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v1_beta.1.6 ​

The following changes were made in this release.

New translation support ​

The following translations are now supported:

  • French into:

    • English
    • German
    • Italian
    • Spanish
  • Italian into:

    • English
    • German
    • French
    • Spanish
  • Spanish into:

    • English
    • German
    • French
    • Italian
  • Chinese (Mandarin) into English

v1_beta.1.5 ​

The following changes were made in this release.

Change in the maximum length of the description ​

The maximum length of the ITEM_DESCRIPTION had been 100,000 characters, including markup/tags. This maximum has been reduced to 20,000 characters, but markup/tags no longer contribute to this maximum value.

New translation support ​

The following translations are now supported:

  • German into Polish
  • Polish into German

New enumeration value added ​

To support the new translations, the following value has been added to the LanguageEnum type:

  • pl (Polish)

Error message updates ​

The message for the following error code has been updated to:

  • 110007: Markups are not supported in input texts for title translation context.

The following new error code has been added:

  • 11008: Input text missing.

v1_beta.1.4 ​

The following changes were made in this release.

Three new translations supported ​

English text may now be translated into either Portuguese or Russian. German text may now be translated into English.

New enumeration values added ​

To support the new translations, the following values were added to the LanguageEnum type:

  • pt (Portuguese)
  • ru (Russian)

v1_beta.1.3 ​

The following changes were made in this release.

Six new translations supported ​

English and German text may now be translated into either French, Italian, or Spanish.

New enumeration values added ​

To support the new translations, the following values were added to the LanguageEnum type:

  • fr (French)
  • it (Italian)
  • es (Spanish)

v1_beta.1.1 ​

The following sections describe the change made in this release.

Updated translation context support ​

Translations from English to German, and from Japanese to English, now support the ITEM_DESCRIPTION LanguageEnum type.

Updated text field string length ​

The maximum string length for the ITEM_TITLE enumeration value has been increased to 1,000 characters. The maximum string length for the ITEM_DESCRIPTION enumeration value remains at 100,000 characters.

v1_beta.1.2 ​

The following change was made in this release.

English to Japanese translations now supported ​

English to Japanese translations are now supported. Since Japanese to English translations were already supported, and ja was already a value in the LanguageEnum type, there were no schema updates necessary for this release.

v1_beta.1.0 ​

You can now translate the description of the item from English to Chinese. To support this, the ITEM_DESCRIPTION enumeration value was added to the LanguageEnum type.

v1_beta.0.0 ​

This is the initial release of this API.

There is only one method for the initial release. Use this call to translate strings related to items listed for sale.

POST /commerce/translation/v1_beta/translate

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