WeblateOrg/weblate weblate-5.16

Weblate 5.16

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Released on February 16th 2026.

New features

• Multiple capitals quality check.

• XML surrounding characters reduce translation errors for strings with XML entities.

• Bulk accepting suggestions from a specific user in Suggestions.

• Cloning suggestions into translation in Suggestions.

• HIDE_SHARED_GLOSSARY_COMPONENTS to hide glossaries shared into other projects.

• Added new management command list_change_events, which lists all possible change events, Change events.

• Added Anthropic machinery integration, see Anthropic.

• Encoding for Localization file formats can now be configured using File format parameters (e.g., csv_encoding, properties_encoding).

• Added support for anonymous commit names via PRIVATE_COMMIT_NAME_TEMPLATE.

• Consolidating identical strings in Markdown files, HTML files, and Text files files using *merge_duplicates parameters in File format parameters.

Improvements

• Delete announcements permission can be assigned to teams, see List of privileges.

• Searching better reports errors in the query strings.

• Regular repository maintenance is now performed in the background.

• Repository cleanup now recovers failed merges or rebases.

• Better visibility of Translation quality filter to translators.

• Validation of VCS settings Pushing changes from Weblate has been extended.

• The default values for Enable reviews and Enable source reviews can be configured in settings.

• The PRIVATE_COMMIT_EMAIL_TEMPLATE now supports the {user_id} and {site_title} variables.

• The default value for personal translation memory contribution is now based on the DEFAULT_AUTOCLEAN_TM configuration.

Bug fixes

• Argument injection in the management console (CVE 2026-24126 / GHSA-33fm-6gp7-4p47).

• Adding plural strings with singular matching existing string is now prohibited for bilingual translations (see Bilingual and monolingual formats).

• Automatic Repository browser URL for common code hosting sites.

• Improved cache isolation for suggestion checks to avoid interference with the parent unit checks.

• Gracefully handle invalid check flags in Customizing behavior using flags.

• App store metadata files no longer rewrites unchanged files.

Compatibility

• Regular expression no longer marks matched portions as non-translatable to allow generic regular-expression-based checking of strings. Use Placeholders for checking regular expression matched placeholders.

• The default value for WEBLATE_FORMATS changed because of the removal of encoding-specific formats.

• File formats that only differed in encoding (CSV, GWT Properties, Java Properties, iOS Strings) have been merged into single formats.

• Fonts used by Weblate are now shipped in a standalone package.

• Dropped deprecated compatibility wrappers some classes with typos.

Upgrading

Please follow Generic upgrade instructions in order to perform update.

Contributors

Code contributions
Michal Čihař, Kartik Ohri, Karen Konou, Serrano Pereira, moonchoe, softworkz, Gersona, hugorezende, Hendrik Leethaus, AliceVisek, devimarj, evanjhoward11, Zahid Rizky Fakhri, Francisco Serrador

Translations contributions
தமிழ்நேரம், Andi Chandler, Daniel Nylander, Michal Čihař, VfBFan, ButterflyOfFire, Emin Tufan Çetin, eulalio, Milo Ivir, Yuri Chornoivan, 大王叫我来巡山, Zahid Rizky Fakhri, Peter Vančo, Kyotaro Iijima, amano, Hyeonjeong Lee, Yaron Shahrabani, Massimo Pissarello, Blueberry, Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin, CRISTIAN ANDREI, Максим Горпиніч, Shah Zaman Pathan, Eduard Ereza Martínez, Alexis Launay, Luis Carlos González Morales, AlaxLima, Andrei Stepanov, Pierfrancesco Passerini, Valentin Ljuba, Anusuk Sangubon, Supaplex, Besnik Bleta, Matthaiks, Agnieszka C, Sketch6580, Mickaël Binos, U G, Kristoffer Grundström, Fjuro, 109247019824, Miguel A. Bouzada, Jim Spentzos, Fulup Jakez, Jim Kats, Omer I.S., nautilusx, jonnysemon, Martin Srebotnjak, Umida Hikmatilla, Arif Budiman, Ldm Public, pan93412, Heimen Stoffels, Romhányi-Kakucska Viktor, Pedro Leite, RViktor, Dick Groskamp, Alexander Gabilondo, Любомир Василев, Francisco Serrador, devimarj, Cyrille Duverne, 大学没毕业, Hotripak, delvani, A J.

Documentation contributions
Michal Čihař, Kartik Ohri, moonchoe, Karen Konou, softworkz, Serhii H., shorelskyi, Gersona, hugorezende, Hendrik Leethaus, AliceVisek, devimarj, evanjhoward11

All changes in detail.