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 ====== VuFind® Newsletter: September, 2023 ======
-===== Highlights / Executive Summary =====
+===== Development Highlights and Project News =====
 ==== Development Progress ====
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 The PMC also scheduled the 9.1 release and made significant progress on internationalization, described in more detail below.
+==== Release 9.1 ====
+Release 9.1 has been scheduled for October 30, 2023, so much of October's development effort will be focused on finishing touches on the release and fixes to any last-minute bugs and accessibility issues. Work on 10.0 will increase in intensity beginning in November. Community members are encouraged to check out the latest dev branch and try things out if they want to preview most of the changes coming in the new release; bug reports are greatly appreciated at this time.
+==== Internationalization ====
+In preparation for release 9.1, the project is temporarily freezing the merging of any pull requests that add new language strings, as translation is now underway, and it is too late to add new text to the project until after the release.
+Through the efforts of the Project Management Committee, the project is now using [[https://lokalise.com/|Lokalise]] as a translation platform to help streamline the work of volunteer translators.
+While translation is underway, you can follow the work's progress on the [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/projects/5|Translations board in GitHub]]. Note that several languages currently lack translators, as noted in the "No Current Translator" column. If you are interested in helping with any of these languages (or with new languages not currently supported by the project), please reach out to info@vufind.org and we can set you up with a Lokalise account.
 ===== Recently Completed / Resolved Issues =====