Weblate 2026.7

Released on July 1st 2026.

New features

Improvements

  • RTL editing and translation display now handle bidirectional text better, including Unicode isolate controls in the Visual keyboard.

  • Management interface access control is now more fine-grained with dedicated site-wide permissions.

  • Default commit and merge request message templates now use Conventional Commits, settings forms can restore installation defaults, and pull request messages use a compact language progress matrix.

  • Documented Legal module customizations and added options to hide legal pages or disable document numbering.

  • Expanded security documentation for data residency, EU cloud sovereignty, release artifacts, supported versions, release verification, SBOMs, dependency handling, vulnerability reporting, hosted-service incident response, and self-hosted operator responsibilities.

  • Update LINGUAS file better detects LINGUAS file presence.

  • Update POT file (xgettext) can now leave the xgettext language blank to let xgettext guess it from source file extensions.

  • Update POT file (xgettext), Update POT file (Meson), Update gettext template (Django), and Update POT file (Sphinx) can now keep source locations in generated POT files even when translated PO files omit locations.

  • Add-ons installed at higher scopes are now shown on lower-scope add-on pages, and broad-scope add-ons can list affected components with compatibility details.

  • WEBLATE_ALLOWED_ASSET_SIZE is now available in Docker container.

  • LLM automatic suggestions now use translated examples, language-specific instructions, richer glossary context, and structured placeholder context for more reliable output.

  • Meta descriptions now better match single-project and self-hosted installations.

  • Zen mode, filtered searches, nearby strings, translation form submissions, and add-on management pages now load more efficiently on large sites.

  • Added Packaging Weblate for distributions guidance for distribution maintainers.

  • Large component imports now avoid duplicate translation-memory processing.

  • GNU gettext PO (Portable Object) files can now be configured to remove obsolete strings on save, including during repository maintenance.

  • Bulk accepting suggestions now confirms the number of affected suggestions, can approve them for reviewers, and processes the acceptance in the background.

  • Committing large numbers of pending translations now queues browser requests in the background and avoids duplicate repository commit tasks.

  • Change-event notification add-ons can now use presets for translation content events, all events, or selected individual events.

  • Fedora Messaging now validates secure broker connections and exposes delivery timing settings.

  • Component diagnostics now sort entries by severity, color-code severity badges, and show the error count on the Diagnostics tab.

  • Performance report now shows PostgreSQL database disk usage next to server disk usage and warns when the database usage cannot be collected.

  • Performance report now shows PostgreSQL database disk usage next to server disk usage and warns when the database usage cannot be collected or there is not enough free space in the backup destination to store a database dump.

  • The Search and replace preview now keeps the search parameters editable so the query can be refined before applying replacements.

Bug fixes

  • Regular expression and Placeholders now enforce regular expression timeouts when evaluating source-string flags (GHSA-r52j-4vjp-q949).

  • Restricted component changes are no longer exposed through nested project, component, or translation API change endpoints (GHSA-92m8-wv36-prmx).

  • ZIP downloads, including App store metadata files translation bundles, no longer follow child symbolic links outside the downloaded tree (GHSA-xwj4-fp82-r2rj).

  • Teams enforcing two-factor authentication now also withhold site-wide permissions from human members without 2FA configured (GHSA-x86c-ff69-cr2m).

  • Globally scoped HTML and AJAX object lookups no longer disclose object existence in private projects (CVE 2026-55227, GHSA-2p9g-x3cv-5hh4).

  • Team API access checks now prevent project managers from reading private-project team data or expanding scoped team assignments outside their allowed projects (CVE 2026-55228, GHSA-2q2q-jr9g-v9rf).

  • Malformed replacements flags no longer abort source length checks.

  • Empty component lists are no longer exposed to users without component list management permission.

  • Glossary handling no longer duplicates TBX terms or shows source-language terms in both translation columns.

  • Duplicate string alerts now offer a cleanup action to remove repeated strings from translation files.

  • Gerrit review requests review pushes can again include Gerrit push options in the target branch.

  • Webhook target fallback matching is now stricter and reported in component diagnostics.

  • Creating components linked with weblate:// no longer waits on the shared repository lock during the request.

  • Project and workspace translation license defaults now follow component and project licenses more closely.

  • Component and category API PATCH requests no longer remove the category when the field is omitted.

