GlotPress 3.0 released

Today I’m happy to announce that GlotPress 3.0 is now available!

It’s the first stable release after a long time and should hopefully be the beginning of more frequent updates in the future.

What’s Changed

Features

  • Various new locales like Ligurian, Tamazight, Nigerian Pidgin, Cornish, Western Balochi, and many more.
  • Three new translation warnings for mismatched URLs, missing named placeholders, and unexpected sprintf tokens.
  • Reduced reliance on default browser styles by adding and updating styles for form elements and links.
  • Unified and simplified styling for all tables.
  • Added ‘abbreviation’ as new part of speech value for glossary entries.
  • Added sort by option for modified date of translation.
  • Allow specifying the priority for PO import/exports in the flags.
  • Translation status filters are now a list of checkboxes for each status.

Bugfixes

  • Various fixes for improved plural support and naming fixes.
  • Fix removing of starting newline from translations.
  • Fix duplicate glossary tooltips for the same term.
  • Abort changing translation status when the translation has been altered.
  • Fix submitting a translation containing the UTF-8 characters → and ↵.
  • Improve calculation of translation status counts.
  • Show new lines and tab characters and wrap non-translatable items for strings with plurals too.
  • Use single quotes around string literals in SQL queries.

Breaking Changes

  • GlotPress now requires PHP 7.2 or newer and WordPress 4.6 or newer.
  • iOS .strings file import/exports now are UTF8 encoded instead of UTF16-LE.
  • Developers: Various template and design changes.
  • Developers: Various unused functions have been removed.

For a full list and details of the changes please review the changelog file on GitHub.

Thank you to everyone who helped make GlotPress 3.0 happen!

The next version will be GlotPress 3.1 and is currently scheduled for May 13, 2022. It will mostly focus on improvements around glossaries. If you are interested in helping to create the next versions of GlotPress, either by code or by feedback, please join us on GitHub here.

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GlotPress 2.3.1 Maintenance Release

GlotPress IconGlotPress 2.3.1 is now available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard!

This is a bugfix release addressing issues found in version 2.3.

Bugs fixed in this release:

  • #656: A locale glossary no longer requires a project glossary to exists to show terms of it.
  • #664: Querying translations by priority was broken, now fixed.
  • #673: An incorrect nonce check prevented locale glossary imports.
  • #675: Flushing an existing glossary on import works now as expected.

Enhancements in this release:

  • #655: A gp_locale_glossary_path_prefix filter has been added to allow filtering the locale glossary path prefix (/languages).

Thanks to all contributors of this release, namely Alex Kirk, Dominik Schilling, Greg Ross, and Yoav Farhi.

If you want to follow along or help out, check out our repository on GitHub.

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GlotPress 2.3 “Statler”

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We’re pleased to announce a new release of GlotPress.

Version 2.3 of GlotPress, named “Statler”, is now available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard.

The focus of this release was adding support for JSON formats and for glossaries per locale.

Highlights of this release:

  • Support for locale glossaries, a glossary for all projects of a locale.
  • Support for JSON format for JED and plain JSON, for imports and exports.
  • Ability to mark translations as fuzzy.
  • New keyboard shortcuts for copying original strings.
  • Extended meta data to all file formats that can support it.
  • Want to know more? Read the full changelog here.

Contributors of this release: Alex Kirk, Anton Timmermans, Dominik Schilling, Greg Ross, Nikhil, Pascal Birchler, Sergey Biryukov and Yoav Farhi.

If you want to follow along or help out, please check out our repository on GitHub.

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GlotPress 2.3 RC 1

The release candidate of GlotPress 2.3 is now available!

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

Since the first beta we’ve fixed four issues:

  • Allow project glossaries to override terms of a locale glossary. (#640)
  • Remove hardcoded ‘default’ slug which prevented locale gloassiers for locale variants. (#641)
  • During imports, don’t change status fuzzy to waiting if a translation has warnings. (#646)
  • Allow CLI imports to set the status of translations to current. (#644)

The release candidate can be downloaded from GitHub. For more information about what’s new in version 2.3, check out the beta 1 blog post.

If you think you’ve found a bug, you can post to the issue tracker on GitHub.

The final release is targeted for February 6th, 2017.

Happy testing!

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GlotPress 2.3.0 Beta

The first beta of GlotPress 2.3.0 is now available!

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.

The focus of this release is adding support for JSON formats and for glossaries per locale.

