User:KartikMistry/MLEB-2019.10

Hello all,

I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2019.10. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.32 or above and requires PHP 7.1 or above.

Next MLEB is expected to be released in 3 months. If there are very important bug fixes, we will do an intermediate release. Please give us your feedback at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MLEB.


 * Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2019.10.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum:
 * Signature: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2019.10.tar.bz2.asc

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://phabricator.wikimedia.org/
 * Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ Freenode

Release notes for each extension are below.

-- Kartik Mistry

Highlights and upgrade notes
MLEB 2019.10 now requires PHP 7.1. There are plans to move to PHP 7.2 for the next MLEB release.

Babel, CleanChanges and cldr

 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

LocalisationUpdate

 * Dropped PHP message file support, since MediaWiki > 1.30 is now required.

Translate
wfLoadExtension( 'Translate' );
 * Translate extension now requires PHP 7.1.x and has dropped support for HHVM.
 * PHP entry point has been deprecated. To load the Translate extension, please use the following,

Noteworthy changes

 * Removed deprecated SolrTTMServer (Phab:T87985)
 * Dropped support for HHVM.
 * Avoid usage of deprecated  global (Gerrit Patch)
 * Fix expanding of multiple times nested groups on Special:LanguageStats (Gerrit Patch)
 * Removed  element from page translation header (Phab:T220841)
 * Implemented used X times in translation memory suggestions (Phab:T47686)
 * Fix skipping translation memory self-suggestions (Gerrit Patch)
 * Convert Translate to use extension registration (Phab:T87985)
 * Addition of new types of validators to check quality of translations (Phab:T231181, Phab:T231707)
 * Various stability and performance improvements (12)

UniversalLanguageSelector

 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.