Hello all,

I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2017.10. This bundle is The bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.28 and 1.29 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-2017.10.tar.... * sha256sum: 75eefff3bbf50f1f84232f45ab169d2eedea5f7a18994f85b43237f2145403b1

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 == === Noteworthy changes === * Style updates.

== cldr == === Noteworthy changes === * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

== CleanChanges == === Noteworthy changes === * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

== LocalisationUpdate == === Noteworthy changes === * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

== Translate == === Noteworthy changes === * Special:Translate now accepts showMessage URL parameter that allows linking to specific messages. This will be better accessible in a future release. * Special:LanguageStats and Special:MessageGroupStats now show the total number of shown languages. * Special:LanguageStats and Special:MessageGroupStats now handle the sortable parameter correctly. * Numerious compatibility and stability fixes: ** Translation editor shortcuts were not showing up in recent version of MediaWiki. ** Compatibility fix for PHP 7.1. ** Compatibility fix for translatable pages and Visual Editor wikitext editing mode. ** Compatibility fix for Elastica that broke translation memory. ** Compatibility fix for CxserverWebService which changed API. * Style updates.

== UniversalLanguageSelector == === Noteworthy changes === * Language searching is improved with new language name data and better "no results found" view. * Popup positioning should now work better in various skins. * Style updates.