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🌟 What’s new?

Workflow steps that require assignees — for translation or review — now automatically assign contributors based on their language and role. This matches the logic used in task creation and eliminates the need for manual assignment.

Note: Currently, you need to navigate to the specific translation or review task step for assignees to populate. This will be fixed in a future update.

🎯 Why it matters to you?

You’ll save time and effort, especially when working with many target languages, as contributors are assigned automatically. This makes workflow setup faster, reduces errors, and keeps your localization process moving smoothly.

🌟 What’s new?

Our GitHub Actions for file exchange have been upgraded to version 4, introducing a lighter, more efficient package that no longer relies on a CLI tool. The update also includes various performance and reliability improvements.

🎯 Why it matters to you?

You’ll benefit from faster, more stable file exchange between Lokalise and GitHub, with improved error handling. Most customers won’t be affected by breaking changes, but you can review the full release notes here:

• Pull Action v4
• Push Action v4

🌟 What’s new?

We’ve upgraded to GPT-5, the latest model from OpenAI. This update improves translation accuracy and consistency, especially for languages with less training data, and strengthens AI scoring for more reliable results.

🎯 Why it matters to you?

You’ll notice more stable, high-quality outputs in your AI translations with no extra setup required. GPT-5’s stronger instruction-following means translations better reflect your source content and style preferences, helping your team work faster with fewer edits.

🌟 What’s new?

We’ve upgraded our Ditto integration to their new public API, improving performance and scalability for larger projects. We’ve also enhanced the tagging experience with:

• Key metadata now displayed as tags at the key level
• Project ID and Project Name available in Content Management for easier handling

🎯 Why it matters to you?

These improvements make the integration faster, more reliable, and easier to use — especially when managing large-scale projects with lots of metadata. You’ll have more clarity and control over your content, right where you need it.

🌟 What’s new?

Our Webflow integration now supports Webflow components, one of the most requested features from customers. You can now localize and manage content inside components seamlessly.

🎯 Why it matters to you?

With full support for components, you can cover more of your Webflow projects without workarounds. This makes it easier to keep every part of your site localized, speeding up workflows and ensuring a more consistent experience across languages.

🌟 What’s new?

You can now choose between UTC and Local timezone when setting up scheduled triggers in workflows.

• In the Trigger Step, select the timezone that best fits your needs.
• All workflow and workflow run listings now display dates in your local timezone, with a tooltip for reference.

🎯 Why it matters

This update makes it easier to understand exactly when your workflows will run. By seeing times in your local timezone, you’ll avoid confusion, set clearer expectations, and manage scheduled triggers with confidence.

🌟 What’s new?

We’ve enhanced how AI uses your Style Guide to provide context for translations with a new AI synthesis prompt based on comprehensive analysis of existing style guide patterns and AI translation performance.

The improved synthesis better extracts actionable translation guidance while filtering out redundant or confusing information that could negatively impact AI translation quality.

Key improvements include:

• Eliminates redundant grammatical rules that AI models already know (punctuation patterns, date formats, measurement units)
• Removes tautologies and content-less information that can confuse translation models
• Better focuses on subjectively-verifiable style elements like tone, formality, and audience-specific language
• Provides clearer, more concise guidance that translates to better AI translation outcomes

🎯 Why it matters

This improvement directly enhances the quality of AI translations by providing more focused and actionable style guide context.

You’ll see more consistent adherence to your brand voice and style preferences in AI-generated translations, while reducing noise from irrelevant or contradictory style instructions that previously diluted translation quality.

This means more natural, consistent translations right out of the box, saving you time on edits and reviews.

Want to see it in action? Watch this quick demo where Adam Šoltys, Senior Lead Product Manager at Lokalise, shows the new improvements on the Style Guide as context for AI translations.

🌟 What’s new?

