This edition highlights the latest Keyman product and keyboard development updates from 12 — 23 October 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
Tons of Thanks. This is the only app in the world which enables all characters of devnagari inscript traditional keyboard. I don’t have words to express my gratitude towards the developer. May God Bless You
Keyman for Android reviewer
Keyman minor releases
Keyman 18.0.254-stable was released in this cycle with a notable change:
- Keyman for Android, Keyman for iPhone and iPad
- Prevent crash if predictive text is not fully loaded (#16784)
- Keyman for Linux
- Update Debian standards version (#16713)
Keyman 19.0.306-beta through 19.0.314-beta and Keyman 20.0.3-alpha through 20.0.7-alpha were also released in this cycle. There are many significant changes:
- Web
- Developer
- Linux
- Update instructions for building with Java (#16835)
- Android
- Selectively disable autocorrect based on context (#16644)
- iPhone and iPad
- Prevent ‘clear text’ crash on Liquid Glass versions (#16814)
- Windows
- Reinitialize Keyman integration in running processes when Keyman is started (#16862)
The full list of updates can be viewed in the version history.
Keyboard Updates
New keyboards
- The Ibibio Tonal keyboard types the full Ibibio alphabet (ọ ị ụ ʌ ə ñ) and all five tone marks: high, low, falling, rising and downstep, on vowels and syllabic nasals, much thanks to akpanakpan (#4189, #4193)
- The Nepali MPP Romanized keyboard and Nepali MPP Traditional keyboard are conforming strictly to the official Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (MPP) & Language Technology Kendra (LTK) specification, appreciation to sundeepdawadi-afk and Aadarshttech (#4167, #4194)
- The experimental Rusyn (Lemko, Poland) keyboard is a phonetic Cyrillic keyboard for Lemko, credit goes to paulolemko (#4191)
- The two experimental keyboards from Cathaylaboratory:
- The romania keyboard is designed for Romanian limba română (#4177)
- The basuria keyboard is for Southwestern Mandarin Xi-Nàn Koan-Hóa. The National Language Script of Basurian is a romanisation script for southwestern mandarin chinese (#4196)
- The KOM keyboard is for writing Kom (Cameroon), with ɨ, ŋ, the glottal stop ’ and low and falling tone marks, thanks to ngalalevisankinimbom-commits (#4187, #4188)
- The Ditsei keyboard is based on Victoria Quint’s Cabécar keyboard, appreciation to pricejoshua (#4123)
New contributors
We welcome nine new contributors to the team page. Thank you for helping Keyman to serve everyone better! During this release cycle, we recognize:
- Aadarshttech and sundeepdawadi-afk helped contribute to the Nepali MPP Romanized keyboard and Nepali MPP Traditional keyboard.
- asnakeberhanu brought the SIL EL – Ethiopian Latin keyboard into Keyman.
- paulolemko introduced us to the experimental Rusyn (Lemko, Poland) keyboard.
- xadxura prepared the UTW2026 – LDML Keyboards Tutorial.
- MrFlex2013 translated the Bengali language for Keyman.
- akpanakpan has made the Ibibio Tonal keyboard for typing the full Ibibio alphabet.
- ngalalevisankinimbom-commits submitted the KOM keyboard for writing Kom (Cameroon).
- pricejoshua brought forth the Ditsei keyboard.
- facundojaureguibehere contributed to the Mbya Guarani keyboard.
Keyboard App Builder
Keyboard App Builder 14.7 was released on 14 October 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
- Keyboard Preview
- Font Management
Bug fixes
- In the app builder
Please see the Keyboard App Builder Release Notes for more details.