Hello all,

I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2017.01. This bundle is The bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.26 and 1.27 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 [[Talk:MLEB|https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MLEB]].

* Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2017.01.tar.... * sha256sum: 89f4a029f33ea9f9225c8379367bc526fa63353845a2873290ba82560fb314c9

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://phabricator.wikimedia.org/ * Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ Freenode

Release notes for each extension are below.

-- Kartik Mistry

== Highlights and upgrade notes ==

== Babel == * Kunal Mehta fixed compatibility with MediaWiki 1.27 version. * This, that and the other fixed categorization of 'pt-br' and similar language codes. * This, that and the other fixed Babel AutoCreate's edit summaries to use content language instead of user's UI language.

== CLDR == * Reedy updated CLDR to 30.0.2

== CleanChanges == * Maintenance and localisation updates only.

== LocalisationUpdate == * Niklas Laxström added warning for deprecated PHP entry point. Use <code>wfLoadExtensions( array( 'LocalisationUpdate' ) );</code> to load extension in LocalSettings.php now.

== Translate == * Niklas Laxström made insertables more touch friendly. * Niklas Laxström made several improvements for MessageTable. * Niklas Laxström moved SpecialPage(Preparation|Migration) to tag, as they are related to page translation. * Niklas Laxström made several improvements in Special:TranslationStats. * Niklas Laxström implemented plural aware message content comparison. * Federico Leva added option to keep outdated page translation without removing them. T60429

== UniversalLanguageSelector == * Fomafix added patch to remove jquery.i18n library which is available in MediaWiki core since 1.26 version. * Niklas Laxström added warning for deprecated PHP entry point. Use <code>wfLoadExtensions( array( 'UniversalLanguageSelector' ) );</code> to load extension in LocalSettings.php now.