Workflows can now be scheduled not only daily and weekly, but also hourly and monthly. In addition, you can fine-tune scheduling with:

• Repeat every – adjust cadence by skipping or increasing iterations
• From/To – set time windows to avoid running workflows at unwanted times (e.g. overnight)

Availability: Weekly and monthly triggers are included from the Pro plan, and hourly scheduling is available on Enterprise.

🎯 Why it matters

Custom workflows let you tailor Lokalise to your existing processes, improve automation, and streamline collaboration across teams. Whether you’re scaling operations or refining a complex localization flow, you now have the tools to build workflows that fit how your team actually works.

🌟 What’s new?

We’ve enhanced our GitHub Actions for push/pull to make them more reliable and flexible:

• Improved error handling in both push and pull actions for smoother, more stable workflows.
• New PR options for Pull actions – you can now assign reviewers directly and create pull requests in draft mode.

🎯 Why it matters

You’ll experience fewer workflow interruptions thanks to stronger error handling. Plus, with the new PR options, you gain more control over how translation updates enter your review process—assign the right people from the start or keep PRs in draft until they’re ready.

🌟 What’s new?

We’ve upgraded to Claude 4, the latest and most capable model from Anthropic. This model significantly improves translation quality for rarer and lower-resource language pairs, based on our internal language support tests. While Claude 4 still trails GPT-4 for the most common language pairs, it offers meaningful gains in long-tail scenarios.

🎯 Why it matters

This update brings immediate quality improvements to your AI translations with no additional setup. You’ll start seeing more accurate results where Claude is used, and with Smart Routing updates coming soon, translations will continue to get better across a wider range of languages.

🌟 What’s new?

You asked for more flexibility—we’re delivering.

You can now connect a single Contentful space to multiple Lokalise projects using tags. That means you can finally organize localization by workflow, team, or content type, instead of cramming everything into one project.

🎯 Why it matters

Not all content is created equal. Your legal pages might need a full human review. Your blog posts? Maybe they’re good to go with AI. With this update, you can:

• Run different workflows for different types of content.
• Assign the right people to the right projects—without overloading them.
• Set up automations tailored to how each content type gets localized.
• Scale with clarity—no more cluttered, one-size-fits-all projects.
• It’s a simple way to bring structure to the chaos and localize smarter across your organization.

Ready to make it yours?

Our setup guide walks you through everything you need to tailor translations to your content strategy.

🌟 What’s new?

Setting up workflows just got faster. You can now select or clear all target languages in the language dropdown of the start step with a single click.

🎯 Why it matters

This update is especially helpful for teams managing large-scale localization—no more ticking 50+ languages one by one. Whether you’re launching a single project or setting up multiple workflows, this small change will save time and reduce setup friction. It’s part of our ongoing improvements to make Workflows simpler and more scalable for everyone.

🌟 What’s new?

We’ve enhanced the Lokalise GitHub Action (GHA) for pulling translation files with new customization and automation options:

• Reviewer Assignment: Automatically assign individual reviewers or entire teams to pull requests created by Lokalise.
• Custom Pull Request Metadata: Define a custom title and description for each PR to align with your team’s conventions.
• Post-Processing Hook: Run a custom script after translation files are pulled but before they’re committed and pushed—ideal for cleaning up, modifying, or validating files automatically.

🎯 Why it matters

These updates make it easier to streamline your localization workflows by ensuring the right people are involved in reviews, improving PR clarity, and enabling deeper automation without changing your core setup. It all adds up to faster reviews, better quality control, and a smoother development process.

🌟 What’s new?

We’ve improved the “Updated keys” filter logic in Workflows. From now on, workflows will only trigger when the base language value of a key is updated. Changes to metadata—like tags, comments, or other non-content attributes—will no longer trigger a workflow run.

🎯 Why it matters

This change helps reduce unnecessary workflow executions, keeping your localization process more focused and efficient. Teams will benefit from fewer distractions and better resource management, especially when working on large projects or with automation-heavy setups. Your workflows will now respond only to meaningful content changes.

