User:KartikMistry/MLEB-2014-02

Hello all,

I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2014.02. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.22.2 and MediaWiki 1.21.5 releases.


 * Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.02.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: 5c5636332b38a7ce9ac12fac74f0402afdc592aa58795b51dc4747877db340da

Quick links:
 * Installation instructions are at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB
 * Announcements of new releases will be posted to a mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n
 * Report bugs to: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org
 * Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ Freenode

Release notes for each extension are below.

-- Kartik Mistry

Babel, CLDR, CleanChanges

 * Only localisation updates.

LocalisationUpdate

 * README was updated to include better installation instructions.

Noteworthy changes

 * Allow capital letters in MediaWiki style variables (insertables)
 * Bug 60500: Added AppleFFS module for iOS/Mac OS X Localizable.strings files
 * Remove shortcut activated from "paste source". It's similar to "revert changes" button, which does not have the insertable class and thus the number indicating shortcut key won't be visible.
 * Added new hook TranslateMessageGroupPathVariables
 * Bug 61459: Removed $wgTranslateExtensionDirectory option.
 * The magic-export.php was updated to handle failures more gracefully.
 * Bug 50954: In the translation interface, 'Add documentation' link now changes to 'Edit documentation' as soon as documentation is added.
 * Bug 54194: The ApiQueryMessageCollection module no longer throws exceptions on invalid input.

Noteworthy changes

 * Detect tofu before applying any default fonts. See: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/WebFonts#How_webfonts_are_applied.3F for technical documentation about how tofu detection works in ULS.
 * Bug 60304: Added enableWebfonts preference. Each wiki can be configured to load the fonts by default using the new global variable $wgULSWebfontsEnabled. Its default value is true (to load fonts).
 * ULS is now much lighter for the browser thanks to many changes:
 * Bug 56292: All SVG images were optimized to reduce their size even 50% in some cases.
 * I18n related jquery.i18n and messages code is now loaded only later after user interacts with ULS.
 * We removed a dependency to a big JavaScript module which was no longer needed to support anonymous preferences.
 * Bug 60815: Add Marwari (rwr) and Ottoman Turkish (ota) to the languages supported by ULS.

Fonts

 * Add Iranian Serif and Iranian Sans Bold fonts.
 * Removed Amiri font from Persian.
 * Replaced Xerxes font with Artaxerxes.

Input methods

 * Bug 53695: For languages which have no input methods, the "Use native keyboard" option is now shown as selected by default.
 * Added Venetian input method.