Weblate 5.14.1¶

Not yet released.

New features

Improvements

Document using Valkey in Background tasks using Celery and Configure cache.
Added HTTP environment overview in Performance report.

Bug fixes

Compatibility

Upgrading

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Weblate 5.14¶

Released on October 22nd 2025.

New features

Flag updated translations from repository as “Needs editing” is now available as an add-on.
DELETE /api/projects/(string:project)/labels/(int:label_id)/.
Added multivalue CSV in Downloading translations for multivalue formats.
New global permissions have been added to control viewing teams, users and roles without edit rights, see List of privileges.
New unit.bulk_edit permission for bulk editing operations, replacing the overloaded use of translation.auto permission, see List of privileges.
Searching for DATETIME fields.
Last changed lookup in Searching for strings.
Localization Threat Model documentation.
Do not show glossary matches component setting.
Screenshots now can be uploaded from a URL, see Visual context for strings.

Improvements

Notification hooks improvements.
- Now follows Error responses.
- Available in the OpenAPI.
- Dropped long-deprecated endpoints.
Improved activity logging for Add missing languages add-on.
Inconsistent reStructuredText and reStructuredText syntax error now support substitutions.
Improved performance for Multiple failing checks and Long untranslated checks with batch operations.
File format parameters can now be configured via the Weblate’s REST API.
Admins can configure Expiring user accounts.
Rate limiting of notification e-mails, configurable by RATELIMIT_NOTIFICATION_LIMITS.
Repository maintenance now supports resetting the repository while keeping the current state of translations in Weblate.
Improved listing of Automatic translation configuration.

Bug fixes

Plurals and File format parameters handling on file upload.
Team administrators can no longer edit teams besides membership.
Highlighting syntax of overlapping elements.
Searching case sensitivity for short strings.
Inconsistent file formatting for new translations.
Memory contents imported via the import_memory command are marked as active.
Importing some strings from XLIFF.

Compatibility

The default attributes for SAML authentication in Docker container now matches non-Docker defaults.
Dropped long-deprecated GET /hooks/update/(string:project)/(string:component)/ and GET /hooks/update/(string:project)/.
Removed Akismet spam protection integration as it was no longer effective and used an unmaintained Python library.
New positional argument (activity_log_id) passed to the add-on event handlers, see weblate.addons.base.BaseAddon. Adjust any custom subclass accordingly.

Upgrading

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Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař, softworkz, Gersona, Benjamin Alan Jamie, Kartik Ohri, Kai Kewley, Raphael Michel, Dmytro Doroshenko, michael-smt, IoeCmcomc, Karen Konou, Juhari Yusuf Fatahillah, eulalio, Sketch6580
Translations contributions: Michal Čihař, eulalio, Zahid Rizky Fakhri, Divarrek, Sam Plimmer, amano, Sketch6580, Manuela Silva, Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin, Максим Горпиніч, Milo Ivir, qywter11 qywter11, 大学没毕业, Changseop Yeom, Marija Grineviciute, Peter Vančo, Laurent FAVOLE, Сергей, Royston Shufflebotham, Massimo Pissarello, Emin Tufan Çetin, Juno Takano, Horus68, Martin Srebotnjak, Altos, ovl-1, 이정희, Yauhen, cat, Jessica Patricio, Alejandro Moctezuma, Kristijan "Fremen" Velkovski, Liviu Roman, Sveinn í Felli, Yamin Siahmargooei, Besnik Bleta, Øjvind Fritjof Arnfred, Danial Behzadi, Miguel A. Bouzada, CRISTIAN ANDREI, Denis96, Ldm Public, ROSPL-GR2-2025, Dick Groskamp, Jim Kats, Graaati, coronabond, VfBFan, Любомир Василев, GitHub webhook, Agnieszka C, Arif Budiman, Yaron Shahrabani, Karen Konou, Kartik Ohri, Juhari Yusuf Fatahillah, Дмитрий Михирев, Fjuro, Yago Raña Gayoso
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař, Gersona, Kai Kewley, Raphael Michel, Benjamin Alan Jamie, michael-smt, softworkz, Karen Konou, Kartik Ohri, Juhari Yusuf Fatahillah, eulalio, Sketch6580

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Weblate 5.13.3¶

Released on September 12th 2025.

Improvements

Text on the registration page informs about possible use of user’s data in more detail.
Clarified account removal view.

Bug fixes

Components pagination.
Project level backups with same named components in different categories.
Source string location display.
Correctly track team adding via invitation in Audit log.
Add missing languages no longer includes shared component languages.
Azure DevOps pull requests API URL parsing.

Upgrading

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Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař, Benjamin Alan Jamie, Raphael Michel, nijel
Translations contributions: Michal Čihař, eulalio, Zahid Rizky Fakhri, Divarrek, Sam Plimmer, amano, Sketch6580, Manuela Silva, Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin, Максим Горпиніч, Milo Ivir, qywter11 qywter11, 大学没毕业, Changseop Yeom, Marija Grineviciute
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař, Benjamin Alan Jamie, Raphael Michel, nijel

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Weblate 5.13.2¶

Released on September 5th 2025.

Improvements

Error reporting upon validation of the file upload method.
Detailed language information in new language notifications.

Bug fixes

Sign-in could not be completed with LDAP.
Nonspacing mark changes highlighting in history.

Upgrading

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Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař
Translations contributions: Divarrek, VfBFan
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař, nijel

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Weblate 5.13.1¶

Released on September 4th 2025.

Improvements

Smarter retries of unwritable pending changes.
Failed Two-factor authentication is visible in Audit log.

Bug fixes

Sign-in form not shown for LDAP.
Access control for GET /api/users/(str:username)/.
Inconsistent reStructuredText allows translatable reference names.
File format parameters were not properly applied in some situations.
Removed stale Customize XML output.
LibreTranslate compatibility with LibreTranslate 1.7.0.
Username autocompletion in comments.
Shorten session expiry while in Two-factor authentication (CVE 2025-58352 / GHSA-377j-wj38-4728).
Statistics when using Share in projects.
Component Lists are no longer blocking dashboard loading.
OpenMetrics API format.

Compatibility

Removed support for no longer working IBM Watson Language Translator.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

There are several changes in settings_example.py, most notably, django_otp.middleware.OTPMiddleware was removed from MIDDLEWARE; please adjust your settings accordingly.

Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař, nijel, alisa, Gersona, Karen Konou, Kartik Ohri, softworkz, Paul Harriet Asiñero
Translations contributions: pan93412, eulalio, Zahid Rizky Fakhri, Maciej Olko, Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin, Christian Wia, Fjuro, Brian Njoroge, ssantos, Junghyuk Kwon, hugoalh, Alexis Launay, Wolf, ℂ𝕠𝕠𝕠𝕝 (𝕘𝕚𝕥𝕙𝕦𝕓.𝕔𝕠𝕞/ℂ𝕠𝕠𝕠𝕝), Yaron Shahrabani, Marija Grineviciute, Milo Ivir, Данил Костенков, Dick Groskamp, abdelbasset jabrane, CyrTranslit, cat, Michal Čihař, VfBFan, Wuzzy, Michalis, Deleted User, Francisco Serrador, Adolfo Jayme Barrientos, Ricky Tigg, Nicolas Van Aarsen, Julien Humbert, Jérôme, Nifou, Miguel A. Bouzada, elid, RViktor, Taufik Adi Wicaksono, Reza Almanda, Sveinn í Felli, Massimo Pissarello, Kyotaro Iijima, amano, 이정희, WaldiS, tomkolp, Piotr Kołtun, Horus68, Manuela Silva, Alan Marques, Rafael Fontenelle, Alefsander Ribeiro Nascimento, Simona Iacob, Nicoara Alex, Golubev Alexander, Сергей, Blueberry, Mingun, xXx, Vin, BouenMarsh, gfbdrgn, Igor Polyakov, qtm, Alexey Napalkov, Julija Juli, Reno Tx, தமிழ்நேரம், Kaya Zeren, Yuri Chornoivan, Ihor Hordiichuk, Mirka Danylenko, Tymofii Lytvynenko, Andrij Mizyk, Максим Горпиніч, 大王叫我来巡山, Sketch6580, JY3, 大学没毕业, Xiang Heng Wei, yangyangdaji, Xzonn, Peter Dave Hello, 峡州仙士, Winston Sung, Toomore Chiang, Haowei Hsu, Chang-Chia Tseng, notlin4, Supaplex, n1ck, Changseop Yeom, Ldm Public, Vitalii, Yago Raña Gayoso, Agnieszka C, Nguyễn Ngọc Khánh
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař, nijel, Kartik Ohri, Paul Harriet Asiñero

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Weblate 5.13¶

Released on August 15th 2025.