🌟 What’s new?

We’re introducing AI-driven scoring for AI translations combined with workflow automation based on quality thresholds (currently in Beta):

• Every AI-generated string in a translation task is now assigned an quality score based on the MQM framework.
• You can set a threshold in your workflow so that only translations scoring below the threshold are sent for human review.
• Manual scoring is also available directly in the editor

🎯 Why it matters

This feature empowers teams to:

• Cut review costs by automating quality filtering
• Make smarter decisions about which content truly needs human review
• Unlock low-priority languages that were previously cost-prohibitive
• Support reviewers with clearer scoring guidance and issue suggestions

👉 Interested in trying this powerful feature early? Join our waitlist for early access to the Beta program →

Want to see it in action? Watch this quick demo where Luke Vella, Staff Product Manager at Lokalise, shows the power of AI Translation Scoring combined with Workflows.

🌟 What’s new?

Teams on Enterprise and Trial plans can now build fully customizable workflows—either from scratch or by modifying existing templates. You can add, remove, reorder, or duplicate steps to design workflows that perfectly match your localization process, with support for up to 15 steps.
Previously, workflows were limited to predefined templates. This update unlocks full flexibility, empowering teams to align automation with their unique needs.

🎯 Why it matters

Custom workflows let you tailor Lokalise to your existing processes, improve automation, and streamline collaboration across teams. Whether you’re scaling operations or refining a complex localization flow, you now have the tools to build workflows that fit how your team actually works.

🌟 What’s new?

You can now create and run workflows on any branch within your Lokalise project—not just the master branch. This update enables teams that work primarily in non-master branches to fully automate their localization process without impacting the integrity of their master branch.

Previously, workflows were limited to the master branch, which restricted adoption for teams using branching strategies to manage content updates. With this change, you can maintain your workflow practices while aligning with your development process.

🎯 Why it matters

Whether you’re managing translations in feature branches, staging environments, or production-ready branches, you can now streamline localization with automated workflows across your entire project structure. This flexibility removes previous blockers and ensures consistent localization workflows wherever your team works.

🌟 What’s new?

Enabled full lifecycle management of AI Tasks through our public API, ensuring parity with all UI-driven capabilities. Customers are now able to create, retrieve, update, and delete AI Tasks programmatically.

🎯 Why it matters

This unblocks mature clients to use automated way of creating tasks and staying informed about their status and progress. In a scope of the update we have confirmed Webhooks app is up to date with progress of AI task events.

🌟 What’s new?

We’ve launched a Beta Program that allows customers to test Custom-trained AI models tailored to their brand voice and content. These models, based on RAG and Fine-Tuned GPT-4o, deliver launch-ready translations with over 90% accuracy on the first attempt by capturing your company’s specific tone and style.

Alongside Custom LLMs, the Beta includes access to AI-powered Translation Quality Scoring, helping you easily assess which translations meet quality standards and which require review—automatically integrated into your workflows.

🎯 Why it matters

This is your opportunity to gain early access to cutting-edge AI localization tools that improve translation quality, save time, and scale efficiently. Joining the Beta helps your team stay ahead by streamlining localization with smarter, brand-aligned translations.

🌟 What’s new?

It now enables users to easily plug in custom pre-processing logic (for file uploads).

🎯 Why it matters

You can fine-tune how translation files are handled before they’re uploaded to Lokalise. Strip metadata, normalize formatting, or apply project-specific rules.

🌟 What’s new?

Now users can customize Git-related settings easily.

🎯 Why it matters

With this improvement you get more control over how Lokalise interacts with your repositories, adjust commit messages, and use custom tokens.

🌟 What’s new?

We’ve significantly enhanced the user experience for creating tasks, especially in large projects.

Previously, users experienced delays (or even freezes) after submitting a task form.

Now, the task creation process is much faster and smoother, with the UI updating immediately.

