This blog reports on significant Keyman product and keyboard development updates over the period from 10 November 2025 — 21 November 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 19.0.158-alpha through 19.0.165-alpha were released in this cycle.
Significant updates in these versions include:
- Android
- Linux
- Windows
- Improve the stability for detecting hotkeys and modifier keys pressed (#15179)
The full list of updates can be viewed in the version history.
Keyboard updates
New keyboard:
- A new Temiskaming FN Algonquin keyboard for Algonquin language, thanks to thohahente (#3786)
- A new Amazigh Latin (SIL) keyboard to facilitate the Latin-script transcription of most of the Amazigh languages (#3781, #3788)
Keyboards enhancement:
- SIL Yi keyboard v2.0: added new touch layout that allows any of the 1100+ Yi syllable characters to be typed with just two keystrokes (#3750)
- Taang (SIL) keyboard v1.2: added “[]” punctuation keys to shift layer (#3783)
- Runeboard – Runic keyboard v4.2: removed excessive ZWJs and ZWSP after non-breaking hyphen, thanks to Runeboard (#3776)
- Huge thanks to oyousuf for updating:
- Masaba keyboard v1.0.1: fixed an error with the letter <JI> (#3780)
- Soninke N’ti keyboard v1.0.2: removed 2 punctuation marks (#3782)