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Mar 25, 2024
๐ค OpenAI Translations
We are excited to announce that we have added a third translation provider - ChatGPT from OpenAI. OpenAI is a powerful and user-friendly translation service that can assist you in translating text into over 100 languages. The OpenAI translation provider is accessible to all users and organizations at no additional cost.
Mar 11, 2024
๐ Second factor authentication
We have added a new security feature. You can now enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for your account. This feature adds an extra layer of security to your account by requiring a second form of verification in addition to your password. You can enable 2FA in the Settings tab.
Feb 22, 2024
๐ Microsoft Entra ID and Identity Providers
We have added a new Single Sign-On providers. Microsoft SSO allows you to use your personal Microsoft account or those provided by Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) at your organization to log in to SimpleLocalize. This option is available for all users and organizations at no additional cost.
The 'Sign in with SSO' option offers to use any other Identity Providers (IdP) with SimpleLocalize, and it's available on request for Business plans only.
Feb 7, 2024
๐ DeepL Glossary
With the new glossary feature, you can enhance your auto-translation with DeepL by defining preferred translations for selected words or phrases in supported language pairs. Check our auto-translation docs for more details.
Dec 21, 2023
๐ฌ More precise auto-translation
We've added a small but very useful configuration option to language settings that allows you to choose a language that will be used for auto-translation to avoid translation errors. It's especially useful when you translate short phrases from languages other than English.
Dec 19, 2023
๐ Better search
At the end of this year, we are introducing a new search and filtering system. From now, you can choose between three search modes: Exact match, Fuzzy search and Regular expression and choose in which fields you want to search. Additionally, you can now filter translations and translation keys by multiple criteria via the new filter panel.
Dec 11, 2023
๐ Performance improvements
Based on your feedback from the survey, we decided to focus on improving the performance of the Web UI. In last few weeks, we take a huge effort to improve performance of SimpleLocalize. The user interface should now feel much faster, project loading time should be much shorter. In some cases, Translation Hosting publications, exports, imports should be now take much less time.
Thank you for your feedback. ๐
Nov 18, 2023
๐จ Figma Plugin integration
We just released our official Figma plugin! It can automatically upload translations to SimpleLocalize from your designs (including screenshots!), as well as fetch texts for different languages directly into your Figma mockups.
See how to connect Figma with SimpleLocalize to manage your multi-language content.
Oct 31, 2023
โก๏ธ GitLab CI and Bitbucket Pipelines integrations
We improved our webhooks by creating predefined types for requests that are sent to GitLab CI and Bitbucket Pipelines without needing to use Zapier or other third-party tools.
Oct 29, 2023
๐ Exact match search
We added a small feature to translation search that allows you to search for exact match in translation keys and translations. To search for exact match, use square brackets in a search text bar (e.g. [Hello World]).
Oct 9, 2023
โก๏ธ GitHub Actions, Slack, Discord, and Microsoft Teams integrations
We improved our webhooks by creating predefined types for requests that are sent to third-party services. You can now send webhooks to GitHub Actions, Slack, Discord, and Microsoft Teams without needing to use Zapier or other third-party tools.
This allows you to upload translations to a custom hosting environment using GitHub Actions (e.g. S3 Bucket) or create a notification in Slack, Discord, or Microsoft Teams when something changes in your project.
Sep 4, 2023
Import order
We added a new feature that saves the order of imported translations. You can now use "Import Order" from the sorting options to sort translations by the order in which they were imported. There also option to export translations in the same order as they were imported.
Aug 16, 2023
โก๏ธ Bulk Actions: Merge translations
We added a new feature that allows you to copy and merge translation data between projects.
Jul 25, 2023
โก๏ธ Bulk Actions
We added a new feature that allows you to perform bulk actions on translations. You can now select multiple translations and perform actions like: clear translations, change the review status, auto-translate, and change the namespace. Other significant changes:
Jul 4, 2023
๐ Custom Translation Hosting Environments
We added a new feature that allows you to create custom hosting environments. You can find more information about this feature in the documentation.
May 11, 2023
๐ Dark mode
We added a new feature that allows you to switch between light and dark mode. You can find the switch in the Settings page.
May 11, 2023
Optimized Table View
We optimized the table view in the Web UI. Now, you can see more translations on the screen without need to click "Load more" button. Additionally, we added a new feature that allows you to resize translation key column.
Apr 28, 2023
๐๏ธ Screenshots
We added a new feature that allows you to add screenshots to your translation keys. ๐ Screenshots can be added or deleted by the project owner and project admins. Project translators can only view screenshots.
Apr 27, 2023
Split by namespaces in Web UI and API
We added a new feature that allows you export translations split by namespaces in Web UI and API (v4 endpoint).
Apr 21, 2023
Billing addresses
You can now change your billing address in the Billing & usage section.
Apr 19, 2023
Fuzzy search
We added a new feature that allows you to search for translations using a fuzzy search algorithm. This means that you can search for translations even if you don't know the exact key.
Apr 12, 2023
Auto-translate project via CLI
We added a new command to the CLI that allows you to auto-translate all missing translations in your project. You can find more information about the command in the documentation. Learn more about SimpleLocalize CLI 2.2.0 release.
Apr 4, 2023
Team management
The goal of this release was to straighten the process of inviting new users to your team and managing your organization. We added a new usage bar that shows all active users in your team and how many users you can still add. In some rare cases, you might see that you exceed the limit of allowed users. This is because for a short period of time we were unintentionally allowing adding more users than the maximum number. In such a case, please contact us to resolve the misunderstanding. Additionally, from now on, every invited user will automatically skip the onboarding process.
