- Update to 2.11.0
Upcoming deprecation
* This version, Babel 2.11, is the last version of Babel to support Python 3.6. Babel 2.12 will require Python 3.7 or newer.
Improvements
* Support for hex escapes in JavaScript string literals :gh:`877` - Przemyslaw Wegrzyn
* Add support for formatting decimals in compact form :gh:`909` - Jonah Lawrence
* Adapt parse_date to handle ISO dates in ASCII format :gh:`842` - Eric L.
* Use ast instead of eval for Python string extraction :gh:`915` - Aarni Koskela
* This also enables extraction from static f-strings. F-strings with expressions are silently ignored (but won't raise an error as they used to).
Infrastructure
* Tests: Use regular asserts and pytest.raises() :gh:`875` – Aarni Koskela
* Wheels are now built in GitHub Actions :gh:`888` – Aarni Koskela
* Small improvements to the CLDR downloader script :gh:`894` – Aarni Koskela
* Remove antiquated __nonzero__ methods :gh:`896` - Nikita Sobolev
* Remove superfluous __unicode__ declarations :gh:`905` - Lukas Juhrich
* Mark package compatible with Python 3.11 :gh:`913` - Aarni Koskela
* Quiesce pytest warnings :gh:`916` - Aarni Koskela
Bugfixes
* Use email.Message for pofile header parsing instead of the deprecated cgi.parse_header function. :gh:`876` – Aarni Koskela
* Remove determining time zone via systemsetup on macOS :gh:`914` - Aarni Koskela
Documentation
* Update Python versions in documentation :gh:`898` - Raphael Nestler
* Align BSD-3 license with OSI template :gh:`912` - Lukas Kahwe Smith