Keyman Update for 9 October 2026

This edition highlights the latest Keyman product and keyboard development updates from 28 September — 9 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

Obolo Wikipedia is now live at ann.wikipedia.org 2!

This wouldn’t have been possible without Keyman keyboard. I know it because I started the project in 2019 and recruited other volunteers to do it. Over 90% of the text in this Wikipedia project was typed with Keyman keyboard on Android devices, and very few on Keyman desktop. The project was approved on 2nd October and the site went live two days ago.

I thank God for making me discover Keyman keyboard. May God bless the Keyman team, and may Keyman live long.

— katelem (Thank you Keyman!)

Keyman minor releases

Keyman 18.0.253-stable was released in this cycle with a notable change:

• Keyman for Mac
  • Fix title bar of On Screen Keyboard so it can be closed (#16680)

Keyman 19.0.294-alpha through 19.0.299-alpha and 20.0.1-alpha through 20.0.2-alpha were also released in this cycle. There are many significant changes: 

• Keyman for Mac
  • Launch Configuration from the Input Menu (#16676)
  • Support toggle between show and hide OSK from Menu (#16708)
  • Apply backspace to the correct location (#16634)
• Keyman Developer
  • Support drag and drop from character map into debug window (#16685)
  • Check any() and index() for invalid use of virtual keys (#16717)
  • Handle missing &name store in package compiler (#16697)
  • Handle .gitignore in npm-based installations of kmc-generate (#16686)
• Keyman for Windows
  • Add user interface to expose startup mismatch with Windows settings in Configuration (#16695, #16630)
• Keyman for Linux
  • Update Linux standards version (#16714)

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

Keyboard Updates

Improved keyboards

• The Numanggang keyboard v2.0.1: Help and welcome page now explain how to type ŋ and Ŋ on a phone, and how to switch to Numanggang if Keyman is showing a different keyboard – contributed by KevinPNG (#4142)
• The poorigbelle keyboard v1.2:
  • Add K_Q and polish to the touch layouts (#4178)
  • Add missing keystroke rules to help and welcome files (#4141)
• The Remington GAIL (SIL) keyboard v1.1.1 updates rule for numpad to use NCAPS (#4150)
• The Indigenous NT keyboard v4.0.7 adds BKSP and ENTER keys to RALT mobile layers (#4162)
• The SIL Yi keyboard v2.0.1 renames T_BKSP to K_BKSP (#4157)
• The Polytonic Greek (SIL) keyboard v1.8.7 changes and adds stores as the “xff” syntax is no longer supported (#4156)

Predictive Text Update

• The Nuer (nus) wordlist is for the Nuer language, compiled using book and natural sentence wordlist. Much thanks to buayism (#353)

New contributors

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

• Buay Kun Gach Deng submitted the Nuer (nus) wordlist for the Nuer language.
• kevinnicholas-dev updated the help and welcome pages for the Numanggang keyboard v2.0.1