Happy New Year everyone! :^)

To start off 2014, we have put together packages for all the languages that received the most contributions on Transifex (the collaborative translation platform we use for b2evolution).

Here are all the languages we have packaged so far for b2evolution v5:
language packs download page.

You are welcome to contribute a few strings on Transifex or even start a new translation for your own language.

PS: b2evolution 5.0.7-stable and 5.1.0-beta coming soon (we're still fixing some bugs... ;)

As we are approaching the 3rd stable release of b2evolution v5, we'd like to ask you for contributing some translations.

As we have adopted Transifex as a translation platform, it is now super easy to contribute 10 minutes or 10 hours of your time on translating b2evolution to your language.

All you need to do is to create a free account on Transifex, go to our project page, select your language, and start translating the provided strings! Every translated sentence helps!

Here's the current status of translations for v5 (dynamically updated):

Top translations: b2evolution » b2evomessages

In case you want to go a bit deeper, check out the manual pahe about localizing b2evolution.

Language packs for version 1.9 will also work on version 1.10.

However, version 1.10 introduces some new strings that would need specific translation.

Thus, complete 1.10 language packs will improve user experience.

Now would be a good time for all translators to update translations for version 1.10 and send them to me.

If you've never done a translation before but would like to contribute, you can find startup instructions here. There is a cool tool to help you translate efficiently.

Hi there!

We have updated all our info pages about translations, locales and language packs:

• What are the available translations?
• How to create a new translation?
• How to update an existing translation?

Of course, there may still be unanswered questions. So, if after reading those pages, something is still unclear, please fire up your questions. We'll do our best to include answers! ;)

One question that is comming back frequently is: What happened to the language files in Phoenix? Why are there only translations for French, German and Japanese?

Actually all previous translations are still there in CVS. However we haven't shipped them with the release because they haven't been updated yet, i-e they do not contain translations for many many strings in Phoenix. Using the old files would only partially localize Phoenix to the desired language.

To update 0.9.x languages files to Phoenix, you need to merge them with the new .POT file found in Phoenix as described in the online manual.

Also, we're planning to only ship a limited number of localizations by default in future releases, in order to keep the main download file small. All other languages will be provided separately in their own language packs.

The current version 0.9.0.8 "Oslo" is pretty stable. We will however release a new version codenamed "Madrid" shortly.

The main purpose will be to provide more language packs in the main distribution.

To all translators: please update your language files as much as possible for this release.

There are two language files to translate:

• The application messages.POT : latest version here
• The install help static.POT : latest version here

The translation howto is here. Anyone feel free to start a new translation or update one that has not been updated in a while.

For those of you updating directly on the CVS ( Ronh! ;) ), please make sure that you work on the "v-0-9" stable branch and not on the main development branch. Only changes in the "v-0-9" branch will make it into the release!

Ah yes... we might also introduce some slight cosmetic changes in this release ;) (what do you think?)