Weblate 5.3#

Released on December 14th 2023.

New features

Improvements

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.

All changes in detail.

Weblate 5.2#

Released on November 16th 2023.

New features

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

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

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.

  • Engage 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

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

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

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.