User:KartikMistry/MLEB-2013-12

Hello,

Happy New Year to all!

I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2013.12. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.21.3 and MediaWiki 1.22.0 releases.


 * Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2013.12.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://bugzilla.wikimedia.org
 * Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ Freenode

Release notes for each extension are below.

-- Kartik Mistry

Babel, CLDR and LocalisationUpdates

 * Only localization updates.

CleanChanges

 * Bug 58439: Fix Monobook skin by removing extra  creating invalid HTML.
 * Localization updates.

Noteworthy changes

 * Cleanup, refactoring and performance improvements in general.
 * Refactoring and performance fixes in Translator Sandbox and TUX.


 * Bug 45479: Add useful shortcuts to TUX editor. All buttons to insert/replace text (insertables and then translation aids in order; "discard changes" is skipped) are numbered from 1 up and can be accessed with both alt+ and alt+shift+.
 * Remove Special:FirstSteps. Now that the TwnMainPage extension is in use, this is no longer needed.
 * Bug 58710: Create a user page when granting translator rights to user.
 * Send confirmation email when registering user.
 * Update support for JSON in mediawiki-defines.txt. See documentation at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Group_configuration/MediaWiki
 * Migrate to JSON based i18n files.
 * Logging of accepting and rejecting new users.

Noteworthy changes

 * Performance improvements. See: https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.uls/pull/122 for more details.
 * Initial support for webfonts in MobileFrontend.
 * Apply autonym class only to autonyms.
 * Load wgULSCurrentAutonym variable in MakeGlobalVariablesScript hook. The ResourceLoaderGetConfigVars hook is intended for static variables, not ones that depend on the current request.

Fonts

 * Bug 57767: Enable Amiri font for Soranî (ckb) wiki.
 * Bug 58381, 58382: Add Lateef and Scheherazade fonts for Soranî (ckb) and Farsi (fa) wikis.
 * Update Autonym font to version 20131205.