What’s new in babel 3.79

2022-08-29

This is basically a maintenance release, with some refactoring, minor improvements in error catching, and a few names in ini files fixed.

Following the CLDR, now the preferred name for ‘or’ is odia, although oriya is still valid.

Fixes

• Fix issues of tcolorbox in RTL (graphics layout) (#186), thanks to Salim Bou (@seloumi).
• \footnote with bidi=default raises an error in LuaLaTeX (#187).
• Extra blank spaces with Hebrew calendar.

Known issues

With the latest changes in the LaTeX core, \MakeUppercase and \MakeLowercase, babel casing might be broken. For example, with Medieval Latin, \MakeUppercase{lupus} now prints ‘LUPUS’ instead of ‘LVPVS’. A fix is on the way.