diff --git a/dev/create-release/known_translations b/dev/create-release/known_translations
index 3563fe3cc3c03be548be5e0ae8393c048b940c25..0f309908e599649179a6a69160e220c7165ddfc6 100644
--- a/dev/create-release/known_translations
+++ b/dev/create-release/known_translations
@@ -165,3 +165,40 @@ stanzhai - Stan Zhai
 tien-dungle - Tien-Dung Le
 xuchenCN - Xu Chen
 zhangjiajin - Zhang JiaJin
+ClassNotFoundExp - Fu Xing
+KevinGrealish - Kevin Grealish
+MasterDDT - Mitesh Patel
+VinceShieh - Vincent Xie
+WeichenXu123 - Weichen Xu
+Yunni - Yun Ni
+actuaryzhang - Wayne Zhang
+alicegugu - Gu Huiqin Alice
+anabranch - Bill Chambers
+ashangit - Nicolas Fraison
+avulanov - Alexander Ulanov
+biglobster - Liang Ke
+cenyuhai - Cen Yu Hai
+codlife - Jianfei Wang
+david-weiluo-ren - Weiluo (David) Ren
+dding3 - Ding Ding
+fidato13 - Tarun Kumar
+frreiss - Fred Reiss
+gatorsmile - Xiao Li
+hayashidac - Chie Hayashida
+invkrh - Hao Ren
+jagadeesanas2 - Jagadeesan A S
+jiangxb1987 - Jiang Xingbo
+jisookim0513 - Jisoo Kim
+junyangq - Junyang Qian
+krishnakalyan3 - Krishna Kalyan
+linbojin - Linbo Jin
+mpjlu - Peng Meng
+neggert - Nic Eggert
+petermaxlee - Peter Lee
+phalodi - Sandeep Purohit
+pkch - pkch
+priyankagargnitk - Priyanka Garg
+sharkdtu - Sharkd Tu
+shenh062326 - Shen Hong
+aokolnychyi - Anton Okolnychyi
+linbojin - Linbo Jin
diff --git a/dev/create-release/translate-contributors.py b/dev/create-release/translate-contributors.py
index 86fa02d87b9a0e756d760de2ccc4c46083c6f505..2cc64e44448bcbfc40167bc0e86410d3ac15a827 100755
--- a/dev/create-release/translate-contributors.py
+++ b/dev/create-release/translate-contributors.py
@@ -147,7 +147,9 @@ print "\n========================== Translating contributor list ===============
 lines = contributors_file.readlines()
 contributions = []
 for i, line in enumerate(lines):
-    temp_author = line.strip(" * ").split(" -- ")[0]
+    # It is possible that a line in the contributor file only has the github name, e.g. yhuai.
+    # So, we need a strip() to remove the newline.
+    temp_author = line.strip(" * ").split(" -- ")[0].strip()
     print "Processing author %s (%d/%d)" % (temp_author, i + 1, len(lines))
     if not temp_author:
         error_msg = "    ERROR: Expected the following format \" * <author> -- <contributions>\"\n"