New features

Enhanced Translation Memory management with configurable status control, see Translation memory status.
Added cleanup_memory management command to remove obsolete translation memory entries.
Catkeys file.
Some flags are now added to a string by default, based on locations; see Location-based flags.
Added Commit Policy setting to control which translations are included when committing changes.
File format parameters can now be configured at the component level.
New management command list_file_format_params to list all available file format parameters.
Tag and attribute names can now be customized for Flat XML files with File format parameters.

Improvements

Searching for strings supports labels_count:NUMBER lookup.
A new SENTRY_MONITOR_BEAT_TASKS setting allows disabling Sentry monitoring of Celery Beat tasks.
WEBLATE_SOCIAL_AUTH_OIDC_TITLE and WEBLATE_SOCIAL_AUTH_OIDC_IMAGE allow configuring the appearance of the generic OIDC authentication.
Background commits are now identified by an internal user.
Reorganized navigation menu.
When editing a language definition, a warning about automated updates is shown; see Built-in language definitions.
Avatars for API and internal accounts.
Adding a new TOTP device removes the existing one by default; checkbox for not removing previous ones available.
Creating pull or merge requests to remote repositories is no longer blocked by merge conflicts.
Inconsistent reStructuredText correctly handles Unicode punctuation and detects more issues.
Migration towards Bootstrap 5 has started, selected views now use Bootstrap 5.
XLIFF now supports starting from scratch when Adding translation projects and components.
OpenAI compatibility with latest models.

Bug fixes

Uploading translations correctly tracks authorship when using Replace existing translation file.
DeepL integration now correctly handles all supported source languages.
Possible crash on macOS 15 in strxfrm.
Internal server error on permission denied while uploading files.

Compatibility

Some addons have been deprecated and replaced by File format parameters: Customize gettext output, Customize JSON output, Customize YAML output, Customize XML output.
Automatic suggestions, Automatic translation and POST /api/translations/(string:project)/(string:component)/(string:language)/autotranslate/ now support all search operators, not only limited filters. Existing add-on configuration has been migrated. API users will need to adjust invocation.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

The distributed locking now uses a different implementation and that introduced several changes in settings_example.py, most notably BACKEND in CACHES needs to be changed.
There are several changes in settings_example.py, most notable are changed settings CRISPY_ALLOWED_TEMPLATE_PACKS and INSTALLED_APPS; please adjust your settings accordingly.
The Docker container is now using granian. This now requires explicit configuration of proxy trusted headers, including client protocol. WEBLATE_SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER typically needs to be added to avoid redirect loop, for example:
```
services:
  weblate:
    environment:
      WEBLATE_IP_PROXY_HEADER: HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR
      WEBLATE_SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER: HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO,https
```
See also

Running behind reverse proxy

Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař, nijel, michael-smt, Kartik Ohri, مهدي الوالي, Benjamin Alan Jamie, Gersona, KarenKonou, Julian Wachholz, Jana, softworkz, Luc Didry, Paul Harriet Asiñero, Wouter van Os, Martin Komara, Karen Konou, Pavan Chilukuri
Translations contributions: Emin Tufan Çetin, VfBFan, 大王叫我来巡山, Horus68, Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin, Zulfar, Сергей, Besnik Bleta, Andi Chandler, Drugi Sapog, Eisuke Kawashima, wang, தமிழ்நேரம், Abduqadir Abliz, Yago Raña Gayoso, Manuela Silva, Arantxa, Linerly, Dick Groskamp, John, Peter Vančo, Jim Kats, WaldiS, caendeith, Michal Čihař, Florent, RViktor, hugoalh, Arun K Varghese, Wael Ibrahim, Juno Takano, Chang-Chia Tseng, eulalio, Fjuro, jonnysemon, Michael Neuendorf, Shizeeg Unadequatov, oxisol, Pierfrancesco Passerini, 大学没毕业, Любомир Василев, Ильсур Фаритович Ирназаров, Rafael Fontenelle, Yu Ting, J. Lavoie, Ilsur Irnazarov, Poesty Li, Xentrox Aero, amano, ButterflyOfFire, gfbdrgn, Zahid Rizky Fakhri, searinminecraft, Miguel A. Bouzada, pan93412, Mohammed Al Otaibi, Pexauteau Santander, Avi Markovitz, Helder Santana, qtm, Christian Wia, Ricky Tigg, Priit Jõerüüt, LucasMZ, VisionR1, ssantos, Yauhen, Clément Lyonnet, yangyangdaji, Максим Горпиніч, Matthaiks, Agnieszka C, Aleš Hakl, Yaron Shahrabani, Massimo Pissarello, 이정희, Dinh Nguyen, Martin Srebotnjak, Thunderstrike116, sletego, Sketch6580, 안정언, AlaxLima, Deniil, Tuomas Hietala, Λευθέρης Τρόμπακας, M. D. Kulkarni (MDK), Golubev Alexander
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař, nijel, Benjamin Alan Jamie, Julian Wachholz, Jana, Nik Clayton, Gersona, softworkz, Paul Harriet Asiñero, Kartik Ohri, Martin Komara, KarenKonou, Martin Trigaux, Pavan Chilukuri

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Weblate 5.12.2¶

Released on June 20th 2025.

Improvements

DeepL integration now supports using next-gen LLM model.

Bug fixes

Restoring Project level backups with votes.
Improved error handling in Apertium APy.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař
Translations contributions: eulalio, Linerly, Peter Vančo, Yaron Shahrabani, VfBFan, Roland Reck, Manuela Silva, Abduqadir Abliz, ℂ𝕠𝕠𝕠𝕝 (𝕘𝕚𝕥𝕙𝕦𝕓.𝕔𝕠𝕞/ℂ𝕠𝕠𝕠𝕝), Zahid Rizky Fakhri, Michal Čihař, Matthaiks, Drugi Sapog, Yuri Chornoivan, Agnieszka C, Massimo Pissarello, Fjuro, Sketch6580, Любомир Василев, newidyn, Zulfar
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař

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Weblate 5.12.1¶

Released on June 16th 2025.

Bug fixes

Software Bill of Material now includes serial number.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař
Translations contributions: VfBFan, qywter11 qywter11, Manuela Silva
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař

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Weblate 5.12¶

Released on June 16th 2025.

Security

Exposure of personal IP address via e-mail (CVE 2025-49134 / GHSA-4qqf-9m5c-w2c5).
Lack of rate limiting when verifying second factor (CVE 2025-47951 / GHSA-57jg-m997-cx3q).

New features

Added POST /api/units/(int:id)/comments/ to create a new comment for the given translation unit.
Customize JSON output now has a configurable compact mode.
Added Non‑standard characters in Kabyle quality check.
Software Bill of Material is now being provided for Weblate.
Security, privacy and compliance documentation.
Added support for Compose Multiplatform resources.
Added Translation Coordinator role.
Slack Webhooks is now available as an add-on.
Added GET /api/users/(str:username)/contributions/ to retrieve a list of all translations contributed by the user.

Improvements

Unchanged translation is now skipped for Toki Pona.
Searching for strings supports has:location lookup.
Unicode whitespaces are now considered as problematic characters for Glossary, see Prohibited initial character.
Webhook logs are now displayed nicely.
Webhook can be installed multiple times.
User profile can now include contact URL.
POST /api/projects/ allows non-superusers to create projects when Billing module is enabled.
POST /api/groups/ supports project-scoped team creation by non-superusers.
GET /api/users/ now includes languages.
Webhook documentation improved.
Improved support for extended metadata in TermBase eXchange format.
Webhook now includes a category field when available.
Uploaded fonts can be updated and changes to them are tracked, see Managing fonts.
Weblate is now available in Bashkir language.

Bug fixes

Dashboard translations ordering when paginating.
Honor DeepL API Free glossary limits in DeepL.
Webhook delivery of project-wide events.
False reports of Has been translated with flags or explanation changes.
Creating new translations in App store metadata files.
Search and replace correctly handles plurals.

