User:KartikMistry/MLEB-2016-01

Hello all,

I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2016.01. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.25.x and 1.26.x.

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


 * Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2016.01.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum:

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

Babel, CleanChanges and LocalisationUpdate

 * Localisation updates only.

CLDR

 * Hebrew names for Cebuano and Norwegian are fixed.
 * cldr converted to extension registration. Please update your LocalSettings.php!

Translate

 * Old custom tokens were deprecated in favor of using regular "csrf" (previously known as "edit") token. If you are using Translate WebAPIs you might need to migrate.
 * Special:Translations no longer shows PHP notices for pages with invalid language codes
 * Special:Translate now longer shows deprecation warnings about access keys in the JavaScript console.
 * Translate is now syntactically compatible with PHP7.
 * Message group selector on Special:SearchTranslations no longer has glitchy behavior after selecting a group.
 * MessageIndex code was optimized. It now ignored messages not in $wgTranslateMessageNamespaces. By default this should be fine, but if you have translations in custom namespaces, check that they are included.
 * Pages with now load faster with cold caches.
 * MachineTranslationAid no longer throws uncaught exceptions with default configuration that broke other translation aids.

UniversalLanguageSelector

 * ULS now uses extension registration and thus requires MediaWiki 1.25 or later
 * Input methods should now work inside Visual Editor.


 * Fonts:
 * OpenDyslexic font updated to latest upstream.
 * Akkadian font should work again.


 * Input Methods:
 * New input methods:
 * Rodali (Assamese) layout.
 * OdiScript (Oriya) layout.
 * Yoruba layout.


 * Updated input methods:
 * Updated Oriya Lekhani layout.
 * Digit fixes in Southern Kurdish layout.
 * Minor fixes in Sinhala layout.