Keyman Update for 19 Dec 2025

This blog reports on significant Keyman product and keyboard development updates over the period from 8 December 2025 — 19 December 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 19.0.171-alpha through 19.0.179-alpha were also released in this cycle:

• Keyman for Android
  • New UI for keyboard height adjustment (#15267)
• Keyman Developer
  • Display keyboard version in web debugger (#15339)

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

Keyboard releases

New keyboards

• The experimental moro keyboard is designed for the Moro Language of Southern Kordofan (#3433)
• The Carambolfulbhe keyboard is a Harmonized Pulaar keyboard for writing in Pulaar with the oldest and best-known Pulaar letters, multi-platform and multi-input keyboard (#3771, #3829). Submission from sven-oly.
• The experimental Alkelang keyboard seeks to follow the General Alphabet of African Languages adapated for mobile and tablet devices (#3792). Credit goes to sosa76.
• The East Syriac (Qwerty) keyboard is created for East Syriac (#3824)

Enhanced keyboards

• Thanks to Cathaylaboratory:
  • The Hoisan keyboard v2.1 change “tx” and “th” consonant to replace the former “x” consonant (#3813)
  • The Taigi Telex keyboard v2.0 has a new layout (#3819)
• The Khmer Angkor keyboard v2.4 update welcome.htm, help document, and keyboard images to include gestures (#3821)

Predictive text update

• The new Kanembu lexical model for Kanembu language of Chad (#335). Contributed by jeffheath-sil.