Compatibility

The projects and categories default tab now shows translated languages.
If no secret is provided in the Webhook add-on configuration, the Webhook request will not be signed, see Webhook.
SAML authentication support is no longer included in the default dependencies.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař, nijel, Kartik Ohri, مهدي الوالي, Gersona, Mehdi El Oualy, KasukabeDefenceForce, AliceVisek, ButterflyOfFire, Benjamin Alan Jamie, michael-smt, Javi Boo, Karen Konou, Shubham Padia, KarenKonou, zoe, Zoe
Translations contributions: Michal Čihař, Yauhen, Romeostar, RViktor, Francisco Serrador, ابْنُ السَدِيمِ, Alejandra Wheeler, xuars, پرویز قادر, amano, Andrei Stepanov, Jim Kats, dedakir923, Amalia Nostalgia, Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin, elid, abdelbasset jabrane, ℂ𝕠𝕠𝕠𝕝 (𝕘𝕚𝕥𝕙𝕦𝕓.𝕔𝕠𝕞/ℂ𝕠𝕠𝕠𝕝), Rafael Fontenelle, Zahid Rizky Fakhri, Miguel A. Bouzada, Yaron Shahrabani, Fjuro, Jose Delvani, Jim Spentzos, Michał Korczak, Taufik Adi Wicaksono, joel MKO, Ldm Public, Carmelo Serraino, Yu Ting, Alex, Yago Raña Gayoso, Boonsita Noijad, Massimo Pissarello, 大王叫我来巡山, rimasx, Abhinav Ohri, Любомир Василев, Manuela Silva, Juzé, Licaon Kter, Anon, Ecron, ButterflyOfFire, Milo Ivir, Yuliia Ozkan, Christian Wia, Nat A, Drugi Sapog, Martin Srebotnjak, searinminecraft, Chou Chamnan, Priit Jõerüüt, Matthaiks, Sketch6580, Максим Горпиніч, Сергей, cat, Roland Reck, Agnieszka C, VfBFan, Besnik Bleta, Dick Groskamp, Pierfrancesco Passerini, PriitUring, Ding User, 大学没毕业, Peter Vančo, pan93412, Κyriaki L, Marijn Scholtus, Emin Tufan Çetin, Zulfar, Oasis Tri, zenobit, Abduqadir Abliz, ssantos, தமிழ்நேரம், lm, gogu, Andi Chandler, hugoalh, Linerly, Murun Battulga, Teitei, Wael Ibrahim, Burak Hüseyin Ekseli, Eduard Ereza Martínez, Tuomas Hietala, Taiki Ohno
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař, Kartik Ohri, AliceVisek, Gersona, KasukabeDefenceForce, ButterflyOfFire, Benjamin Alan Jamie, michael-smt, Renan LE CARO, nijel, Yuki Noda, zoe, Zoe

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Weblate 5.11.4¶

Released on May 7th 2025.

Improvements

Webhook logs requests and responses.

Bug fixes

Webhook was not triggered in some situations.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař, مهدي الوالي
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař

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Weblate 5.11.3¶

Released on May 3rd 2025.

Bug fixes

Fixed release publishing.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař

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Weblate 5.11.2¶

Released on May 3rd 2025.

Improvements

Glossary performance in zen mode and automatic suggestions.
Extended supported formats for Customize JSON output.

Bug fixes

XML export no longer crashes on locations with special characters.
Improved error handling on ZIP upload.
Django 5.2 compatibility.
Avoid repeated glossary synchronizations.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař
Translations contributions: Yauhen, Michal Čihař, Romeostar, RViktor, Francisco Serrador, ابْنُ السَدِيمِ, Alejandra Wheeler, xuars, پرویز قادر, amano, Andrei Stepanov, Jim Kats, dedakir923, Amalia Nostalgia, Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin, elid, abdelbasset jabrane, ℂ𝕠𝕠𝕠𝕝 (𝕘𝕚𝕥𝕙𝕦𝕓.𝕔𝕠𝕞/ℂ𝕠𝕠𝕠𝕝), Rafael Fontenelle, Zahid Rizky Fakhri
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař

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Weblate 5.11.1¶

Released on April 25th 2025.

Improvements

Project level backups now include teams and categories.
Docker health check is now supported in non-web service containers.

Bug fixes

GitLab merge requests integration now detects merge‑request conflicts more robustly.
Webhook is now enabled in Docker.
Removing pending glossary terms.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař, Kartik Ohri, nijel, AliceVisek, Cédric Krier
Translations contributions: xuars, Fjuro, Yaron Shahrabani, VfBFan, Michal Čihař, Yauhen, RViktor, cat, Andrei Stepanov, Ettore Atalan, 大学没毕业, Miguel A. Bouzada, ssantos, Emin Tufan Çetin, Jeff Huang, Christian Wia, Murun Battulga, Сергей, Peter Vančo, Dick Groskamp, amano, Julien Humbert, தமிழ்நேரம், WofWca, dedakir923, Rafael Fontenelle, Heimen Stoffels, Manuela Silva, ball, Francisco Serrador, Linerly, Sveinn í Felli, Floee Rozario, Ricky Tigg
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař, AliceVisek, Kartik Ohri, Cédric Krier

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Weblate 5.11¶

Released on April 15th 2025.

New features

Added GET /api/units/(int:id)/translations/ to retrieve a list of all target translation units for the given source translation unit.
Added DELETE /api/groups/(int:id)/roles/(int:role_id) to delete a role from a group.
Webhook is now available as an add-on.
Automattic components formatting check to validate placeholders in Automattic components.
Inherited flags can now be discarded, see Customizing behavior using flags.
Secondary languages can now be specified in Project configuration and Component configuration.
Source strings for the machine translation can now be customized.

Improvements

Weblate now uses OpenAPI Specification 3.1.1 to generate the schema for Weblate’s REST API.
Translator credits and Contributor stats include translator’s join date. Additionally, both reports can be sorted either by the join date or the number of strings translated.
Widgets show more precise stats.
Uploading translations is now tracked in history with details.
C# format now supports csharp-format flag for compatibility with GNU gettext.
Changes in string flags are now tracked in history.
Automatic suggestions documentation extended.
Component discovery better handles hundreds of matches.
Dismissing Quality checks automatically updates propagated strings.
Translation flags can now also be configured on the project level.
Improved rendering of Translation flags and Explanation changes in history.
CyrTranslit now automatically transliterates from a matching translation instead of the source strings.
Errors from creating a duplicate glossary and failure to delete a glossary are now handled gracefully.

Bug fixes

Security: Cloning a component could leak component configuration into the URL (CVE 2025-32021).
Fixed captcha verification when some time zone was configured.
Improved translation propagation performance.
Leading and trailing whitespace are now correctly stripped in glossary strings that also contain a Prohibited initial character.
Fixed background parsing of newly added translation files.

Compatibility

Registration now disallows disposable e-mail domains.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

The database migration updates indexes and this might take considerable time.

Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař, Gersona, Kartik Ohri, Mehdi El Oualy, Yash Kumar, nijel, Viktor Khokhryakov, AliceVisek, KasukabeDefenceForce
Translations contributions: Michal Čihař, Vinko Kastelic, Dick Groskamp, ButterflyOfFire, Amalia Nostalgia, VfBFan, Balázs Úr, william chen, Alexander Gabilondo, cat, Fjuro, Ritwik, Rafael Fontenelle, Bee Crankson, Ldm Public, Christian Wia, ℂ𝕠𝕠𝕠𝕝 (𝕘𝕚𝕥𝕙𝕦𝕓.𝕔𝕠𝕞/ℂ𝕠𝕠𝕠𝕝), தமிழ்நேரம், Emilia Meza, elid, xuars, Andi Chandler, RViktor, Tuukka Salminen, Yaron Shahrabani, Chang-Chia Tseng, Manuela Silva, Espea Tiviq, dedakir923, Besnik Bleta, ប៉ុកណូ រ៉ូយ៉ាល់, Dag Høidahl, Priit Jõerüüt, pan93412, Miguel A. Bouzada, Vũ Minh Nguyên, CyrTranslit, Avi Markovitz, Temuri Doghonadze, Matthaiks, Champ0999, Yauhen, Massimo Pissarello, Sketch6580, Максим Горпиніч, Emin Tufan Çetin, Agnieszka C, Ettore Atalan, Любомир Василев, Marc Riera, adiee5, 大王叫我来巡山, JY3, amano, Сергей, Ricky Tigg, Martin Srebotnjak, Gideon Wentink, Yuri Chornoivan
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař, Gersona, Kartik Ohri, Yash Kumar, AliceVisek, gpatel-fr

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Weblate 5.10.4¶

Released on March 19th 2025.

Bug fixes

Fixed dismissing of checks.
Reduced overhead of rendering other strings while translating.
Improved performance of some Weblate’s REST API endpoints.
Fixed Parsing language codes in some corner cases.
Searching for strings now properly finds exact match on the component.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař
Translations contributions: Vinko Kastelic, Dick Groskamp, Amalia Nostalgia, VfBFan, Balázs Úr, william chen, Michal Čihař, cat
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař

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Weblate 5.10.3¶

Released on March 13th 2025.

Improvements

Captcha is not shown for registrations via Inviting new users.

