Weblate blog

The official Weblate Docker container just received an important change. In case you are using it, you will probably have to adjust your configuration after upgrade.

The container is no longer executed as root, but as an unprivileged user. This makes it more secure and also compatible with some cloud providers such as OpenShift. However this brings it's downsides as well - the exposed port had to change from the privileged one. This is design the container probably should have from the beginning, but better to fix it later than never.

To make it clear - we've changed port 80 to 8080. Please adjust your configuration accordingly. The documentation and example docker-compose configuration have already been updated.

Nearly every developer tells you that Friday is the worst day for a release. In Weblate, we have it differently. We have an excellent test environment, and we work through the weekends if it’s needed.

So in today’s 3.7.1 release, these changes are included:

The interface of the localization platform that doesn’t speak your language is weird, so we tuned and updated the Weblate’s interface localization together with some UI tweaks.

We have improved the handling of unsupported but discovered translation files, and updated some parts of the documentation to be more detailed and helpful.

Language database is also updated, so don’t hesitate to update your installation too. Users with our hosting have the latest version already.

We have a concise message for you today, but it can bring a smile not only on a hot summer day in which you want to leave the office a little bit sooner.

As easy integration and setup are one of the main Weblate's perks, we tuned up the translation finder again. It now detects PHP translation files and handles YAML, POT and JSON formats better in all their modifications. It also discovers subtitle files that came to support with Weblate 3.7.

You can take a look at changelog too.

Enjoy!

We have a new feature in Weblate we already mentioned in 3.7 release announcement.

As we want Weblate to be the ideal developers’ partner for localization of their apps, we know that you all need to control the outcome of the translation to make your users happy and the apps convenient. And as you don’t want to check the changes with every new (exotic) language that came from the heartful community or in a new release, we give you these two new settings:

Font management will help you to have a precise size calculation with Max size limitation of the text, you just need to import the TrueType or OpenType fonts you are using. Quite handy for non-Latin languages, right? You will probably use maximum size limitation in apps aimed at small screens such as those for iOS and Android. It is easy to set it up. Just tell Weblate the width limit, number of lines, used font, and its size and the job is done.

How do you like it? If you miss something, you can either write your own checks (make a pull request then) or inspire us to create them for all Weblate users.

We have released Weblate 3.7 today, and we are happy to share some of our favorite features that are new in this version. If you want to prefer facts before stories, jump straight to the detailed changelog.

A small change that announces the bigger ones is the new logo, color theme, horizontal stats widgets, landing page for new translators, and more. Changes will continue in the app and also on Weblate website to make both eye-candy and more you/user-friendly. Stay tuned and don't hesitate to tell us how you like it, we’ll be happy to hear!

A new feature that allows you to control text dimensions, font management and its rendering is coming out now, and there will be a separate article here on the blog on Wednesday! This feature will be quite handy not only in mobile apps!

We have speed up the handling of linked translation components so you will save some work time.

A separate Celery queue now handles notifications, format strings check on plurals is more powerful, and error logging includes more details.

3.7 is already running on Hosted Weblate for some time. Did you try it already or are you planning the update on your own hosting this weekend?

We wish you smooth localization and see you soon with next release!

The translation-finder module has been released in version 1.5. It is used by Weblate to detect translatable files in the repository making setup of translation components in Weblate much easier. This release brings lot of improvements based on feedback from our users, making the detection faster, more reliable and accurate.

Full list of changes:

• Various performance improvements.
• Added detection of Fluent translations.
• Improved detection of language code within filename.
• Added detection of YAML translations.

Weblate 3.6.1 has been released today. It is a bugfix release fixing several issues reported after the 3.6 release.

Full list of changes:

• Improved handling of monolingual Xliff files.
• Fixed digest notifications in some corner cases.
• Fixed addon script error alert.
• Fixed generating MO file for monolingual PO files.
• Fixed display of uninstalled checks.
• Indicate administered projects on project listing.
• Allow update to recover from missing VCS repository.

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 3.6 has been released today. It brings rewritten notifications, user data download and several other improvements. It also sets depreciation timeline for Python 2 installations - after April 2020 Weblate will only support Python 3.

Full list of changes:

• Add support for downloading user data.
• Addons are now automatically triggered upon installation.
• Improved instructions for resolving merge conflicts.
• Cleanup addon is now compatible with app store metadata translations.
• Configurable language code syntax when adding new translations.
• Warn about using Python 2 with planned termination of support in April 2020.
• Extract special chars from the source string for visual keyboard.
• Extended contributor stats to reflect both source and target counts.
• Admins and consistency addons can now add translations even if disabled for users.
• Fixed description of toggle disabling Language-Team header manipulation.
• Notify users mentioned in comments.
• Removed file format autodetection from component setup.
• Fixed generating MO file for monolingual PO files.
• Added digest notifications.
• Added support for muting component notifications.
• Added notifications for new alerts, whiteboard messages or components.
• Notifications for administered projects can now be configured.
• Improved handling of three letter language codes.

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.

The translation-finder module has been released in version 1.1. It is used by Weblate to detect translatable files in the repository making setup of translation components in Weblate much easier. This release brings lot of improvements based on feedback from our users, making the detection more reliable and accurate.

Full list of changes:

• Improved detection of translation with full language code.
• Improved detection of language code in directory and file name.
• Improved detection of language code separated by full stop.
• Added detection for app store metadata files.
• Added detection for JSON files.
• Ignore symlinks during discovery.
• Improved detection of matching pot files in several corner cases.
• Improved detection of monolingual Gettext.

Weblate 3.5.1 has been released today. Compared to the 3.5 release it brings several bug fixes and performance improvements.

Full list of changes:

• Fixed Celery systemd unit example.
• Fixed notifications from http repositories with login.
• Fixed race condition in editing source string for monolingual translations.
• Include output of failed addon execution in the logs.
• Improved validation of choices for adding new language.
• Allow to edit file format in component settings.
• Update installation instructions to prefer Python 3.
• Performance and consistency improvements for loading translations.
• Make Microsoft Terminology service compatible with current zeep releases.
• Localization updates.

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.