📝 Update release notes

[skip ci]

.github/workflows/build-docs.yml

@@ -91,13 +91,13 @@ jobs:
         run: uv sync --locked --no-dev --group docs
       - name: Update Languages
         run: uv run ./scripts/docs.py update-languages
-      - uses: actions/cache@v4
+      - uses: actions/cache@v5
         with:
           key: mkdocs-cards-${{ matrix.lang }}-${{ github.ref }}
           path: docs/${{ matrix.lang }}/.cache
       - name: Build Docs
         run: uv run ./scripts/docs.py build-lang ${{ matrix.lang }}
-      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
         with:
           name: docs-site-${{ matrix.lang }}
           path: ./site/**

.github/workflows/deploy-docs.yml

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           rm -rf ./site
           mkdir ./site
-      - uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
+      - uses: actions/download-artifact@v7
         with:
           path: ./site/
           pattern: docs-site-*

.github/workflows/smokeshow.yml

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ jobs:
             pyproject.toml
             uv.lock
       - run: uv sync --locked --no-dev --group github-actions
-      - uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
+      - uses: actions/download-artifact@v7
         with:
           name: coverage-html
           path: htmlcov

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ jobs:
       # Do not store coverage for all possible combinations to avoid file size max errors in Smokeshow
       - name: Store coverage files
         if: matrix.coverage == 'coverage'
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
         with:
           name: coverage-${{ runner.os }}-${{ matrix.python-version }}-${{ hashFiles('**/coverage/.coverage.*') }}
           path: coverage
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install Dependencies
         run: uv sync --locked --no-dev --group tests --extra all
       - name: Get coverage files
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v7
         with:
           pattern: coverage-*
           path: coverage
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ jobs:
       - run: uv run coverage combine coverage
       - run: uv run coverage html --title "Coverage for ${{ github.sha }}"
       - name: Store coverage HTML
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
         with:
           name: coverage-html
           path: htmlcov

docs/en/docs/contributing.md

@@ -177,252 +177,45 @@ as Uvicorn by default will use the port `8000`, the documentation on port `8008`
 
 ### Translations
 
-/// warning | Attention
-
-**Update on Translations**
-
-We're updating the way we handle documentation translations.
-
-Until now, we invited community members to translate pages via pull requests, which were then reviewed by at least two native speakers. While this has helped bring FastAPI to many more users, we’ve also run into several challenges - some languages have only a few translated pages, others are outdated and hard to maintain over time.
-To improve this, we’re working on automation tools 🤖 to manage translations more efficiently. Once ready, documentation will be machine-translated and still reviewed by at least two native speakers ✅ before publishing. This will allow us to keep translations up-to-date while reducing the review burden on maintainers.
-
-What’s changing now:
-
-* 🚫 We’re no longer accepting new community-submitted translation PRs.
-
-* ⏳ Existing open PRs will be reviewed and can still be merged if completed within the next 3 weeks (since July 11 2025).
-
-* 🌐 In the future, we will only support languages where at least three active native speakers are available to review and maintain translations.
-
-This transition will help us keep translations more consistent and timely while better supporting our contributors 🙌. Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far — your help has been invaluable! 💖
-
-///
-
-
 Help with translations is VERY MUCH appreciated! And it can't be done without the help from the community. 🌎 🚀
 
 Here are the steps to help with translations.
 
-#### Tips and guidelines
+#### Review Translation PRs
+
+Translation pull requests are made by LLMs guided with prompts designed by the FastAPI team together with the community of native speakers for each supported language.
+
+These translations are normally still reviewed by native speakers, and here's where you can help!
 
 * Check the currently <a href="https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/pulls" class="external-link" target="_blank">existing pull requests</a> for your language. You can filter the pull requests by the ones with the label for your language. For example, for Spanish, the label is <a href="https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc+label%3Alang-es+label%3Aawaiting-review" class="external-link" target="_blank">`lang-es`</a>.
 
