Michal Čihař - Archive for 1/2017

Weblate 2.11

Exactly on the schedule, Weblate 2.11 is out today. This release brings extended stats available to users and various other improvements and bug fixes.

Full list of changes:

  • Include language detailed information on language page.
  • Mercurial backend improvements.
  • Added option to specify translation component priority.
  • More consistent usage of Group ACL even with less used permissions.
  • Added WL_BRANCH variable to hook scripts.
  • Improved developer documentation.
  • Better compatibility with various Git versions in Git exporter addon.
  • Included per project and component stats.
  • Added language code mapping for better support of Microsoft Translate API.
  • Moved fulltext cleanup to background job to make translation removal faster.
  • Fixed displaying of plural source for languages with single plural form.
  • Improved error handling in import_project.
  • Various performance improvements.

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. You can login there with demo account using demo password or register your own user. Weblate is also being used on https://hosted.weblate.org/ as official translating service for phpMyAdmin, OsmAnd, Aptoide, 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.

Weekly phpMyAdmin contributions 2017-W04

Last week I focused on our libraries and all they got new major release in last week in order to move into PhpMyAdmin namespace and to follow PSR-4. We've also released first beta for 4.7.0 and looking forward to feedback based on it.

The new phpMyAdmin release also comes with new downloads structure in order to have smaller downloads for most people while provide also one with complete sources as usually needed by Linux distributions. Hopefully this new structure will better fit needs of both groups.

Another thing worth mentioning is that I've received first batch of phpMyAdmin stickers to hand out at FOSDEM, so in case you happen to be in Brussels next weekend, stop at Software Freedom Conservancy stand and grab one of them.

Handled issues:

See you at FOSDEM

This has become sort of tradition for me, but still worth mentioning - I'm going to to FOSDEM this weekend.

This time I have no talk (I somehow failed to submit anything in time), but still I'm there to meet people and listen to some talks. As I've agreed to help Software Freedom Conservancy on stand (in the H building), it's quite likely that you will find me there. You will also have unique chance to grab phpMyAdmin stickers at this stand.

Also if you spot somebody wearing Weblate t-shirt, then it's most likely me ;-).

stardicter 0.11

Stardicter 0.11, the set of scripts to convert some freely available dictionaries to StarDict format, has been released today. There are mostly minor changes and it's time to push them out in official release. The most important being fixed sorting of ascii dictionaries, what did break searching in some programs.

Full list of changes:

  • Improved deaccent filter.
  • Fixed sorting of ASCII dictionaries.

As usual, you can install from pip, download source or download generated dictionaries from my website.

Weekly phpMyAdmin contributions 2017-W03

After week of vacation, I got back to work. The week was quite busy with quite a lot of handled issues on the table. The bigger focus was on phpMyAdmin itself, but there were some minor improvements to the SQL Parser as well.

I've again focused on the OS X problems with lower_case_table_names settings in the MySQL server and yet another issue was fixed there. While working with that, I've added OS X tests to be executed on Travis CI. This has caught at least one bug which was present in phpMyAdmin on OS X since ages.

Another change important to some users, is that limited phpinfo is returning to phpMyAdmin. In past we've removed it completely as response to PMASA-2016-59, but it brought us quite some negative feedback, so this page is now back without it's dangerous parts. Still this is something you're not recommended to enable on production environment.

Handled issues:

New versions of phpMyAdmin libraries

Today, new major version of all phpMyAdmin support libraries have been released. The major reason behind this is that they all now follow PSR-4 and they are located under the PhpMyAdmin namespace.

Hopefully this will make it easier to integrate within other tools and this really should be last big API change for these libraries. They will be also used by upcoming phpMyAdmin 4.7.0, so that gives us another big commitment for API stability.

Anyway if you want to move ahead, update your dependencies in composer.json accordingly:

On the other changes, the SQL parser also gained ability to produce localized error messages (thanks to using motranslator internally).

Weblate 2.10.1

This is first security bugfix release for Weblate. This has to come at some point, fortunately the issue is not really severe. But Weblate got it's first CVE ID today, so it's time to address it in a bugfix release.

Full list of changes:

  • Do not leak account existence on password reset form (CVE-2017-5537).

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. You can login there with demo account using demo password or register your own user. Weblate is also being used on https://hosted.weblate.org/ as official translating service for phpMyAdmin, OsmAnd, Aptoide, 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!

New free software projects on Hosted Weblate

Hosted Weblate provides also free hosting for free software projects. I'm quite slow in processing the hosting requests, but when I do that, I process them in a batch and add several projects at once.

This time, the newly hosted projects include:

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

Weekly phpMyAdmin contributions 2017-W01

First week in 2017 has been quite busy. There was usual amount of bug screening and fixing on phpMyAdmin, but I've attended other parts of the project as well.

The Docker container got big upgrade to Alpine 3.5 and PHP 7, so it will perform better thanks to performance improvements in PHP 7. Thanks to additional cleanups the image also got 3 MB smaller.

On the libraries side we've started using php-cs-fixer for code cleanup. It all started with pull request for SQL parser, but I've quickly added it to all libraries making the code consistent (this still doesn't apply to phpMyAdmin itself as it has historical mess with own coding style). While visiting SQL parser it got also bunch of fixes which were released as 3.4.16.

Handled issues:

Gammu 1.38.1

Today Gammu 1.38.1 has been released. This is bugfix release fixing several minor bugs which were discovered in 1.38.0.

The Windows binaries will be available shortly. These are built using AppVeyor and will help bring Windows users back to latest versions.

Full list of changes and new features can be found on Gammu 1.38.1 release page.

Would you like to see more features in Gammu? You an support further Gammu development at Bountysource salt or by direct donation.