Michal Čihař - Archive for Jan. 1, 2018

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.

Last week was mostly spent on our infrastructure - I've migrated all virtual machines from old server to new one. This went pretty smoothly with about one hour delay during the migration. Everything now should work just fine and with considerably increased performance.

Handled issues:

• #13938 Warning in PHP 7.2
• #13939 Warning in PHP 7.2
• #13917 Force PHP platform in composer to oldest supported version
• #13831 PHP 5 / 7 compatibility

Last week was equally spent on issues and infrastructure. There is quite serious regression in the 4.7.7 release which needs to be fixed (so far just the issue has been identified). In the same time our server is having hardware problems and we're preparing to migrate to new one (if everything goes well, the migration will be completed by the time you read this).

Handled issues:

• #13890 open in new tab on edit query dont't work on 4.7.7
• #13913 Distinct values -> No database selected
• #13885 create_release should only generate signatures for the current release
• #13907 4.7.7 -- clicking column title to sort results opens "insert" form.
• #13886 Upload rate limit error in manage.py
• #13910 fix #13712 Doesn't default to primary key when creating relations
• #13712 Doesn't default to primary key when creating relations
• #13758 single-sign-on: mysqli_real_escape_string() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli, boolean given
• #13914 Settings reset prevents login and causes PHP Warnings

First week of 2018 was a bit less intense on the code fixing side, but I've done some work on our infrastructure preparing for migration to the new server, which should be available as soon as Conservancy approves payments for it.

The new server will be located at Hetzner and you can check more details on the selection process in our wiki. The current server has been used for almost 10 years and is really showing it's age.

Handled issues:

• #13828 Two factor: doesn't ask for second factor
• #145 Update to Alpine 3.7

I've just released new versions of Gammu, python-gammu and Wammu. These are mostly bugfix releases (see individual changelogs for more details), but they bring back Wammu for Windows.

This is especially big step for Wammu as the existing Windows binary was almost five years old. The another problem with that was that it was cross-compiled on Linux and it always did not behave correctly. The current binaries are automatically produced on AppVeyor during our continuous integration.

Another important change for Windows users is addition of wheel packages to python-gammu, so all you need to use it on Windows is to pip install python-gammu.

Of course the updated packages are also on their way to Debian and to Ubuntu PPA.

Last week before Christmas was pretty calm, I've mostly spent time on fixing our Selenium tests which again showed a bit of instability, what should be hopefully addressed now.

Handled issues:

• #13866 Invalid links containing SQL query
• #141 Docker phpmyadmin after login: 504 Gateway Time-out