Keyman Update for 25 September 2026

This edition highlights the latest Keyman product and keyboard development updates from 14 — 25 September 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

Bonjour

Nous vous remercions pour votre soutient pour ce projet qui nous tient à cœur. Le clavier carambolfulbhe est plus complet et sera meilleur nous voulons que vous publiez ce dernier. Il peut être unique pour tous les peuples fulah ou peuls du monde c’est un clavier multi saisie voir multilingue.

Translated: Hello

Thank you for your support of this project, which is very important to us. The Carambolfulbhe keyboard is more complete and will be better; we would like you to publish it. It can be a unique keyboard for all Fulani people worldwide; it’s a multi-input keyboard, even multilingual.

— Carambolfulbhe keyboard (GitHub)

Keyman minor releases

Keyman 18.0.252-stable was released in this cycle with notable changes:

• Keyman for Android 18.0.252 addresses a crash for predictive text and we recommend upgrading to this version as soon as possible if you are experiencing this problem. You can update Keyman immediaately in the Play Store app or by visiting keyman.com/android (Keyman will update automatically but that may take longer)
• Keyman Engine for Android 18.0.252 has been released and this out-of-band change requires an additional import in build.gradle for apps using it. Add: implementation 'androidx.webkit:webkit:1.14.0'. This change is required due to a bug fix relating to a Chrome issue with importScripts and impacts any Keyman Engine for Android dependent app that uses lexical models (See #13862, #16628 for details)

Keyman 19.0.286-alpha through 19.0.293-alpha were also released in this cycle. There are many significant changes: 

• Keyman Developer
  • Trim whitespace from new words in the wordlist editor (#16538)
• Keyman for iPhone and iPad
  • Improve autocorrection of transposed text, e.g. teh (#16450)
• Keyman for Android
  • Improve autocorrection of transposed text, e.g. teh (#16450)
  • Suppress autocorrection of hardware keystroke input (#16606)
• Keyman for Windows
  • Add documentation for ‘Update’ tab (#16544)
• Keyman for macOS
  • Remove obsolete Keyman Configuration UI (#16570)
• KeymanWeb
  • Address ‘off’ mode bugs in setKeyboardForControl API (#16524)

BREAKING CHANGES:

• Keyman Engine for Windows: COM interface changes
  • Added the MCompileForBaseKeyboard(long KLID) COM method to the new IKeymanKeyboardInstalled2 interface, which extends IKeymanKeyboardInstalled. The method accepts the user’s base keyboard ID and allows mcompile to compile all installed keyboard layouts against that keyboard ID (#16162)
  • Added the Install3 COM method, which accepts a base keyboard ID. The base keyboard ID is passed to mcompile during installation so that the keyboard layout can be compiled against the specified base keyboard. Install3 has been added to the following interfaces: IKeymanKeyboardFile3, IKeymanPackageFile3, IKeymanKeyboardsInstalled3, and IKeymanPackagesInstalled3 (#16528)
• Keyman Engine for Web: API changes
  • deprecated keyman.moveToElement(elem) API (use elem.focus() instead) (#16661)

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

Keyboard Updates

New keyboard

• The Tchad Arabe keyboard enables the typing of Chadian languages that use Arabic script, including all Arabic script special characters defined in the Chadian National Alphabet – thanks to Jeff Heath (#4133)

Improved keyboards

• The Jinland keyboard v3.0 uses r to generate rising tone, changes the “erhua” from “r” to “l”, adopts Alt+A and Alt+O to generate â and ô in disyllable words – much thanks to Cathaylaboratory (#4130)
• The Luo Lakeside keyboard v1.0.2 fixes keyboard images in welcome documentation (#4136)

Predictive text update

• The Ligurian predictive text for the Ligurian – thanks to jeanm (#352)

New contributors

We welcome three new contributors to the team page. Thank you for helping Keyman to serve everyone better! During this release cycle, we recognize:

• AB Aziz helped contribute to the Hanifi Rohingya keyboard v1.1 add online Rohingya Virtual Keyboard resources in document (#4139)
• ejschantz and geschantz added About and Configuration dialogs into Keyman for macOS (#16553)