5.0.0

Crowdin CLI 5.0 is here! 🚀

A complete rewrite - from Java to TypeScript, powered by Bun. The essentials don't move: your commands, your crowdin.yml, and the exit codes stay the same.

📖 Read the announcement for the full story.

Highlights

• Starts instantly - crowdin --version in ~1.6 ms versus ~223 ms in 4.x
• No Java required - a single self-contained binary for macOS, Linux, and Windows
• Built for scripts and AI agents - -o json|toon|plain on every command, plus a crowdin-cli Agent Skill
• Reworked interactive experience - crowdin init takes you from browser authorization to a ready crowdin.yml in under a minute
• Richer auto-translation and shell completions for zsh, bash, fish, and powershell

Upgrading

Most workflows carry over unchanged. If you pass custom CLI arguments, review the breaking changes - mostly renamed commands and options with one-line fixes (e.g. pre-translate → auto-translate, --plain → --output plain).

Installation

npm install -g @crowdin/cli

Also available via Homebrew, Chocolatey, AUR, Docker, Winget, Deb, RPM, and as the standalone binaries attached below - see the installation guide for every option.

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Full changelog: 4.15.1...5.0.0

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