanks to Froingo.
• A new Takri keyboard, for the Kangri language using the Takri script, thanks to manik-choudhary (#3420, #3490)
• A new Urdu (DVorak) keyboard in DVorak Layout thanks to Caliph3ubaidUrRe7man (#3499)
• A new ewe keyboard for all ewe speaking regions in Ghana and the diaspora thanks to RyanCecil1 (#3504)
• A new BidBiatahBS keyboard for the Bidayuh people (#3488)
• A new Salako-Rara keyboard for Salako people (#3495)

Enhanced keyboards

• Appreciation to dyacob for the new features for the GFF Amharic keyboard v3.2 (#3451, #3479):
  • Fixed K_J key nextlayer changes (from ደ to ጀ layer)
  • Removed accidental double U+2019 on an apostrophe longpress
  • Added missing ‘‹’ and ‘›’ to apostrophe longpress
  • Removed double quote from the double quote longpress
  • Added new layers: latin-punct-layer and ethio-punct-layer.
• Thanks to Cathaylaboratory for updating a few keyboards such as:
  • Hong Kong keyboard v1.0.2: updated keyboard layout (#3443)
  • vietnam keyboard v1.0.7: fixed several bugs in generation  (#3447)
• sil_tchad_qwerty keyboard v5.3.3: improved web integration thanks to roger-nadoumngar (#3441)
• Tengwar keyboard v1.4: changed some key placements in touch layout thanks to Caliph3ubaidUrRe7man (#3500) 
• Nepali Romanized keyboard v1.0.1: fixed ZWJ label in phone layout thanks to sapradhan (#3444)
• Shahmukhi Phonetic keyboard v1.1.1:  updated mobile keyboard so shift layer return to default works (#3446)
• Kui Odia WinScript keyboard v1.0.2: included new fonts (#3456)
• Afghan Turkmen keyboard v3.0: update keyboard layout (#3492)
• Winchus keyboard v1.4: added dash and improve touch layout thanks to alex-larkin (#3493)

Predictive text dictionary updates

• Getat predictive text v1.3: added new words, fixed typos and deleted duplicate words thanks to katelem24 (#311)