diff --git a/doc/build_po.php b/doc/build_po.php
index 89feeebe55..29ebc30eba 100755
--- a/doc/build_po.php
+++ b/doc/build_po.php
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ HDR;
 
 $out = fopen("BOINC-Web.pot", "w");
 fwrite($out, $header);
-$pipe = popen("xgettext --omit-header -o - --keyword=tra -L PHP $path/*.inc $path/*.php", "r");
+$pipe = popen("xgettext --omit-header -o - --keyword=tra -L PHP *.inc *.php ../html/inc/news.inc", "r");
 stream_copy_to_stream($pipe, $out);
 fclose($pipe);
 fclose($out);
diff --git a/doc/poll_my_result.php.old b/doc/poll_my_result.php.old
deleted file mode 100644
index ef6fba807d..0000000000
--- a/doc/poll_my_result.php.old
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-require_once("docutil.php");
-require_once("poll.inc");
-require_once("../html/inc/translation.inc");
-require_once("poll_data.inc");
-
-mysql_pconnect("localhost", "boincadm", null);
-mysql_select_db("poll");
-
-session_set_cookie_params(86400*365);
-session_start();
-$uid = session_id();
-
-$response = select_response($uid);
-if ($response) {
-    header('Content-type: text/xml');
-    echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\" ?>\n";
-    echo "<response>
-        $response->xml
-        </response>
-    ";
-} else {
-    echo "no response";
-}
-
-?>
diff --git a/doc/update_translations.php b/doc/update_translations.php
index 3a5ba01ac9..bb526e51a7 100755
--- a/doc/update_translations.php
+++ b/doc/update_translations.php
@@ -6,7 +6,10 @@ ini_set('display_startup_errors', true);
 
 require_once("../html/inc/translation.inc");
 $lang_log_level = 0;
-buildLanguages($lang_language_dir,$lang_translations_dir, $lang_compiled_dir);
+
+system("rm -f $lang_language_dir/$lang_compiled_dir/*");
+
+buildLanguages($lang_language_dir, $lang_translations_dir, $lang_compiled_dir);
 
 echo "update_translations finished\n";
 ?>
diff --git a/html/inc/translation.inc b/html/inc/translation.inc
index 2cf4e29ccf..2912770a20 100644
--- a/html/inc/translation.inc
+++ b/html/inc/translation.inc
@@ -49,10 +49,8 @@ function getSupportedLanguages(){
 // @param langdir The language base directory
 // @param transdir The location of the .po files to compile relative to langdir
 // @param compdir The output location relative to langdir
-// @param append If true the function will only append to rather than replace the compiled files
 //
 function buildLanguages($langdir,$transdir,$compdir){
-    global $lang_project_default;
 
     // Run through each language and compile their lookup arrays.
     if (is_dir($langdir.$transdir)) {
diff --git a/locale/templates/BOINC-Web.pot b/locale/templates/BOINC-Web.pot
index 8086605263..1b47d12c2c 100644
--- a/locale/templates/BOINC-Web.pot
+++ b/locale/templates/BOINC-Web.pot
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ msgid ""
 msgstr ""
 "Project-Id-Version: BOINC $Id$\n"
 "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: BOINC translation team <boinc_loc@ssl.berkeley.edu>\n"
-"POT-Creation-Date: 2013-06-05 10:25 PDT\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2013-08-22 16:22 PDT\n"
 "Last-Translator: Generated automatically from source files\n"
 "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
 "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n"
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ msgstr ""
 msgid "Cognitive science and artifical intelligence"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:50 projects.inc:318 projects.inc:362 projects.inc:411
-#: projects.inc:418 projects.inc:465
+#: projects.inc:50 projects.inc:342 projects.inc:386 projects.inc:435
+#: projects.inc:442 projects.inc:489
 msgid "Private"
 msgstr ""
 
@@ -131,15 +131,15 @@ msgid ""
 "of novel pharmaceuticals."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:95
+#: projects.inc:103
 msgid "Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB)"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:96
+#: projects.inc:104
 msgid "Molecular simulations of proteins"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:97
+#: projects.inc:105
 msgid ""
 "GPUGrid.net opens novel computational scenarios by the first full-atom "
 "molecular dynamics code (CellMD) specially optimized to run on NVIDIA GPUs. "
@@ -147,31 +147,31 @@ msgid ""
 "computational biology for biomedical research."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:103
+#: projects.inc:111
 msgid "Technion, Israel"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:104
+#: projects.inc:112
 msgid "Genetic linkage analysis"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:105
+#: projects.inc:113
 msgid ""
 "Superlink@Technion helps geneticists all over the world find disease-"
 "provoking genes causing some types of diabetes, hypertension (high blood "
 "pressure), cancer, schizophrenia and many others."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:119
+#: projects.inc:127
 msgid ""
 "University of Maryland Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:120
+#: projects.inc:128
