Release notes

Brief summaries of recent DeepL API releases, such as support for new languages and document formats, new API parameters, and more.

In active development (a couple of highlights):

  • An official Ruby client library

  • DeepL Write API

  • Including number of billed characters in text translation API response

Q3 2024

  • Added support for a new language for text translation: ZH-HANT (Traditional Chinese). As of this initial release, document translation is not supported for Traditional Chinese. More information is available here.

Q2 2024

  • Added support for DOCX and PPTX document minification to the PHP client library, making it possible for users to translate documents that exceed DeepL's file size limit due to embedded media. Learn more here.

  • Added support for API key-level usage reporting. More information is available in the multiple API keys guide.

  • Launched DeepL Pro in 165 new markets, bringing the total number of markets where DeepL Pro is available to 228. This means users with billing addresses in these markets can create DeepL Pro API and Free API subscriptions.

  • Added support for new glossary languages: DA (Danish), NB (Norwegian Bokmål), and Swedish (SV).

  • Moved the context parameter from alpha status to general availability. More information about the context parameter is available in the "Request body descriptions" table here.

  • Added support for SRT (srt) files in document translation.

Q1 2024

  • Added support for multiple API keys in a single account for Pro API and Free API users. More information is available in the multiple API keys guide.

  • Added support for a new language for text translation: AR (Arabic). As of this initial release, document translation is not supported for Arabic. More information is available here.

  • Added support for Korean (KO) as a glossary language, increasing the number of supported glossary language pairs from 55 to 66.

Q4 2023

Q3 2023

  • Launched DeepL Pro in South Korea (blog post here). This means users with billing addresses in South Korea can create DeepL Pro API and Free API subscriptions.

  • Added support for Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), and Chinese (ZH) as glossary languages, increasing the number of supported glossary language pairs from 28 to 55.

  • Added support for JSON-encoded requests for all remaining endpoints (note that document upload for document translation still requires multipart/form-data).

Q2 2023

Q1 2023

  • Released an official DeepL Custom Connector for Microsoft Power Automate.

  • Added support for glossaries in any combination of two languages from the following list: EN (English), DE (German), FR (French), IT (Italian), PL (Polish), NL (Dutch), ES (Spanish, JA (Japanese). This represents an increase from 8 to 28 supported glossary language pairs.

  • Added XLIFF as a document translation format (note that only documents from version 2.0 are supported, and there is no support for the legacy 1.2 format).

  • Added support for new languages for text and document translation: KO (Korean) and NB (Norwegian Bokmål). Blog post here.

Q4 2022

Q3 2022

Before Q3 2022

...and much more :)

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