Release 2.0.0b2

_config.yml

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 name: Translate Toolkit
 description: A collection of useful tools for localization, and a powerful API for programmers of localization tools.
-latest_version: 2.0.0b1
+latest_version: 2.0.0b2
 author: Translate House
 
 about_url: http://translatehouse.org/about.html

_posts/2016-05-13-Translate-Toolkit-2.0.0b2-released.md

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+title: Translate Toolkit 2.0.0b2 released
+category: releases
+---
+
+This release contains many improvements and bug fixes. While it contains many
+general improvements, it also specifically contains needed changes and
+optimizations for the upcoming [Pootle](http://pootle.translatehouse.org/)
+2.8.0 and [Virtaal](http://virtaal.translatehouse.org) releases.
+
+It is just over 8 days since the last release and there are many improvements
+across the board. A number of people contributed to this release and we've
+tried to credit them wherever possible (sorry if somehow we missed you).
+
+
+Getting it and sharing it
+=========================
+- pip install translate-toolkit
+- Please share this URL
+  [http://toolkit.translatehouse.org/download.html](http://toolkit.translatehouse.org/download.html)
+  if you'd like to tweet or post about the release.
+
+
+2.0.0b2 vs 2.0.0b1
+==================
+
+> **note**
+>
+> Given the large number of important changes, mostly Python 3 support,
+> it was decided that the next version will be `2.0.0` instead of
+> `1.14.0` as previously planned. So `1.14.0-rc1` could be considered to
+> be `2.0.0b0`.
+
+
+- `odf2xliff` now extracts all the text (issue 3239).
+- LibreOffice validxml check correctly matches self-closing tags.
+
+
+Major changes
+=============
+
+- Python 3 compatibility thanks to Claude Paroz
+- Dropped support for Python 2.6
+- Translate Toolkit can now easily be installed on Windows
+- Changes in storage API to expose a more standardized API
+
+
+Detailed changes
+================
+
+Python 3 support
+----------------
+
+- Translate Toolkit went through a massive code cleanup looking forward Python
+  3 compatibility. There might be quirks that need to be fixed, so please test
+  and [report any issue](https://github.com/translate/translate/issues/new)
+  you might find.
+- Python 3.3-3.5 is now supported.
+
+
+Formats and Converters
+----------------------
+
+- PO
+
+  - Duplicate entries are now removed by default if no way to handle
+    duplicates is specified. Note that converters still default to ``msgctxt``.
+  - msgid comments (KDE style) are only parsed from msgid now.
+
+- DTD
+  - Newlines are now skipped when parsing (issue 3390).
+
+- Properties
+
+  - Keys can contain delimiters if they are properly wrapped (issue 3275).
+  - Fix control characters escaping for utf-8 encoding.
+
+- Android
+
+  - Unknown locales no longer produce failures.
+
+- JSON
+
+  - Output now includes a trailing newline.
+  - Unit ordering is maintained (issue 3394).
+
+- TermBase eXchange (TBX)
+  - `tbx2po` converter added
+  - Added basic support for Parts of Speech and term definitions.
+
+-   Fixed error when writing back to the same file (issue 3419).
+
+
+Filters and Checks
+------------------
+
+- LibreOffice checker no longer checks for Python brace format (issue 3303).
+- Numbers check now handles non latin numbers. Support for non latin numbers
+  has been added for Arabic, Assamese, Bengali and Persian languages.
+- Fixed issue that prevented standard checks from being used in Pootle with
+  default settings.
+- Fixed missing attribute warning displayed when using `GnomeChecker`,
+  `LibreOfficeChecker` and `MozillaChecker` checkers.
+
+
+Tools
+-----
+
+- posegment now correctly segments Japanese strings with half width punctuation
+  sign (issue 3280).
+
+
+Languages
+---------
+
+- Fixed plural form for Slovenian and Turkish.
+- Added language settings for Brazilian Portuguese.
+
+
+Setup
+-----
+
+- Fixed Inno Setup builds allowing to easily install Translate Toolkit on
+  Windows using the `pip` installer. Commands are compiled to .exe files.
+
+
+API changes
+-----------
+
+- Dropped `translate.misc.dictutils.ordereddict` in favor of
+  `collections.OrderedDict`.
+- Added encoding handling in base `TranslationStore` class exposing a single
+  API.
+- Encoding detection in `TranslationStore` has been improved.
+- Standardized UnitClass definition across `TranslationStore` subclasses.
+- `translate.misc.multistring.multistring`:
+
+  - Fixed list coercion to text
+  - Fixed comparison regression with multistrings (issue 3404).
+  - Re-added `str` method (issue 3428).
+  - Fixed `__hash__` (issue 3434).
+
+
+API deprecation
+---------------
+
+- Passing non-ASCII bytes to the `multistring` class has been deprecated, as
+  well as the `encoding` argument to it.
+  Applications should always construct `multistring` objects by passing
+  characters (`unicode` in Python 2, `str` in Python 3), not bytes. Support
+  for passing non-ASCII bytes will be removed in the next version.
+- `TxtFile.getoutput()` and `dtdfile.getoutput()` have been deprecated.
+  Either call `bytes(<file_instance>)` or use the
+  `file_instance.serialize()` API if you need to get the serialized store
+  content of a `TxtFile` or `dtdfile` instance.
+
+
+General
+-------
+
+- Dropped support for Python 2.6 since it is no longer supported by the Python
+  Foundation. Sticking to it was making us difficult to maintain code while we
+  move to Python 3.
+- Misc docs cleanups.
+- Added more tests.
+- Legacy, deprecated and unused code cleansing:
+
+  - Dropped code for no longer supported Python versions.
+  - Removed unused code from various places across codebase.
+  - The legacy `translate.search.indexing.PyLuceneIndexer1` was removed.
+  - The deprecated `translate.storage.properties.find_delimiter()` was
+    removed and replace by the
+    `translate.storage.properties.Dialect.find_delimiter()` class method.
+  - Python scripts are now available via `console_scripts` entry point, thus
+    allowing to drop dummy files for exposing the scripts.
+
+
+...and loads of general code cleanups and of course many many bugfixes.
+
+
+Contributors
+============
+
+This release was made possible by the following people:
+
+Claude Paroz, Dwayne Bailey, Leandro Regueiro, Michal Čihař, Ryan Northey,
+Friedel Wolff, Julen Ruiz Aizpuru, Hiroshi Miura, Melvi Ts, Jerome Leclanche,
+Yann Diorcet, yann.diorcet, Nick Shaforostoff, Christian Lohmaier, beernarrd.
+
+And to all our bug finders and testers, a Very BIG Thank You.