Prepare for 2.18.0 (#1248)

* Update authors file

* Update changelog for 2.18.0

* Update copyright year

* Bump version

Author: akx

AUTHORS

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ Babel is written and maintained by the Babel team and various contributors:
 - Hugo van Kemenade
 - Jun Omae
 - Heungsub Lee
+- Boris Verkhovskiy
 - Jakob Schnitzer
 - Sachin Paliwal
 - Alex Willmer
@@ -49,6 +50,9 @@ Babel is written and maintained by the Babel team and various contributors:
 - Arturas Moskvinas
 - Leonardo Pistone
 - Hyunjun Kim
+- Bart Broere
+- Guillaume Gauvrit
+- clach04
 - wandrew004
 - James McKinney
 - Tomáš Hrnčiar

CHANGES.rst

@@ -1,6 +1,61 @@
 Babel Changelog
 ===============
 
+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`
+* Tests: Convert Unittest testcases with setup/teardown to fixtures by @akx in :gh:`1240`
+* Tests: Mark PyPy CI flake as xfail by @akx in :gh:`1197`
+* Tests: Move pytest config to `pyproject.toml` by @tomasr8 in :gh:`1187`
+* Tests: Unwrap most `unittest` test cases to bare functions by @akx in :gh:`1241`
+
 Version 2.17.0
 --------------
 

LICENSE

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright (c) 2013-2025 by the Babel Team, see AUTHORS for more information.
+Copyright (c) 2013-2026 by the Babel Team, see AUTHORS for more information.
 
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions

babel/__init__.py

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
    access to various locale display names, localized number and date
    formatting, etc.
 
-:copyright: (c) 2013-2025 by the Babel Team.
+:copyright: (c) 2013-2026 by the Babel Team.
 :license: BSD, see LICENSE for more details.
 """
 
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     parse_locale,
 )
 
-__version__ = '2.17.0'
+__version__ = '2.18.0'
 
 __all__ = [
     'Locale',

babel/core.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 Core locale representation and locale data access.
 
-:copyright: (c) 2013-2025 by the Babel Team.
+:copyright: (c) 2013-2026 by the Babel Team.
 :license: BSD, see LICENSE for more details.
 """
 

babel/dates.py

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
  * ``LC_ALL``, and
  * ``LANG``
 
-:copyright: (c) 2013-2025 by the Babel Team.
+:copyright: (c) 2013-2026 by the Babel Team.
 :license: BSD, see LICENSE for more details.
 """
 

babel/lists.py

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
  * ``LC_ALL``, and
  * ``LANG``
 
-:copyright: (c) 2015-2025 by the Babel Team.
+:copyright: (c) 2015-2026 by the Babel Team.
 :license: BSD, see LICENSE for more details.
 """
 

babel/localedata.py

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 :note: The `Locale` class, which uses this module under the hood, provides a
        more convenient interface for accessing the locale data.
 
-:copyright: (c) 2013-2025 by the Babel Team.
+:copyright: (c) 2013-2026 by the Babel Team.
 :license: BSD, see LICENSE for more details.
 """
 

babel/localtime/__init__.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 Babel specific fork of tzlocal to determine the local timezone
 of the system.
 
-:copyright: (c) 2013-2025 by the Babel Team.
+:copyright: (c) 2013-2026 by the Babel Team.
 :license: BSD, see LICENSE for more details.
 """
 

babel/localtime/_fallback.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 Emulated fallback local timezone when all else fails.
 
-:copyright: (c) 2013-2025 by the Babel Team.
+:copyright: (c) 2013-2026 by the Babel Team.
 :license: BSD, see LICENSE for more details.
 """