Dramatically faster automatic pre-translation.
A redesigned translation pipeline makes pre-translation more than 10 times faster.
New: GPT-powered pre-translation.
Poedit 3.9 also introduces support for GPT-based AI translation. Unlike traditional machine-translation engines, GPT can take more context into account, understands comments attached to strings and can follow custom instructions.
See the blog post for more details.
Merging for non-PO file formats — Added a new merging engine that enables merging of translations with updated XLIFF and JSON files.
Enhanced WordPress Integration – Poedit can now compile .l10n.php and .json formats locally for WordPress projects. Remotely-edited WP translations also benefit from using Poedit’s own compiler.
Improved progress & merge summaries – The progress UI has been enhanced with better status updates, including summaries for pre-translation, Excel operations and other imports.
Performance improvements — Various performance and UI responsiveness improvements. Excel import and export in particular are significantly faster now.
3.5 is a big release with a lot of under-the-hood improvements and three major features that many of you have been asking for: import/export through Excel, support for WordPress 6.5 and Laravel Blade templates support.
Excel import/export — You can now export translations to an Excel file, as well as import translations from Excel spreadsheets into translation files in any of the formats supported by Poedit. This is especially useful if you need to work with translation agencies or otherwise manage translations outside of Poedit.
WordPress 6.5’s Performant Translations — WordPress 6.5 introduced Performant Translations, a new storage format for translations that brings ~25% improvement in loading speed. Poedit now supports this and will automatically compile translations into l10n.php files when uploading translations via FTP.
Laravel Blade templates — Poedit now supports the Blade template format for string extraction, in addition to Twig and Volt. Blade templates are used by the popular Laravel framework and Poedit fully supports them, including the handling of embedded PHP blocks. By default, the *.blade.php extension is used, but you can customize this in the translation file’s properties.
Windows 11 — Poedit has been optimized for Windows 11. The visuals have been updated, and the app is now 64-bit and runs better on modern systems.
Added a tool to the Translation menu to remove translations that are identical to the source text, which is a nuisance that some software produces.
Further improvements to JSON support, e.g. better compatibility with Angular files.
Significant performance enhancements to QA checks and text editing.
Accessibility with the NVDA screen reader has also been improved.
Many under-the-hood plumbing improvements: 64-bit Windows binaries, system ICU is now used (resulting in smaller downloads), etc.
--no-convert to msgfmt with gettext >= 0.22 to avoid UTF-8 conversion.@@locale values in ARB files.See the blog post for more details.
This version is a free update for everybody with a Poedit 3 license (or of course, using the free version).
Various bugfixes.
Poedit’s UI was updated thorough with many enhancements:
The new Terminology tab in Poedit’s sidebar provides a quick way to check consistency of your translation. You can search previous translations within the file or even your entire translation memory. You can create a personal glossary too.
Machine translation is now much smarter about recognizing special-syntax placeholders in the text and preserving them in the translation unmodified.
WordPress FTP access now supports Gutenberg and JSON translation files and automatically creates the necessary files when you upload translations.
Up until now, Poedit used the traditional model of infrequent major paid updates (the last one was four years ago!). This forced us to hold back features until a new major version, which was frustrating for everybody.
So we’re trying something else with Poedit 3: features will be released when they’re ready and you decide if and when to pay for an update.
A Poedit Pro license now includes one year of free updates and one year of machine translation. After the year, you can continue using the older version indefinitely, or you can renew the license when it suits you — whether that’s right away or after a few years is up to you. And if you have a Pro+ “soft” subscription, nothing changes: all updates are included and if you cancel the subscription, you still retain a working license, only without machine translation and updates.