Keyman Update for 29 August 2025

This blog reports on significant Keyman product and keyboard development updates over the period from 18 August 2025 — 29 August 2025.

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 18.0.239 stable and 18.0.240 stable were released in this cycle. Significant updates in these versions include:

• Keyman for Linux
  • Document the requirement of patched ibus for Keyman (#14113)
  • Fix lintian warning (#14591)
• Keyman for Android
  • Show the system OSK while a physical keyboard is connected on Android 15 (#14547)
  • Add preferences for FirstVoices and Keyman apps to show OSK when physical keyboard is active (#14561)
  • Address keyboard’s size issue (#14473)
• Keyman for iOS
  • Restore keyboard scale for iPad Air 2 (#14306)
• Keyman for Web
  • Fix error loading OSK on KeymanWeb Test Pages (#14238)

Keyman 19.0.102 alpha through 19.0.109 alpha were also released in this cycle. Some notable changes are:

• Keyman Developer
  • Flag missing or empty <ID> elements in package source with a compiler error (#14649)
  • Handle failure to create destination path (#14650)
• Keyman for Windows
  • Check automatic updates (#14295)
• Keyman for Linux
  • Fix keyboards missing from menu (#14542)
• Keyman for Android
  • Show the system OSK while a physical keyboard is connected on Android 15 (#14547)
  • Add preferences for FirstVoices and Keyman apps to show OSK when physical keyboard is active (#14539, #14546)
  • Fix layout gap for in-app and system keyboard (#14619)

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

Keyboard updates

New keyboards

• A new sil_tchad_false_azerty keyboard for typing all special characters required by the languages of Chad using the Chadian National Alphabet (in Roman script), thanks to roger-nadoumngar (#3679)
• A new sil_hupdah keyboard for the Hup language (#3684)

Keyboards enhancement

• Kcho (SIL) keyboard v1.1: added rules for handling NFD combining diacritic input (#3682)
• orma keyboard v1.2: changed t-ejective to U+0162 and U+0163, thanks to sewhite (#3680)
• சுரதா-பாமுனி | Suratha Bamini keyboard v2.2.2: added support for Indian Rupee Sign ₹ (#3693)
• Huge thanks to Cathaylaboratory for updating several keyboards such as: 
  • cantonese telex keyboard v3.1: shortened the rules for generating letters (#3681)
  • Hong Kong keyboard v1.0.3: changed the spelling of yừ yữ yự to ừ ữ ự (#3686)
  • Lac Viet keyboard v2.0: fixed some bugs (#3687)