Keyman Update for 3 July 2026

This edition highlights the latest Keyman product and keyboard development updates from 22 June 2026 — 3 July 2026, describing recent progress across the project and contributions from the community.

A few links

• Learn how to create and share a keyboard
• GitHub home for Keyman, where the source code is shared
• Our internal development status site

A dose of testimony

Keyman is a life saver for my language. Here is how Keyman has helped us:

1. The two Keyman keyboards for my language are the only publicly available keyboard for typing my language on computers, and the only available keyboard for typing the language on mobile devices.

2. The Wikipedia for my language was made possible…

Keyman has been such a great help to my language and to me. I’m always excited about Keyman. Every update is a good news to me. Every new roadmap announcement gives my language hope. May God bless Keyman, the Keyman team and Keyman supporters.

Read the full testimony.

– Katelem (SIL Community)

Keyman minor releases

Keyman 19.0.248-alpha through 19.0.251-alpha were released in this cycle. Here are some significant changes:

• Web
  • Breaking change: file: protocol is no longer supported, as keyboards are loaded with fetch() API (#12334)
• Keyman Engine for Android
  • Breaking change: Keyman Engine for Android now requires androidx.webkit:webkit:1.14.0 as an additional dependency (#16146)
• Keyman Developer
  • Clone Keyboard now prevents selection of keyboards that do not have source available (#16111)
  • Bug fixes to the Touch Layout Editor (#16110, #16129)
  • Bug fix for a sporadic crash when closing Keyman Developer (#16140)

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

Keyboard releases

New keyboards

• The Swahili Ajami (QWERTY) keyboard is an Ajami keyboard for Swahili (#4042)
• The Arabic Flick keyboard is a flick-style keyboard for Arabic, like the T9 Style keyboard for Japanese – credit goes to Caliph3ubaidUrRe7man (#4043)
• The eastern_pwo_karen keyboard is created for Eastern Pwo Karen people from all over the world – introduced to us by easternpwokarenunicodeteam-web (#4044)
• The Halang keyboard is designed for the Halang language of Vietnam – much thanks to poetcin (#4046)

Improved keyboards

• The Luri keyboard v1.0.8 fixes:
  • Touch layouts and mismatched layers
  • Conflict between desktop and touch
  • Missing and keyboard rules
  • “Southern Luri” (ISO 639-3: luz, BCP 47: luz-Latn) – contributed by luresun (#4039)
• The Shanghai Telex keyboard v1.1 replaces old characters with new ones such as:
  • Letter ŏ, đr, ě, ü and ą ą̆ ą̈ ę ę̂ į ǫ ǫ̂ ų ų̛ ưǫ̛ nasal vowels
  • ä vowel for [æ]
  • ö vowel for [ɤ]
  • Adopted ư to represent [ɿ] – thanks to Cathaylaboratory (#4040)
• The Mising keyboard v1.1 contains:
  • Keyboard Co-author name
  • Updated touch layouts: added numeric, numpad, and symbol layers
  • Adjusted positions of specific alphabets on touch layout for better typing flow
  • Fixed long vowel subkeys on touch layouts
  • Added currency formatting
  • Updated help documentation and welcome file – submitted by Vivian5G56 (#4048)

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:
  • Young seung Hwang for submitting the Halang keyboard.
  • luresun have updated the Luri keyboard.
  • Eastern Pwo Karen Unicode Team for introducing the eastern_pwo_karen keyboard.
• Translation
  • blaze contributed to the Spanish, Latin America translation.
  • Eyobed Awel helped translating for the Amharic language.