This edition highlights the latest Keyman product and keyboard development updates from 25 May — 5 June 2026, describing recent progress across the project and contributions from the community.
Stay up-to-date with ongoing development at github.com/keymanapp/keyman, and you may follow our progress on the Keyman Development Status Site at status.keyman.com, where you’ll find it both interesting and slightly overwhelming!
A dose of testimony
Dear Keyman users, keyboard developers, Indigenous language, and the broader language and localization community,
Keyman has been and is an essential tool for bringing digitally disadvantaged languages online for 2 decades. Translation Commons has created more than a dozen keyboards for Indigenous languages using Keyman. It would have been impossible otherwise.
– Tex (LinkedIn Post)
Keyman minor releases
Keyman 19.0.237-alpha through 19.0.242-alpha were released in this cycle:
- Keyman for Windows
- Ensure the default locale always appears in the Display menu (#15984)
- Web
- Fix mismatched documentation for Control-by-Control example (#16042)
The full list of updates can be viewed in the version history.
Keyboard releases
New keyboards
- The Hanifi Rohingya Alternate keyboard lays out all the keys in a more understandable, suitable way, which also allows for space for some letters not included in the normal Hanifi keyboard (#3998) – thanks to JustaRed.
- The Madurese (SIL) keyboard is created for Madurese language written with Latin script (#4001)
- The experimental Punjabi Flick keyboard is developed for Punjabi with a mobile layout that utilizes a flick input method, inspired by the Hindi Flick Keyboard (#4003) – credit goes to Caliph3ubaidUrRe7man.
- The sil_senegal_bda_azerty keyboard is designed for typing the Bayot (Latin) language (#4004) – contribution from madskinner.
Improved keyboard
- The Arabic W/O Dots keyboard v1.3 fixes shift layout diacritic keys – thanks to Caliph3ubaidUrRe7man (#4007)
New contributors
We welcome five new contributors to the team page. Thank you for helping Keyman to serve everyone better! During this release cycle, we recognize:
- Keyboard contributors
- JustaRed submitted the Hanifi Rohingya Alternate keyboard.
- madskinner created the sil_senegal_bda_azerty keyboard.
- Translation contributors in Crowdin
- Site contributor
- Linsner created a feature pull request adding support for Podman as container engine (shared-sites#96).
Keyboard App Builder updates
Keyboard App Builder 14.2 was released on 29 May 2026. Keyboard App Builder takes a Keyman keyboard and bundles it into a standalone keyboard app for Android for ease of installation and use by end users.
New Features and Improvements
- Android App Registration
- Reorganization of App tabs
- Improvements to App Summary
- Improvements to Log Viewer
- Eyedroppers on Color Selector
Bug fixes
- iOS app and app builder
Please see the Keyboard App Builder Release Notes for more details.