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# Translate Toolkit 3.19.4

Released on 9 April 2026

This release contains improvements and bug fixes.

## Changes

### Formats and Converters

- PO

  - Cache parsed strings for improved performance

- XLIFF

  - Correctly preserve whitespace in rich segments

  - Improved plural handling in poxliff

- Markdown

  - Improved frontmatter handling

  - po2md better handles PO files with translated URLs

- Properties

  - Improved parser and extended test coverage

  - Skip quoting `NS*Description` keys in Apple .strings files

- Android

  - Omit blank plural strings

  - Preserve XML formatting

- TS

  - Improved parsing

- Converters

  - Improved command line arguments handling

  - Add template2translation alias for pot2po command

  - po2yaml better handles –duplicates=merge

  - md2po and po2md ignore .txt files by default

### Other

- Various code cleanups

- Consolidated XML parsing to use lxml

- Apply limits on processed ZIP files

## Contributors

This release was made possible by the following contributors:

Michal Čihař, Copilot, Matt Van Horn