We would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2024.04. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki >= 1.40.0 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.

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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

• !!!IMPORTANT!!! We're planning to make changes to how and when we release MLEB. You can read more about it on Phabricator and leave your comments.

Babel

• Add "skipcat" or "suppresscat" and "nocat" param for Babel-box (T177596)
• Localisation and maintenance updates.

CleanChanges

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

cldr

• Localisation and maintenance updates only.

Translate

• Method wfAddNamespace has been deprecated and will be removed in the next MLEB release.
• Implement minimal prototype for watching message groups. In this early phase, the implementation notifies users about new or deleted messages in the messages groups that they are watching. (T348501)
  • Requires the Echo extension
  • Requires MW >= 1.41
  • Set $wgTranslateEnableMessageGroupSubscription = true; to enable the functionality.
• Show priority language warnings even for discouraged pages (T362386)
• Improve handling of save errors in the Special:Translate interface (T360447)
• Allow enforcing empty priority languages on translatable pages (T359975)
• Allow discouraged groups to be exported (T361368)
• Filter out translation pages from Special:LonelyPages (T230456)
• Use Codex components in Special:PagePreparation (T348516)
• Fix: PageMigration maps translation units incorrectly (T344827)
• Stop translation of message bundle based on prioritylangs and priorityforce (T350652)
• Address contrast issues in night mode (T358822)
• Update import translatable bundle maintenance script to import metadata and automatically mark a page for translation after import. (T347155)
  • Read Move translatable bundles across wiki for more information on this script.
• Add magic word to embed the translation language outside of translation units (T224810)
• Fix: Ctrl+Enter to go to the next message doesn’t work in edit summary field (T334354)
• Add functionality to hide translations to Special:PrefixIndex (T299308)
• Other localisation and maintenance updates.

UniversalLanguageSelector

• When searching for languages, don't match on short infix terms (T358862)
• Localisation and maintenance updates.