In internal tests, we observed up to a 2300% improvement in UI reaction time, and issues with the interface getting stuck are now resolved.

🎯 Why it matters

This update greatly enhances the manual task creation experience, particularly for teams managing large projects or wide scopes. Users can now work more efficiently without frustrating delays.

🌟 What’s new?

Ever wondered what your workflow has been up to? Say no more, your new status reporting tab in Workflows is here! Filter by date, status, language, or title and track everything that happened. No more guessing. Just clarity.

🎯 Why it matters

It’s all about trust. Status reporting gives you full visibility into what’s running and when—so you can track progress, and stay in control of your automation.

🌟What’s new?

We’ve expanded access to Workflow templates and restructured how they’re distributed across plans. Customers on Start and Essential plans can now automate more steps with new templates—it’s easier to start getting value from workflows.

🎯 Why it matters

This unlocks more automation possibilities for more teams—faster. Whether you're just getting started or scaling up your localization efforts, you can now choose from a richer library of ready-to-use workflows to fit your process. Start automating earlier, reduce manual work, and keep your team aligned from day one.

🌟 What’s new?

Our native Contentful integration now supports both US and EU data centers. Previously, only US-based instances were compatible.

🎯 Why it matters

This update removes a major blocker for teams working with Contentful in the EU. Whether you're localizing marketing sites or product content, you can now sync seamlessly—no matter where your data is hosted. It’s a key step in making Lokalise work wherever you do.

🌟 What’s new?

Say hello to easier glossary management. With our brand-new Glossary API, you can now connect your external terminology sources—like Google Sheets, Notion, or TermWeb—and create, update, or sync glossary terms directly from your own systems. No more spreadsheet wrangling or copy-pasting.

🎯 Why it matters

If you’ve been managing glossaries outside of Lokalise, you’ll now save hours of manual work and ensure everyone stays on the same page (literally).

🌟 What’s new?

Claude Sonnet 3.7 is now integrated into Lokalise AI—and it’s delivering the highest acceptance rates across key language pairs like English → Portuguese and Japanese → English.

🎯 Why it matters

With all acceptance rates above 82%, Claude helps us keep our promise of delivering the highest quality translations through smart multi-engine selection. Lokalise AI continues to choose the best engine for each job—so you don’t have to.

🌟 What’s new?

 We’ve expanded our Webflow integration to pull in more content—like SEO titles and descriptions, as well as OpenGraph fields. Now, you can localize not only what’s on the page but also what shows up in search engines and link previews.

🎯 Why it matters

Visibility starts before users even land on your site. This update helps you deliver fully localized experiences across every touchpoint—search, social, and beyond.

🌟 What’s new?

We're releasing 3 improvements for API performance. The changes affect three key API endpoints:

• Async Download: Customers with large projects (10K+ key-language pairs) must migrate from the Sync endpoint to the new Async endpoint.
• GET Keys & GET Translation: Customers must switch from page-based pagination to cursor-based pagination for better performance.

🎯 Why it matters to you?

These updates will significantly improve the API response time, overall performance and scalability. Upgrading ensures continued access to Lokalise’s API without disruption.

🌟 What’s new?

We’ve introduced a “Run Workflow” option for Live Workflows, giving users more control over execution.

• Manual Workflow Runs: Users can now manually trigger workflow runs at any time, with a 15-minute cooldown to prevent system overload. A visual timer will indicate when the next run is available.
• Smart Reference System: Manual runs reference the last scheduled or manual run to check for scope changes. All manually triggered runs are logged for debugging and status reporting.

🎯 Why it matters to you?

This update eliminates the wait for scheduled workflows, allowing users to run workflows on demand, validate changes, troubleshoot faster, and respond quickly to business needs.

🌟 What’s new?

We’ve introduced a new Source Review step in our Workflows system. When creating workflow review tasks, users now have the option to include the source language in addition to their target translation languages.

🎯 Why it matters to you?