  • Fix incorrect URL’s in some cases on locale page. (#632)
  • Fix truncation of download names if they contain a space. (#633)
  • Improve glossary plural handling. (#595)
  • Restore edit text for non translated entries. (#519)
  • Don’t create duplicate translations during imports. (#579)
  • Redirect users back to previous page when they have to log in. (#558)
  • Fix default file extension for .NET Resources files. (#573)
  • Fix radio button code to remove spurious single quote. (#610)

Features

  • Add JSON format for JED and plain JSON. (#523)
  • Add support for locale glossaries. (#227)
  • Add ability to mark translations as fuzzy. (#620)
  • Enhance display of previous translations with special characters in them. (#625)
  • Add support for importing fuzzy translations. (#596)
  • Add keyboard shortcut for copying original strings. (#554)
  • Developers: Add filters for translations queries. (#524)
  • Developers: Add Fine-grained permissions per translations. (#537)
  • Developers: Add filter for adding links to the translation editor. (#597)
  • Add meta data to all file formats that can support it. (#575)
  • Update ROH locale information. (#605)

In this version 24 issues were solved and 30 Pull Requests were merged, a total of 179 commits.

Contributors of this release: Alex Kirk, Anton Timmermans, Dominik Schilling, Greg Ross, Nikhil, Pascal Birchler, and Yoav Farhi.

If you think you’ve found a bug, you can post to the issue tracker on GitHub.

The next release (RC1) is targeted for January 24, 2017.

Happy testing!

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GlotPress 2.2.2 Security Release

GlotPress IconGlotPress 2.2.2 is now available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard!

This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately.

GlotPress versions 2.1.0 to 2.2.1 are affected by an information leak in the API, reported by Alex Kirk. Thank you for practicing responsible disclosure.

If you want to follow along or help out, check out our repository on GitHub.

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GlotPress 2.2.1 Maintenance Release

GlotPress IconGlotPress 2.2.1 is now available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard!

This is a bugfix release addressing issues found in version 2.2.

Bugs fixed in this release:

  • #594: Missing header fields for .mo files have been restored.
  • #565: Sorting graphics no longer overlap the text in table headers.
  • #566: A “Only variables should be passed by reference” warning when importing translations has been removed.

Features in this release:

  • #603: Locale definition for Xhosa.

Contributors of this release: Alexander Kirk, Dominik Schilling, and Greg Ross.

If you want to follow along or help out, check out our repository on GitHub.

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GlotPress 2.2 “Dr. Teeth”

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After two and a half months we’re pleased to announce a new release of GlotPress.

Version 2.2 of GlotPress, named “Dr. Teeth”, is now available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard.

The focus of this release was to handle scripts and styles in a more efficient way and to fix some minor bugs.

Highlights of this release:

  • Updated locale informations for the Latin version of Hausa and Kyrgyz.
  • All script and style assets are now minified.
  • The JavaScript library for table sorting has been updated.
  • Translations which contain the placeholder for tab characters are now fixed automatically, just like new line characters.
  • A gp_reference_source_url filter allows to customize the source URL of a project.
  • Want to know more? Read the full changelog here.

Contributors of this release: Alexander Kirk, David Decker, Dominik Schilling, Greg Ross, Pedro Mendonça, Petya Raykovska, and Sergey Biryukov.

If you want to follow along or help out, check out our repository on GitHub.

#release, #wordpress-plugin

GlotPress 2.2 RC 1

The release candidate of GlotPress 2.2.0 is now available!

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

The release candidate can be downloaded from GitHub. There were no changes since beta 1. For more information about what’s new in version 2.2, check out the beta 1 blog post.

If you think you’ve found a bug, you can post to the issue tracker on GitHub.

The final release is targeted for September 28, 2016.

Happy testing!

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GlotPress 2.2 Beta 1

The first beta of GlotPress 2.2.0 is now available!

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.

The focus of this release was to handle scripts and styles more efficient and to fix some minor bugs.

Breaking Changes

  • Change the slug of the Kyrgyz locale from ky to kir. (#550)

Bugfixes

  • Fix broken cancel link on project create form. (#547)
  • Fix native name of the Tibetan locale name from བོད་སྐད to བོད་ཡིག. (#539)
  • Fix extra entry in GP_Translation::translations(). (#516)
  • Merge similar strings to improve translation. (#535)
  • Refactor script and style registration to make them more reliable. (#476)
  • Update locale information for Kyrgyz to use correct data. (#550)

Features

  • Add locale information for the Latin version of Hausa. (#549)
  • Fix translations which are using the placeholder for tab characters. (#473)
  • Add gp_reference_source_url filter for the source URL of a project. (#522)
  • Provide minified assets. (#505)
  • Update JavaScript library for table sorting. (#502)

In this version 13 issues were solved and 19 Pull Requests were merged, a total of 65 commits.

Contributors of this release: Alexander Kirk, David Decker, Dominik Schilling, Greg Ross, Pedro Mendonça, Petya Raykovska, and Sergey Biryukov.

If you think you’ve found a bug, you can post to the issue tracker on GitHub.

The next release (RC1) is targeted for September 21, 2016.

Happy testing!

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