Keyman Update for 4 July 2025

This blog reports on significant Keyman product and keyboard development updates over the period from 23 June 2025 — 4 July 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 19.0.67 alpha through 19.0.78 alpha were released in this cycle.

• Keyman for Windows
  • Fixed transmit failure of Keyman diagnostic report (#14055)
• Keyman Developer
  • Additional line numbers (#14104)
  • Improved documentation of Template in Touch layout tab (#14228)

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

Keyboard updates

New keyboards:

• A new Devanagari KaGaPa Phonetic keyboard for Devanagari script, strictly following recommendations and key combinations as stated by Unicode, thanks to abhi-deshpande (#3582)
• A new Modi KaGaPa Phonetic keyboard for a historically important script, called ‘Modi’, again thanks to abhi-deshpande (#3583)
• A new Cymraeg Fodern keyboard for Welsh language (Cymraeg) using a QWERTY (ANSI or ISO) layout, thanks to joe-shares-stuff (#3585)
• A new experimental korean dubeolsik keyboard for hangul한글, thanks to Cathaylaboratory (#3600)
• A new experimental Dubeolsik Phonetic keyboard which is designed for typing in Korean using a 2-set method, making it easy to input Korean characters (jamo), thanks to ghost (#3602)

Keyboards enhancement:

• Huge thanks to dyacob for updating the keyboards: 
  • GFF Harege Fidelat keyboard v1.1.3: removed unused layers and added additional CSS for popup key (#3578, #3596)
  • GFF Amharic keyboard v3.2.3: fixed keys on extra layers (#3576, #3590)
  • GFF Mesobe Fidelat keyboard v1.1.3: made hint symbol darker on colored keys (#3597)
•  New improvement on keyboards, thanks to Shavian-info: 
  • Shaw Imperial keyboard v1.3: added latin alphabet caps layer (#3584)
  • Shaw JAFL keyboard v1.1: corrected minor typos (#3598)
• The korean 9 keys keyboard v2.0:  added automatic syllables separation, thanks to Cathaylaboratory (#3591)

Predictive text dictionary update

• Shaw ReadLex predictive text v1.2: updated spellings to reflect the Kingsley Read Lexicon, thanks to Shavian-info (#318)