  • Document and translation-memory uploads now enforce TRANSLATION_UPLOAD_MAX_SIZE, and API document uploads validate file extensions.

  • reStructuredText syntax error now detects inline roles wrapped in stray backticks.

  • Unsafe HTML now efficiently detects changed placeholder-only HTML attribute values in translations.

  • Maximum size of translation no longer wraps text configured to fit on one line, checks source strings, and refreshes rendered previews after source edits.

  • Repository reset and update history now keeps attribution, records remote update failures, and includes follow-up translation-file reconciliation.

  • Updating repository URLs now validates compatible Git history without requiring an immediate successful merge.

  • Automatic translation no longer validates hidden component fields when using machine translation.

  • Strings marked for edit links now include all strings needing editing, checking, or rewriting.

  • Anonymous permission checks no longer fail when loading teams scoped to projects or workspaces.

  • API project creation can again use the user’s only eligible workspace when no explicit workspace is supplied.

  • Git auto-maintenance is now disabled for Weblate-managed repositories to avoid concurrent detached maintenance jobs.

  • Interrupted Git repository operations are now either recovered and recorded or surfaced as a repository alert.

  • Watched translations on the dashboard now include category path segments.

  • Unsupported upload levels now show an upload placeholder pointing to individual translations.

  • Component API responses no longer expose repository export, push branch, or repository browser links to users without repository access.

Compatibility

  • DeepL now handles DeepL API versions internally, uses v3 for glossary management and language discovery, and no longer supports DeepL API v1.

  • Fedora Messaging topics now include category path segments, and broker settings are stored as an AMQP URL with existing host and SSL settings migrated automatically.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

  • There are changes in settings_example.py, most notably in SOCIAL_AUTH_PIPELINE and SOCIAL_AUTH_DISCONNECT_PIPELINE; please adjust your settings accordingly.

  • Existing translation-memory entries are moved to scoped storage by a periodic Celery background task. Keep Celery running after the upgrade; translation-memory suggestions can be incomplete until the backfill finishes.

Contributors

Code contributions

Michal Čihař, Karen Konou, Weblate CI, michael-smt, Samuel Gomes, Dinis Sales, Gersona, Harsha C, Kartik Ohri, Besnik Bleta, fahadhewad

Translations contributions

Dick Groskamp, Michal Čihař, 為什麼不加空格, VfBFan, Любомир Василев, 이정희, Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin, Yaron Shahrabani, jiahaisheng, Horus68, Andrei Stepanov, Martin Srebotnjak, Peter Vančo, Hotripak, 大王叫我来巡山, Milo Ivir, ℂ𝕠𝕠𝕠𝕝 (𝕘𝕚𝕥𝕙𝕦𝕓.𝕔𝕠𝕞/ℂ𝕠𝕠𝕠𝕝), Mickaël Binos, Besnik Bleta, Frank Paul Silye, Matthaiks, abd sak, Hoseok Seo, Fulup Jakez, Gaël TISSERAND (Gtisseran), Azamat Аituganov, Mahirə Həsənova, Pierfrancesco Passerini, Libre, Mohamed Aymane Farhi, Júlia Rosell Saldaña, پرویز قادر, Jim Kats, Miguel A. Bouzada, Manuela Silva, reducedradius, Hanssium, Uh idk, Arif Budiman, Feike Donia, Zahid Rizky Fakhri, Emin Tufan Çetin, ojppe, தமிழ்நேரம், António Oliveira, Rumuz AGO, justcontributor, Flynn, Ștefan Zaharia, Nozomu Matsui, H-Media, Ecron, Weblate CI, Balázs Meskó, Fjuro, goeran, Adam Havránek, Priit Jõerüüt, Astrid Høie Silden, Alan S. Muhammed (Alan Kurdish), hoanghuy309, Yamin Siahmargooei, MeahNunh, Kartik Ohri, Valeria Sofia Azañero, Tuomas Hietala, Rafael Fontenelle, Yuri Chornoivan, AWwue-work, Kristoffer Grundström, ssantos, Andi Chandler, Ldm Public, Alc4Traz45, Szafranek13, hms5232, Victor K, 大学没毕业

Documentation contributions

Michal Čihař, michael-smt, Karen Konou, Gersona, Weblate CI, Kartik Ohri, Besnik Bleta, fahadhewad, Harsha C

All changes in detail.

Weblate 2026.6.1

Released on June 1st 2026.

