User:KartikMistry/MLEB-2018-01

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Hello all,

I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2018.01. This bundle is The bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.29 and 1.30 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.

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Release notes for each extension are below.

-- Kartik Mistry

Highlights and upgrade notes[edit]

Babel and LocalisationUpdate[edit]

Noteworthy changes[edit]

  • Localisation and maintenance updates only.

cldr[edit]

Noteworthy changes[edit]

  • Updated to CLDR 32.
  • Localisation and maintenance updates.

cleanchanges[edit]

Noteworthy changes[edit]

  • Added wgCCFiltersOnly to disable "clean changes" (which has issues with new recent changes interface) while keeping filters available.
  • Localisation and maintenance updates.

Translate[edit]

Noteworthy changes[edit]

  • Special:PageMigration: Fixed save button, added RTL direction support and fixed broken icon in delete button. (T179182, T139463)
  • Added RESTBaseWebService support to allow using Apertium using CXServer MT API through RESTBase.
  • Removed MediawikiExtensionFFS. Migrate to JsonFFS if you were still using this format.
  • Almost all legacy non-TUX code has been removed. (T132546)
  • Added "Link to this message" to translation editor tools.
  • GettextFFS keyAlgorithm default value changed to "simple" from "legacy". This will produce shorter page titles and shorter titles. You must add legacy to your configuration to keep using existing titles for GettextFFS. (T178882)
  • Translation filter is now part of the new recent changes interface if the new interface is available.

UniversalLanguageSelector[edit]

Noteworthy changes[edit]

  • User interface and search improvements.
  • Fixed page scroll to the top when the the ULS gear icon is clicked. (T178188)

Fonts[edit]

  • Removed non-default webfonts for some languages. (T180422)
  • Remove the autonym font and tofu detection.
  • ULS no longer serves TTF files to browsers because all recent browsers support the woff format.