We would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2024.01. 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.

• Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2024.01.tar.bz2
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• Signature: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2024.01.tar.bz2.asc

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

• MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2024.01 no longer supports MediaWiki 1.39 and requires MediaWiki 1.40 or above.
• The hook Translate:GettextFFS:headerFields has been deprecated, use Translate:GettextFormat:headerFields instead.

Babel

• Localisation and maintenance updates.

CleanChanges

• Localisation updates.

cldr

• Update to cldr 44 (T352220)
• Localisation and maintenance updates.

Translate

• "Allow translation of page title" is now disabled by default for templates (T305240)
• Fixed an issue where translatable page units were always marked as outdated if their name contained spaces (T350222)
• Retroactively delete translation pages that no longer have any translations when a translatable page is updated (T353046)
• <languages /> content can no longer appear as search excerpt (T352915)
• Fix: "Translation progress stats are not cleared when deleting a translation page" (T353238)
• Fix: "Long words in page titles break layout in Special:SearchTranslations" (T349713)
• Improved page translation progress indicators (T329046)
• Fix: "Raw language codes displayed in Special:MessageGroupStatistics for groups with priority languages" (T353422)
• Deprecate Translate:GettextFFS:headerFields in favor of Translate:GettextFormat:headerFields (T337664)
• There is a new SubsetMessageGroup for creating priority lists for translation
• Special:LanguageStats has data-depth property to allow easier nested styling
• Localisation updates

UniversalLanguageSelector

• Fix fallbacks for Chinese not being handled properly. (T348376)
• Localisation and maintenance updates.