We have just released Keyman 11.0 for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and web, as well as Keyman Developer, the keyboard development suite. Keyman for Linux is entirely new for version 11. For the other platforms, our priority has been on fixing issues and improving stability, rather than introducing lots Read more…
Introduction to the Roadmap This blog post contains the February 2019 update to our roadmap for Keyman. This roadmap depends very much on the resources available to our team, and it will change over time. It is not a promise to deliver by a date, but rather our best estimate Read more…
We are pleased to announce the launch of the beta version of Keyman 11 on all platforms. A beta release is a version of Keyman where we believe the features we have been working on are complete and now we will be working to tidy up loose ends and known Read more…
Background It recently came to our attention that under Windows 10 1803 and Windows 10 1809, Keyman keyboards simply do not work when associated with Amharic or Sinhala languages, and sometimes do not work with Tigrinya. We have done a careful investigation and believe the issue to be within Windows Read more…
This highly technical blog post explains the design rationale for the Keyman Engine keystroke input pipeline on Windows. The intended audience is software developers working on Keyman Engine, and other interested onlookers. In the beginning, the user-mode Windows keyboard input pipeline looked something like this: Now this diagram leaves out Read more…
We report all issues in Windows that impact Keyman to Microsoft. If a particular issue impacts you, it is very helpful to “upvote” the issue or add further comments about the issue in the Feedback Hub which is a part of Windows 10. However, you can only do this once Read more…
Introduction to the Roadmap Update: see the latest version of the roadmap This blog post contains the October 2018 update to our roadmap for Keyman. This roadmap depends very much on the resources available to our team, and it will change over time. It is not a promise to deliver Read more…
Announcing the release of Keyman 10 We are excited to announce that Keyman 10 is now ready for download! This release of Keyman is especially significant: Keyman is now open source Keyman is 100% free This is the first release of Keyman from SIL Keyman 10 is available in simultaneous Read more…
Introduction to the Roadmap Update: see the latest version of the roadmap In this blog post, I have written up our roadmap for Keyman for the next couple of years. This roadmap depends very much on the resources available to our team, and it will change over time. It is Read more…
SIL International is very pleased to announce that Keyman is now completely free and open source! Today, 23 August 2017, we released free versions of the existing Keyman products on the Keyman website, and have simultaneously launched our open source version of Keyman on GitHub. Keyman is a complex product Read more…