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 addedEXCEPTION_HANDLER
).
Weblate 5.5¶
Released on April 20th 2024.
New features
Add-ons can be now installed project-wide and site-wide.
API improvements
Added Systran automatic translation support.
Improvements
Docker container now validates user password strength 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 inINSTALLED_APPS
andLOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL
, please adjust your settings accordingly.Weblate now requires Python 3.10 and Django 5.0.
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.
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.
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.
Weblate 5.4¶
Released on February 15th 2024.
New features
Perl brace format quality check.
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.
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.
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/
.New automatic fixer 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.
Added 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, seeGET /api/units/(int:id)/
.
Upgrading
Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.
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.
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
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.
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 the API.
Replacing a file using upload when existing is corrupted.
Compatibility
Upgrading
Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.
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.
Workflow 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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Performance 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.
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 inCACHES
andSOCIAL_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.