This highly-requested feature enhances the flexibility of the Workflows system, allowing customers to handle a broader range of use cases. It improves the overall workflow experience and sets the stage for more dynamic templates and future workflow enhancements.

🌟 What’s new?

We've made important fixes to the Contentful Native integration:

1. Alias support: Previously, customers using aliases had to reinstall the integration every time they created a backup or switched environments. Now, once the app is reinstalled into an alias, customers won’t need to reinstall it again when changing the target environment.
2. Import/Export improvements: We’ve resolved issues where links, percentage ranges, placeholders, and other content would break on import/export. Now, content is exchanged seamlessly, and customers no longer have to worry about fixing broken links or formatting.

🎯 Why it matters to you?

These fixes ensure a smoother, more reliable experience with Contentful Native integration. Customers no longer need to manually recheck or repair their content during import/export or when switching environments, saving time and reducing errors.

🌟 What’s new?

We’ve implemented a data compression solution that allows you to merge branches for larger projects (such as those with 10,000+ translation keys across dozens of languages) without any issues.

🎯 Why it matters to you?

This update ensures that merging project branches runs smoothly, even for large-scale projects, eliminating previous roadblocks. The improvement provides a more efficient workflow for teams managing extensive localization efforts, with our engineering team continuing to optimize performance for projects of all sizes in future releases.

🌟 What’s new?

We’ve introduced custom role configuration, allowing teams to configure their own roles and permissions using Jenkins commands. This gives you more flexibility to tailor permissions to your team's specific needs.

🎯 Why it matters to you?

This update empowers teams to move beyond predefined roles, ensuring a more customized and secure permission structure. Our support team can now assist customers in configuring roles upon request, providing a more adaptable solution for teams with unique requirements.

🌟 What’s new?

We’ve introduced a Workflows Number Gate system that sets a cap on the number of active workflows for each team. While you can still create as many draft or paused workflows as needed, live workflows are now limited based on your team’s specific plan entitlements. If your team exceeds the limit (such as due to a plan change) extra live workflows are automatically canceled until you’re back within the allowed range.

🎯 Why it matters to you?

This update provides better control over live workflows, ensuring that teams are within their plan's limits. It helps streamline workflows and enables smoother upgrades when teams need more capacity, offering more flexibility and tailored options for teams to grow as needed.

🌟 What’s new?

Starting today, Workflows is available for customers on the Trial plan. Teams on this plan will have the same access to Workflows as Enterprise plan users, allowing them to fully explore and test the feature during their trial period.

🎯 Why it matters to you?

This gives Trial plan customers the opportunity to experience the full value of Workflows before committing to a paid plan. By testing the feature with no limitations, users can see firsthand how it can improve their localization processes, making it easier for teams to decide to upgrade to a paid plan once their trial ends.

🌟 What’s new?

We’ve improved the Figma Plugin so that all translation keys remain linked when duplicating design elements. Whether you're copying and pasting Frames or Artboards, duplicating an entire page, or copying elements to another page, the translation keys will now stay intact, saving you time and effort.

🎯 Why it matters to you?

This update eliminates the frustration of manually re-linking translation keys after duplication, directly boosting your workflow efficiency, reducing the risk of missing translated elements, and ensuring smoother collaboration between design and localization teams. There's no need to activate anything – the functionality is automatically available in your Figma workspace, making design iteration faster and more seamless.

🌟 What’s new?

We've officially removed the old comment table and everything associated with supporting both the "old" and "new" comments. This cleanup allows for a more streamlined development process moving forward, focusing solely on the new comment system.

🎯 Why it matters to you?

With this change, the Comments feature will now be more efficient and easier to develop, reducing potential bugs and improving the overall user experience. This update eliminates the need for maintaining redundant systems, paving the way for more seamless future enhancements.

🌟 What’s new?

We’ve temporarily enabled unlimited access to Workflows for customers on the Start and Essential plans. A banner will inform users that this access is time-limited. This allows users to explore the full capabilities of Workflows without any restrictions.

