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Deprecations & breaking changes
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* Python 3.6 is no longer supported (:gh:`919`) - Aarni Koskela
* The `get_next_timezone_transition` function is no more (:gh:`958`) - Aarni Koskela
* `Locale.parse()` will no longer return `None`; it will always return a Locale or raise an exception.
Passing in `None`, though technically allowed by the typing, will raise. (:gh:`966`)
New features
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* CLDR: Babel now uses CLDR 42 (:gh:`951`) - Aarni Koskela
* Dates: `pytz` is now optional; Babel will prefer it but will use `zoneinfo` when available. (:gh:`940`) - ds-cbo
* General: Babel now ships type annotations, thanks to Jonah Lawrence's work in multiple PRs.
* Locales: modifiers are now retained when parsing locales (:gh:`947`) - martin f. krafft
* Messages: JavaScript template string expression extraction is now smarter. (:gh:`939`) - Johannes Wilm
* Numbers: NaN and Infinity are now better supported (:gh:`955`) - Jonah Lawrence
* Numbers: Short compact currency formats are now supported (:gh:`926`) - Jonah Lawrence
* Numbers: There's now a `Format.compact_decimal` utility function. (:gh:`921`) - Jonah Lawrence
Bugfixes
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* Dates: The cache for parsed datetime patterns is now bounded (:gh:`967`) - Aarni Koskela
* Messages: Fuzzy candidate matching accuracy is improved (:gh:`970`) - Jean Abou Samra
* Numbers: Compact singular formats and patterns with no numbers work correctly (:gh:`930`, :gh:`932`) - Jonah Lawrence, Jun Omae
Improvements & cleanup
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* Dates: `babel.dates.UTC` is now an alias for `datetime.timezone.utc` (:gh:`957`) - Aarni Koskela
* Dates: `babel.localtime` was slightly cleaned up. (:gh:`952`) - Aarni Koskela
* Documentation: Documentation was improved by Maciej Olko, Jonah Lawrence, lilinjie, and Aarni Koskela.
* Infrastructure: Babel is now being linted with pre-commit and ruff. - Aarni Koskela