Michal Čihař - Archive for 6/2017

Weblate 2.15 has been released today. It is slightly behind schedule what was mostly caused by my vacation. As with 2.14, there are quite a lot of security improvements based on reports we got from HackerOne program and various new features.

Full list of changes:

• Show more related translations in other translations.
• Add option to see translations of current unit to other languages.
• Use 4 plural forms for Lithuanian by default.
• Fixed upload for monolingual files of different format.
• Improved error messages on failed authentication.
• Keep page state when removing word from glossary.
• Added direct link to edit secondary language translation.
• Added Perl format quality check.
• Added support for rejecting reused passwords.
• Extended toolbar for editing RTL languages.

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, 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 a bit less intensive for me, still there were some bugs fixed.

Most of the time was spent on investigating one report from error reporting server. These errors do not come from our code, but we see them in thousands, so apparently something widely spread. The feature seems to come from DirectAdmin, but I've found occurrences elsewhere as well.

I think this exactly shows why you should upstream your patches - it would get proper upstream review and you would not have to maintain it over years (apparently they have five versions of the patch in their patches directory).

Anyway pretty much same will be possible to achieve with single line of configuration in the 4.8.0 release.

Handled issues:

• #13391 fopen(./log/auth.log): failed to open stream: Permission denied
• #13392 Problems with entering the PhpMyAdmin
• #13396 inconsistent function name httprequestcurl
• #115 Call to undefined function ctype_digit()

Besides usual bug screening and pull requests merging, I've spent quite some amount in digging reports in our error reporting server and fixed the most visible ones.

The error reporting server collects errors happening in phpMyAdmin installations worldwide (this is opt-in reporting) and gives us insights where our users suffer most. Some of the errors are really weird and probably indicate PHP bug, but as we don't collect more information than is necessary, we really can not say for sure and we can not find person to reproduce the bug. Anyway if something has happened hundredth times on several installations, it's probably worth fixing in our code base.

Handled issues:

• #13394 Merge remote-tracking branch 'refs/remotes/phpmyadmin/master'
• #13386 fileperms(): stat failed for config.inc.php
• #13390 hash_equals(): Expected known_string to be a string, integer given
• #12478 Investigate if code is still needed
• #13389 Illegal character encoding in Kanji conversion
• #12716 Change package guzzle/guzzle for guzzlehttp/guzzle
• #13388 Unsupported encodings used with mbstrings
• #13385 Uninitialized string offset: 599
• #13381 Move third-party js libraries to js/vendor
• #13378 Update CodeMirror to 5.26.0
• #13376 Update jQuery Validation Plugin to 1.16.0
• #13375 Update jQuery to 3.2.1
• #13377 Update jQuery Cookie Plugin to 1.4.1
• #13318 Import is slow, when tracking is configured
• #13008 Exporting database with lot of tables
• #13379 Automatically add token to all AJAX requests
• #13374 composer suggests
• #13294 Removed inline onchange
• #155 Follow Github issue state
• #162 Partially fix error introduced in 66d9f09
• #161 Log and don't save if length of error message for an incident field is too long
• #83 Remove 'microhistory' field from incidents

Weblate 2.15 is almost ready (I expect no further code changes), so it's really great time to contribute to it's translations! Weblate 2.15 should be released early next week.

As you might expect, Weblate is translated using Weblate, so the contributions should be really easy. In case there is something unclear, you can look into Weblate documentation.

I'd especially like to see improvements in the Italian translation which was one of the first in Weblate beginnings, but hasn't received much love in past years.

It has been few months since I'm providing Windows binaries for Gammu, but other parts of the family were still missing. Today, I'm adding python-gammu.

Unlike previous attempts which used crosscompilation on Linux using Wine, this is also based on AppVeyor. Still I don't have to touch Windows to do that, what is nice :-). This has been introducted in python-gammu 2.9 and depend on Gammu 1.38.4.

What is good on this is that pip install python-gammu should now work with binary packages if you're using Python 3.5 or 3.6.

