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.

All changes in detail.