We would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2026.02. This bundle is compatible with *MediaWiki 1.45.0*. It requires *PHP >= 8.1.0*.

The next MLEB is expected to be released in 6 months after *MediaWiki 1.46 release*. If there are 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.o... - Report bugs to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1464

Highlights Babel

- Localisation and maintenance updates only.

cldr

- Update to cldr 48. - Localisation and maintenance updates.

Translate

- Removed support for Yandex machine translation service. - Mark Echo extension dependency as optional. This is only required if Message group subscription feature is enabled. (T389998 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T389998) - Require permission to create translations of empty categories. (T390348 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T390348) - Enable subpage syntax based search in Special:SearchTranslations. ( T405607 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T405607) - Security fix: Ensure session information is set in jobs. (T399627 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399627) - Check DisabledTargetLanguages and group configuration for disabled languages to check for reason. (T402132 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T402132) - Add hook to control the state of title translation on Special:PageTranslation (T401874 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401874) - Fix empty proofread section on Special:Translate when moving from untranslated tab. (T253017 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253017) - Don't display unusable shortcuts on Special:Translate (T406826 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T406826) - Fix fatal error when a message bundle page is empty (T401348 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401348) - Force-load the translation unit editor if saving fails (T345987 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T345987) - Make it clearer how to edit "translations" into the source language ( T393515 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T393515) - Block external attempts to move translatable pages and message bundles (T370714 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370714) - Display all validation errors when using the legacy editor (T409665 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T409665)

UniversalLanguageSelector

- The languagesearch API has moved to MediaWiki core with no changes to its signature. The Universal Language Selector will maintain the code for legacy compatibility until the next MLEB release, at which point it will be removed. - Localisation and maintenance updates.

Full release notes are available at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Language_Extension_Bundle/2026.02

-- Kartik Mistry