 msgid "Life science research"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:121
+#: projects.inc:129
 msgid ""
 "The Lattice Project supplies computing power to scientists at the University "
 "of Maryland studying evolutionary relationships based on DNA sequence data; "
@@ -179,15 +179,15 @@ msgid ""
 "nature reserves. "
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:127
+#: projects.inc:135
 msgid "The Swiss Tropical Institute"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:128
+#: projects.inc:136
 msgid "Epidemiology"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:129
+#: projects.inc:137
 msgid ""
 "Simulation models of the transmission dynamics and health effects of malaria "
 "are an important tool for malaria control. They can be used to determine "
@@ -198,15 +198,15 @@ msgid ""
 "social factors that influence the distribution of the disease. "
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:151
+#: projects.inc:159
 msgid "University of Washington"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:152 projects.inc:160
+#: projects.inc:160 projects.inc:168
 msgid "Biology"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:153
+#: projects.inc:161
 msgid ""
 "Determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may "
 "ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By running "
@@ -216,30 +216,30 @@ msgid ""
 "Cancer, and Alzheimer's"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:159
+#: projects.inc:167
 msgid "University of Vienna"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:161
+#: projects.inc:169
 msgid ""
 "Calculate similarities between proteins. SIMAP provides a public database of "
 "the resulting data, which plays a key role in many bioinformatics research "
 "projects."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:167
+#: projects.inc:175
 msgid "Earth Sciences"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:179
+#: projects.inc:187
 msgid "Oxford University"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:180
+#: projects.inc:188
 msgid "Climate study"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:181
+#: projects.inc:189
 msgid ""
 "Investigate the approximations that have to be made in state-of-the-art "
 "climate models. By running the model thousands of times we hope to find out "
@@ -251,19 +251,33 @@ msgid ""
 "century under a wide range of different scenarios."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:188
+#: projects.inc:196
 msgid "Astronomy, Physics, and Chemistry"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:209
+#: projects.inc:202 projects.inc:241 projects.inc:249
+msgid "Astronomy"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: projects.inc:203
+msgid ""
+"We will combine the spectral coverage of GALEX, Pan-STARRS1, and WISE to "
+"generate a multi-wavelength UV-optical-NIR galaxy atlas for the nearby "
+"Universe. We will measure physical parameters (such as stellar mass surface "
+"density, star formation rate surface density, attenuation, and first-order "
+"star formation history) on a resolved pixel-by-pixel basis using spectral "
+"energy distribution (SED) fitting techniques in a distributed computing mode."
+msgstr ""
+
+#: projects.inc:225
 msgid "University of Texas at Austin"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:210 projects.inc:241
+#: projects.inc:226 projects.inc:257
 msgid "Chemistry"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:211
+#: projects.inc:227
 msgid ""
 "A common problem in theoretical chemistry, condensed matter physics and "
 "materials science is the calculation of the time evolution of an atomic "
@@ -276,37 +290,33 @@ msgid ""
 "interested in calculating the long time dynamics of systems."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:224
+#: projects.inc:240
 msgid "University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:225 projects.inc:233
-msgid "Astronomy"
-msgstr ""
-
-#: projects.inc:226
+#: projects.inc:242
 msgid ""
 "The goal of Cosmology@Home is to search for the model that best describes "
 "our Universe and to find the range of models that agree with the available "
 "astronomical particle physics data."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:232
+#: projects.inc:248
 msgid "Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:234
+#: projects.inc:250
 msgid ""
 "The goal of Milkyway@Home is to create a highly accurate three dimensional "
 "model of the Milky Way galaxy using data gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky "
 "Survey."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:240
+#: projects.inc:256
 msgid "Leiden University, The Netherlands"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:242
+#: projects.inc:258
 msgid ""
 "Surface science calculations using Classical Dynamics.  Leiden Classical "
 "allows volunteers, students and other scientist to submit their personal "
@@ -316,15 +326,15 @@ msgid ""
 "simulations through the grid."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:256
+#: projects.inc:272
