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# Translate Toolkit 3.17.0

Released on 25 November 2025

This release contains improvements and bug fixes.

## Changes

### Formats and Converters

- PO

  - Fixed header updating

  - Improved line wrapping

- XLIFF

  - Added support for XLIFF 2.0

  - Preserves `<group>` and `<file>` tags upon adding units

- JSON

  - Add support for Nextcloud JSON translation format

  - Add support for RESJSON (JavaScript Resource File) format

- TOML

  - Initial support for TOML, needs the `toml` extra

- CSV

  - Added support for monolingual CSV files

- Properties

  - Non-unicode encoding is respected when serializing

  - Gracefully handle blank lines in UTF-16

- YAML

  - Comments are now extracted

  - Use literal block scalars for multiline strings

- PHP

  - Strip unneeded prefix from Laravel translation files

- Markdown

  - Added support for excluding content via special comments

- HTML

  - Automatically set text direction

  - Comments can be extracted from the `data-translate-comment` attribute

  - Context can be specified using the `data-translate-context` attribute

  - Add support for translating social media meta tags in `<head>`

  - Added support for excluding content via special comments or the `data-translate-ignore` attribute

  - Add button element to translatable HTML elements

  - Translate the `lang` attribute only on the `<html>` element

- DTD

  - Parser cleanups and improvements

- RC

  - Fixed pragma code_page issue with UTF-16/UTF-8 encoded files

- TMX

  - Fixed element ordering to comply with the specification

  - Add support for context

- po2ts, ts2po

  - Added support for plurals

- po2odf

  - New convertor

- prop2po

  - Improved bilingual files support

  - Fixed duplicate locations handling

- pocount

  - Fixed output on Windows

- poterminology

  - Optimized memory usage

### Other

- Dropped support for Python 3.9

- Various code cleanups

- Adjusted built-in language definitions to be closer to CLDR

## Contributors

This release was made possible by the following contributors:

Michal Čihař, Gersona, Copilot