-* Review those pull requests, requesting changes or approving them. For the languages I don't speak, I'll wait for several others to review the translation before merging.
+* When reviewing a pull request, it's better not to suggest changes in the same pull request, because it is LLM generated, and it won't be possible to make sure that small individual changes are replicated in other similar sections, or that they are preserved when translating the same content again.
+
+* Instead of adding suggestions to the translation PR, make the suggestions to the LLM prompt file for that language, in a new PR. For example, for Spanish, the LLM prompt file is at: <a href="https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/blob/master/docs/es/llm-prompt.md" class="external-link" target="_blank">`docs/es/llm-prompt.md`</a>.
 
 /// tip
 
-You can <a href="https://help.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/commenting-on-a-pull-request" class="external-link" target="_blank">add comments with change suggestions</a> to existing pull requests.
-
 Check the docs about <a href="https://help.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/about-pull-request-reviews" class="external-link" target="_blank">adding a pull request review</a> to approve it or request changes.
 
 ///
 
+#### Subscribe to Notifications for Your Language
+
 * Check if there's a <a href="https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/discussions/categories/translations" class="external-link" target="_blank">GitHub Discussion</a> to coordinate translations for your language. You can subscribe to it, and when there's a new pull request to review, an automatic comment will be added to the discussion.
 
-* If you translate pages, add a single pull request per page translated. That will make it much easier for others to review it.
-
 * To check the 2-letter code for the language you want to translate, you can use the table <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes" class="external-link" target="_blank">List of ISO 639-1 codes</a>.
 
-#### Existing language
-
-Let's say you want to translate a page for a language that already has translations for some pages, like Spanish.
-
-In the case of Spanish, the 2-letter code is `es`. So, the directory for Spanish translations is located at `docs/es/`.
-
-/// tip
-
-The main ("official") language is English, located at `docs/en/`.
-
-///
-
-Now run the live server for the docs in Spanish:
-
-<div class="termy">
-
-```console
-// Use the command "live" and pass the language code as a CLI argument
-$ python ./scripts/docs.py live es
-
-<span style="color: green;">[INFO]</span> Serving on http://127.0.0.1:8008
-<span style="color: green;">[INFO]</span> Start watching changes
-<span style="color: green;">[INFO]</span> Start detecting changes
-```
-
-</div>
-
-/// tip
-
-Alternatively, you can perform the same steps that scripts does manually.
-
-Go into the language directory, for the Spanish translations it's at `docs/es/`:
-
-```console
-$ cd docs/es/
-```
-
-Then run `mkdocs` in that directory:
-
-```console
-$ mkdocs serve --dev-addr 127.0.0.1:8008
-```
-
-///
-
-Now you can go to <a href="http://127.0.0.1:8008" class="external-link" target="_blank">http://127.0.0.1:8008</a> and see your changes live.
-
-You will see that every language has all the pages. But some pages are not translated and have an info box at the top, about the missing translation.
-
-Now let's say that you want to add a translation for the section [Features](features.md){.internal-link target=_blank}.
-
-* Copy the file at:
-
-```
-docs/en/docs/features.md
-```
-
-* Paste it in exactly the same location but for the language you want to translate, e.g.:
-
-```
-docs/es/docs/features.md
-```
-
-/// tip
-
-Notice that the only change in the path and file name is the language code, from `en` to `es`.
-
-///
-
-If you go to your browser you will see that now the docs show your new section (the info box at the top is gone). 🎉
-
-Now you can translate it all and see how it looks as you save the file.
-
-#### Don't Translate these Pages
-
-🚨 Don't translate:
-
-* Files under `reference/`
-* `release-notes.md`
-* `fastapi-people.md`
-* `external-links.md`
-* `newsletter.md`
-* `management-tasks.md`
-* `management.md`
-* `contributing.md`
-
-Some of these files are updated very frequently and a translation would always be behind, or they include the main content from English source files, etc.
-
 #### Request a New Language
 
 Let's say that you want to request translations for a language that is not yet translated, not even some pages. For example, Latin.
 
