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# 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.