Weblate 5.4

Released on February 15th 2024.

New features

• Perl brace format quality check.

• Mobile Kotlin resources.

• Format.JS JSON file.

• Search input is now syntax highlighted, see Searching.

• Weblate is now available in தமிழ்.

Improvements

• Better logging in createadmin.

• Component discovery now reports skipped entries.

• Adding string in a repository triggers Notifications.

• OpenAI better handles batch translations and glossaries.

• LibreTranslate better handles batch translations.

• Text variant of notification e-mails now properly indicate changed strings.

• File downloads now honor If-Modified-Since.

• Number of words support for CJK languages.

• Component discovery now preserves Component Lists.

• Nicer formatting of Glossary tooltips.

• GET /api/components/(string:project)/(string:component)/ now includes information about linked component.

• Improved Workflow customization configuration forms.

Bug fixes

• Plural forms handling in Qt Linguist .ts.

• Added missing documentation for ADMINS_CONTACT.

• Automatic fixer for Punctuation spacing no longer adds new whitespace.

• Pending changes committing could be omitted under some circumstances.

• Remove blank strings now correctly removes blank plurals.

Compatibility

• Last changed timestamp now reflects changes outside Weblate as well. This affects both Weblate’s REST API and the user interface.

• Releases are signed by Sigstore instead of PGP, see Verifying release signatures.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

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Weblate 5.3.1

Released on December 19th 2023.

Bug fixes

• Not updating statistics in some situations.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

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Weblate 5.3

Released on December 14th 2023.

New features

• OpenAI automatic suggestion service.

• Alibaba automatic suggestion service.

• Added labels API, see GET /api/projects/(string:project)/labels/.

• Glossaries in automatic suggestion.

• New automatic fixed for Punctuation spacing.

• Google Cloud Translation Advanced now better honors placeables or line breaks.

Improvements

• Reduced memory usage for statistics.

• DeepL performs better in Automatic translation and supports Glossaries in automatic suggestion.

• Azure AI Translator supports Glossaries in automatic suggestion.

• Improved region selection in Google Cloud Translation Advanced.

• Addded nested JSON exporter in Downloading translations.

• Improved Git exporter performance on huge repositories.

Bug fixes

• Removing stale VCS directories.

Compatibility

• Dropped Microsoft Terminology service for automatic suggestions as it is no longer provided by Microsoft.

• labels in units API now expose full label info, see GET /api/units/(int:id)/.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

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Weblate 5.2.1

Released on November 22nd 2023.

Improvements

• Show search field after no strings found while translating.

• Added soft hyphen to special characters toolbar.

Bug fixes

• Database backups compatibility with Alibaba Cloud Database PolarDB.

• Crash on loading statistics calculated by previous versions.

• Sort icons in dark mode.

• Project level statistics no longer count categorized components twice.

• Possible discarding pending translations after editing source strings.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

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Weblate 5.2

Released on November 16th 2023.

New features

• Azure DevOps pull requests

Improvements

• Faster statistics updates.

• Better e-mail selection in user profile.

• Automatic fixups are now applied to suggestions as well.

• DeepL can now configure default formality for translations.

• Use neutral colors for progress bars and translation unit states.

• Generate MO files can optionally include strings needing editing.

• Use Accept-Language to order translations for unauthenticated users.

• Add option to directly approve suggestions with Dedicated reviewers workflow.

• One-click removal of project or component Notifications.

• Statistics now includes character and word counts for more string states.

Bug fixes

• Fixed creating component within a category by upload.

• Error handling in organizing components and categories.

• Fixed moving categories between projects.

• Fixed formatting of translation memory search results.

• Allow non-breaking space character in Unsafe HTML cleanup.

Compatibility

• Apple iOS strings exporter now produces UTF-8 encoded files.

• Python 3.12 is now supported, though not recommended, see Python dependencies.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

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Weblate 5.1.1

Released on October 25th 2023.

New features

Improvements

• Add missing languages now uses a dedicated user for changes.

• Added button for sharing on Fediverse.

• Added validation for VCS integration credentials.

• Reduced overhead of statistics collection.

Bug fixes

• Added plurals validation when editing string using API.

• Replacing a file using upload when existing is corrupted.

Compatibility

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

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Weblate 5.1

Released on October 16th 2023.

New features

• Yandex v2 machine translation service.

• Automatic translation and Automatic translation are now stored with a dedicated user as an author.

• Add-ons changes to strings are now stored with a dedicated user as an author.

• Downloading components, categories or projects can now convert file formats.

