Weblate 5.5.1

Released on April 26th 2024.

New features

• Searching supports source_changed:DATETIME.

• Added several new Language code style.

Improvements

• Display more details on source string change in history.

• Azure AI Translator now supports using custom translators.

• Improved error handling in Inviting new users.

• Added PNG status badge.

• Added list of managed projects to the dashboard view.

• More detailed status of outgoing commits.

• Reduced memory usage.

Bug fixes

• Fixed skipped component update with some add-ons enabled.

• Daily execution of project and site wide add-ons.

• Allow editing strings when the source is marked for editing.

• Updates of the last updated timestamp of a string.

• Fixed project and site wide installation of Squash Git commits and Component discovery add-ons.

• Graceful handling of locking errors in the Weblate’s REST API.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

• There is a change in REST_FRAMEWORK setting (newly added EXCEPTION_HANDLER).

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Weblate 5.5

Released on April 20th 2024.

New features

• Add-ons can be now installed project-wide and site-wide.

• API improvements

  • Added GET /api/categories/(int:id)/statistics/.

  • Added GET /api/projects/(string:project)/file/.

  • Added POST /api/groups/(int:id)/admins/.

  • Added DELETE /api/groups/(int:id)/admins/(int:user_id).

  • Improved POST /api/translations/(string:project)/(string:component)/(string:language)/units/.

• Added Systran automatic translation support.

Improvements

• Docker container now validates user password strenght by default, see WEBLATE_MIN_PASSWORD_SCORE.

• Improved error reporting in Automatic suggestions.

• Maximum size of translation better displays rendered text.

• Admins can now specify username and full name when Inviting new users.

• Added Mismatched interrobang mark.

• Translation component alerts are now refreshed when needed, not just daily.

• Translation progress reporting uses specific word count for CJK languages.

• Team membership changes are now tracked in Audit log.

Bug fixes

• Does not follow glossary works better for languages not using whitespace.

• Translation component alerts better handle non-latin source languages.

• Maximum size of translation sometimes ignored font-spacing:SPACING flag.

• Fixed per-language statistics on nested categories.

• Fixed categories listing on per-language pages.

• Fixed Needs editing state calculation.

• Fixed changing Repository push URL with Gerrit.

• Fixed using categorized components in Management commands, Translation Memory or Automatic translation.

Compatibility

• Several API calls might be affected by stricter validation of boolean fields by Django REST Framework. For example POST /api/projects/(string:project)/components/.

• Uniqueness of name and slug of a component is now enforced at the database level on PostgreSQL 15+.

• Docker image now ships Python packages in /app/venv and installs using uv.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

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

• Weblate now requires Python 3.10 and Django 5.0.

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Weblate 5.4.3

Released on March 26th 2024.

Bug fixes

• Superuser access to components with Restricted access.

• Adjusted default LOGIN_REQUIRED_URLS_EXCEPTIONS to not block Appearance customization.

• Avoid crash on pushing changes to diverged repository.

• Avoid crash when installing Pseudolocale generation.

• Automatically receiving changes from Azure Repos gracefully handles repositories with spaces in URL.

• DeepL gracefully handles glossaries for language variants.

• Excel Open XML better handles blank cells.

• Fixed possible data loss when merging gettext PO file changes in Git.

• Repository operations on project could have skipped some components.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

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Weblate 5.4.2

Released on February 22nd 2024.

Bug fixes

• Displaying debugging page in case of database connection issues.

• Gracefully handle migration with duplicate built-in teams.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

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Weblate 5.4.1

Released on February 19th 2024.

Bug fixes

• Possible crash on Weblate upgrade check when cached from the previous versions.

• Gracefully handle migration with duplicate built-in teams.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

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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.

All changes in detail.