This blog reports on significant Keyman product and keyboard development updates over the period from 29 September 2025 — 10 October 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 19.0.129-alpha through 19.0.139-alpha were released in this cycle.
Significant updates in these versions include:
- Keyman for Android
- Improve AltGr and Control key interaction on Windows On Screen Keyboard on European layouts (#14909)
- Update Vietnamese translations (#14915)
- Removed old dbus-x11 dependency on Linux (#14895)
- Clarify row deletion behavior in Keyman Developer documentation (#14919)
The full list of updates can be viewed in the version history.
Keyboard updates
New keyboards
- The Mara keyboard has been designed for the Mara people to easily type in their language. Credit goes to Laitei40 (#3735, #3744).
- The Dzardzongke keyboard is for typing the Dzardzongke language spoken in Nepal, using the orthography developed by Marieke Meelen (University of Cambridge) and Charles Ramble (Paris EPHE). A lovely contribution by kitty-liu-wy (#3740).
- The German Enhanced keyboard is an enhanced version of German Basic 1.1, which follows the Windows 10 layout. It is optimized to be used with macOS and an Apple keyboard with a German layout. Great submission by xavernitsch (#3742).
- The experimental Wyandot keyboard uses American Phonetic Alphabet symbols, which were contributed by MCGallaspy (#3737).
Enhanced keyboards
- Thanks to Cathaylaboratory for the Hoisan keyboard v2.0 and Hong Kong keyboard v1.1.1 with the following:
- New keyboard rules
- Improved keyboard documentation