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Yesterday the Translate team released version 2.0.0 of Pootle. Pootle is web based system for translation and translation management. It is widely used for crowd-sourcing, especially in the world of Free Software.

This is a major new release after a long period of development. It has many new features, and Pootle is now built on a completely new web platform (Django).

This work was made possible by many volunteers and our funders:

• ANLoc, funded by IDRC
• Mozilla Corporation

Thank you to everyone involved!

To see Pootle in action, or for further translation updates, go to http://pootle.locamotion.org/

Highlighted improvements

• A new user interface
  • more useful information
  • a pretty new design
  • easier customisation of the Pootle design
  • improvements to alternative source languages
  • news feeds on several levels of Pootle
  • automatic notices for certain events on Pootle
  • better account and password management
• Easier management from the web interface
  • uploading template files
  • removing files
  • scanning the file system for translation files
  • removing languages from a project
  • the possibility to upload all translations as suggestions
  • server permissions
  • language permissions
  • delegation of administration rights (per language and server wide)
  • language administrators can manage all aspects of their language
• Better performance
  • many pages are served from cache for anonymous users
  • support for more concurrent users
  • support for larger deployments
  • faster uploads
• Easier deployment
  • can run from a checkout / extracted archive without installing
  • interface translations from the Pootle project or .mo files
  • performance tips on the admin page
  • creating initial database content if needed
• Back-end improvements
  • built on Django
  • can now use many database systems, including MySQL
  • can run standalone or under Apache
  • can use memcached
  • LDAP support
  • migration script for older Pootle versions

Older Pootle installations can easily migrate everything excluding project permissions. We encourage administrators to configure permissions with the new permission system which is much simpler to use, since permissions on the language level are now supported. Goals and assignments will receive attention in a future release. Read more about migrating from older versions, or contact us on the mailing list if you have any questions.

This release will also benefit from improvements made to the Translate Toolkit since the last Pootle release, such as speed improvements, better XLIFF support, and better quality checks.