Keyman Update for 1 August 2025

This blog reports on significant Keyman product and keyboard development updates over the period from 21 July 2025 — 1 August 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 19.0.86 alpha through 19.0.93 alpha were released in this cycle.

Significant updates in these versions include:

• Keyman for Windows
  • Added a check for Hotkeys registry (#14358).
• Keyman Developer documentation
  • Added the ANSI and ISO Keyman keyboard layouts (#14243).

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

Keyboard updates

New keyboard

• A new Pak Urdu Phonetic keyboard based on the original Pak Urdu Installer, thanks to BARQx (#3633)
• Huge thanks to Cathaylaboratory for creating new keyboards: 
  • jinland keyboard for Jinland National Language Script (#3647)
  • old_korean keyboard for old hangul옛한글 (#3650)
• Many thanks to RyanCecil1 for developing new keyboards:
  • sisaali keyboard is a QWERTY based keyboard for the sisaali language of Ghana (#3638)
  • Nzema keyboard is a QWERTY based keyboard for the Nzema language of Ghana (#3645)

Keyboards enhancement

• Phonetic Farsi keyboard v2.0.1: updated contact details and copyright holder alias, thanks to alliancecrusader (#3637)
• Kayah [Kayah Li] (SIL) keyboard v1.3.1: added single quotes to shift q and shift w  (#3649)
• Kazakh (Arabic) keyboard v1.0.2: changed the direction of double angle quotation marks (#3652, #3654)
• Polytonic Greek (SIL) keyboard v1.8.5: fixed up some longpress keys (#3651)
• Grateful to dyacob for updating the keyboards:
  • GFF Geʾez keyboard v2.0.3: removed font file  (#3659)
  • GFF Amharic keyboard v3.3: updated fonts and removed a hint (#3653)
• Naija Type keyboard v65: added modifier and tone symbol, thanks to rowbory (#3656)
• sil_tchad_qwerty keyboard v5.3.4: updated CSS, thanks to roger-nadoumngar (#3619)
• vietnam keyboard v2.0.1: fixing several bugs in keyboard codes, thanks to Cathaylaboratory (#3635)

Keyboard App Builder updates

Keyboard App Builder 13.0 was released on 31 July 2025.
Please see the Release Notes for more details.