Log message: py-babel: updated to 2.18.0 Version 2.18.0 Happy 2026! This release is, coincidentally, also being made from FOSDEM. We will aspire for a slightly less glacial release cadence in this year; there are interesting features in the pipeline. Features * Core: Add `babel.core.get_cldr_version()` * Core: Use CLDR 47 * Core: Use canonical IANA zone names in zone_territories * Messages: Improve extract performance via ignoring directories early during os.walk * Messages: Merge in per-format keywords and auto_comments * Messages: Update keywords for extraction of dpgettext and dnpgettext * Messages: Validate all plurals in Python format checker * Time: Use standard library `timezone` instead of `FixedOffsetTimezone` Bugfixes * Core: Fix formatting for "Empty locale identifier" exception added * Core: Improve handling of no-inheritance-marker in timezone data * Core: Make the number pattern regular expression more efficient * Messages: Keep translator comments next to the translation function call * Numbers: Fix KeyError that occurred when formatting compact currencies of \ exactly one thousand in several locales Other improvements * Core: Avoid unnecessary uses of `map()` * Messages: Have init-catalog create directories too * Messages: Optimizations for read_po * Messages: Use pathlib.Path() in catalog frontend; improve test coverage 

Log message: Fix PLIST after py-setuptools update; bump depends and revision 

Log message: py-babel: updated to 2.17.0 Version 2.17.0 Features * CLDR: Babel now uses CLDR 46, * Dates: Allow specifying an explicit format in parse_date/parse_time * Dates: More alternate characters are now supported by `format_skeleton`. * Dates: Support short and narrow formats for format_timedelta when using \ `add_direction`, * Messages: .po files now enclose white spaces in filenames like GNU gettext does. * Messages: Initial support for `Message.python_brace_format`, * Numbers: LC_MONETARY is now preferred when formatting currencies, Bugfixes * Dates: Make seconds optional in `parse_time` time formats * Dates: Replace `str.index` with `str.find` * Dates: Strip extra leading slashes in `/etc/localtime` * Dates: Week numbering and formatting of dates with week numbers was repaired * General: Improve handling for `locale=None` * General: Remove redundant assignment in `Catalog.__setitem__` * Messages: Fix extracted lineno with nested calls, * Messages: Fix of list index out of range when translations is empty, * Messages: Fix the way obsolete messages are stored * Messages: Simplify `read_mo` logic regarding `catalog.charset` * Messages: Use the first matching method & options, rather than first \ matching method & last options, Deprecation and compatibility * Dates: Fix deprecation warnings for `datetime.utcnow()` * Docs: Adjust docs/conf.py to add compatibility with sphinx 8 * General: Import `Literal` from the typing module * General: Replace `OrderedDict` with just `dict` * Messages: Mark `wraptext` deprecated; use `TextWrapper` directly in `write_po` 

Log message: py-*: remove unused tool dependency py-setuptools includes the py-wheel functionality nowadays 

Log message: i*: clean up after python38 removal 

Log message: py-babel: update to 2.16.0. Version 2.16.0 -------------- Features ~~~~~~~~ * 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 ~~~~~~~~ * 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * 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` 

Log message: py-babel: fix TEST_DEPENDS 

Log message: py-babel: updated to 2.15.0 Version 2.15.0 Python version support * Babel 2.15.0 will require Python 3.8 or newer. Features * CLDR: Upgrade to CLDR 44 * Dates: Support for the "fall back to short format" logic for time \ delta formatting * Message: More versatile .po IO functions * Numbers: Improved support for alternate spaces when parsing numbers Infrastructure * Upgrade GitHub Actions * The Unicode license is now included in `locale-data` and in the documentation