Michal Čihař - Archive for Jan. 1, 2018

Weblate 3.3 has been released today. The most visible new feature are component alerts, but there are several other improvements as well.

Full list of changes:

• Added support for component and project removal.
• Improved performance for some monolingual translations.
• Added translation component alerts to highlight problems with a translation.
• Expose XLIFF unit resname as context when available.
• Added support for XLIFF states.
• Added check for non writable files in DATA_DIR.
• Improved CSV export for changes.

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.

Upcoming Weblate 3.3 will bring new feature called alerts. This is one place location where you will see problems in your translations. Right now it mostly covers Weblate integration issues, but it will be extended in the future for deeper translation wide diagnostics.

This will help users to better integrate Weblate into the development process giving integration hints or highlighting problems Weblate has found in the translation. It will identify typical problems like not merged git repositories, parse errors in files or duplicate translation files. You can read more on this feature in the Weblate documentation.

You can enjoy this feature on Hosted Weblate right now, it will be part of upcoming 3.3 release.

Weblate 3.2.2 has been released today. It's a second bugfix release for 3.2 fixing several minor issues which appeared in the release.

Full list of changes:

• Remove no longer needed Babel dependency.
• Updated language definitions.
• Improve documentation for addons, LDAP and Celery.
• Fixed enabling new dos-eol and auto-java-messageformat flags.
• Fixed running setup.py test from PyPI package.
• Improved plurals handling.
• Fixed translation upload API failure in some corner cases.
• Fixed updating Git configuration in case it was changed manually.

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.

Setting up translation components in Weblate can be tricky in some cases, especially if you lack knowledge of the translation format you are using. Also this is something we wanted to automate from the very beginning, but there were always more pressing things to implement. But now the time is coming as I've just made first beta release of translation-finder, tool to help with this.

The translation-finder will look at filesystem (eg. checked out repository) and tries to find translatable files. So far the heuristics is pretty simple, but still it detects just fine most of the projects currently hosted on our hosted localization platform. Still if you find issue with that, you're welcome to provide feedback in our issue tracker.

The integration into Weblate will come in next weeks and will be able to enjoy this new feature in the 3.3 release.

wlc 0.9, a command line utility for Weblate, has been just released. There are several new commands like translation file upload or repository cleanup. The codebase has been also migrated to use requests instead of urllib.

Full list of changes:

• Switched to requests
• Added support for cleanup command.
• Added support for upload command.

wlc is built on API introduced in Weblate 2.6 and still being in development, you need at least Weblate 2.10 (or use on our hosting offering). You can find usage examples in the wlc documentation.

Two years ago, I've taken over uTidylib maintainership. Two years has passed without any bigger contribution, but today there is a new version with support for recent html-tidy and Python 3.

The release still can't be uploaded to PyPI (see https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/4860), but it's available for download from my website or tagged in the GitHub repository.

Full list of changes is quite small:

• Compatibility with html-tidy 5.6.0.
• Added support for Python 3.

Anyway as I can not update PyPI entry, the downloads are currently available only on my website: https://cihar.com/software/utidylib/

Weblate 3.2.1 has been released today. It's a bugfix release for 3.2 fixing several minor issues which appeared in the release.

Full list of changes:

• Document dependency on backports.csv on Python 2.7.
• Fix running tests under root.
• Improved error handling in gitexport module.
• Fixed progress reporting for newly added languages.
• Correctly report Celery worker errors to Sentry.
• Fixed creating new translations with Qt Linguist.
• Fixed occasional fulltext index update failures.
• Improved validation when creating new components.
• Added support for cleanup of old suggestions.

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.

Weblate 3.2 has been released today. It's fiftieth release of Weblate and also it's release with most fixed issues on GitHub. The most important change is in the background - introduction of Celery to process background tasks. The biggest user visible change is extended translation memory.

Full list of changes:

• Add install_addon management command for automated addon installation.
• Allow more fine grained ratelimit settings.
• Added support for export and import of Excel files.
• Improve component cleanup in case of multiple component discovery addons.
• Rewritten Microsoft Terminology machine translation backend.
• Weblate now uses Celery to offload some processing.
• Improved search capabilities and added regular expression search.
• Added support for Youdao Zhiyun API machine translation.
• Added support for Baidu API machine translation.
• Integrated maintenance and cleanup tasks using Celery.
• Improved performance of loading translations by almost 25%.
• Removed support for merging headers on upload.
• Removed support for custom commit messages.
• Configurable editing mode (zen/full).
• Added support for error reporting to Sentry.
• Added support for automated daily update of repositories.
• Added support for creating projects and components by users.
• Built in translation memory now automatically stores translations done.
• Users and projects can import their existing translation memories.
• Better management of related strings for screenshots.
• Added support for checking Java MessageFormat.

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.

Weblate 3.1 has been released today. It contains mostly bug fixes, but there are some new feature as well, for example support for Amazon Translate.

Full list of changes:

• Upgrades from older version than 3.0.1 are not supported.
• Allow to override default commit messages from settings.
• Improve webhooks compatibility with self hosted environments.
• Added support for Amazon Translate.
• Compatibility with Django 2.1.
• Django system checks are now used to diagnose problems with installation.
• Removed support for soon shutdown libravatar service.
• New addon to mark unchanged translations as needing edit.
• Add support for jumping to specific location while translating.
• Downloaded translations can now be customized.
• Improved calculation of string similarity in translation memory matches.
• Added support by signing Git commits by GnuPG.

Update:

Weblate 3.1.1 was released as well fixing test suite failure on some setups:

• Fix testsuite failure on some setup.

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.

Weblate 3.0.1 has been released today. It contains several bug fixes, most importantly possible migration issue on users when migrating from 2.20. There was no data corruption, just some of the foreign keys were possibly not properly migrated. Upgrading from 3.0 to 3.0.1 will fix this as well as going directly from 2.20 to 3.0.1.

Full list of changes:

• Fixed possible migration issue from 2.20.
• Localization updates.
• Removed obsolete hook examples.
• Improved caching documentation.
• Fixed displaying of admin documentation.
• Improved handling of long language names.

If you are upgrading from older version, please follow our upgrading instructions, the upgrade is more complex this time.

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.