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26.1
* Improved 'kashida.base'.
* \otherlanguage* can be used as a declaration command.
* Option 'nofiles'  in \selectlanguage.
* Several bug fixes.

26.2
The only real change in this version is the synchronization
with the new styles for German.

26.3
* Fixes related to Arabic justification.
* Other minor changes related to Kyrgyz, German and Breton.

26.4
* Fixed lists in mixed RTL/LTR texts inside vboxes
* Changes for german 3.0.

26.5
* Several fixes related to bidi + amsmath (by Udi Fogiel).
* Fixed incorrect kashida placement with sukūn in lam–alif (by Alq).

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25.1:
* Fix: Wrong \localeid with lazy loading in some cases.
* Fix: Direction nodes misplaced (between a penalty and a glue).

25.2:
* Fixes in Welsh and \BCPdata.
* Locales: Old Uighur, Algerian Arabic.

25.3:
* Fix error raised with amsbook + CJK + onchar.
* Fixes with \MakeUpppercase: \babelhyphen not working and optional
  arguments in \localedate not recognized.
* Manual: direct links to the basic guides in the babel site and to
  languages on CTAN.
* New locales: Betawi, Kangri, Makhuwa, Osage, Venetian, Zhuang.

25.4:
* New locales for ancient languages: Etruscan, Old Persian, Old Irish,
  Ugaritic, Carian, Lycian, Lydian, Sabaean.

25.5:
* German: new transform longs.unifraktur, with heuristic rules for long s.
* Dutch: new transform diaeresis.hyphen.
* Fixes:
  - Some wrong bidi text in \hbox.
  - Extra space with CJK and lazy loading.
  - LaTeX hook for newly defined font families.

25.6:
* Transforms for Chinese and Japanese:
   - Improved 'spacing.basic'.
   - New: 'input.nospaces.
* @include directive in ini files.
* Fix error with CJK in lists (tex.sx 739783).

25.7:
* New macro: \ShowBabelTransforms.
* Fixes:
- Incorrect kashida placement.
- Ancient Hebrew vowel characters not recognised as Hebrew text.
- babel-cy.ini captions and captions.licr inconsistent.
* New locale: ancienthebrew.

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* Cleaned up some language names.
* Mosty internal changes and minor fixes.

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* New version numbering scheme.
* New key in \babelprovide: interchar (xe).
* Definitions for French: interchar=punctuation.space (xe) and
  transforms=punctuation.space (lua).

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3.89
* Deprecating \SetCase, \aliasshorthands, and 'strings' package
  option in the manual.
* The manual has been split in two documents: 'babel.pdf' is the
  user guide, and 'babel-code.pdf' is the code.
* Alternative syntax to pass 'modifiers' to babel languages.
* Code cleaned up: babel.def has been shortened dramatically,
  and babel.sty is a bit smaller.

3.88
* 37 new locale files: Abkhazian, Afar, Atsam, Baluchi, Bhojpuri,
  Blin, Corsican, Erzya, Ga, Geez, Guarani, Haryanvi, Inuktitut,
  Jju, Ligurian, Muscogee, Northern Sotho, Nyanja, N’Ko,
  Papiamento, Prussian, Rajasthani, Saho, Sicilian, Silesian,
  South Ndebele, Southern Sotho, Swati, Taroko, Tigre, Tok Pisin,
  Tsonga, Tswana, Tyap, Venda, Volapük, Wolaytta.
* Fixed a few month names in Greek locales (thanks to Günter Milde).
* New hook 'begindocument'.
* Feature preview: option 'casing' in '\babelprovide' (requires a
  future change in the LaTeX kernel).

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3.83
* Improved Punjabi, thanks to Arvinder Singh (@punjab).
 * Compatibility with 'lscape', thanks to Salim Bou (@seloumi).
 * New locale files: Kaingang, Nheengatu, Sardinian.
 * Better handling of `leqno` with `amsmath`.
 * Fixes:
   - Wrong date format for Australian in babel-en-AU.ini
   - Option handling was broken with braces
   - Stray punctuation with tikz lead to lua error
   - Hungarian as a secondary language reordered some captions

3.84
* Automatic selection of encodings with \babelprovide and pdftex.
* Fixes:
  - With 'select.write = omit' the main language wasn’t selected
    in the aux file.
  - Incorrect link box in end of line if it is preceded by a
    non-Arabic character
  - New option counters* to pre-expand \thepage.

3.85
* A high-level interface to enable and disable transforms (lua).
 * Font-dependent transforms (lua).
 * Spaces allowed as separators in layout=.
 * Fixes:
   - \babelprehyphenation was not applied with 'onchar'.
   - In some rare cases the hyphenrules weren’t correctly set.
   - Partial fix for bidi in tabular (broken after an attempt to
     fix amsmath).

3.86
* New macro \localerestoredirs (lua).
* Improved tabular in bidi texts (lua).
* Fixed \glossaryname in the 'ini' file for 'lithuanian'
  (thanks to Andrius Pukšta, @yjhn).
* Added diacritics to the rules for 'kashida.plain' in 'persian'.
* \babeladjust{ bidi.math = off } disables changes in math with
  bidi (lua).

3.87
- Typo in 'syllable' counter name in Korean.
 - Language leakage with xetex and on-the-fly loading in a few
   locales.
 - Misplaced text with tikz. Fixed thanks to Salim Bou.
 - Misplaced text body with 'multicol' and RTL.
 * 'hyphenrules=' is applied with the current locale.
 * Updates to the CLDR: Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Thai,
   Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tongan, Turkish, Tasawaq, Central Atlas
   Tamazight, Uyghur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yiddish,
   Yoruba, Cantonese.

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3.79
* Fixes:
   - Issues of tcolorbox in RTL (graphics layout).
   - \footnote with babel bidi=default raises an error in LuaLaTeX.
   - Extra blank spaces with Hebrew calendar.
 * 'odia' is now the preferred name for 'oriya', following the CLDR.

3.78
* Fix: Undefined \bbl at xenohyph with Thai
* More minor updates to the CLDR 41: Chechen, Cherokee, Central
  Kurdish, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Lower Sorbian,
  Dzongkha, Ewe, Greek, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Persian,
  Finnish, Filipino, Faroese, Western Frisian, Irish, Scottish
  Gaelic.

3.77
 * More on calendar conversions (\localedate, \today).
 * New calendars: 'coptic' (ar-EG, cop), 'buddhist' (th).
 * New Arabic locale for Saudi Arabia, with the Umm al-Qura
   calendar.
 * Date now defaults to 'persian' in a few locales: Persian,
   Northern Luri, Mazanderani, Pashto.
 * 'bangla' is now the preferred name for 'bengali'.
 * Attempt to deal with 'german' and 'swissgerman', whose names
   conflict with the CLDR ones.
 * More minor updates to the CLDR 41: Afrikaans, Arabic, Assamese,
   Asturian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Bangla, Tibetan,
   Breton, Bodo, Bosnian, Catalan, English.

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* Fixes:
   - Error in transforms if | is active.
   - Minor fixes in Khemer, Turkmen, Marathi.

* RTL math improved (with luatex).