Pootle 2.9 release notes
Not yet released
Welcome to Pootle 2.9!
If you want to try it, check one of the following:
Changes
- Django>=1.10.8,<1.11
- Pootle FS is enabled by default:
- All projects are now handled by Pootle FS.
- When creating new projects:
- It is mandatory to set filesystem configuration right after creating it,
- Pootle no longer automatically imports translations from disk,
- Pootle no longer creates project directory on disk if missing,
- Name for templates in disk is now configurable.
- When adding new languages to a project:
- Pootle no longer tries to first import existing translations from disk,
- Pootle initializes the new languages using the templates in the database.
- Merged previously separated forms for handling Pootle FS specific settings
of projects into other existing forms:
- Merged project’s Pootle FS backend configuration into project form.
- Merged project’s languages mapping configuration into project’s languages
form.
- Several bugfixes for Pootle FS:
- Fix handling of obsolete and unsynced units,
- Allow to sync to empty file,
- Several fixes for initializing new languages from templates,
- When language mappings change now the disk files that are tracked are
immediately detected,
- Fix for correctly stage filesystem overwrite on conflict,
- Adjustments in migrations.
- Serialization:
- Don’t cache on serialization,
- Allow serializing obsolete units,
- Serialization and sync bugfixes.
- Editor:
- No longer shows red background if all critical checks are muted.
- Don’t redirect to browse view after translating last unit unless all
previous units have been translated.
- Improved performance on permissions forms by using a live search field for
users.
- Fixed issues with variables in translations.
- Updated UI language discovery to try simpler language codes before trying a
fallback.
- Limited several text fields in the models to 4096 characters.
- Overall documentation review and updates.
Command changes and additions
- pootle command can now be run with no VIRTUAL_ENV environment variable
set.
sync_stores
:
- Has been deprecated in favor of Pootle FS commands,
- Can now work with projects managed by Pootle FS,
- Warns if there is any conflict between disk and database changes,
- The
--force
and
--overwrite
arguments no longer have
any effect in the command execution.
update_stores
:
- Has been deprecated in favor of Pootle FS commands,
- Can now work with projects managed by Pootle FS,
- The
--force
argument no longer has any
effect in the command execution.
- Removed
changed_languages
command. Use list_languages
instead.
- Added
--yes
argument to init
command.
Credits
This release was made possible by the following people:
Ryan Northey, Leandro Regueiro, Dwayne Bailey, Taras Semenenko, boite.
And to all our bug finders, testers and translators, a Very BIG Thank You.