Welcome to the new Pootle 2.7.3
Released on 27 April 2016
Bugfix release for 2.7.2.
Major Changes
- Several critical security fixes that prevent potential XSS attacks
- Pootle no longer supports the MySQL’s MyISAM database backend, users are
strongly encouraged to convert their database to InnoDB.
- The editor for static pages now highlights the content’s markup and displays
a live preview.
- Added support for Elasticsearch-based external Translation Memory servers.
- Changed connection logic and added checks for misconfigured Translation
Memory servers.
- Significant speed up when importing files.
Below we provide much more detail. These are by no means exhaustive, view the
git log for
complete information.
Changes not reported on previous releases
There are some changes that haven’t being reported on their corresponding
release notes at the time:
- In release 2.7.0 support was dropped for allowing to allow users to specify
their preferred UI language on Pootle. Pootle now uses the preferred
languages as reported by the user’s browser and falls back to English if the
specified languages can’t be used. See Setting language preferences in a
browse
for more information. The ability to specify Pootle UI language will be added
back (issue 4230).
Details of changes
- Several critical security fixes that prevent potential XSS attacks
- Store update has been refactored which has brought a significant speed up
when importing files.
- Static pages and announcements:
- The editor for static pages now highlights the content’s markup and
displays a live preview of the rendered contents (issue 3346,
issue 3766).
- Project and language announcements are now also displayed on their
respective overview pages.
- Translation memory:
update_tmserver
:
- Renamed
--overwrite
to --refresh
.
- Translations from disabled projects must be explicitly included with
--include-disabled-projects
.
- Added support for Elasticsearch-based external Translation Memory
servers, which can be populated from translation files or directories on
disk. This effectively brings the ability to display TM results from
different TM servers, sorting them by their score.
- Translations saved from Pootle now include a timestamp.
- Fixed missing index error issue 4120.
POOTLE_TM_SERVER
:
- The
default
TM server has been renamed to local
. Make sure to
adjust your settings.
- Added a new
WEIGHT
option to raise
or lower the TM results score for each specific TM server.
- Added several checks to ensure this setting is not misconfigured.
- Changed connection logic for Translation Memory servers to handle
connection issues and misconfigurations on the settings.
- Database:
- Editor:
- Non-critical checks can once again be muted/unmuted.
- Fixed units sorting issue for admin users issue 4116.
- Import/export and upload/download:
- Fixed running
export
command without options.
- Added a new
--user
to import
to
attribute changes to specified user on file import.
- Ignore non project filetypes when uploading zip files issue 4124.
- Only authenticated users with translate rights can upload translations.
- Any authenticated user can now download translations.
- Translations from Terminology project can now also be downloaded.
initdb
:
- Now has an
--no-projects
option to prevent
creating the default projects at set up.
- Now loads the translations for the default projects and languages and
triggers their stats calculation.
- Doesn’t throw errors when accidentally being run more than once.
- The Apertium MT backend has been dropped.
- Report string errors form subject and body can be overriden.
- Language managers can now edit their language’s special characters by using
the Special Characters page accessible through the browse dropdown in the
language overview page.
- Added extra data to reports.
- Added more languages for Yandex machine translation.
- Fixed
test_checks
errors when being run with no options and
without the --check
option.
- Pulled latest translations.
…and lots of refactoring, new tests, cleanups, improved documentation and of
course, loads of bugs were fixed.
Credits
This release was made possible by the following people:
Julen Ruiz Aizpuru, Leandro Regueiro, Ryan Northey, Dwayne Bailey, Taras
Semenenko.
And to all our bug finders, testers and translators, a Very BIG Thank You.