Keyman Update for 8 May 2026

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
  • Fix blank contextual help in Keyman Configuration (#15724)
  • Fix caps lock in compliant apps (#15771)

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.