 msgid "Univ. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:257
+#: projects.inc:273
 msgid "Astrophysics"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:258
+#: projects.inc:274
 msgid ""
 "Search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the "
 "LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors, and from the Arecibo radio "
@@ -333,15 +343,15 @@ msgid ""
 "international organizations."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:264 projects.inc:272
+#: projects.inc:288 projects.inc:296
 msgid "CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:265 projects.inc:273
+#: projects.inc:289 projects.inc:297
 msgid "Physics"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:266
+#: projects.inc:290
 msgid ""
 "The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator at CERN, the "
 "European Organization for Nuclear Research, the world's largest particle "
@@ -350,22 +360,22 @@ msgid ""
 "the design of LHC and its detectors."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:274
+#: projects.inc:298
 msgid ""
 "This project uses CERN-developed virtual machine technology for full-fledged "
 "LHC event physics simulation on volunteer computers.  Requires that you "
 "install VirtualBox on your computer"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:280
+#: projects.inc:304
 msgid "University of California, Berkeley"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:281
+#: projects.inc:305
 msgid "Astrophysics, astrobiology"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:282
+#: projects.inc:306
 msgid ""
 "SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is a scientific area whose "
 "goal is to detect intelligent life outside Earth. One approach, known as "
@@ -374,15 +384,15 @@ msgid ""
 "detection would provide evidence of extraterrestrial technology."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:296
+#: projects.inc:320
 msgid "Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:297
+#: projects.inc:321
 msgid "Chemical engineering and nanotechnology"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:298
+#: projects.inc:322
 msgid ""
 "The study of molecular magnets and controlled nanoscale magnetism.  These "
 "magnetic molecules may be used to develop tiny magnetic switches, with "
@@ -390,44 +400,44 @@ msgid ""
 "biotechnology."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:305
+#: projects.inc:329
 msgid "Multiple applications"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:310
+#: projects.inc:334
 msgid "Chinese Academy of Sciences"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:311
+#: projects.inc:335
 msgid "Physics, biochemistry, and others"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:312
+#: projects.inc:336
 msgid ""
 "The objective of CAS@home is to encourage and assist scientists in China to "
 "adopt the technologies of volunteer computing and volunteer thinking for "
 "their research."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:319
+#: projects.inc:343
 msgid "Mathematics, physics, evolution"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:320
+#: projects.inc:344
 msgid ""
 "Yoyo@home is an adapter between BOINC and several existing volunteer "
 "computing projects: ECM, Muon, Evolution@home, and distributed.net"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:325 projects.inc:481
+#: projects.inc:349 projects.inc:505
 msgid "MTA-SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems (Hungary)"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:326
+#: projects.inc:350
 msgid "European research projects"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:327
+#: projects.inc:351
 msgid ""
 "The EDGeS@Home Beta project integrates volunteer computing into the service "
 "grid network of Europe by allowing service grids to send workunits to be "
@@ -435,77 +445,78 @@ msgid ""
 "by the project include math, physics, biology, etc."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:333
+#: projects.inc:357
 msgid "Spanish universities and research centers"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:334
+#: projects.inc:358
 msgid "Various Spanish research projects"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:335
+#: projects.inc:359
 msgid "Research in physics, material science, and biomedicine"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:341
-msgid "IBM Corporate Community Relations"
+#: projects.inc:365
+msgid "IBM Corporate Citizenship"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:342
-msgid "Humanitarian research on disease, natural disasters and hunger."
+#: projects.inc:366
+msgid "Medical, environmental and other humanitarian research"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:343
+#: projects.inc:367
 msgid ""
 "To further critical non-profit research on some of humanity's most pressing "
 "problems by creating the world's largest volunteer computing grid.  Research "
-"includes HIV/AIDS, cancer, muscular dystrophy, dengue fever, and many more."
