Unknown's avatar Jesús Amieiro 9:22 am on February 7, 2024
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GlotPress 4.0.0 Beta 1

The first beta of GlotPress 4.0.0 was released on January 25, 2024!

This software is still in development. Consider setting up a test site just to play with the new version.

The beta can be downloaded from GitHub.

What’s Changed

The main improvements in this release are focused on:

  • A new status: “changes requested” status.
  • A new translation format: PHP (l10n.php).
  • Improvements in the glossary matching with the original strings.
  • Highlighted leading and trailing spaces, and double/multiple spaces in the middle.
  • Added plural and plural forms labels to row previews and format the row editor accordingly.
  • Improved the support for PHP8.0.

These are the lists with the new features, bugfixes and locales since GlotPress 3.0:

New features

  • GlotPress now requires PHP 7.4. (#1417)
  • Improve links to glossaries. Props @pedro-mendonca (#1375)
  • Add a new status: changes requested (#1451). Currently, only available using the gp-translation-helpers plugin.
  • Add “Last Modified” column to Glossary (#1428)
  • Add word_count_type for each locale (#1482)
  • Add the alphabet for each locale (#1479)
  • Add a template for the PR (#1448)
  • Add sort by original string length (#1449)
  • Show the exact amount of spaces added or missing on the translation warnings (#1490)
  • Glossary: Add sorting to table (#1426)
  • Add characters and words counts to editor (#1478)
  • Check the missing uppercase in the beginning of the translations (#1450)
  • Explain when the wp_locale filed should be used (#1537)
  • Add an action gp_after_project_form_fields to enable additional fields to be added (#1522)
  • Get supported formats extensions dynamically (#1524)
  • Set as old the previous translations with waiting status for this user (#1536)
  • Highlight leading and trailing spaces, and double/multiple spaces in the middle (#1500)
  • Add I18n to JavaScript (#1369)
  • Add plural and plural forms labels to row previews and format the row editor accordingly (#1506)
  • Reorder glossary row editor items (#1622)
  • Add a filter for the classes of the translation table and an action after the translation table is displayed (#1665)
  • Use filemtime to set the asset’s version (#1693)
  • Move the highlight label from the active projects to the inactive (#1680)
  • Add a Grunt action to set GP_SCRIPT_DEBUG to false when we deploy to wporg (#1697)
  • Add templates for bug and feature report (#1713)
  • Document how to use wp-env to run tests (#1776)
  • Improve placeholders match and visibility (#1620)
  • Change file extension for PHP format (#1774)
  • Set the slug (#1768)
  • Update readme.txt (#1773)
  • Add Plugin Preview to GlotPress (#1748)
  • Make it possible to run tests in PHP 8 (#1760)
  • Add suffixes for matching glossary terms (#1373)
  • Add new PHP format (#1626)

Bugfixes

  • Enhance gp_levenshtein() for speed improvements. Props @dd32 (#1408)
  • Highlight current navigation menu item. Props @pedro-mendonca (#1379)
  • Fixes deprecation notice in PHP8 for usort returning bool (#1464)
  • Fix warning discard link margin (#1455)
  • Fix bulk rejection (#1486)
  • Set as old the previous translations with changes requested (#1497)
  • Update the Facebook locale for es_MX (#1538)
  • Check JSON for double array to fix fatal error (#1569)
  • Fix notice accessing undefined variable (#1582)
  • Improve translation strings consistency and comments to translators (#1600)
  • Fix PHP error for parameter after optional parameter (#1465)
  • Combine the suffixes for shorter regular expression. (#1651)
  • Increase the cache buster (#1661)
  • Fix wordpress.org plugin deploy if the minified files are already built (#1662)
  • Avoid adding the invisible classes in the glossary (#1664)
  • Fix button margins (#1677)
  • Remove the glossary tooltip inside the HTML tags (#1679)
  • Correction of plurals parameters for Saraiki (#1682)
  • Add a slash at the end of a requested URI (#1701)
  • Filter the placeholders to show them with the glossary words (#1696)
  • Avoid passing null to trim() (#1698)
  • Update a CSS comment that causes a build error (#1703)
  • Check if the project slug exists and is not null (#1704)
  • Add some properties in the translation-set to avoid deprecation notices (#1705)
  • Resolve a bug with the glossary variations (#1706)
  • Deprecation. Check if the preg_split parameter is null (#1709)
  • Deprecation. Check if the ctype_digit parameter is null (#1708)
  • Don’t set context to empty string by default (#1726)
  • Glossary: Fix fatal array in PHP8 for invalid post data (#1750)
  • Fix glossary matching left bounded by placeholder. (#1733)
  • Remove unused files (#1723)
  • Fix fatal error in PHP8.x for invalid get data (#1754)

Locales

  • Add Tarifit locale (#1477)
  • Correct de_AT country_code, add fa_AF country code. (#1491)
  • Add locale en_IE / English (Ireland) (#1520)
  • Add locale es_PA / Spanish (Panama) (#1521)
  • Update plural expression for Kyrgyz (#1634)
  • Shorten the slug for Valencia (Catalan) (#1635)
  • Add a new locale: Andalusian (Andalûh) (#1729)

New Contributors

You can see the full changelog since the last stable version: 3.0.0…4.0.0-beta.1

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