Mar 15, 2023
Bulk delete translations
We added an option to delete multiple translations at once in the List View. Use Ctrl + click (or โ + click on macOS) to select multiple translations. Other significant changes:
Mar 6, 2023
Live chat
We added a live chat to our website. You can find it in the bottom right corner. You can also disable it in the 'Settings' tab.
Feb 15, 2023
Backup & restore projects
We added an option to backup and restore projects. You can find it in the 'Settings' tab.
Jan 25, 2023
Quick auto-translate
We added an option auto-translate just one translation in the 'Translations' tab.
Jan 16, 2023
Add translation keys & translations
We added option to add translations while you create new translation keys.
Jan 5, 2023
Custom webhook headers
We added option to set custom webhook headers.
Dec 16, 2022
Introducing the new Table View UI
We updated the Table View UI. Now, it's more compact and easier to navigate while you are working with more languages.
Nov 30, 2022
Android pluralization support
We introduced a new file format for Android that supports pluralization, string arrays, importing comments and HTML content. The old format is still supported via REST API and CLI, the Web UI now offers only the new format. To use the new format, change the file format value from android
or android-xml
to android-strings
in your CLI configuration or REST API calls.
Nov 7, 2022
New shortcuts available
We made new keyboard shortcuts available for all users. Whenever you edit a translation you can use Ctrl + Enter to go to the next translation for the same language, and Ctrl + Shift + Enter to go to the previous translation.
Oct 20, 2022
BetaTable View keyboard shortcuts
We have added new keyboard shortcuts in Table View. You can now use Ctrl + Enter to go to next translation and Ctrl + Shift + Enter to go to previous translation for the language.
This feature is currently set as beta feature. Learn more about beta features.
Oct 11, 2022
Translation history and review statuses
In this update, I've focused on improving the translation experience. You can now see the history of your translations by clicking a History button. Moreover, you can now mark translations as Accepted to make sure they are reviewed by a human-being. Review statuses are useful for everyone who is using auto-translation feature. Now, you can quickly decide if the translated text is good or it should be adjusted by a human. By default, every change of translation changes the review status to Accept.
Sept 19, 2022
Better translation filters
You can now filter translations by languages, translation status, namespaces. Sort translations by creation date, last seen, last translation modification date, namespaces and more.
Aug 16, 2022
Faster access to hosted translations
Access to hosted translations has been significantly improved. End-users should be able to get access to the translations much faster thanks to lower TTFB (<50ms).
Jul 28, 2022
Translate all languages at once
You can now start auto-translation for all (or selected) languages at once. Hit "Auto-translate all" button to select languages and confirm settings for auto-translation.
Jul 25, 2022
Namespaces publishing
From now, translations keys with that has namespace value will be automatically published on hosting as a new CDN resource.
Jul 18, 2022
Performance improvements
Many small performance improvements have been implemented across the whole system. Publishing translations is now 4 times faster, and file import preview generation is now 2 times faster. Import and export translation files should be now faster by ~20%. The numbers my vary depending on the size of the project and used file.
June 30, 2022
More information available in webhooks
Webhooks are now providing more data in requests, including change issuer, list of changes and project name.
June 21, 2022
Description links
Links in translation key descriptions are now clickable and line breaks are now supported.
June 15, 2022
BetaTranslation suggestions
You can now test a new 'Suggestions' feature. SimpleLocalize can now analyze your project content to give you auto-complete translation suggestions, and fix the most common grammar issues. Here you can read more about suggestions.
To enable Suggestions tab, go to your Account Settings and check 'Enable beta features'.
June 1, 2022
Side-by-side view
You can now test a new 'Side-by-side' view in List View, which will offer in-context options and suggestions in the upcoming updates. Now, you can also switch between different tools and components in the List View. List of available components to choose will grow soon and offer different options like mini-translator, suggestions, auto-translate, and more. Feel free to send me feedback!
To enable Side-by-side option, go to 'Translations' tab and click on 'Settings', choose 'Listย View' and then 'Side-by-side' option.
May 19, 2022
Edit translation keys namespaces
You can now edit and create translation key namespaces via Web UI. ๐
May 11, 2022
Reworked invitation screens
All invitation screens are now a bit nicer for invited users, and the whole process of joining projects should be much more user-friendly.
May 9, 2022
+150 new flags and custom icons
In the 'Languages' tab you can now choose from over 250 country flags and 4 custom icons (code, globe, hashtag, and comment).
April 28, 2022
New access permissions
Limit project access permissions for Translator users and decide what system features should be available for them. You can disable access to editing keys, languages, auto-translation, importing and exporting files, activity view and publications.
Learn more about access permissions and project sharing.
April 24, 2022
New Excel/CSV options
Added option to hide translation keys from Translation tab ('HIDE' option) and block translations modification ('BLOCK_MODIFICATION' option) using Excel/CSV options column.
Learn more about translations in Excel.
April 21, 2022
New exclusion options for Auto-translation
Learn more new auto-translation changes.
April 14, 2022
Assign languages to translators
Now you can assign languages to translator. Decide which languages a user can see end edit in SimpleLocalize editor. A language that is not assigned to user, won't be visible in Translations table nor languages list.
April 7, 2022
Search documentation
To make it easier for you to find the information you need in our documentation, we added a new Search option. Enter the keywords that interest you and check only related articles.
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