Bug fixes

Improved performance of API download endpoints.
Optimized fetching other translations while translating.
Reduced notifications overhead.
Improved handling of components using Weblate internal URLs.
Fixed authenticating with some Git servers.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař, nijel, Gersona, Javier Pérez, Mehdi El Oualy, Allan Nordhøy, Malte L., StoyanDimitrov, 49
Translations contributions: Dick Groskamp, VfBFan, Rafael Fontenelle, Besnik Bleta, 大学没毕业, 大王叫我来巡山, Xzonn, Agnieszka C, Linerly, Peter Vančo, Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin, Uijong Wei, BouenMarsh, Sagiri, qtm, Martin Srebotnjak, Blueberry, Horus68, Aksel Azwaw, Yaron Shahrabani, Петро Узбек, Meta Sonic, Ldm Public, Michal Čihař, Lang Q, தமிழ்நேரம், amano, MERCRED, Milo Ivir, dsa-t, JY3, Balázs Meskó, Christian Wia, Szymon Ignaczak, Nichathip Polaueng, Chang-Chia Tseng, Emil Schildknecht Nielsen, Turkish Wold, Yılmaz Durmaz, Gadzio742, Nahil4, Yi Chi Fauzi, Максим Горпиніч, Fjuro, Sketch6580, Любомир Василев, Massimo Pissarello, Julien Humbert, Ricky Tigg, Ihor Hordiichuk, Kaya Zeren, Reno Tx, Miguel A. Bouzada, n1ck, Andi Chandler, Tuomas Hietala, Priit Jõerüüt, Trond Kjetil Bremnes, Pierfrancesco Passerini, Jesper Hertel, VisionR1, pan93412, Miguel, Lynilia, Mohammed Al Otaibi, Dwi Cahyono, awadhiworld, Kyotaro Iijima, Prachi Joshi, 이정희, Carlos Manuel Picos, Vaclovas Intas, Yuri, StoyanDimitrov, Mehdi El Oualy, Vlăduț Ilie, Ettore Atalan, qywter11 qywter11, Yuri Chornoivan, Temuri Doghonadze, hugoalh, Burak Hüseyin Ekseli, leyakid803, 김인수, bovirus, WaldiS, Filipe Mota (BlackSpirits), Alyaksandr Koshal, Мирослав Николић, پرویز قادر, cat, Ilyes Kouachi, ButterflyOfFire, Eduard Ereza Martínez, nautilusx, Matthaiks, Vin, Rostyslav, RViktor, Sveinn í Felli, Basheer Radman, dedakir923, xuars
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař, Rafael Fontenelle, AliceVisek, Gersona, StoyanDimitrov, Mehdi El Oualy

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Weblate 5.10.2¶

Released on February 28th 2025.

Improvements

Improved Translation Memory matching.
Visual diff now better highlights whitespace additions.
Improved performance on large projects.

Bug fixes

Consistency of Boolean operators in Searching.
Fixed some Add-ons trigger upon installation.
Fixed restoring of Git repositories from Project level backups.

Compatibility

Weblate has switched to a different library for zxcvbn integration, as the old one is no longer maintained, see Password authentication.
Weblate uses proactive authentication with Git 2.46.0 and newer when HTTP credentials are supplied.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

There are several changes in settings_example.py, most notable are changed settings AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS and INSTALLED_APPS; please adjust your settings accordingly.

Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař, nijel, Gersona, Javier Pérez, Mehdi El Oualy, Allan Nordhøy, Malte L., StoyanDimitrov, 49
Translations contributions: Dick Groskamp, VfBFan, Rafael Fontenelle, Besnik Bleta, 大学没毕业, 大王叫我来巡山, Xzonn, Agnieszka C, Linerly, Peter Vančo, Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin, Uijong Wei, BouenMarsh, Sagiri, qtm, Martin Srebotnjak, Blueberry, Horus68, Aksel Azwaw, Yaron Shahrabani, Петро Узбек, Meta Sonic, Ldm Public, Michal Čihař, Lang Q, தமிழ்நேரம், amano, MERCRED, Milo Ivir, dsa-t, JY3, Balázs Meskó, Christian Wia, Szymon Ignaczak, Nichathip Polaueng, Chang-Chia Tseng, Emil Schildknecht Nielsen, Turkish Wold, Yılmaz Durmaz, Gadzio742, Nahil4, Yi Chi Fauzi, Максим Горпиніч, Fjuro, Sketch6580, Любомир Василев, Massimo Pissarello, Julien Humbert, Ricky Tigg, Ihor Hordiichuk, Kaya Zeren, Reno Tx, Miguel A. Bouzada, n1ck, Andi Chandler, Tuomas Hietala, Priit Jõerüüt, Trond Kjetil Bremnes, Pierfrancesco Passerini, Jesper Hertel, VisionR1, pan93412, Miguel, Lynilia, Mohammed Al Otaibi, Dwi Cahyono, awadhiworld, Kyotaro Iijima, Prachi Joshi, 이정희, Carlos Manuel Picos, Vaclovas Intas, Yuri, StoyanDimitrov, Mehdi El Oualy, Vlăduț Ilie, Ettore Atalan, qywter11 qywter11, Yuri Chornoivan, Temuri Doghonadze, hugoalh, Burak Hüseyin Ekseli, leyakid803, 김인수, bovirus, WaldiS, Filipe Mota (BlackSpirits), Alyaksandr Koshal, Мирослав Николић, پرویز قادر, cat, Ilyes Kouachi, ButterflyOfFire, Eduard Ereza Martínez, nautilusx, Matthaiks, Vin, Rostyslav, RViktor
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař, Rafael Fontenelle, AliceVisek, Gersona, StoyanDimitrov, Mehdi El Oualy

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Weblate 5.10.1¶

Released on February 21st 2025.

Improvements

Multiple failing checks better shows failing checks including links to the strings.
Detailed overview of locked components on project repository management.
Searching for strings supports searching by source string state.

Bug fixes

Downloading translations performs faster on project and language scopes.
Zen Mode does not display the source string twice when editing it.
Fixed Glossary terms highlighting.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař, nijel, Gersona, Javier Pérez, Mehdi El Oualy, Allan Nordhøy, Malte L., StoyanDimitrov, 49
Translations contributions: Dick Groskamp, VfBFan, Rafael Fontenelle, Besnik Bleta, 大学没毕业, 大王叫我来巡山, Xzonn, Agnieszka C, Linerly, Peter Vančo, Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin, Uijong Wei, BouenMarsh, Sagiri, qtm, Martin Srebotnjak, Blueberry, Horus68, Aksel Azwaw, Yaron Shahrabani, Петро Узбек, Meta Sonic, Ldm Public, Michal Čihař, Lang Q, தமிழ்நேரம், amano, MERCRED, Milo Ivir, dsa-t, JY3, Balázs Meskó, Christian Wia, Szymon Ignaczak, Nichathip Polaueng, Chang-Chia Tseng, Emil Schildknecht Nielsen, Turkish Wold, Yılmaz Durmaz, Gadzio742, Nahil4, Yi Chi Fauzi, Максим Горпиніч, Fjuro, Sketch6580, Любомир Василев, Massimo Pissarello, Julien Humbert, Ricky Tigg, Ihor Hordiichuk, Kaya Zeren, Reno Tx, Miguel A. Bouzada, n1ck, Andi Chandler, Tuomas Hietala, Priit Jõerüüt, Trond Kjetil Bremnes, Pierfrancesco Passerini, Jesper Hertel, VisionR1, pan93412, Miguel, Lynilia, Mohammed Al Otaibi, Dwi Cahyono, awadhiworld, Kyotaro Iijima, Prachi Joshi, 이정희, Carlos Manuel Picos, Vaclovas Intas, Yuri, StoyanDimitrov, Mehdi El Oualy, Vlăduț Ilie, Ettore Atalan, qywter11 qywter11, Yuri Chornoivan, Temuri Doghonadze, hugoalh, Burak Hüseyin Ekseli, leyakid803, 김인수, bovirus, WaldiS, Filipe Mota (BlackSpirits), Alyaksandr Koshal, Мирослав Николић, پرویز قادر, cat, Ilyes Kouachi, ButterflyOfFire, Eduard Ereza Martínez, nautilusx, Matthaiks, Vin
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař, Rafael Fontenelle, AliceVisek, Gersona, StoyanDimitrov, Mehdi El Oualy

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Weblate 5.10¶

Released on February 14th 2025.

New features

Inconsistent reStructuredText check to validate reStructuredText references.
reStructuredText syntax error check to validate reStructuredText syntax.
API can now produce CSV output.
New management command import_projectbackup to import Project level backups.