Maybe I'll find time to look at option providing Wammu as well, but it's more tricky there as it doesn't support Python 3, while the python-gammu for Windows can currently only be built for Python 3.5 and 3.6 (due to MSVC dependencies of older Python versions).

Hosted Weblate provides also free hosting for free software projects. The hosting requests queue was over one month long, so it's time to process it and include new project.

This time, the newly hosted projects include:

• TrebleShot - file and text sharing application
• bookworm - simple ebook reader for Elementary OS
• Ghini - plant collections manager
• Nutty - A Network Utility
• F-Droid Server
• F-Droid Website
• po4a - helper tool for localizing documentation

We now also host few new Minetest mods:

• Mod: Jukebox

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.

Last week was again quite busy on the issue tracker and pull requests. I start to think that I barely get to real development over handling flow of incoming reports and pull requests.

I've manged to fix some issues with parsing comments in SQL parser, which probably was not that much visible in phpMyAdmin, but was quite annoying when using SQL parser as library. Generally it seems that people are starting to use it, so at least one of our separate libraries is getting some user base outside phpMyAdmin.

Handled issues:

• #13078 Minified javascript and css files
• #13367 Fix double escaping in table structure view
• #13092 "Error in processing request" red box on start.
• #13354 Fix double escaping
• #13366 Edit Field is all broken
• #13360 Refactor zip functions into static methods
• #13193 Permanence of Navigation Tree Display
• #13359 Improve themes gitignore
• #13363 Not for merge: Add PHP 5.4 and 5.3 to test matrix to see what is broken
• #13285 Error code : 500 Error text : Internal Server Error
• #13343 Query tab Javascript errors
• #13310 PMA is very slow when xdebug is enabled
• #13358 static::TRADITIONAL warning on "copy table with prefix"
• #13362 Status Monitor doesn't do anything
• #13305 showing tooltip for user not in user table
• #12718 Password No shown for user not in user table
• #13352 Refactor the core functions into static methods
• #13356 Refactor index.lib function into static method
• #13357 Port console templates to Twig
• #12976 Foreign keys - Table dropdown
• #13312 Fix to issue #12976
• #13315 Update common.inc.php #13316
• #13323 Tablenames with special characters not correctly shown at triggers.
• #13338 Tablename with special chars shown at triggers
• #13316 func_overload is empty string fix
• #128 Remove link to db container
• #156 Parser mistakes with comments

During last weeks I was finally able to push out some releases of Gammu and related tools. Those were mostly waiting for quite some time in Git, but still will be useful for many users.

Gammu 1.38.3 brings several SMSD performance improvements (I'd like to hear feedback here how much it helped in real world workloads), fixes USSD related crashes and adds support for new devices.

python-gammu 2.8 finally brings emoji fixes to Python users as well. Those were fixed in Gammu quite some time ago, but the Python API still didn't handle them properly. There was also simplification in the calls API.

Wammu release will follow shortly in next days, the most important change there being license change to GPLv3 or later.

Last week was quite equally spread across our projects. I've spent time on motranslator, sql-parser, localized documentation and of course phpMyAdmin itself.

Generally it was mostly focused on going through issue trackers and pull requests to see what has happened in week I was offline.

Handled issues:

• #13311 Undefined index: pma_password - Direct login no longer works
• #13341 Refactor the sql functions into static methods
• #13348 Blocked form submission to 'index.php'
• #13314 Switch to different Themes
• #13349 HTML @ tbl_structure.php
• #13308 ServerConfigChecks.php, try to use phpseclib first
• #13346 Merge conflict on demo server composer.lock
• #13345 Test failures with po/pa.po in master
• #13295 token on export
• #13320   
• #13329 Removed   
• #13335 Fix setTimeout function on header_location.twig
• #13284 Small refactoring in preparation to CSP.
• #13340 Refactor the transformations functions into static methods
• #13333 Port some templates to Twig
• #127 Missing 4.7.1 tag
• #37 Add Themes
• #155 Add GroupKeyword class to fix postgres GROUP BY
• #154 Error using GROUP BY with PostgreSQL
• #20 Added support for a locale switch in the same singleton Loader instance.
• #19 Switching locale during one process run