MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle/2023.07

​We would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2023.07. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki >= 1.39.0 and requires PHP >= 7.4.0.

The 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-2023.07.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/postorius/lists/mediawiki-i18n.lists.wikimedia.org/
• Report bugs to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1464

Release notes for each extension are below.

Highlights

• This MLEB release no longer supports MediaWiki 1.38

Babel

• Localisation and maintenance updates.
• Fix font issues in Babel (task T334114, Gerrit change 905981)
• Add capability to override Babel categories on wiki (task T306539, task T63993, task T33074, Gerrit change 881944)

CleanChanges

• Localisation and maintenance updates.

cldr

• Localisation and maintenance updates.
• Update to cldr 43 (Gerrit change 915801)

Translate

• Introduce TRANSLATABLEPAGE magic word (task T290239, Gerrit change 913677)
• Fix "Translate QueryMessageCollectionActionApi: PHP Notice: Uninitialized string offset: 0" (task T335517, Gerrit change 922794)
• Fix the position of TUX warning icons for RTL UI (Gerrit change 910853)
• PageTranslationDeletePage: do not display page titles with underscores (task T333847, Gerrit change 913510)
• Add support for transferring translations / translatable bundles between wikis (task T329043)
• Fix "Translatable page move reason not logged nor visible in page history or logs" (task T333786, Gerrit change 930565)
• Add support for MinT (via CXServer) to Translate (task T338131)
• Allow message group title to be specified in message bundle metadata (task T332682, Gerrit change 929368)
• Use translated language name in tux placeholder (Gerrit change 934297)
• Fix "In translatable page move reason: “Part of translatable page XXX”, XXX is wrong" (task T340269, Gerrit change 932837)
• PagePreparation: Fix namespace handling in non-English wikis (Gerrit change 936058)
• Improve how Translate tab is displayed on translation pages (task T334330)
• Update Translate to use the new HookContainer/HookRunner system (task T338451).
  • Translate extension hooks documentation is available here
  • The hook Translate:GettextFFS:headerFields will be deprecated and replaced in the next release.

• Introduce FileFormatFactory to support translations from different file formats. (Gerrit change 917832)

UniversalLanguageSelector

• Localisation and maintenance updates.
• Don't suggest non-specified-script zh for UI language (Gerrit change 908718)
• Fix "Unexpected "In other languages" section in Vector 22 sidebar" (task T315036, Gerrit change 930877)
• Updated fonts: AwamiNastaliq (Gerrit change 920647), Junicode (Gerrit change 920647) and Amiri font (Gerrit change 920639)