• Worfklow customization allows to fine-tune localization workflow per language.

Improvements

• Enable reviews also shows the approval percentage in object listings.

• Project is added to watched upon accepting an invitation.

• Configure VCS API credentials as a Python dict from environment variables.

• Improved accuracy of checks on plural messages.

• Enage page better shows stats.

• Strings which can not be saved to a file no longer block other strings to be written.

• Fixed some API URLs for categorized components.

• Show plural form examples more prominently.

• Highlight whitespace in Automatic suggestions.

• Faster comment and component removal.

• Show disabled save button reason more prominently.

• New string notification can now be triggered for each string.

Bug fixes

• Improved OCR error handling in Visual context for strings.

• Automatic fixups gracefully handle strings from Multivalue CSV file.

• Occasional crash in Automatic suggestions caching.

• Fixed history listing for entries within a Category.

• Fixed editing Administration team.

• Add missing languages add-on could miss some languages.

Compatibility

• Categories are now included weblate:// repository URLs.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

• Upgrades from older version than 5.0.2 are not supported, please upgrade to 5.0.2 first and then continue in upgrading.

• Dropped support for deprecated insecure configuration of VCS service API keys via _TOKEN/_USERNAME in settings.py.

• Weblate now defaults to persistent database connections in settings_example.py and Docker.

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Weblate 5.0.2

Released on September 14th 2023.

Improvements

• Translate page performance.

• Search now looks for categories as well.

Bug fixes

• Rendering of release notes on GitHub.

• Listing of categorized projects.

• Translating a language inside a category.

• Categories sorting.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

• The database upgrade can take considerable time on larger sites due to indexing changes.

All changes in detail.

Weblate 5.0.1

Released on September 10th 2023.

New features

• Added GET /api/component-lists/(str:slug)/components/.

Improvements

• Related glossary terms lookup is now faster.

• Logging of failures when creating pull requests.

• History is now loaded faster.

• Added object id to all Weblate’s REST API endpoints.

• Better performance of projects with a lot of components.

• Added compatibility redirects for some old URLs.

Bug fixes

• Creating component within a category.

• Source strings and state display for converted formats.

• Block Edit base file on formats which do not support it.

• Reused translation is no longer triggered for blank strings.

• Performace issues while browsing some categories.

• Fixed GitHub Team and Organization authentication in Docker container.

• GitLab merge requests when using a customized SSH port.

Compatibility

• pyahocorasick dependency has been replaced by ahocorasick_rs.

• The default value of IP_PROXY_OFFSET has been changed from 1 to -1.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

• The database upgrade can take considerable time on larger sites due to indexing changes.

All changes in detail.

Weblate 5.0

Released on August 24th 2023.

New features

• Markdown files support, thanks to Anders Kaplan.

• Category can now organize components within a project.

• Fluent format now has better syntax checks thanks to Henry Wilkes.

• Inviting users now works with all authentication methods.

• Docker container supports file backed secrets, see Passing secrets.

Improvements

• Plurals handling in machine translation.

• Unchanged translation check now honors placeholders even in the strict mode.

• Reused translation is no longer triggered for languages with a single plural form.

• WebP is now supported for Visual context for strings.

• Avoid duplicate notification when a user is subscribed to overlapping scopes.

• OCR support for non-English languages in Visual context for strings.

• XLIFF now supports displaying source string location.

• Rendering strings with plurals, placeholders or alternative translations.

• User API now includes last sign in date.

• User API token is now hidden for privacy reasons by default.

• Faster adding terms to glossary.

• Better preserve translation on source file change in HTML files and Text files.

• Added indication of automatic assignment to team listing.

• Users now have to confirm invitations to become team members.

• Formatted strings can now check all plural forms with the strict-format flag.

• Checks and fixups browsing experience.

• Highlight differences in the source string in automatic suggestions.

• Visual diff now better understands compositing characters.

Bug fixes

• User names handling while committing to Git.

• Remove blank strings and Cleanup translation files now remove all strings at once.

• Language filtering in Translation progress reporting.

• Reduced false positives of Reused translation when fixing the translation.

• Fixed caching issues after updating screenshots from the repository.

Compatibility

• Python 3.9 or newer is now required.

• Several UI URLs have been changed to be able to handle categories.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

• There are several changes in settings_example.py, most notable is changes in CACHES and SOCIAL_AUTH_PIPELINE, please adjust your settings accordingly.

• Several previously optional dependencies are now required.

• The database upgrade can take considerable time on larger sites due to structure changes.

All changes in detail.