Michal Čihař - Archive for 2/2018

Last week was mostly spent on reviewing pull requests. There is quite a lot them coming in and I always feel bad when we're not able to review incoming code in timely manner, but unfortunately it happens time to time.

Handled issues:

• #13892 Fix charset error when creating/editing routines; bug #13889
• #14036 Fix broken sort
• #14006 Translated using Weblate (Filipino)
• #13964 Warning: hash_equals(): Expected known_string to be a string, null given
• #14021 fix maintenance operations
• #14022 Max height not set for console
• #14024 Set console max height, issue #14022
• #13889 Create/Edit routine charset bug
• #150 Security release 4.7.8 missing on docker hub

Weblate 2.19.1 has been released today. This is bugfix only release mostly to fix problematic migration from 2.18 which some users have observed.

Full list of changes:

• Fixed migration issue on upgrade from 2.18.
• Improved file upload API validation.

If you are upgrading from older version, please follow our upgrading instructions.

You can find more information about Weblate on https://weblate.org, the code is hosted on Github. If you are curious how it looks, you can try it out on demo server. Weblate is also being used on https://hosted.weblate.org/ as official translating service for phpMyAdmin, OsmAnd, Turris, FreedomBox, Weblate itself and many other projects.

Should you be looking for hosting of translations for your project, I'm happy to host them for you or help with setting it up on your infrastructure.

Further development of Weblate would not be possible without people providing donations, thanks to everybody who have helped so far! The roadmap for next release is just being prepared, you can influence this by expressing support for individual issues either by comments or by providing bounty for them.

Last week was mostly spent on fixing issues with translations and improving our Docker container. That is now based on official PHP FPM image, so it will always get latest stable PHP instead of the one shipped by Alpine.

Besides that there was small, but important change in the motranslator library which no longer sets system locale (as it really has no good reason to do that). This change lead to releasing new major version of the library as it might need code changes for users who relied on this (what was the phpMyAdmin case).

Handled issues:

• #13996 Translated using Weblate (Filipino)
• #144 Use upstream PHP FPM Alpine Docker image
• #147 502 error on logout under a load-balancer
• #24 Number format may be changed inadvertently

Weblate 2.19 has been released today. The biggest improvement are probably addons to customize translation workflow, but there are some other enhancements as well.

Full list of changes:

• Fixed imports across some file formats.
• Display human friendly browser information in audit log.
• Added TMX exporter for files.
• Various performance improvements for loading translation files.
• Added option to disable access management in Weblate in favor of Django one.
• Improved glossary lookup speed for large strings.
• Compatibility with django_auth_ldap 1.3.0.
• Configuration errors are now stored and reported persistently.
• Honor ignore flags in whitespace autofixer.
• Improved compatibility with some Subversion setups.
• Improved built in machine translation service.
• Added support for SAP Translation Hub service.
• Added support for Microsoft Terminology service.
• Removed support for advertisement in notification mails.
• Improved translation progress reporting at language level.
• Improved support for different plural formulas.
• Added support for Subversion repositories not using stdlayout.
• Added addons to customize translation workflows.

If you are upgrading from older version, please follow our upgrading instructions.

You can find more information about Weblate on https://weblate.org, the code is hosted on Github. If you are curious how it looks, you can try it out on demo server. Weblate is also being used on https://hosted.weblate.org/ as official translating service for phpMyAdmin, OsmAnd, Turris, FreedomBox, Weblate itself and many other projects.

Should you be looking for hosting of translations for your project, I'm happy to host them for you or help with setting it up on your infrastructure.

Further development of Weblate would not be possible without people providing donations, thanks to everybody who have helped so far! The roadmap for next release is just being prepared, you can influence this by expressing support for individual issues either by comments or by providing bounty for them.

Hosted Weblate provides also free hosting for free software projects. The hosting requests queue has grown too long and waited for more than month, so it's time to process it and include new projects. I hope that gives you have good motivation to spend Christmas break by translating free software.

This time, the newly hosted projects include:

• gImageReader - an OCR application
• GASdottoNG - a purchasing groups management platform
• Pentobi - a computer opponent for the board game Blokus
• Mindfulness at the computer - an application to remind taking breaks
• CalcPvAutonome - a tool to calculate solar panels for autonomous systems
• GAFAM - a poster campaign
• openScale - an app which support various Bluetooth scales
• Your local weather - an application which displays current weather and location wherever you are.
• Event Sync for Facebook - an application to sync your Facebook events into your Android calendar
• Bodyweight timer for Sailfish OS - a time supporting app for traing purposes (bodyweight-training) on Jolla Sailfish OS
• PDF Mix Tool - an application to split, merge, rotate and mix PDF files.
• tinyMediaManager - a multi OS media management tool
• Night Clock - a night clock with alarm and date for Android

If you want to support this effort, please donate to Weblate, especially recurring donations are welcome to make this service alive. You can do that easily on Liberapay or Bountysource.