This blog reports on significant Keyman product and keyboard development updates over the period from 16 March 2026 — 27 March 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 18.0.249-stable was released in this cycle to include:

  • Keyman Developer
    • Support complex words for predictive text (#15777), with a technical blog explaining how it works.

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

Keyman 19.0.216-alpha through 19.0.221-alpha were also released in this cycle with more fixes:

  • Keyman for macOS
    • Improve backspace rules for compliant apps (#15561)

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

Keyboard releases

Improved keyboards

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