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Javier Bezos L||pez submitted an update to the

babel

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Version: 26.7 2026-05-03
License: lppl1.3

Summary description: Multilingual support for LaTeX, LuaLaTeX, XeLaTeX, and Plain TeX

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Changes in version 26.7 are described in:

https://latex3.github.io/babel/news/whats-new-in-babel-26.7.html

Here is a summary:

A new file 'cyrl2uni.def' maps the Cyrillic LICR to the corresponding Unicode characters with the TU encoding. It can be used without babel.

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Javier Bezos L||pez submitted an update to the

babel

package.

Version: 26.8 2026-05-20
License: lppl1.3

Summary description: Multilingual support for LaTeX, LuaLaTeX, XeLaTeX, and Plain TeX

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Changes in version 26.8 are described in:

https://latex3.github.io/babel/news/whats-new-in-babel-26.8.html

Here is a summary:

* Improved Kazakh (thanks to Berik I. Tuleuov).
* Fixes:
- Math should be completely skipped in bidi processing (#423)
- \indexname has toc-unsafe value for some languages (#426)

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Javier Bezos L||pez submitted an update to the

babel

package.

Version: 26.9 2026-06-14
License: lppl1.3

Summary description: Multilingual support for LaTeX, LuaLaTeX, XeLaTeX, and Plain TeX

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Changes in version 26.9 are described in:

https://latex3.github.io/babel/news/whats-new-in-babel-26.9.html

Here is a summary:

* Added support for `other-languages` in `\DocumentMetadata`.
* Some improvements in the Breton ini file, based on the new ldf
style by Jacques Andr|-.
* Fix: With (Plain) xetex an error was raised (#430)

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Javier Bezos L||pez submitted an update to the

babel

package.

Version: 26.10 2026-08-08
License: lppl1.3

Summary description: Multilingual support for LaTeX, LuaLaTeX, XeLaTeX, and Plain TeX

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Changes in version 26.10 are described in:

https://latex3.github.io/babel/news/whats-new-in-babel-26.10.html

Here is a summary:
* Breaking change (bidi texts): Now the option layout=tabular has
been made the default.
* New locale: persian-latin, thanks to @RamtinMoslemi.
* Fix: Variant was ignored with BCP 47 tags.
* Support for the new lua-calendrica package.

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