+"includes HIV-AIDS, cancer, tropical and neglected diseases, solar energy, "
+"clean water and many more."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:349
+#: projects.inc:373
 msgid "Mathematics, computing, and games"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:355
+#: projects.inc:379
 msgid "Computer Science"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:363
+#: projects.inc:387
 msgid "Mathematics, Physics, Artificial Intelligence"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:364
+#: projects.inc:388
 msgid "Simulation of quantum computing; Goldbach's conjecture."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:404 projects.inc:412 projects.inc:466
+#: projects.inc:428 projects.inc:436
 msgid "Cryptography"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:413
+#: projects.inc:437
 msgid ""
 "Attempt to decode 3 original Enigma messages. The signals were intercepted "
 "in the North Atlantic in 1942 and are believed to be unbroken."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:419 projects.inc:458 projects.inc:474 projects.inc:482
-#: projects.inc:522
+#: projects.inc:443 projects.inc:482 projects.inc:490 projects.inc:498
+#: projects.inc:506 projects.inc:546
 msgid "Mathematics"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:420
+#: projects.inc:444
 msgid "Study the Collatz Conjecture, an unsolved conjecture in mathematics"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:425
+#: projects.inc:449
 msgid "California State University Fullerton"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:426
+#: projects.inc:450
 msgid "Factorization of large integers"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:427
+#: projects.inc:451
 msgid ""
 "NFS@Home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do "
 "the lattice sieving step in the Number Field Sieve factorization of large "
@@ -515,17 +526,17 @@ msgid ""
 "hundreds of digits long."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:433
+#: projects.inc:457
 msgid ""
 "Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and Kaunas University of Technology "
 "(Lithuania)"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:434
+#: projects.inc:458
 msgid "Software testing"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:435
+#: projects.inc:459
 msgid ""
 "The aim of this project is to provide a powerful distributed computing "
 "platform for scientists of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) as "
@@ -533,11 +544,11 @@ msgid ""
 "involve the study of Monte-Carlo based software testing."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:457
+#: projects.inc:481
 msgid "Mathematical Institute of Leiden University / Kennislink"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:459
+#: projects.inc:483
 msgid ""
 "Search for 'abc-triples': positive integers a,b,c such that a+b=c, a &lt; b "
 "&lt; c, a,b,c have no common divisors and c > rad(abc), where rad(n) is the "
@@ -548,24 +559,23 @@ msgid ""
 "problems can be answered directly from it."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:467
+#: projects.inc:491
 msgid ""
-"Primegrid is generating a public sequential prime number database, and is "
-"searching for large twin primes of the form k*2<sup>n</sup>+1 and k*2<sup>n</"
-"sup>-1"
+"Primegrid has multiple projects searching for different forms of very large "
+"prime numbers, including searching for the largest known prime number."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:473
+#: projects.inc:497
 msgid "Hochschule RheinMain University of Applied Sciences"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:475
+#: projects.inc:499
 msgid ""
 "Search for counterexamples to two conjectures related to the identification "
 "of prime numbers"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: projects.inc:483
+#: projects.inc:507
 msgid ""
 "Find all the generalized binary number systems (in which bases are matrices "
 "and digits are vectors) up to dimension 11."
@@ -584,16 +594,16 @@ msgstr ""
 msgid "This page is %stranslatable%s."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: download.php:40
+#: download.php:38
 msgid "Download BOINC"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: download.php:42
+#: download.php:40
 #, php-format
 msgid "%s for %s (%s MB)"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: download.php:89
+#: download.php:87
 msgid ""
 "BOINC is a program that lets you donate your idle computer time to science "
 "projects like SETI@home, Climateprediction.net, Rosetta@home, World "
@@ -601,37 +611,37 @@ msgid ""
 "computer, you can connect it to as many of these projects as you like."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: download.php:91
+#: download.php:89
 msgid ""
 "You may run this software on a computer only if you own the computer or have "
 "the permission of its owner."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: download.php:121
+#: download.php:131
 msgid "System requirements"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: download.php:122
+#: download.php:132
 msgid "Release notes"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: download.php:123 index.php:85
+#: download.php:133 index.php:85
 msgid "Help"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: download.php:124
+#: download.php:134
 msgid "All versions"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: download.php:125
+#: download.php:135
 msgid "Version history"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: download.php:126
+#: download.php:136
 msgid "GPU computing"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: download.php:144
+#: download.php:154
 msgid "BOINC: compute for science"
 msgstr ""
 
@@ -869,3 +879,12 @@ msgstr ""
 #: index.php:278
 msgid "BOINC is based at The University of California, Berkeley"
 msgstr ""
+
+#: ../html/inc/news.inc:40
+msgid "Comment"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: ../html/inc/news.inc:111
+#, php-format
+msgid "News is available as an %sRSS feed%s"
+msgstr ""