WProofreader core v6.19.0 adds Japanese support to the AI writing assistant, improves Dutch spelling suggestions for users with dyslexia, enhances AI-based proofreading accuracy for German and Spanish, patches several security vulnerabilities, and adds the option to raise the rule limit per collection above 2,000 upon request
๐ Enhancements
Localizations
- Added interface language list localization for Kurdish (Turkey) and Thai.
- Updated interface language list localization for Valencian.
AI-based proofreading
- Added a new German style rule for decapitalizing informal pronoun capitalizations such as Du, Dich, Ihr, and Eure when appropriate.
- Improved German AI-based proofreading to provide better performance on punctuation in large numbers, subject-verb agreement handling, pronouns in fixed expressions and gender-inclusive suggestions. Also, refined handling of words with nonbreaking hyphens.
- Enhanced Spanish AI-based proofreading to have better performance on missing question and exclamation marks, run-on sentence detection, and symbol corrections such as +/- โ ยฑ.
Grammar
- Updated LanguageTool to the October 12, 2026 version. This includes all engine changes since the September 11, 2026 update.
Spelling
- Expanded the German dictionary with 850+ new words, covering common vocabulary, specialized fields, business, legal, military and culinary such as eigenkapitalstark, Wendeplatte, Konditoreibetrieb and Gerรผstbauarbeiten.
- Expanded the Portuguese dictionary with 750+ new words covering administrative, common, and proper-name vocabulary such as Maranhรฃo, Catarina, reexaminar and polissonografia.
- Enhanced German and Spanish medical terminology with 40+ new terms such as Katheterpflege, Kreatininwerte, NTHi.
- Enriched shared cross-language dictionaries with 60+ new proper-name entries for companies, products, and locations such as Nintendo, Panamera, Rotterdam, and iOS.
- Improved spelling suggestion prioritization for Dutch with patterns designed to support users with dyslexia, covering cases such as zecht โ zegt, leew โ leeuw, etc.
- Improved Dutch spellchecking for hyphenated words, such as compounds with vowel combinations or joining -s-. Correctly written words like these are no longer flagged as errors.
- Improved suggestions when two words are typed without a space, such as prepositions, conjunctions, or pronouns glued to other words. For example, tojest is now split into the correct words in Polish. This improvement covers 40 languages, including German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Swedish, Polish, Croatian, Slovenian, Turkish, Welsh, and Irish.
- Improved suggestions from the third-party grammar engine for Greek. Spelling and style issues are now labeled and highlighted correctly, instead of all appearing as grammar issues.
AI writing assistant
- Added Japanese support to the AI writing assistant.
Style guide
- Add a possibility to increase the number of rules per collection to more than 2000 rules upon request. Contact [email protected]
Languages
- Updated the Valencian Hunspell dictionary that follows the standard Valencian spelling by AVL convention. Dictionary maintainer: Jaume Ortolร . Version: v3.0.9 (18-05-2025). Source: https://github.com/Softcatala/catalan-dict-tools/releases/tag/v3.0.9
๐ Bug fixes
- Style guide: Custom rules using a single punctuation character, such as & โ und, only matched when spaces were added around the pattern.
๐ก๏ธ Security
- Updated dependencies in the AI proofreading engineโs model-serving pipeline to reduce security risk: torch (2.5.1 โ 2.9.1), transformers (4.48.1 โ 4.57.6), and accelerate (1.3.0 โ 1.15.0).
- Reduced the attack surface of the third-party grammar engine (LanguageTool) by removing 15 unused third-party libraries, including unneeded networking, caching, and cryptography components.
- Updated Logback, used by the application server, from 1.6.3 to 1.6.5 to fix a known vulnerability: SNYK-JAVA-CHQOSLOGBACK-20824362.
- Updated Guava, used by the application server, from 33.5.0-jre to 33.7.2-jre to fix a known vulnerability: SNYK-JAVA-COMGOOGLEGUAVA-20825054.

