October 2025: The 'Também disponível em português' release

[denny]

As alluded to in the release name, this month I started merging Manuel's contributions to translate the ShinyCMS admin features into Portuguese. Obrigado Manuel! So far he's done all of the main admin area, as well as the ShinyAccess, ShinyBlog, and ShinyForms plugins. Hopefully there will be more Portuguese plugin translations to come over the next few months, to cover the rest of the CMS features.

If anybody would like to contribute some Spanish translations, that would save me having to embarrass myself by discovering how much español I've forgotten in the last 10 years 😃 And between those three languages I think that will cover quite a lot of people - English speakers constitute over 18% of the global population, Spanish speakers more than 7%, and Portuguese speakers more than 3%. I'm guessing it might be a bit trickier to find somebody who can do Mandarin (14%), but I'd be delighted to be proved wrong! If you're interested in contributing any of those translations, feel free to get in touch for more details of how the translation layer works - you don't need to understand any code to help with translation work, it's all in plain text files, although obviously it will be easier if you know how to run a Rails app locally for testing.

Gems updated this month: puma, pundit, sidekiq, mjml, rexml, recaptcha, sentry, mutant-rspec, and rubocop-rails

And there was a new minor Rails version released, 8.0.4 - but it broke all the Rich Text editors (CKEditor, ActionText, etc), so I rejected the PR. Hopefully they'll release a healthier one soon.

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