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v2.18.0

Happy 2026! Like last year's release (ahem...), this one too is being made from FOSDEM 2026, in Brussels, Belgium. 🇧🇪 We'll aspire for a less glacial release cycle for 2.19. 😁

Please see CHANGELOG.rst for the detailed change log.

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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()` by @akx in :gh:`1242`
* Core: Use CLDR 47 by @tomasr8 in :gh:`1210`
* Core: Use canonical IANA zone names in zone_territories by @akx in :gh:`1220`
* Messages: Improve extract performance via ignoring directories early during os.walk by @akx in :gh:`968`
* Messages: Merge in per-format keywords and auto_comments by @akx in :gh:`1243`
* Messages: Update keywords for extraction of dpgettext and dnpgettext by @mardiros in :gh:`1235`
* Messages: Validate all plurals in Python format checker by @tomasr8 in :gh:`1188`
* Time: Use standard library `timezone` instead of `FixedOffsetTimezone` by @akx in :gh:`1203`
Bugfixes

• Core: Fix formatting for "Empty locale identifier" exception added in #1164 by @​akx in :gh:1184
• Core: Improve handling of no-inheritance-marker in timezone data by @​akx in :gh:1194
• Core: Make the number pattern regular expression more efficient by @​akx in :gh:1213
• Messages: Keep translator comments next to the translation function call by @​akx in :gh:1196
• Numbers: Fix KeyError that occurred when formatting compact currencies of exactly one thousand in several locales by @​bartbroere in :gh:1246

Other improvements

* Core: Avoid unnecessary uses of `map()` by @akx in :gh:`1180`
* Messages: Have init-catalog create directories too by @akx in :gh:`1244`
* Messages: Optimizations for read_po by @akx in :gh:`1200`
* Messages: Use pathlib.Path() in catalog frontend; improve test coverage by @akx in :gh:`1204`
Infrastructure and documentation

• CI: Renovate CI & lint tools by @​akx in :gh:1228
• CI: Tighten up CI with Zizmor by @​akx in :gh:1230
• CI: make job permissions explicit by @​akx in :gh:1227
• Docs: Add SECURITY.md by @​akx in :gh:1229
• Docs: Remove u string prefix from docs by @​verhovsky in :gh:1174
• Docs: Update dates.rst with current unicode.org tr35 link by @​clach04 in :gh:1189
• General: Add some PyPI classifiers by @​tomasr8 in :gh:1186
• General: Apply reformatting by hand and with Ruff by @​akx in :gh:1202
• General: Test on and declare support for Python 3.14 by @​akx in :gh:1233

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• 56c63ca Prepare for 2.18.0 (#1248)
• 73015a1 Add user-agent to CLDR downloader (#1247)
• 29bd362 Fix formatting compact currencies of exactly one thousand in several locales ...
• 851db43 Reuse InitCatalog's guts in UpdateCatalog (#1244)
• fd00e60 Extract: Merge in per-format keywords and auto_comments (#1243)
• 12a14b6 Add dpgettext and dnpgettext support (#1235)
• 7110e62 Use canonical IANA zone names in zone_territories (#1220)
• e91c346 Improve extract performance via ignoring directories early during os.walk (#968)
• 0c4f378 Convert Unittest testcases with setup/teardown to fixtures (#1240)
• 218c96e Add babel.core.get_cldr_version() (#1242)
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