Keyman Update for 19 January 2024

This blog reports on significant Keyman product and keyboard development updates over the period from 9 December 2023 — 19 January 2024.

As always, you can follow all of our development online at github.com/keymanapp/keyman, and you may find the Keyman Development Status Site at status.keyman.com both interesting and slightly overwhelming!

Keyman minor releases

Keyman 17.0.228-alpha through 17.0.248-alpha were released in this cycle.

Significant updates in these versions include:

• New multitap and flick gesture support for touch keyboards for Web, Android, and iOS. (#7324)
• Kibaku, Mon, French, German, Spanish (Latin America) translation updates (#10174, #10175, #10368)
• Keyman Developer: the IDE now uses a multi-window model, so opening another project will open in a new window. (#10155)
• Keyman Developer: new compiler toolchain now has a public API (#10208)
• Keyman Core: Context APIs have been dramatically simplified, with only 2 APIs to be used by most consumers (#10401)
• Keyman Core: Introduced debug logging API for retrieving context (#10377)

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

Keyboard updates

• The Himyarit Musnad keyboard has been updated to v1.3, replacing a font (#2512), with thanks to @dyacob.
• Newa Traditional Extended keyboard version 1.0.2 adds 𑐾 (U+1143E) and 𑐿 (U+1143F) on touch layout (#2510), credit goes to @SvarnimN.
• Minor documentation updates have been made to Armenian Mnemonic and Armenian Mnemonic R keyboards (#2515).
• The Limbu Phonetic (SIL) and Limbu Typewriter (SIL) keyboards add single danda (U+0964), and a corresponding updated font (#2517).
• A new keyboard, Esperanto Plus, is now available (#2513, #2518, and #2519), alongside a corresponding predictive text lexical model (#234), with thanks to @anvalon.