-If there is no discussion for that language, you can start by requesting the new language. For that, you can follow these steps:
-
+* The first step would be for you to find other 2 people that would be willing to be reviewing translation PRs for that language with you.
+* Once there are at least 3 people that would be willing to commit to help maintain that language, you can continue the next steps.
 * Create a new discussion following the template.
-* Get a few native speakers to comment on the discussion and commit to help review translations for that language.
+* Tag the other 2 people that will help with the language, and ask them to confirm there they will help.
 
 Once there are several people in the discussion, the FastAPI team can evaluate it and can make it an official translation.
 
-Then the docs will be automatically translated using AI, and the team of native speakers can review the translation, and help tweak the AI prompts.
+Then the docs will be automatically translated using LLMs, and the team of native speakers can review the translation, and help tweak the LLM prompts.
 
 Once there's a new translation, for example if docs are updated or there's a new section, there will be a comment in the same discussion with the link to the new translation to review.
-
-#### New Language
-
-/// note
-
-These steps will be performed by the FastAPI team.
-
-///
-
-Checking the link from above (List of ISO 639-1 codes), you can see that the 2-letter code for Latin is `la`.
-
-Now you can create a new directory for the new language, running the following script:
-
-<div class="termy">
-
-```console
-// Use the command new-lang, pass the language code as a CLI argument
-$ python ./scripts/docs.py new-lang la
-
-Successfully initialized: docs/la
-```
-
-</div>
-
-Now you can check in your code editor the newly created directory `docs/la/`.
-
-That command created a file `docs/la/mkdocs.yml` with a simple config that inherits everything from the `en` version:
-
-```yaml
-INHERIT: ../en/mkdocs.yml
-```
-
-/// tip
-
-You could also simply create that file with those contents manually.
-
-///
-
-That command also created a dummy file `docs/la/index.md` for the main page, you can start by translating that one.
-
-You can continue with the previous instructions for an "Existing Language" for that process.
-
-You can make the first pull request with those two files, `docs/la/mkdocs.yml` and `docs/la/index.md`. 🎉
-
-#### Preview the result
-
-As already mentioned above, you can use the `./scripts/docs.py` with the `live` command to preview the results (or `mkdocs serve`).
-
-Once you are done, you can also test it all as it would look online, including all the other languages.
-
-To do that, first build all the docs:
-
-<div class="termy">
-
-```console
-// Use the command "build-all", this will take a bit
-$ python ./scripts/docs.py build-all
-
-Building docs for: en
-Building docs for: es
-Successfully built docs for: es
-```
-
-</div>
-
-This builds all those independent MkDocs sites for each language, combines them, and generates the final output at `./site/`.
-
-Then you can serve that with the command `serve`:
-
-<div class="termy">
-
-```console
-// Use the command "serve" after running "build-all"
-$ python ./scripts/docs.py serve
-
-Warning: this is a very simple server. For development, use mkdocs serve instead.
-This is here only to preview a site with translations already built.
-Make sure you run the build-all command first.
-Serving at: http://127.0.0.1:8008
-```
-
-</div>
-
-#### Translation specific tips and guidelines
-
-* Translate only the Markdown documents (`.md`). Do not translate the code examples at `./docs_src`.
-
-* In code blocks within the Markdown document, translate comments (`# a comment`), but leave the rest unchanged.
-
-* Do not change anything enclosed in "``" (inline code).
-
-* In lines starting with `///` translate only the text part after `|`. Leave the rest unchanged.
-
-* You can translate info boxes like `/// warning` with for example `/// warning | Achtung`. But do not change the word immediately after the `///`, it determines the color of the info box.
-
-* Do not change the paths in links to images, code files, Markdown documents.
-
-* However, when a Markdown document is translated, the `#hash-parts` in links to its headings may change. Update these links if possible.
-    * Search for such links in the translated document using the regex `#[^# ]`.
-    * Search in all documents already translated into your language for `your-translated-document.md`. For example VS Code has an option "Edit" -> "Find in Files".
-    * When translating a document, do not "pre-translate" `#hash-parts` that link to headings in untranslated documents.