Bug fixes

  • Language-wide Announcements no longer break language overview pages.

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 2026.6

Released on June 1st 2026.

New features

  • Announcements can now also be managed via the Weblate’s REST API for specific project languages.

  • Team memberships can now be limited to selected languages for per-user translation permissions.

  • Added cost estimates to translation reports.

  • Added optional OpenTelemetry tracing for backend requests and tasks, and Google Cloud Error Reporting for handled server errors.

  • Added Workspaces to group related projects, with workspace project listings, workspace-scoped teams and project creation permissions, inherited workspace, project, and category defaults for selected component settings, and billing details when available.

Improvements

Bug fixes

  • Outbound URL validation now rejects additional non-public targets (CVE 2026-50127, GHSA-vmfc-9982-2m45).

  • Project-language Announcements no longer appear across the whole project.

  • Hardened POST /api/screenshots/ access checks against private project enumeration.

  • Registration-attempt account activity e-mails now link to password reset to help users finish account setup.

  • Inviting new users links now work for signed-in users whose account owns the invited e-mail address.

  • Searching for strings with content changes without a recorded author now supports changed_by:"", and combined change filters now apply to the same change event.

  • Gitea and Forgejo pull requests no longer reconfigure existing fork remotes to point to the source repository.

  • Project and category language translation sessions now keep strings grouped by component priority and show component switch warnings reliably.

  • Engage page task links now stay centered and show the target translation language.

  • Gettext POT update add-ons now rescan translations after committing updated POT and PO files.

  • Git repositories now update branches correctly when the remote also has a tag with the same name.

  • Conflicting repository setup alerts now allow same-branch direct pushes.

  • Obsolete cleanup schedules are now removed from Celery beat during upgrade.

  • Translation pages for workspace projects no longer crash when workspace fields are deferred.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

  • There is a change in INSTALLED_APPS; weblate.workspaces should be added.

  • The database migrations might take longer on larger instances.

Contributors

Code contributions

Michal Čihař, Karen Konou, Weblate CI, Basheer Radman, michael-smt, Kristián Kunc, felixfon

Translations contributions

Michal Čihař, VfBFan, 大王叫我来巡山, Emin Tufan Çetin, Basheer Radman, 為什麼不加空格, Peter Vančo, Christian Wia, Любомир Василев, Matthaiks, Andrei Stepanov, Libre, Besnik Bleta, ℂ𝕠𝕠𝕠𝕝 (𝕘𝕚𝕥𝕙𝕦𝕓.𝕔𝕠𝕞/ℂ𝕠𝕠𝕠𝕝), Balázs Meskó, Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin, Adam Havránek, Dick Groskamp, Arif Budiman, Mickaël Binos, Ryo Nakano, hoanghuy309, Pierfrancesco Passerini, Alefsander Ribeiro Nascimento, Massimo Pissarello, justcontributor, 이정희, Cabdi Waaxid Siciid, Yaron Shahrabani, User2068, Kyotaro Iijima, pan93412, jernejp21, libermax, Phileas Fogg, Fjuro, Jim Kats, Fulup Jakez, Priit Jõerüüt, Ldm Public, Andi Chandler, Burak SDN, ojppe

Documentation contributions

Michal Čihař, VfBFan, Basheer Radman, Weblate CI, michael-smt, felixfon

All changes in detail.

Weblate 2026.5

Released on May 15th 2026.

New features

  • Added MDX files support for translating Markdown text while preserving JSX syntax, with File format parameters shared with Markdown files for line wrapping, code blocks, front matter, and placeholder handling.

  • Added extended LLM translation context for automatic suggestions, covering string context, explanations, secondary-language translations, plurals, failing checks, and placeholders.

  • Added a digest-only translation activity summary notification, see Notifications.

  • CSV and XLSX downloads in Downloading translations now export plural strings as separate plural-form rows that can be imported back.

  • Added Gettext PO and POT File format parameters to control whether Weblate updates the Language-Team, Last-Translator, X-Generator, and Report-Msgid-Bugs-To headers.

  • Added a backup to run configured backup services synchronously.

  • The translation memory lookup API can now skip fuzzy matching with the exact query parameter.

  • Added Translation files CDN to publish translation files to the configured CDN.

Improvements

  • Using DOS line endings can now be configured using the dos_eol File format parameters.

