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+layout: post
+title: "Lecture updates — July 12–19, 2026"
+author: QuantEcon
+excerpt: "Updates to the QuantEcon lectures."
+tag: [lectures]
+---
+
+- 📚 **[lecture-python-programming.fr](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming.fr/releases/tag/publish-2026-07-17)** — Upgraded the `action-translation` dependency twice, moving from v0.16.0 to v0.16.1, to maintain current tooling for the French Python programming lecture translations.
+  - [upgrade action-translation to v0.16.1](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming.fr/pull/5)
+  - [Bump action-translation to v0.16.0](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming.fr/pull/2)
+
+- 📚 **[Python Programming for Economics and Finance](https://python-programming.quantecon.org/)** — Added a French translation sync workflow and upgraded the translation action to support ongoing localization of the Python programming for economics and finance content.
+  - [upgrade action-translation to v0.16.1](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming/pull/575)
+  - [Add French translation sync workflow (sync-translations-fr.yml)](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming/pull/573)
+
+- 📚 **[continuous_time_mcs](https://github.com/QuantEcon/continuous_time_mcs/releases/tag/publish-2026jul14)** — Updated the GitHub Pages publishing action to v0.8.0 to maintain continuous deployment infrastructure for continuous-time Markov chain lecture materials.
+  - [Bump quantecon/actions/publish-gh-pages to v0.8.0](https://github.com/QuantEcon/continuous_time_mcs/pull/220)
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+layout: post
+title: "Website update — July 12–19, 2026"
+author: QuantEcon
+excerpt: "Updates to the QuantEcon website."
+tag: [website]
+---
+
+- 🏠 **[quantecon.org](https://quantecon.org/)** — Redesigned the QuantEcon About page to align with the updated QuantEcon brand identity.
+  - [Redesign About page (Design 1E) in the QuantEcon brand](https://github.com/QuantEcon/website/pull/234)