docs/en/docs/fastapi-people.md

@@ -196,31 +196,11 @@ They have contributed source code, documentation, etc. 📦
 
 There are hundreds of other contributors, you can see them all in the <a href="https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/graphs/contributors" class="external-link" target="_blank">FastAPI GitHub Contributors page</a>. 👷
 
-## Top Translators
-
-These are the **Top Translators**. 🌐
-
-These users have created the most Pull Requests with [translations to other languages](contributing.md#translations){.internal-link target=_blank} that have been *merged*.
-
-<div class="user-list user-list-center">
-
-{% for user in (translators.values() | list)[:50] %}
-
-{% if user.login not in skip_users %}
-
-<div class="user"><a href="{{ user.url }}" target="_blank"><div class="avatar-wrapper"><img src="{{ user.avatarUrl }}"/></div><div class="title">@{{ user.login }}</div></a> <div class="count">Translations: {{ user.count }}</div></div>
-
-{% endif %}
-
-{% endfor %}
-
-</div>
-
 ## Top Translation Reviewers
 
 These users are the **Top Translation Reviewers**. 🕵️
 
-I only speak a few languages (and not very well 😅). So, the reviewers are the ones that have the [**power to approve translations**](contributing.md#translations){.internal-link target=_blank} of the documentation. Without them, there wouldn't be documentation in several other languages.
+Translation reviewers have the [**power to approve translations**](contributing.md#translations){.internal-link target=_blank} of the documentation. Without them, there wouldn't be documentation in several other languages.
 
 <div class="user-list user-list-center">
 {% for user in (translation_reviewers.values() | list)[:50] %}

docs/en/docs/management-tasks.md

@@ -106,129 +106,15 @@ This way, we can notice when there are new translations ready, because they have
 
 ## Merge Translation PRs
 
-For Spanish, as I'm a native speaker and it's a language close to me, I will give it a final review myself and in most cases tweak the PR a bit before merging it.
+Translations are generated automatically with LLMs and scripts.
 
-For the other languages, confirm that:
+There's one GitHub Action that can be manually run to add or update translations for a language: <a href="https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/actions/workflows/translate.yml" class="external-link" target="_blank">`translate.yml`</a>.
 
-* The title is correct following the instructions above.
+For these language translation PRs, confirm that:
+
+* The PR was automated (authored by @tiangolo), not made by another user.
 * It has the labels `lang-all` and `lang-{lang code}`.
-* The PR changes only one Markdown file adding a translation.
-    * Or in some cases, at most two files, if they are small, for the same language, and people reviewed them.
-    * If it's the first translation for that language, it will have additional `mkdocs.yml` files, for those cases follow the instructions below.
-* The PR doesn't add any additional or extraneous files.
-* The translation seems to have a similar structure as the original English file.
-* The translation doesn't seem to change the original content, for example with obvious additional documentation sections.
-* The translation doesn't use different Markdown structures, for example adding HTML tags when the original didn't have them.
-* The "admonition" sections, like `tip`, `info`, etc. are not changed or translated. For example:
-
-```
-/// tip
-
-This is a tip.
-
-///
-
-```
-
-looks like this:
-
-/// tip
-
-This is a tip.
-
-///
-
-...it could be translated as:
-
-```
-/// tip
-
-Esto es un consejo.
-
-///
-
-```
-
-...but needs to keep the exact `tip` keyword. If it was translated to `consejo`, like:
-
-```
-/// consejo
-
-Esto es un consejo.
-
-///
-
-```
-
-it would change the style to the default one, it would look like:
-
-/// consejo
-
-Esto es un consejo.
-
-///
-
-Those don't have to be translated, but if they are, they need to be written as:
-
-```
-/// tip | consejo
-
-Esto es un consejo.
-
-///
-
-```
-
-Which looks like:
-
-/// tip | consejo
-
-Esto es un consejo.
-
-///
-
-## First Translation PR
-
-When there's a first translation for a language, it will have a `docs/{lang code}/docs/index.md` translated file and a `docs/{lang code}/mkdocs.yml`.
-
-For example, for Bosnian, it would be:
-
-* `docs/bs/docs/index.md`
-* `docs/bs/mkdocs.yml`
-
-The `mkdocs.yml` file will have only the following content:
-
-```YAML
-INHERIT: ../en/mkdocs.yml
-```
-
-The language code would normally be in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639_language_codes" class="external-link" target="_blank">ISO 639-1 list of language codes</a>.
-
-In any case, the language code should be in the file <a href="https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/blob/master/docs/language_names.yml" class="external-link" target="_blank">docs/language_names.yml</a>.
-
-There won't be yet a label for the language code, for example, if it was Bosnian, there wouldn't be a `lang-bs`. Before creating the label and adding it to the PR, create the GitHub Discussion:
-
-* Go to the <a href="https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/discussions/categories/translations" class="external-link" target="_blank">Translations GitHub Discussions</a>
-* Create a new discussion with the title `Bosnian Translations` (or the language name in English)
-* A description of:
-
-```Markdown
-## Bosnian translations
-
-This is the issue to track translations of the docs to Bosnian. 🚀
-
-Here are the [PRs to review with the label `lang-bs`](https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc+label%3Alang-bs+label%3A%22awaiting-review%22). 🤓
-```
-
-Update "Bosnian" with the new language.
-
-And update the search link to point to the new language label that will be created, like `lang-bs`.
-
-Create and add the label to that new Discussion just created, like `lang-bs`.
-
-Then go back to the PR, and add the label, like `lang-bs`, and `lang-all` and `awaiting-review`.
-
-Now the GitHub action will automatically detect the label `lang-bs` and will post in that Discussion that this PR is waiting to be reviewed.
+* If the PR is approved by at least one native speaker, you can merge it.
 
