# Translate Toolkit 2.2.1

Released on 19 June 2017

This release contains many improvements and bug fixes.

## Major changes

- Refactored functions for resolving language/country names translation to be memory efficient.
- Improvements for ts and subtitles formats.
- Added –preserveplaceholders argument to podebug.
- Fixed Montenegrin language name.

## Detailed changes

### Formats and Converters

- ts
  - Write quotes as entities
  - Remove not necessary encoding/decoding to UTF-8
- Subtitles
  - Avoid errors when subtitle support is missing

### Tools

- Added –preserveplaceholders argument to podebug to avoid rewriting placeholders

### Languages

- Fixed Montenegrin language name.

### API changes

- Refactored functions for resolving language/country names translation to be memory efficient

### General

- Use gzip for packaging
- Python 3 fixes
- Added more tests

...and loads of general code cleanups and of course many many bugfixes.

## Contributors

This release was made possible by the following people:

Michal Čihař, Leandro Regueiro, Ryan Northey, Robbie Cole, Kai Pastor, Dwayne Bailey.

And to all our bug finders and testers, a Very BIG Thank You.