Babel v2.9.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-12-03 // over 3 years ago
  • πŸ‘ Upcoming version support changes

    • πŸ‘ This version, Babel 2.9, is the last version of Babel to support Python 2.7, Python 3.4, and Python 3.5.

    πŸ‘Œ Improvements

    • CLDR: Use CLDR 37 – Aarni Koskela (#734)
    • Dates: Handle ZoneInfo objects in get_timezone_location, get_timezone_name - Alessio Bogon (#741)
    • Numbers: Add group_separator feature in number formatting - Abdullah Javed Nesar (#726)

    πŸ›  Bugfixes

    • πŸ—„ Dates: Correct default Format().timedelta format to 'long' to mute deprecation warnings – Aarni Koskela
    • Import: Simplify iteration code in "import_cldr.py" – Felix Schwarz
    • πŸ—„ Import: Stop using deprecated ElementTree methods "getchildren()" and "getiterator()" – Felix Schwarz
    • πŸ–¨ Messages: Fix unicode printing error on Python 2 without TTY. – Niklas HambΓΌchen
    • Messages: Introduce invariant that _invalid_pofile() takes unicode line. – Niklas HambΓΌchen
    • βœ… Tests: fix tests when using Python 3.9 – Felix Schwarz
    • πŸ”§ Tests: Remove deprecated 'sudo: false' from Travis configuration – Jon Dufresne
    • βœ… Tests: Support Py.test 6.x – Aarni Koskela
    • Utilities: LazyProxy: Handle AttributeError in specified func – Nikiforov Konstantin (#724)
    • πŸ“œ Utilities: Replace usage of parser.suite with ast.parse – Miro Hrončok

    πŸ“š Documentation

    • ⚑️ Update parse_number comments – Brad Martin (#708)
    • Add iter to Catalog documentation – @CyanNani123