This blog reports on significant Keyman product and keyboard development updates over the period from 2 February 2026 — 13 February 2026.
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 18.0.246-stable was released in this cycle to include:
- Keyman for Linux
- Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky) is End-of-Life and will no longer receive software updates for Keyman (#15424)
The full list of updates can be viewed in the version history.
Keyman 19.0.197-alpha through 19.0.202-alpha were also released in this cycle:
- Keyman for Linux
- Check file before installation (#15573)
- Keyman for Windows
- Fix unresponsive splash screen (#15269)
- Keyman for Android
- Translate the keyboard search screen (#15510)
The full list of updates can be viewed in the version history.
Keyboard releases
Enhanced keyboard
- The Linear B Full Syllabary Signs keyboard v1.2 fix the OSK Right Alt layer (#3863). Contributed by WseriesY.
- The Athinkra Mwangwego Experimental Keyboard (v0.9 – v1.1) provide mituyo stacking rules, lone vowels, and various more fixes (#3866). Credit goes to dyacob.
- The cantonese telex keyboard v4.0 and Hong Kong keyboard v2.0 add new letters
țŧandṳ(#3869, #3873). Much thanks to Cathaylaboratory. - The Arabic Phonetic (SIL) keyboard v1.4 change Shift + U key to use Unicode code point in Keyman rule (#3871).
- The Greek Tonizo keyboard v1.0.8 exclude of vareia & correct a bug in processing of “ὑι” (#3872). Appreciation towards tonizo2025.