  • OpenAI and Alibaba no longer require their vendor Python SDKs.

  • Audited project and component setting changes are now recorded in history.

  • Gerrit review pushes now use Push branch as the target branch.

  • Weblate now checks whether CACHE_DIR allows executing generated helper files.

  • The Software Bill of Material is now generated during release and published as a versioned release asset instead of being stored in the source repository.

  • The translating page now separates screenshots from string information, collapses rarely used string details, and groups glossary and screenshot actions more consistently.

  • Project access management now paginates users and better explains site-wide automatic team assignments.

  • Added provider-oriented code hosting documentation and Gettext-style Plural formula guidance.

  • The Python wheel no longer ships source translation catalogs, test files, or deployment example files, reducing the installed package size.

  • The engage page now highlights actionable translation task buckets for newcomers.

  • RSS feeds can now use the same filters as the changes browsing page.

  • Update gettext template (Django) now supports gettext PO files used as templates when they are excluded by the language filter.

  • Reworked Weblate threat model into a contract-style document.

Bug fixes

  • Hardened search previews and Automatic suggestions suggestion origins against XSS, and stopped exposing database error details in upload failures (CVE 2026-45106 / GHSA-6wxc-8mgq-w26m).

  • Screenshot URL uploads, remote HTML extraction in JavaScript localization CDN, and URL health-check redirects now reject internal or non-public targets by default.

  • Gerrit review pushes now reject target branches containing push options, track the target branch before invoking git-review, and suggest short branch names when full refs are supplied.

  • Category Announcements no longer appear across the whole project, and translation announcement deletion now honors language-scoped permissions.

  • Merge request pushes now refresh stale fork remotes after changing repository hosting.

  • Plural counts parsed from translation file headers are now bounded, and plural formulas are rejected when they can evaluate outside the configured plural form range.

  • Per-project access tokens expiring today now remain valid until the end of the day.

  • Malformed ALTCHA CAPTCHA submissions and repository URLs in webhook payloads no longer cause server errors.

  • Placeholders now merges overlapping non-nested spans from multiple flags.

  • Backing up and moving Weblate logs no longer include OpenSSH post-quantum key exchange warnings from remote Borg connections.

  • Category repository paths are now handled more safely during cleanup and moves.

  • Locked component pages now show an unsubscribe action after subscribing to unlock notifications.

  • Project level backups imports now restore in the background to avoid web worker memory limits.

Compatibility

  • The dos-eol flag is no longer supported. Use the dos_eol File format parameters instead.

  • The registration CAPTCHA now uses the ALTCHA widget v3 protocol with Argon2id proof-of-work.

  • The set_language_team project attribute has been replaced with the po_set_language_team file format parameter at the component level; see File format parameters.

  • Weblate now uses calendar versioning for releases, see Release cycle.

  • Weblate now uses stricter dependency version constraints to better control runtime environment.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

Contributors

Code contributions

Michal Čihař, Karen Konou, AliceVisek, Gersona, Weblate CI

Translations contributions

이정희, Andrei Stepanov, Milo Ivir, ssantos, 大王叫我来巡山, Kaya Zeren, reducedradius, Peter Vančo, amano, Michal Čihař, Anucha Hlownonkor, Yaron Shahrabani, UDP, Максим Горпиніч, Agnieszka C, VfBFan, Blueberry, ojppe, Francisco Serrador, Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin, Fjuro, Любомир Василев, Frank Paul Silye, Temuri Doghonadze, Yuri Chornoivan, Sergio Granadoz, Sketch6580, Hyeonjeong Lee, 為什麼不加空格, ℂ𝕠𝕠𝕠𝕝 (𝕘𝕚𝕥𝕙𝕦𝕓.𝕔𝕠𝕞/ℂ𝕠𝕠𝕠𝕝), justcontributor, Kristijan "Fremen" Velkovski, Pierfrancesco Passerini, Besnik Bleta, Arif Budiman, Andi Chandler, jernejp21, Manuela Silva, Sjur N Moshagen, Abduqadir Abliz, Laitei, Кирилл Ванин, Matthaiks, Nozomu Matsui, Dick Groskamp, MrZwave, hoanghuy309, Jim Spentzos, Adam Havránek, Ricky Tigg, Christian Wia, ButterflyOfFire

Documentation contributions

Michal Čihař, Gersona, Karen Konou, AliceVisek

All changes in detail.