diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a8db417..6dfc75f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 *.vimentry
 .vimfiles.*
 quick_gen_project_*_autogen.sh
+
+# compiled translations, built by bin/console galette:compile-locales
+lang/*/LC_MESSAGES/*.mo
diff --git a/bin/release b/bin/release
index 7298c9f..68d0459 100755
--- a/bin/release
+++ b/bin/release
@@ -399,6 +399,15 @@ def add_libs(rel_name, galette_archive):
     galette.extractall(path=src_dir)
     galette.close()
 
+    # compile translations: MO files are not versioned
+    lang_dir = os.path.join(src_dir, rel_name, 'lang')
+    for pot in fnmatch.filter(os.listdir(lang_dir), '*.pot'):
+        domain = pot[:-len('.pot')]
+        for po in fnmatch.filter(os.listdir(lang_dir), '%s_*.po' % domain):
+            mo_dir = os.path.join(lang_dir, po[len(domain) + 1:-len('.po')], 'LC_MESSAGES')
+            os.makedirs(mo_dir, exist_ok=True)
+            run('msgfmt --check -o "%s" "%s"' % (os.path.join(mo_dir, domain + '.mo'), os.path.join(lang_dir, po)))
+
     plugin_dir = os.path.join(src_dir, rel_name)
 
     # development only, nothing a Galette installation needs
diff --git a/lang/Makefile b/lang/Makefile
index 9d8a4a9..95f0a42 100644
--- a/lang/Makefile
+++ b/lang/Makefile
@@ -23,21 +23,7 @@ po :
 	done
 
 mo :
-	@echo "Generating MO files:"
-	@for l in ${LANGUAGES}; do \
-	  for d in ${DOMAINS}; do \
-	    mkdir -p ${INSTALLDIR}/$${l}/LC_MESSAGES; \
-	    echo "    formatting ${INSTALLDIR}/$${l}/LC_MESSAGES/$${d}.mo."; \
-	    msgfmt $${d}_$${l}.po -o ${INSTALLDIR}/$${l}/LC_MESSAGES/$${d}.mo.new; \
-	    if diff -qI 'PO-Revision-Date:.*' ${INSTALLDIR}/$${l}/LC_MESSAGES/$${d}.mo.new ${INSTALLDIR}/$${l}/LC_MESSAGES/$${d}.mo > /dev/null; then \
-	      echo "    $${d}.mo NOT updated."; \
-	      rm ${INSTALLDIR}/$${l}/LC_MESSAGES/$${d}.mo.new; \
-	    else \
-	      echo "    $${d}.mo UPDATED."; \
-	      mv ${INSTALLDIR}/$${l}/LC_MESSAGES/$${d}.mo.new ${INSTALLDIR}/$${l}/LC_MESSAGES/$${d}.mo; \
-	    fi; \
-	  done \
-	done
+	cd ../../../../ && bin/console galette:compile-locales plugin-fullcard
 
 extract : ${PHP_SOURCES} Makefile
 	xgettext ${PHP_SOURCES} --keyword=_T:1,2t --keyword=__:1,2t --keyword=_Tn:1,2,4t --keyword=_Tx:1c,2,3t --keyword=_Tnx:1c,2,3,5t -L PHP --from-code=UTF-8 --add-comments=TRANS --force-po -o fullcard.pot;
diff --git a/lang/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/fullcard.mo b/lang/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/fullcard.mo
deleted file mode 100644
index 5187954..0000000
Binary files a/lang/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/fullcard.mo and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/lang/fr_FR.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/fullcard.mo b/lang/fr_FR.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/fullcard.mo
deleted file mode 100644
index e549141..0000000
Binary files a/lang/fr_FR.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/fullcard.mo and /dev/null differ