[Linphone-users] Upcoming linphone-android 4.5.0 release

[Sylvain Berfini]

Hello everyone,

We are entering public beta stage for our upcoming 4.5.0 
linphone-android release.

This version is a complete rewrite of the app using Kotlin (with 
coroutines) and modern Android components such as navigation, view 
models, data-binding, etc...
The full list of changes is available in our CHANGELOG file: 
https://gitlab.linphone.org/BC/public/linphone-android/-/blob/release/4.5/CHANGELOG.md 
<https://gitlab.linphone.org/BC/public/linphone-android/-/blob/release/4.5/CHANGELOG.md>

The only downside is that for improvement sake, the current translations 
made by our community on Transifex can no longer be used,
and because of the "Doctype Entity" feature we now use in our 
strings.xml files we can no longer use Transifex as traduction tool.
That's why we have created our instance of Weblate, another web tool to 
simplify translation process, and it's available there: 
https://weblate.linphone.org/ <https://weblate.linphone.org/>

Currently English & French are fully translated by us, and Chinese & 
Spanish have been started but aren't complete.
And since our Weblate instance has been made public yesterday, I see 
someone already started the Dutch translation, so thanks a lot to that 
person.

We plan on releasing the new version by the end of the month, and all 
translations started by then will be included in it, so if you are 
motivated to help us we'll gladly accept all contributions.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

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Sylvain Berfini
Software Engineer @ Belledonne Communications