Babel

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Features
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* CLDR: Upgrade to CLDR 45 by tomasr8 in :gh:`1077`
* Lists: Support list format fallbacks by akx in :gh:`1099`
* Messages: Initial support for reading mapping configuration as TOML by akx in :gh:`1108`

Bugfixes
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* CLDR: Do not allow substituting alternates or drafts in derived locales by akx in :gh:`1113`
* Core: Allow falling back to modifier-less locale data by akx in :gh:`1104`
* Core: Allow use of importlib.metadata for finding entrypoints by akx in :gh:`1102`
* Dates: Avoid crashing on importing localtime when TZ is malformed by akx in :gh:`1100`
* Messages: Allow parsing .po files that have an extant but empty Language header by akx in :gh:`1101`
* Messages: Fix ``--ignore-dirs`` being incorrectly read (1094) by john-psina and Edwin18 in :gh:`1052` and :gh:`1095`
* Messages: Make pgettext search plurals when translation is not found by tomasr8 in :gh:`1085`

Infrastructure
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* Replace deprecated `ast.Str` with `ast.Constant` by tomasr8 in :gh:`1083`
* CI fixes by akx in :gh:`1080`, :gh:`1097`, :gh:`1103`, :gh:`1107`
* Test on Python 3.13 beta releases by akx in
* Normalize package name to lower-case in setup.py by akx in :gh:`1110`

Documentation
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* Add a mention to the docs that `format_skeleton(..., fuzzy=True)` may raise by tomasr8 in :gh:`1106`
* Two hyperlinks (to CLDR) and some typos by buhtz in :gh:`1115`

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Python version support
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* Babel 2.15.0 will require Python 3.8 or newer. (:gh:`1048`)

Features
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* CLDR: Upgrade to CLDR 44 (:gh:`1071`) (akx)
* Dates: Support for the "fall back to short format" logic for time delta formatting (:gh:`1075`) (akx)
* Message: More versatile .po IO functions (:gh:`1068`) (akx)
* Numbers: Improved support for alternate spaces when parsing numbers (:gh:`1007`) (ronnix's first contribution)

Infrastructure
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* Upgrade GitHub Actions (:gh:`1054`) (cclauss's first contribution)
* The Unicode license is now included in `locale-data` and in the documentation (:gh:`1074`) (akx)

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Upcoming deprecation
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* This version, Babel 2.14, is the last version of Babel to support Python 3.7.
Babel 2.15 will require Python 3.8 or newer.
* We had previously announced Babel 2.13 to have been the last version to support
Python 3.7, but being able to use CLDR 43 with Python 3.7 was deemed important
enough to keep supporting the EOL Python version for one more release.

Possibly backwards incompatible changes
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* ``Locale.number_symbols`` will now have first-level keys for each numbering system.
Since the implicit default numbering system still is ``"latn"``, what had previously
been e.g. ``Locale.number_symbols['decimal']`` is now ``Locale.number_symbols['latn']['decimal']``.
* Babel no longer directly depends on either ``distutils`` or ``setuptools``; if you had been
using the Babel setuptools command extensions, you would need to explicitly depend on ``setuptools`` –
though given you're running ``setup.py`` you probably already do.

Features
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* CLDR/Numbers: Add support of local numbering systems for number symbols by kajte in :gh:`1036`
* CLDR: Upgrade to CLDR 43 by rix0rrr in :gh:`1043`
* Frontend: Allow last_translator to be passed as an option to extract_message by AivGitHub in :gh:`1044`
* Frontend: Decouple `pybabel` CLI frontend from distutils/setuptools by akx in :gh:`1041`
* Numbers: Improve parsing of malformed decimals by Olunusib and akx in :gh:`1042`

Infrastructure
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* Enforce trailing commas (enable Ruff COM rule and autofix) by akx in :gh:`1045`
* CI: use GitHub output formats by akx in :gh:`1046`

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This is a patch release to fix a few bugs.

Fixes
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* Fix a typo in ``_locales_to_names`` by Dl84 in :gh:`1038` (issue :gh:`1037`)
* Fix ``setuptools`` dependency for Python 3.12 by opryprin in :gh:`1033`

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Upcoming deprecation (reverted)
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* It was previously announced that this version, Babel 2.13, would be the last version of
Babel to support Python 3.7. Babel 2.14 will still support Python 3.7.

Features
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* Add flag to ignore POT-Creation-Date for updates by joeportela in :gh:`999`
* Support 't' specifier in keywords by jeanas in :gh:`1015`
* Add f-string parsing for Python 3.12 (PEP 701) by encukou in :gh:`1027`

Fixes
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* Various typing-related fixes by akx in :gh:`979`, in :gh:`978`, :gh:`981`, :gh:`983`
* babel.messages.catalog: deduplicate _to_fuzzy_match_key logic by akx in :gh:`980`
* Freeze format_time() tests to a specific date to fix test failures by mgorny in :gh:`998`
* Spelling and grammar fixes by scop in :gh:`1008`
* Renovate lint tools by akx in :gh:`1017`, :gh:`1028`
* Use SPDX license identifier by vargenau in :gh:`994`
* Use aware UTC datetimes internally by scop in :gh:`1009`

New Contributors
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* mgorny made their first contribution in :gh:`998`
* vargenau made their first contribution in :gh:`994`
* joeportela made their first contribution in :gh:`999`
* encukou made their first contribution in :gh:`1027`

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Fixes
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* Version 2.12.0 was missing the ``py.typed`` marker file. Thanks to Alex Waygood for the fix! :gh:`975`
* The copyright year in all files was bumped to 2023.