Improvements

Improved error handling in Automatic suggestions.
WEBLATE_REGISTRATION_CAPTCHA is now available in Docker container.
Synchronize on shared repository now operates on all its components.
Punctuation spacing ignores markup such as Markdown or reStructuredText.
Punctuation spacing does not alter reStructuredText markup.
Improved validation errors in Weblate’s REST API, see Error responses.
Any language changed into an alias in Weblate language data is now reflected in all existing installations.
Blank alias languages (not linked to any translation, profile, component, …) are now automatically removed.
Consecutive duplicated words better works with markup such as Markdown or reStructuredText.
Automatically use DeepL API Free endpoint for the DeepL API Free authentication keys in DeepL.
Compatibility with third-party static files storage backends for Django.
Improved language compatibility in Azure AI Translator.
Reused translation check gracefully handles languages which are not case sensitive.
Enforced checks are now applied on strings imported from the repository.
Reduced false positives in Mismatched colon and Mismatched full stop for CJK languages.
OpenAPI schema for API includes more information.
Regular expression supports advanced regular expressions.
Unchanged translation gracefully deals with case-insensitive languages.

Bug fixes

Reused translation wrongly triggered after fixing the error.
Dark theme behavior in some situations.
Translation propagation sometimes did not work as expected.
Content-Security-Policy is now automatically set for AWS.
Automatic suggestions sometimes cached results too aggressively.
Fixed translations caching in Automatic suggestions.
Unsafe HTML cleanup automatic fixups honors the ignore-safe-html flag.
Punctuation spacing no longer applies to Breton.
Fixed Squash Git commits on linked repositories.
Multiple failing checks avoids false positives and better lists related checks.

Compatibility

Running tests using Django test executor is no longer supported, see Weblate testsuite and continuous integration.
BBCode markup check is now disabled by default. The bbcode-text flag is required to activate this check, see Customizing behavior using flags.
API error responses format has changed, see Error responses.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

There are several changes in settings_example.py, most notable are the new settings for Weblate’s REST API in REST_FRAMEWORK, SPECTACULAR_SETTINGS, DRF_STANDARDIZED_ERRORS and INSTALLED_APPS; please adjust your settings accordingly.
PostgreSQL 12 and MariaDB 10.4 are no longer supported.

Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař, nijel, Gersona, Javier Pérez, Mehdi El Oualy, Allan Nordhøy, Malte L., StoyanDimitrov, 49
Translations contributions: Dick Groskamp, VfBFan, Rafael Fontenelle, Besnik Bleta, 大学没毕业, 大王叫我来巡山, Xzonn, Agnieszka C, Linerly, Peter Vančo, Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin, Uijong Wei, BouenMarsh, Sagiri, qtm, Martin Srebotnjak, Blueberry, Horus68, Aksel Azwaw, Yaron Shahrabani, Петро Узбек, Meta Sonic, Ldm Public, Michal Čihař, Lang Q, தமிழ்நேரம், amano, MERCRED, Milo Ivir, dsa-t, JY3, Balázs Meskó, Christian Wia, Szymon Ignaczak, Nichathip Polaueng, Chang-Chia Tseng, Emil Schildknecht Nielsen, Turkish Wold, Yılmaz Durmaz, Gadzio742, Nahil4, Yi Chi Fauzi, Максим Горпиніч, Fjuro, Sketch6580, Любомир Василев, Massimo Pissarello, Julien Humbert, Ricky Tigg, Ihor Hordiichuk, Kaya Zeren, Reno Tx, Miguel A. Bouzada, n1ck, Andi Chandler, Tuomas Hietala, Priit Jõerüüt, Trond Kjetil Bremnes, Pierfrancesco Passerini, Jesper Hertel, VisionR1, pan93412, Miguel, Lynilia, Mohammed Al Otaibi, Dwi Cahyono, awadhiworld, Kyotaro Iijima, Prachi Joshi, 이정희, Carlos Manuel Picos, Vaclovas Intas, Yuri, StoyanDimitrov, Mehdi El Oualy, Vlăduț Ilie, Ettore Atalan, qywter11 qywter11, Yuri Chornoivan, Temuri Doghonadze, hugoalh, Burak Hüseyin Ekseli, leyakid803, 김인수, bovirus
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař, Rafael Fontenelle, AliceVisek, Gersona, StoyanDimitrov, Mehdi El Oualy

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Weblate 5.9.2¶

Released on December 19th 2024.

Improvements

Renamed Bitbucket Data Center pull requests to match new product name.
GET /api/users/ supports searching by user ID.

Bug fixes

Avoid query parser crash in multi-threaded environments.
Avoid Automatic fixups crash on multi-value strings.
Make project tokens work when Two-factor authentication or Contributor license agreement are enforced.
Captcha solution were sometimes not accepted.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař, Gersona
Translations contributions: Horus68, Peter Vančo, cat, Rafael Fontenelle, Blueberry, Christian Wia, 大学没毕业, Yılmaz Durmaz, gallegonovato, Miguel A. Bouzada, VfBFan, Michal Čihař, Максим Горпиніч, Besnik Bleta, Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin, Yaron Shahrabani, Fjuro, 大王叫我来巡山, Massimo Pissarello, Любомир Василев
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař, Rafael Fontenelle

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Weblate 5.9.1¶

Released on December 16th 2024.

Bug fixes

Fixed publishing package to PyPI.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař

All changes in detail.

Weblate 5.9¶

Released on December 16th 2024.

New features

Per-project Automatic suggestions can now be configured via the Project Weblate’s REST API.
- Added GET /api/projects/{string:project}/machinery_settings/.
- Added POST /api/projects/{string:project}/machinery_settings/.
Translation memory import now supports files with XLIFF, PO and CSV formats, see User interface and import_memory command in Management commands.
The registration CAPTCHA now includes proof-of-work mechanism ALTCHA.
Leading problematic characters in CSV are now checks for Glossary, see Prohibited initial character.
Logging to Graylog log management.

Improvements

Google Cloud Translation Advanced now supports Glossaries in automatic suggestion (optional).
A shortcut to duplicate a component is now available directly in the menu (Operations → Duplicate this component).
Included username when generating Translator credits.
Bulk edit shows a preview of matched strings.
GET /api/components/(string:project)/(string:component)/ exposes component lock state.
Editor in Zen Mode is now stick to bottom of screen.
Added page navigation while Translating.
Appearance customization now has distinct settings for dark mode.
Improved Translation propagation performance.
More detailed error messages for POST /api/translations/(string:project)/(string:component)/(string:language)/file/.

Bug fixes

Using the has:variant field now correctly displays strings that have variants in the search language, see Searching for strings.
Saving newly added strings in some formats.
Java format gracefully handles escaping.

Compatibility

Rollbar integration no longer includes client-side error collection.
Weblate now requires Git 2.28 or newer.
Any custom code that relied on Change models signals should be reviewed.
Fedora Messaging integration integration needs to be updated to be compatible with this release.
WEB_WORKERS now configures number of threads instead of processes.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař, Mehdi El Oualy, Paul Harriet Asiñero, Yusi Z, Mehdi Eloualy, gers, nijel, michael-smt, gersona, Gersona
Translations contributions: Michal Čihař, Besnik Bleta, gallegonovato, Blueberry, cat, Fjuro, Sketch6580, Massimo Pissarello, Linerly, 大王叫我来巡山, 大学没毕业, Yuri Chornoivan, VfBFan, JY3, Miguel A. Bouzada, Dick Groskamp, Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin, Andi Chandler, Kristoffer Grundström, Christian Wia, Claudio Filho F Filho, Yaron Shahrabani, Milo Ivir, Kaya Zeren, Neaten “Awrawman” Awrawman, Agnieszka C, Jeff Huang, Fulup Jakez, Milan Šalka, nautilusx, Любомир Василев, notlin4, immeteor2, kowih83264, WaldiS, ssantos, Reno Tx, Johan Jacobsson, Peter Vančo, Sveinn í Felli, Oliver, Yvan Zo, meshari alnaim, தமிழ்நேரம், searinminecraft, Jwtiyar Nariman, gitelo4516, Vision, Chang-Chia Tseng, Kyotaro Iijima, Ricky Tigg, ei9, Martin Srebotnjak, Horus68, 이정희, Максим Горпиніч, Sylvain Pichon, Ldm Public, Слободан Симић(Slobodan Simić), Priit Jõerüüt, Hugo, UTUMI Hirosi, Сергей, symegac, Winston Sung, ChinskiKaczynski, Rafael Fontenelle
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař, Paul Harriet Asiñero, gers, michael-smt, Benjamin Alan Jamie, Gersona, Mehdi Eloualy

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Weblate 5.8.4¶

Released on November 19th 2024.

Improvements

Searching for users can search based on user changes.

