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v9.44

2026-06-14

v9.44 2026-06-14 WeKan ® release

This release adds the following new features:

  • Full right-to-left (RTL) UI for every page when an RTL language is selected (Arabic and its variants, Persian/Farsi, Hebrew, Uyghur, Uzbek-Arabic and Yiddish — the languages flagged rtl: true in imports/i18n/languages.js). Previously only some pages flipped. The root <html> element now gets a reactive dir="rtl"/dir="ltr" attribute that follows the chosen language, so the whole UI mirrors at once. To make this work on every page rather than a handful, all directional component CSS was converted to CSS logical properties (margin-left→margin-inline-start, left:→inset-inline-start:, text-align: left→text-align: start, float: left→float: inline-start, and the mirror-image right/end variants) across 48 stylesheets, which flip automatically with dir. Horizontal-centering rules using left: 50% + transform: translate(-50%, …) were intentionally kept physical, since those already center correctly in both directions. The calendar view also renders RTL. Thanks to xet7 and Claude.
  • Tests for the RTL UI. A fast, server-less tests/rtl.test.js (run with node tests/rtl.test.js) checks that exactly the expected languages are flagged rtl: true, that the direction helper maps each language to the right dir value, that the root <html> and the client keep dir in sync, and — as a regression guard — that component CSS keeps using logical properties (no physical margin-left/float: left/bare left: offsets sneak back in). A Playwright browser spec tests/playwright/specs/18-rtl-layout.e2e.js drives the app in both English (LTR) and Arabic (RTL) and asserts, on the boards list, board view, card details, my-cards / due-cards / global-search, the admin settings page and the login page, that the direction is correct, the translated text is visible, and leading-edge content (the boards menu, the first board list) sits on the correct side. Thanks to xet7 and Claude.
  • Fixed the “Meteor unit tests” CI job hanging until its 45-minute timeout. The workflow set TEST_WATCH: '0', but meteortesting:mocha computes testWatch: TEST_WATCH || … and the string '0' is truthy in JavaScript, so it turned on watch mode and the process never exited. Removing the env var lets meteor test --once finish and exit with the correct status. Thanks to xet7 and Claude.

Thanks to above GitHub users for their contributions and translators for their translations.

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