After a long wait we finally bring you the third beta of the next
version of Pootle. This release is close to where we want Pootle 1.3 to
be.

Apart from improvements to stability, performance and major internal
improvements, we also added some new features:

 - Default server permissions as well as permissions for a language team
can now be changed through the web interface.

 - Administrators are able to delete files from the web interface.

 - We've added the ability to upload translation templates (POT files),
which means you can now finally start a new translation project and
manage it from the web interface with no need for using the command line
or having shell access to the server.

 - Through the work of the awesome guys at OpenCraft, administrators can
now keep their community informed with announcements (with RSS) for a
language or for a specific project the language team is working on. 

 - Users can change and reset their passwords through the web interface

 - After moving from kid to Django templates, we now have nicer looking
error pages.  More importantly, it is much easier now to customize
Pootle's look and feel and override default templates.

 - There is a script to import settings from old Pootle installations.
Please test this on your setup and let us know how well it works in your
environment.


You can run Pootle directly from source (an SVN checkout or just
extracting the archive). We've also added a new setup.py script so you
can install Pootle.  Configuration can now be done in the file called
localsettings.py which will be under /etc/pootle/ if Pootle is
installed.


Pootle uses caching extensively to speed up translation statistics and
improve performance. For optimal performance (especially under apache)
you should use memcached as your caching backend (edit localsettings.py
to enable memcached support).

Being a Django application, Pootle runs under Apache (mod_wsgi or
mod_python) or from the command line. It can use any Django supported
DBMS as its backend including the default sqlite and the ever popular
MySQL.

Starting from this release Pootle is now in tentative code freeze, we
are unlikely to introduce any new features or make any drastic changes
to the codebase. We'll focus on improving stability and performance.
Your feedback and bug reports will help us to finalise this faster than
we can ever do this alone.

Pootle depends on the recently released Translate Toolkit 1.4, and
Django 1.0.  (We have minor incompatibility with Django 1.1 in some
admin pages. Hopefully we'll find a workaround soon.)

You can download this beta from:
http://translate.sourceforge.net/snapshots/


Please check the README and 
http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/installation_1.3beta for
installation instructions.


Keep well
The Pootle development team


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