Welcome to the new Pootle 2.8.0b2¶

Released on 22 July 2016

This is the second beta of 2.8.0, our next major Pootle release.

If you want to try it, check one of the following:

2.8.0b2 vs 2.8.0b1¶

JavaScript fixes addressing performance and memory leaks in the editor
Extensive review and fixes to RTL layout in the editor and browse views
Browse pages:
- Improvements to the statistics table for overly long filenames and smaller screens
- Less intrusive and more helpful statistics refresh notice
Commands:
- Rewrote contributors command
- Added init_fs_project
Upload:
- Disabled upload for non-PO projects as conflict handling currently only works in PO
- Admins can upload translations as another user
Added zlib1g-dev to system requirements for correct building of lxml
Addressed unlocalised parts of Pootle and updated translations

Changes in Requirements¶

Django>=1.8.13,<1.9
zlib1g-dev required for lxml

Major Changes¶

Undertook a security audit
Improved editor performance
Added pluggable search backend
Pootle FS

Below we provide much more detail. These are by no means exhaustive, view the git log for complete information.

Details of changes¶

Undertook a security audit
Improved editor performance
Added pluggable search backend
Pootle FS:
- CLI
- LanguageMapper
- FileMapper
- Store de/serialization
Improved UI/stats reporting
Support rejecting/accepting suggestions with comments
Configuration system
Plugin framework
Comment system
amaGama Translation Memory is now queried using CORS
Improvements on timeline
Browse pages:
- Stats refresh notice has been changed to be less intrusive and more helpful
- Hide disabled items and allow showing them to admin users
- Show leaderboard on top panel and expanded stats panel
- Search widget is disabled if user cannot translate
Cross-language translation is now restricted to admins since translators don’t require them.
Upload:
- Disabled upload for non-PO projects
- Admins can upload translations as other user
New Machine Translation providers:
- Caighdeán - Irish
- Welsh
Improved RQ usage and new management commands
Documentation updates

Pootle FS¶

Pootle FS allows to synchronize Pootle against a filesystem, or VCS, allowing to handle conflicts and several other situations that previously required ad-hoc hacks.

Development changes¶

Tests: - Massive improvement in test framework - Coverage increased from 55% to 88% - Moved to tox - Travis caching and optimisations
Code sanity: - Python code cleanup/linting pep8/pyflakes/pep257 - Javascript code linting and cleanups
Code polishing: - Moved all commands to argparse - Move shortcuts to Mousetrap - JS improvements, move to React components
Triage meetings are now held on a weekly basis

Command changes and additions¶

run_cherrypy has been removed.
start has been removed, use runserver instead.
verify_user and purge_user now accept multiple usernames.
refresh_scores now recalculates user scores and accepts multiple usernames.
contributors command has been refactored in order to return more accurate results and has new options --since, --until and --mailmerge. The --from-revision option has been removed.
list_serializers has been added to view serializers and deserializers installed on your system.
flush_cache flushes default, redis, stats caches, accepts --rqdata, --stats, --django-cache options.
config was added to get, set, list, append and clear configuration settings.
init_fs_project was added.

Changes in settings¶

POOTLE_SCORE_COEFFICIENTS accepts custom settings for user scores calculation.
POOTLE_TM_SERVER no longer receives the MIN_SCORE parameter, as it was misleading and had questionable effects.
POOTLE_TM_SERVER now accepts a MIN_SIMILARITY parameter, to filter out results which might be irrelevant. To learn more, check the documenation on MIN_SIMILARITY.
POOTLE_EXPORT_VIEW_LIMIT was added, with a default value of 10000. This restricts how many units are shown in export views.
POOTLE_SEARCH_BACKEND was added, to allow configuring the search backend to be used.

Credits¶

This release was made possible by the following people:

Ryan Northey, Julen Ruiz Aizpuru, Dwayne Bailey, Taras Semenenko, Leandro Regueiro, safaalfulaij, Jason P. Pickering, The Gitter Badger, Rhoslyn Prys, Mikhail Paulyshka, Mike Robinson, Kevin Scannell, Igor Afanasyev, Henrik Feldt, Francesc Ortiz, Christian Lohmaier, burhan, Arash Mousavi, Andy Kittner, Adam Chainz.

And to all our bug finders, testers and translators, a Very BIG Thank You.