Bug fixes

Fixed occasional crash in RSS feeds.
ICU MessageFormat gracefully handles plural strings.
Bitbucket Cloud pull requests correctly generates pull request description.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař, gersona, Mehdi El Oualy
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař

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Weblate 5.8.3¶

Released on November 6th 2024.

Bug fixes

Formatting of some Audit log entries.
Fixed XML escaped output in some machine translation integrations.
Fixed duplicate listing of newly added glossary terms.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař, Mehdi El Oualy
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař

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Weblate 5.8.2¶

Released on November 1st 2024.

Bug fixes

Update outdated plural definitions during the database migration.
Reduced number of database queries when updating multiple strings.
Leading problematic characters in Glossary terms are now properly stripped in uploaded files.
Improved Workflow customization performance.
Fixed XML escaped output in some machine translation integrations.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař, Paul Harriet Asiñero, michael-smt, gers, Mehdi El Oualy
Translations contributions: VfBFan, 大王叫我来巡山, Любомир Василев, Miguel A. Bouzada, Besnik Bleta, Yuri Chornoivan, Wuzzy, Michal Čihař, gallegonovato, Vin, Blueberry, befag74614, Agnieszka C, Rhoslyn Prys, Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin, Fulup Jakez, Christian Wia, ssantos, Vlăduț Ilie, Fjuro, amano, Andi Chandler, Peter Vančo, test-session, famese, Yaron Shahrabani, Geert-Jan Knapen, Ricky From Hong Kong, Tymofii Lytvynenko, Dick Groskamp, Horus68, Reno Tx, Jim Kats, Massimo Pissarello, Florent, Ihor Hordiichuk, hugoalh, Vaclovas Intas, Milo Ivir, Jim Spentzos, Dženan, Claudio Filho F Filho, 大学没毕业, پرویز قادر
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař, Benjamin Alan Jamie, gers, gersona

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Weblate 5.8.1¶

Released on October 15th 2024.

Bug fixes

Use lower case name for the Python package.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař

All changes in detail.

Weblate 5.8¶

Released on October 15th 2024.

New features

Added Key filter in the component.
Searching now supports filtering by object path and Searching for DATETIME fields.
Merge requests credentials can now be passed in the repository URL, see Configuring version control credentials.
Azure OpenAI automatic suggestion service.
Bitbucket Cloud pull requests.

Improvements

ModernMT supports Glossaries in automatic suggestion.
DeepL now supports specifying translation context.
Amazon Translate now supports Glossaries in automatic suggestion.
Automatic fixups for Devanagari danda now better handles latin script.
Automatic fixups for French and Breton now uses a non-breaking space before colons instead of a narrow one.
Weblate’s REST API now has a preview OpenAPI specification.
Stale, empty glossaries are now automatically removed.
? now displays available Keyboard shortcuts.
Translation and language view in the project now include basic information about the language and plurals.
Search and replace shows a preview of matched strings.
Android string resources now support translatable attribute in its strings.
Creating component via file upload (Translate document) now supports bilingual files.

Bug fixes

Displaying Workflow customization setting in some cases.
Users can add component in any language already existing in a project.
Multiple unnamed variables better handles some strings, such as Python brace format.

Compatibility

Weblate now requires Python 3.11 or newer.
Amazon Translate now requires the TranslateFullAccess permission.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

There are several changes in settings_example.py, most notable are the new settings for Weblate’s REST API in SPECTACULAR_SETTINGS and changes in REST_FRAMEWORK and INSTALLED_APPS; please adjust your settings accordingly.

Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař, Mehdi Eloualy, Mehdi El Oualy, gers, michael-smt, ButterflyOfFire, Saurmanđal, Paul Harriet Asiñero, Ingo Brückl, Vincent, Jakub Boukal, nijel
Translations contributions: gallegonovato, Jose Delvani, Andi Chandler, Massimo Pissarello, Christian Wia, Kaya Zeren, Muhammad B Madara, Assem Askarova, pan93412, Reno Tx, Sagiri, symegac, Allan Nordhøy, VfBFan, Peter Vančo, Yaron Shahrabani, Dick Groskamp, Besnik Bleta, Masahiro Fujimoto, Kyotaro Iijima, ButterflyOfFire, Michal Čihař, پرویز قادر, amano, Mirka Danylenko, Yuri Chornoivan, Milo Ivir, Blueberry, Julien Humbert, JY3, Ricky Tigg, Hotripak, Vin, Fjuro, 大王叫我来巡山, Miguel A. Bouzada, Любомир Василев, Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin, Coool (github.com/Coool), Ihor Hordiichuk, Martin Srebotnjak, Сергей, jonnysemon, Wuzzy, Ldm Public, Nived, Hoseok Seo, Tuomas Hietala, Andrey, solokot, Agnieszka C, Luna, Alan Marques, ssantos, Yamin Siahmargooei, Vaclovas Intas, Linerly, Victor K, Rhoslyn Prys, Iker García Calviño, Milan Šalka, Justin Nogossek, Floure, Eduardo Malaspina, Oğuz Ersen, Priit Jõerüüt, Jeff Huang
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař, gers, Jorge, michael-smt, Mehdi Eloualy, Paul Harriet Asiñero, Ingo Brückl, Mehdi El Oualy

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Weblate 5.7.2¶

Released on September 5th 2024.

Improvements

Two-factor authentication remembers last method used by user.
Instead of redirecting, the sign-out now displays a page.
Improved readability of exception logs.

Bug fixes

Updating of translations from the repository in linked components.
Improved rendering of digest notification e-mails.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař, Mehdi Eloualy
Translations contributions: Christian Wia, Ihor Hordiichuk, Hanaa MSB, Hoseok Seo, پرویز قادر, Reno Tx, Jose Delvani, Artemka, Blueberry, Elisabeth Pieringer, VfBFan, ɴᴇᴋᴏ, Andi Chandler, Yaron Shahrabani, Michal Čihař, Miguel A. Bouzada, gallegonovato, Besnik Bleta, Sketch6580, Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin, Fjuro, 大王叫我来巡山
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař

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Weblate 5.7.1¶

Released on August 30th 2024.

Improvements

Updated language names to better describe different scripts and Sinitic languages.
Cleanup translation files is now automatically installed for formats which need it to update non-translation content in the translated files.

Bug fixes

Support for using Docker network names in automatic suggestion settings.
Fixed authentication using some third-party providers such as Azure.
Support for formal and informal Portuguese in DeepL.
QR code for TOTP is now black/white even in dark mode.
Fixed TOTP authentication when WebAuthn is also configured for the user.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař, Mehdi El Oualy, Mehdi Eloualy
Translations contributions: Michal Čihař, Miguel A. Bouzada, Ldm Public, gallegonovato, Besnik Bleta, Yaron Shahrabani, Alefsander Ribeiro Nascimento, Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin, Massimo Pissarello, hugoalh, Xzonn, Jose Delvani, 大王叫我来巡山, Сергей, Milo Ivir, VfBFan, Blueberry, Ihor Hordiichuk, Christian Wia, Fjuro, simmon, Chikita Isaac, Oğuz Ersen, 马牛逼（Felix）, Sketch6580, Emin Tufan Çetin, Simona Iacob, Andi Chandler, Jorge Gemetto, Assem Askarova, Julien Humbert, Peter Vančo, Wuzzy, ovl-1, Jim Kats, WaldiS, Nicolas MAGERE, Eduard Ereza Martínez, Kaya Zeren, Pierfrancesco Passerini, Dick Groskamp, Chang-Chia Tseng, Anon, Priit Jõerüüt, 이정희, Taufik Adi Wicaksono, Balázs Úr, Saranpat Visetrit, Vlăduț Ilie
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař, Robin

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Weblate 5.7¶

Released on August 15th 2024.

New features

Two-factor authentication is now supported using Passkeys, WebAuthn, authentication apps (TOTP), and recovery codes.
Two-factor authentication can be enforced at the team or project level.
Adding new strings can now create plural strings in the user interface.
String labels now include description to explain them.
New Notifications for completed translation and component.
OpenAI now supports custom models and URLs and offers rephrasing of existing strings.
CyrTranslit automatic suggestion service.

Improvements

Format the Java properties file can now do case-sensitive sorting.
The status widgets are now supported site-wide and language-wide, see Building the translation community.
Activity reports are now available for categories.
Highlight newlines in the editor.
CSV files better handle files with two fields only.
Browse mode can now be navigated using keyboard, see Keyboard shortcuts.
GET /api/components/(string:project)/(string:component)/credits/ and GET /api/projects/(string:project)/credits/ API endpoints for components and projects.
Terminology entries in Glossary can now only be created by users with Add glossary terminology permission.
Python brace format detects extra curly braces.
Screenshots now can be pasted from the clipboard in Visual context for strings.

