This blog reports on significant Keyman product and keyboard development updates over the period from 27 April 2026 — 8 May 2026.
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 19.0.224-alpha through 19.0.228-alpha were released in this cycle:
- Keyman for Windows
The full list of updates can be viewed in the version history.
Keyboard releases
New keyboards
- The Khmer Traditional keyboard is inspired by the Microsoft and Apple Khmer keyboard layout to support typing and transitioning over to Keyman (#3964)
- The Shanghai Telex keyboard is created for Script of the National Language for Wu Ğồ-Nhủ Koâc-Nhủ-Zụ̆ (#3965). Thanks to Cathaylaboratory.
- The poorigbelle keyboard is a custom-designed Android keyboard created specifically to support the unique phonetic needs of African Darfurain native languages (#3970)
Updated keyboards
- These improvements are from Cathaylaboratory:
- vietnam keyboard v2.0.5 removes uncommon “inn” and “ann” rules and symbols (#3972)
- cantonese telex keyboard v4.0.2 adopts “ii” input, removes some uncommon letters, and completes the vowel chart (#3977)
New Contributors
Welcome one new contributor to the team page. Thank you for helping Keyman to serve everyone better! During this release cycle, we recognize:
- pojor contributed to the poorigbelle keyboard.
Keyboard App Builder updates
Keyboard App Builder 14.0 was released on 24 April 2026.
New Features and Improvements
- Build for Android 16
- Installation Enhancements
- Android 16 KB alignment compliance
- Fast Android APK rebuilds
- Fonts
- Android libraries and Command Line Tools.
Bug fixes
- iOS app and app builder
Please see the Keyboard App Builder Release Notes for more details.