🎯 Why it matters to you?

This gives customers the opportunity to experience the full potential of Workflows, helping them streamline their localization processes and discover the value it can bring to their teams. The trial period also ensures that we can gather valuable feedback to improve the Workflows experience for all users.

🌟 What’s new?

Teams not currently on the Trial plan or using Advanced Analytics can now access a 14-day self-serve trial of Lokalise Analytics. This gives teams the opportunity to explore and experience the full range of advanced analytics features, empowering them to make more informed, data-driven decisions.

🎯 Why it matters to you?

The trial enables teams to better understand their data, gain valuable insights into localization workflows, and optimize their processes before committing to a paid plan.

🌟 What’s new?

We’ve rolled out new permissions for all teams and users. This update applies to both existing customers and any new users who onboard from now on. The new permissions structure ensures that you can manage access and control more effectively across your teams, providing a better, more flexible way to assign roles and permissions.

🎯 Why it matters to you?

This update enhances security and workflow management by giving you more granular control over user access. Teams can now assign permissions based on specific needs, improving collaboration, reducing risks, and ensuring the right people have access to the right resources.

🌟 What’s new?

Slow downloads are now a thing of the past. With our new Async Export feature, you can download Lokalise projects of any size, with any amount of languages, quickly and efficiently using an asynchronous flow. Instead of waiting for the download to complete, the process runs in the background. You can track the status via the API, Activity Log, or set up Webhooks to get notified when your file is ready. Plus, files are now securely stored in File Storage Service (FSS) with AWS pre-signed URLs, offering a short, secure download link for added privacy.

🎯 Why it matters to you?

This feature removes the hassle of long waits and timeouts for large project downloads, providing a faster, more reliable solution for accessing your data. With added security and greater efficiency, Async Export ensures your translation projects are handled seamlessly.

Watch this demo from Asaph, Senior Product Manager at Lokalise 👇

🌟 What’s new?

Lokalise Workflows now support Machine Translation steps with Google Translate and DeepL, alongside Lokalise AI. Users can set up automated translation steps with their preferred provider, offering more flexibility in how content is translated efficiently.

🎯 Why it matters to you?

This update gives customers greater control over their translation processes, allowing them to choose the best machine translation option for their needs while improving efficiency and reducing manual effort.

🌟 What’s new?

Lokalise Workflows is now fully available to all Pro and Enterprise customers, concluding the Workflows Beta phase.

This marks the official public release of Lokalise Workflows, enabling teams to automate and streamline their localization processes.

🎯 Why it matters to you?

All Pro and Enterprise customers can now benefit from automated workflows, reducing manual work and improving translation consistency, speed, and scalability.

🌟 What’s new?

Enterprise customers can now access the Volume and Task dashboards through the Lokalise Analytics page. The Volume dashboard helps track content volume with advanced filters, while the Task dashboard provides detailed task data, advanced filters, and export options for deeper analysis. Customers can share filtered dashboard views via URL.

🎯 Why it matters to you?

These dashboards provide greater visibility into localization efforts, empowering teams to make data-driven decisions, optimize processes, and improve collaboration across projects.

🌟 What’s new?

AI translation integrations (Google Translate, DeepL, and Microsoft Translator) now support long keys, making automated translations available for previously excluded content.

The new limits are:

• Google Translate: 25K characters
• DeepL: 100K characters
• Microsoft Translator: 50K characters.

🎯 Why it matters to you?

Customers can now leverage AI translations for larger content segments without manual splitting, streamlining translation workflows and improving productivity.

🌟 What’s new?

Lokalise Workflows now supports AI steps! As a result we have 4 new Workflow templates that can be used by all 115 customers in the Workflow Beta.

🎯 Why it matters to you?

This enhancement empowers users to automate translation processes with AI, improving efficiency and consistency across localization workflows.