Bug fixes

Accessibility of keyboard navigation.
Git exporter now works with all Git based Version control integration.
Maximum size of translation sometimes failed to render screenshot.

Compatibility

Weblate now uses mistletoe instead of misaka as a Markdown renderer.
Content security policy is now stricter what might block third-party customizations.
Monolingual formats no longer copy comments from Monolingual base language file when adding strings to translation.
Dropped support for Amagama in Automatic suggestions as the service is no longer maintained.
Default value for SENTRY_SEND_PII was changed.
Translation credit reports in the JSON format now follows a different format for entries.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

There are several changes in settings_example.py, most notable are the new settings for Two-factor authentication and changes in INSTALLED_APPS, SOCIAL_AUTH_PIPELINE and MIDDLEWARE; please adjust your settings accordingly.
ENABLE_HTTPS is now required for WebAuthn support. If you cannot use HTTPS, please silence related check as described in ENABLE_HTTPS documentation.

Contributors

Code contributions: Michal Čihař, João Ferreira, Paul Harriet Asiñero, gers, Benjamin Alan Jamie, John R. D’Orazio, Tobias Schlatter, Max Wittig, Mehdi Eloualy, michael-smt, Jochen Sprickerhof, Vincent, Dwayne Bailey, Bastien Montagne
Translations contributions: Jose Delvani, Julija Juli, Andi Chandler, pan93412, Milo Ivir, gallegonovato, ngocanhtve, kapatych, Marco Ciampa, Balázs Úr, Artemka, Ricky From Hong Kong, Massimo Pissarello, dreigiau, Ihor Hordiichuk, Allan Nordhøy, Selyan Sliman Amiri, iwonder, Besnik Bleta, Nathan, yangyangdaji, Priit Jõerüüt, Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin, Diego Beraldin, Marino Díaz, پرویز قادر, Horus68, ssantos, M. D. Kulkarni (MDK), Miguel A. Bouzada, A. Bento, mpt.c, ovl-1, Fjuro, Luna, Antônio Breno, alefsanderribeiro, Alefsander Ribeiro Nascimento, Ian Perdiansah, amano, Petter Reinholdtsen, Malik Shoaib, Emin Tufan Çetin, John kh, Сергей, tygyh, Semih, Balázs Meskó, Martin Najemi, Yaron Shahrabani, Rhoslyn Prys
Documentation contributions: Michal Čihař, Benjamin Alan Jamie, Paul Harriet Asiñero, Allan Nordhøy, Max Wittig, Mehdi Eloualy, Vincent, LE MEILLAT, gers, lotigara

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Weblate 5.6.2¶

Released on July 1st 2024.

Bug fixes

Rendering of String labels color selection widget.
Detection of pending outgoing commits.
Add-ons button layout.
Crash when installing Component discovery add-on.
Removal of source strings in Glossary.
Validation of Project level backups ZIP file upon restoring (CVE 2024-39303 / GHSA-jfgp-674x-6q4p).

Upgrading

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Weblate 5.6.1¶

Released on June 24th 2024.

Improvements

Docker container accepts WEBLATE_REMOVE_ADDONS and WEBLATE_ADD_MACHINERY to customize automatic suggestion services and WEBLATE_CORS_ALLOW_ALL_ORIGINS for CORS handling in API.
Added OpenMetrics compatibility for GET /api/metrics/.

Bug fixes

Language aliases in Automatic suggestions.

Upgrading

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Weblate 5.6¶

Released on June 19th 2024.

New features

Add-ons activity log for tracking add-on activity.
Improved date range selection in Activity reports.

Improvements

Notifications now include strings which need updating.
Improved compatibility with password managers.
Improved tracking of uploaded changes.
Gracefully handle temporary machine translation errors in automatic suggestions.
GET /api/units/(int:id)/ now includes last_updated timestamp.
GET /api/changes/(int:id)/ now includes old and details.
Reduced memory usage and increased performance of some views.

Bug fixes

Loading of strings with many glossary matches.
Fixed behavior of some site-wide Add-ons.
Saving strings needing editing to Windows RC files.
XML markup better handle XML entities.
Automatic suggestions could mix up replacements between translated strings.

Compatibility

Compatibility with Django 5.1.

Upgrading

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Weblate 5.5.5¶

Released on May 13th 2024.

Bug fixes

False-positive merge failure alert when using push branch.
Cleanup of stale repositories.

Upgrading

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Weblate 5.5.4¶

Released on May 10th 2024.

Improvements

Visually highlight explanation in Glossary.
Add Add-ons history tab in management.
New Translation component alerts when Glossary might not work as expected.
Announcements can be posted on project/language scope.

Bug fixes

Improved handling placeables in OpenAI.

Upgrading

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Weblate 5.5.3¶

Released on May 3rd 2024.

Improvements

Improved performance of rendering large lists of objects.
Component management: added links to manage project/site-wide Add-ons.

Bug fixes

Fixed crashes with librsvg older than 2.46.
Daily execution of some Add-ons.

Upgrading

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Weblate 5.5.2¶

Released on April 26th 2024.

Bug fixes

Fixed publishing packages to PyPI.

Upgrading

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Weblate 5.5.1¶

Released on April 26th 2024.

New features

Searching supports source_changed:DATETIME.
Added several new Language code style.

Improvements

Display more details on source string change in history.
Azure AI Translator now supports using custom translators.
Improved error handling in Inviting new users.
Added PNG status badge.
Added list of managed projects to the dashboard view.
More detailed status of outgoing commits.
Reduced memory usage.

Bug fixes

Fixed skipped component update with some add-ons enabled.
Daily execution of project and site wide add-ons.
Allow editing strings when the source is marked for editing.
Updates of the last updated timestamp of a string.
Fixed project and site wide installation of Squash Git commits and Component discovery add-ons.
Graceful handling of locking errors in the Weblate’s REST API.

Upgrading

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There is a change in REST_FRAMEWORK setting (newly added EXCEPTION_HANDLER).

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Weblate 5.5¶

Released on April 20th 2024.

New features

Add-ons can be now installed project-wide and site-wide.
API improvements.
- Added GET /api/categories/(int:id)/statistics/.
- Added GET /api/projects/(string:project)/file/.
- Added POST /api/groups/(int:id)/admins/.
- Added DELETE /api/groups/(int:id)/admins/(int:user_id).
- Improved POST /api/translations/(string:project)/(string:component)/(string:language)/units/.
Added Systran automatic translation support.

Improvements

Docker container now validates user password strength by default, see WEBLATE_MIN_PASSWORD_SCORE.
Improved error reporting in Automatic suggestions.
Maximum size of translation better displays rendered text.
Admins can now specify username and full name when Inviting new users.
Added Mismatched interrobang.
Translation component alerts are now refreshed when needed, not just daily.
Translation progress reporting uses specific word count for CJK languages.
Team membership changes are now tracked in Audit log.

Bug fixes

Does not follow glossary works better for languages not using whitespace.
Translation component alerts better handle non-latin source languages.
Maximum size of translation sometimes ignored font-spacing:SPACING flag.
Fixed per-language statistics on nested categories.
Fixed categories listing on per-language pages.
Fixed Needs editing state calculation.
Fixed changing Repository push URL with Gerrit.
Fixed using categorized components in Management commands, Translation Memory or Automatic translation.

Compatibility

Several API calls might be affected by stricter validation of boolean fields by Django REST Framework. For example POST /api/projects/(string:project)/components/.
Uniqueness of name and slug of a component is now enforced at the database level on PostgreSQL 15+.
Docker image now ships Python packages in /app/venv and installs using uv.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

There are several changes in settings_example.py, most notable is changes in INSTALLED_APPS and LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL, please adjust your settings accordingly.
Weblate now requires Python 3.10 and Django 5.0.

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Weblate 5.4.3¶

Released on March 26th 2024.

Bug fixes

Superuser access to components with Restricted access.
Adjusted default LOGIN_REQUIRED_URLS_EXCEPTIONS to not block Appearance customization.
Avoid crash on pushing changes to diverged repository.
Avoid crash when installing Pseudolocale generation.
Automatically receiving changes from Azure Repos gracefully handles repositories with spaces in URL.
DeepL gracefully handles glossaries for language variants.
Excel Open XML better handles blank cells.
Fixed possible data loss when merging gettext PO file changes in Git.
Repository operations on project could have skipped some components.

Upgrading

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Weblate 5.4.2¶

Released on February 22nd 2024.

Bug fixes

Displaying debugging page in case of database connection issues.
Gracefully handle migration with duplicate built-in teams.

Upgrading

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Weblate 5.4.1¶

Released on February 19th 2024.

