This blog reports on significant Keyman product and keyboard development updates over the period from 09 December 2024 — 20 December 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 18.0.154 alpha through 18.0.162 alpha were released in this cycle.

Significant updates in these versions include:

  • Keyman Developer
    • The kmc copy supports only the full GitHub URL (#12773).
    • Documentation on Language examples (#12805).
    • Fixes keyboard hint property in the displaymap (#12807).
  • Keyman for iOS
    • Allows altering the height of the keyboard within the settings (#12571).
  • Keyman for macOS
    • Fixes OSK to accurately display keyboard layers based on key presses of the physical keyboard (#12582, #12836).
    • Integration of the New SIL Global logo (#12766).
  • Localization
    • More translation for Czech (#12792).
    • Further Italian translation (#12793).

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

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