Keyman Update for 26 September 2025

This blog reports on significant Keyman product and keyboard development updates over the period from 15 September 2025 — 26 September 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!

On Screen Keyboard Issue on Android for Android

Keyman for Android 18.0.241 has an issue (#14974) where the bottom of the OSK is partially covered by the device’s navigation bar. A partial fix in the next release (18.0.242) will include the following two fixes:

• Correct the system’s bottom insets to keyboard (#14808)
• Fix system bottom insets for Sample and FirstVoices apps (#14828)

As seen on some devices like the screenshot below, the top of the keyboard may partially cover the text area. This is still an ongoing investigation.

Keyman minor releases

Keyman 18.0.241-stable was released in this cycle. There are notable changes:

• Keyman for Developer
  • Convert forward-slashes to backslashes in Package Editor’s paths (#14722)
• Keyman for Android
  • Fix the Keyman app’s’ layout to fit with system insets (and not be covered by the navigation bar) (#14597, #14642, #14663)
• Keyman for Linux
  • Display the default keyboard when there is missing information in the keyboard package (#14714)
  • Handle crashes of invalid languages in Keyboards (#14771)
  • Remove automatic installation of onboard-keyman (#14773)

Keyman 19.0.121-alpha through 19.0.128-alpha were also released in this cycle. Significant updates in these versions include:

• Keyman for Android
  • Properly show banner after deleting and selecting a keyboard in search (#14768)
  • Fix the Keyman apps’ layout to fit with system insets (and not be covered by the navigation bar) (#14808, #14828)
  • getNavigationBarHeight API documented (#14830)
• Keyman for Linux
  • Remove automatic installation of onboard-keyman (#14773)
• Keyman for Windows
  • Add alphabetical ordering to the language selector in setup (#13573)
  • Change Keyman shortcuts to standard Windows shortcuts (#14814)

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

Keyboard updates

New keyboard:

• A new spanish telex keyboard for Spanish, thanks to Cathaylaboratory (#3719)
• A new Linear B Full Syllabary Signs keyboard for the Mycenean Greek language, using the Linear B script. It contains special signs, as well as signs with unknown values, big thanks to WseriesY (#3733)

Keyboards enhancement:

• Beria Erfe Phonetic keyboard v1.2.1: constrain combining marks on mobile to only occur with vowels (#3721)
• vietnam keyboard v2.0.2: fixing bug of keyboard codes, thanks to  Cathaylaboratory (#3725)
• Pre-Vedic Sanskrit Devanagari Phonetic (OPTITRANS) keyboard v1.0.1: fixed nukta bug, thanks to vvasuki (#3729)
• Borgu Fulfulde Ajami (Azerty) keyboard v1.0.2: removed background keys (qwerty-based) on OSK (#3731)