Bug fixes

Possible crash on Weblate upgrade check when cached from the previous versions.
Gracefully handle migration with duplicate built-in teams.

Upgrading

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Weblate 5.4¶

Released on February 15th 2024.

New features

Perl brace format quality check.
Mobile Kotlin resources.
Format.JS JSON file.
Search input is now syntax highlighted, see Searching.
Weblate is now available in Tamil.

Improvements

Better logging in createadmin.
Component discovery now reports skipped entries.
Adding string in a repository triggers Notifications.
OpenAI better handles batch translations and glossaries.
LibreTranslate better handles batch translations.
Text variant of notification e-mails now properly indicate changed strings.
File downloads now honor If-Modified-Since.
Number of words support for CJK languages.
Component discovery now preserves Component Lists.
Nicer formatting of Glossary tooltips.
GET /api/components/(string:project)/(string:component)/ now includes information about linked component.
Improved Workflow customization configuration forms.

Bug fixes

Plural forms handling in Qt Linguist .ts.
Added missing documentation for ADMINS_CONTACT.
Automatic fixer for Punctuation spacing no longer adds new whitespace.
Pending changes committing could be omitted under some circumstances.
Remove blank strings now correctly removes blank plurals.

Compatibility

Last changed timestamp now reflects changes outside Weblate as well. This affects both Weblate’s REST API and the user interface.
Releases are signed by Sigstore instead of PGP, see Verifying release signatures.

Upgrading

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Weblate 5.3.1¶

Released on December 19th 2023.

Bug fixes

Not updating statistics in some situations.

Upgrading

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Weblate 5.3¶

Released on December 14th 2023.

New features

OpenAI automatic suggestion service.
Alibaba automatic suggestion service.
Added labels API, see GET /api/projects/(string:project)/labels/.
Glossaries in automatic suggestion.
New automatic fixer for Punctuation spacing.
Google Cloud Translation Advanced now better honors placeables or line breaks.

Improvements

Reduced memory usage for statistics.
DeepL performs better in Automatic translation and supports Glossaries in automatic suggestion.
Azure AI Translator supports Glossaries in automatic suggestion.
Improved region selection in Google Cloud Translation Advanced.
Added nested JSON exporter in Downloading translations.
Improved Git exporter performance on huge repositories.

Bug fixes

Removing stale VCS directories.

Compatibility

Dropped Microsoft Terminology service for automatic suggestions, as it is no longer provided by Microsoft.
labels in units API now expose full label info, see GET /api/units/(int:id)/.

Upgrading

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Weblate 5.2.1¶

Released on November 22nd 2023.

Improvements

Show search field after no strings found while translating.
Added soft hyphen to special-characters toolbar.

Bug fixes

Database backups compatibility with Alibaba Cloud Database PolarDB.
Crash on loading statistics calculated by previous versions.
Sort icons in dark mode.
Project level statistics no longer count categorized components twice.
Possible discarding pending translations after editing source strings.

Upgrading

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Weblate 5.2¶

Released on November 16th 2023.

New features

Azure DevOps pull requests.

Improvements

Faster statistics updates.
Better e-mail selection in user profile.
Automatic fixups are now applied to suggestions as well.
DeepL can now configure default formality for translations.
Use neutral colors for progress bars and translation unit states.
Generate MO files can optionally include strings needing editing.
Use Accept-Language to order translations for unauthenticated users.
Add option to directly approve suggestions with Dedicated reviewers workflow.
One-click removal of project or component Notifications.
Statistics now includes character and word counts for more string states.

Bug fixes

Fixed creating component within a category by upload.
Error handling in organizing components and categories.
Fixed moving categories between projects.
Fixed formatting of translation memory search results.
Allow non-breaking space character in Unsafe HTML cleanup.

Compatibility

Apple iOS strings exporter now produces UTF-8 encoded files.
Python 3.12 is now supported, though not recommended, see Python dependencies.

Upgrading

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Weblate 5.1.1¶

Released on October 25th 2023.

Improvements

Add missing languages now uses a dedicated user for changes.
Added button for sharing on Fediverse.
Added validation for VCS integration credentials.
Reduced overhead of statistics collection.

Bug fixes

Added plurals validation when editing string using the API.
Replacing a file using upload when existing is corrupted.

Upgrading

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Weblate 5.1¶

Released on October 16th 2023.

New features

Yandex v2 machine translation service.
Automatic translation and Automatic translation are now stored with a dedicated user as an author.
Add-ons changes to strings are now stored with a dedicated user as an author.
Downloading components, categories or projects can now convert file formats.
Workflow customization allows to fine-tune localization workflow per language.

Improvements

Enable reviews also shows the approval percentage in object listings.
Project is added to watched upon accepting an invitation.
Configure VCS API credentials as a Python dict from environment variables.
Improved accuracy of checks on plural messages.
Engage page better shows stats.
Strings which can not be saved to a file no longer block other strings to be written.
Fixed some API URLs for categorized components.
Show plural form examples more prominently.
Highlight whitespace in Automatic suggestions.
Faster comment and component removal.
Show disabled save button reason more prominently.
New string notification can now be triggered for each string.

Bug fixes

Improved OCR error handling in Visual context for strings.
Automatic fixups gracefully handle strings from Multivalue CSV file.
Occasional crash in Automatic suggestions caching.
Fixed history listing for entries within a Category.
Fixed editing Administration team.
Add missing languages add-on could miss some languages.

Compatibility

Categories are now included weblate:// repository URLs.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

Upgrades from older version than 5.0.2 are not supported, please upgrade to 5.0.2 first and then continue in upgrading.
Dropped support for deprecated insecure configuration of VCS service API keys via _TOKEN/_USERNAME in settings.py.
Weblate now defaults to persistent database connections in settings_example.py and Docker.

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Weblate 5.0.2¶

Released on September 14th 2023.

Improvements

Translate page performance.
Search now looks for categories as well.

Bug fixes

Rendering of release notes on GitHub.
Listing of categorized projects.
Translating a language inside a category.
Categories sorting.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

The database upgrade can take considerable time on larger sites due to indexing changes.

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Weblate 5.0.1¶

Released on September 10th 2023.

New features

Added GET /api/component-lists/(str:slug)/components/.

Improvements

Related glossary terms lookup is now faster.
Logging of failures when creating pull requests.
History is now loaded faster.
Added object id to all Weblate’s REST API endpoints.
Better performance of projects with a lot of components.
Added compatibility redirects for some old URLs.

Bug fixes

Creating component within a category.
Source strings and state display for converted formats.
Block Edit base file on formats which do not support it.
Reused translation is no longer triggered for blank strings.
Performance issues while browsing some categories.
Fixed GitHub Team and Organization authentication in Docker container.
GitLab merge requests when using a customized SSH port.

Compatibility

pyahocorasick dependency has been replaced by ahocorasick_rs.
The default value of IP_PROXY_OFFSET has been changed from 1 to -1.

Upgrading

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The database upgrade can take considerable time on larger sites due to indexing changes.

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Weblate 5.0¶

Released on August 24th 2023.

New features

Markdown files support, thanks to Anders Kaplan.
Category can now organize components within a project.
Fluent format now has better syntax checks thanks to Henry Wilkes.
Inviting users now works with all authentication methods.
Docker container supports file backed secrets, see Passing secrets.

Improvements

Plurals handling in machine translation.
Unchanged translation check now honors placeholders even in the strict mode.
Reused translation is no longer triggered for languages with a single plural form.
WebP is now supported for Visual context for strings.
Avoid duplicate notification when a user is subscribed to overlapping scopes.
OCR support for non-English languages in Visual context for strings.
XLIFF now supports displaying source string location.
Rendering strings with plurals, placeholders or alternative translations.
User API now includes last sign in date.
User API token is now hidden for privacy reasons by default.
Faster adding terms to glossary.
Better preserve translation on source file change in HTML files and Text files.
Added indication of automatic assignment to team listing.
Users now have to confirm invitations to become team members.
Formatted strings can now check all plural forms with the strict-format flag.
Checks and fixups browsing experience.
Highlight differences in the source string in automatic suggestions.
Visual diff now better understands compositing characters.

Bug fixes

User names handling while committing to Git.
Remove blank strings and Cleanup translation files now remove all strings at once.
Language filtering in Translation progress reporting.
Reduced false positives of Reused translation when fixing the translation.
Fixed caching issues after updating screenshots from the repository.

Compatibility

Python 3.9 or newer is now required.
Several UI URLs have been changed to be able to handle categories.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

There are several changes in settings_example.py, most notable is changes in CACHES and SOCIAL_AUTH_PIPELINE, please adjust your settings accordingly.
Several previously optional dependencies are now required.
The database upgrade can take considerable time on larger sites due to structure changes.

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