diff --git a/tools/templates/core_pkg/base/exclude_files b/tools/templates/core_pkg/base/exclude_files
index 29199e1cbb5..055b6e544bf 100644
--- a/tools/templates/core_pkg/base/exclude_files
+++ b/tools/templates/core_pkg/base/exclude_files
@@ -37,3 +37,4 @@
 ./usr/local/share/%%PRODUCT_NAME%%/base.txz
 ./usr/local/share/%%PRODUCT_NAME%%/pkg
 ./var/db/pkg
+./zanata.xml
diff --git a/zanata.xml b/zanata.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3e261273b30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/zanata.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
+<config xmlns="http://zanata.org/namespace/config/">
+    <url>https://translate.zanata.org/</url>
+    <project>pfsense</project>
+    <project-version>2.4</project-version>
+    <project-type>gettext</project-type>
+    <src-dir>src/usr/local/share/locale/pot</src-dir>
+    <trans-dir>src/usr/local/share/locale</trans-dir>
+    <includes>pfSense.pot</includes>
+    <rules>
+        <rule pattern="**/pot/*.pot">{path}/{locale_with_underscore}/LC_MESSAGES/{filename}.po</rule>
+    </rules>
+</config>