User:KartikMistry/MLEB-2017-07

Hello all,

I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2017.07. This bundle is The bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.27 and 1.28 or above and requires PHP 5.5.9 or above.

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-2017.07.tar.bz2
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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

 * Information about the languages that the user knows is now cached to improve performance. To load the data from the cache, use getCachedUserLanguageInfo instead of getUserLanguageInfo, and getCachedUserLanguages instead of getUserLanguages.
 * Language code are normalized when they are stored in the database. So, for example, "ZH" and "zh" are now stored as the same code.
 * It is now possible to load Babel information from a Babel box on a global user page.

CLDR

 * Localisation updates only.

CleanChanges

 * Localisation updates only.

LocalisationUpdate

 * Reedy updated LocalisationUpdate extension to use wfLoadExtension( 'LocalisationUpdate' ); instead of PHP entry point.

Translate

 * Translate extension no longer bundles spyc library. If you need support for parsing and generating YAML files, and you don't have phpyaml extensions installed (HHVM provides it in PHP compatibility mode), then you can install spyc using composer update.

UniversalLanguageSelector

 * Amir Aharoni added to Compact Language Links the ability to show languages that logged-in users specified in the Babel box. T135371
 * This also included the configuration of the Babel extension on over 300 wikis.


 * Amir Aharoni added five African languages and one Asian language to the language database.
 * Amir Aharoni improved the language database by making sure all language autonyms are unique.
 * Amir Aharoni fixed misaligned icons in the jquery.ime selector in RTL (T164474)

Input methods

 * Amir Aharoni added an input method for the Fula, Wolof language and improved the keyboard for the Dagbani language.
 * Amir Aharoni renamed Akan keyboard and made it usable also for Twi.
 * Kartik Mistry and Amir Aharoni merged numerous pull requests from volunteers:
 * Kannada language input methods now also work for the Tulu language.
 * Added Tarandine language keyboard by Joetaras.
 * Added Piedmontese language keyboard by GatoSelvadego.
 * Fixes to the Odia transliteration keyboard by Psubhashish.
 * Added the Tulalip input method for the Lushootseed language by jcrowgey.
 * Added Sambhota input method for Tibetan language by Elie Roux.
 * Added a Gothic input method by Bokareis.
 * Added added mm3 input method for the Burmese language by Lionslayer.
 * Added input methods for the Mongolian language by Feilong Huang.
 * Fixes to the Tamil 99 input method for the Tamil language by Balajijagadesh.