 ## Review PRs
 

docs/en/docs/release-notes.md

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ hide:
 
 ### Docs
 
+* 📝 Update docs about managing translations. PR [#14704](https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/pull/14704) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).
+* 📝 Update docs for contributing with translations. PR [#14701](https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/pull/14701) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).
 * 📝 Specify language code for code block. PR [#14656](https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/pull/14656) by [@YuriiMotov](https://github.com/YuriiMotov).
 
 ### Translations
@@ -22,6 +24,9 @@ hide:
 
 ### Internal
 
+* ⬆ Bump actions/cache from 4 to 5. PR [#14511](https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/pull/14511) by [@dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot).
+* ⬆ Bump actions/upload-artifact from 5 to 6. PR [#14525](https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/pull/14525) by [@dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot).
+* ⬆ Bump actions/download-artifact from 6 to 7. PR [#14526](https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/pull/14526) by [@dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot).
 * 👷 Tweak CI input names. PR [#14688](https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/pull/14688) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).
 * 🔨 Refactor translation script to allow committing in place. PR [#14687](https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/pull/14687) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).
 * 🐛 Fix translation script path. PR [#14685](https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/pull/14685) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).

scripts/docs.py

@@ -130,14 +130,9 @@ def new_lang(lang: str = typer.Argument(..., callback=lang_callback)):
     new_path.mkdir()
     new_config_path: Path = Path(new_path) / mkdocs_name
     new_config_path.write_text("INHERIT: ../en/mkdocs.yml\n", encoding="utf-8")
-    new_config_docs_path: Path = new_path / "docs"
-    new_config_docs_path.mkdir()
-    en_index_path: Path = en_docs_path / "docs" / "index.md"
-    new_index_path: Path = new_config_docs_path / "index.md"
-    en_index_content = en_index_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
-    new_index_content = f"{missing_translation_snippet}\n\n{en_index_content}"
-    new_index_path.write_text(new_index_content, encoding="utf-8")
-    typer.secho(f"Successfully initialized: {new_path}", color=typer.colors.GREEN)
+    new_llm_prompt_path: Path = new_path / "llm-prompt.md"
+    new_llm_prompt_path.write_text("", encoding="utf-8")
+    print(f"Successfully initialized: {new_path}")
     update_languages()