# I18n 0.4.0.beta released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i18n-0-4-0-beta-released/187865>\
**Category:** Rails I18n\
**Created:** [April 30, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i18n-0-4-0-beta-released/187865 "2010-04-30T16:26:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i18n-0-4-0-beta-released/187865/1 "2010-04-30T16:26:59Z")

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Hey folks,

I18n 0.4.0.beta was released. The major changes were:

- Decouple the external separator (used when storing translations)  
from the internal separator in Fast and ActiveRecord backends  
[Decouple the external separator (used when storing translations) from… · ruby-i18n/i18n@274cb4d · GitHub](http://github.com/svenfuchs/i18n/commit/274cb4daa0ca5e3b2bd23b45eb7f9fc58f75a79d)

- Create Flatten backend module to aid handling flatten translations  
[Refactor Flatten backends and improve performance. · ruby-i18n/i18n@2ec9d69 · GitHub](http://github.com/svenfuchs/i18n/commit/2ec9d6998aa8facd7b15a3ef47a96cf2471cd8a1)

- Added transliteration support  
[Add support for transliteration to ASCII. · ruby-i18n/i18n@928fdb4 · GitHub](http://github.com/svenfuchs/i18n/commit/928fdb4794959e779e90f360eb01ba043672d8d5)

- Added a KeyValue backend  
[Added a KeyValue backend (an API test is failing and need to add some… · ruby-i18n/i18n@28ca5f5 · GitHub](http://github.com/svenfuchs/i18n/commit/28ca5f53ade7f545f8c0804e93564d4686b416a4)

I hope you try them out and give us feedback so we can release a final  
version.

Thanks!