# Translate Toolkit 2.5.0

Released on 18 January 2020

This release contains improvements and bug fixes.

## Changes

### Formats and Converters

- PO
  - Avoid stripping empty lines from comments.
  - Raise error on invalid file content.
  - Fixed handling typecomments with non word chars.
  - Fixed serializing long msgidcomments.
- Properties
  - Avoid creating comment only units (issue 3928).
  - Fixed saving utf-16 Java files.
- Android resources
  - Document declaration is cloned when adding unit.
  - Fixed parsing plurals with comment.
  - Fixed setting plural with markup.
  - Fixed indentation of markup in translation.
  - Fixed XML entities handling.
- YAML
  - Quotes are preserved.
- TS
  - ts2po converts disambiguation notes and comments.
  - po2ts no longer removes consecutive linebreaks in source and translation.
- web2py
  - @markmin string is no longer copied to the translation.

### Languages

- Added Sicilian language checks

### General

- Kept support for Python 2.7.
- Added support for Python 3.8.
- Minor docs improvements.
- Minor cleanups in code.
- Updated requirements.
- Added and updated tests.

## Contributors

This release was made possible by the following people:

Michal Čihař, Leandro Regueiro, Steve Mokris, Queen Vinyl Darkscratch, Matthias, David Paleino.

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