* Version 2.12.0 was missing the ``py.typed`` marker file. Thanks to Alex Waygood for the fix! :gh:`975`
* The copyright year in all files was bumped to 2023.
Version 2.12.0
Deprecations & breaking changes
Python 3.6 is no longer supported (:gh:919) - Aarni Koskela
The get_next_timezone_transition function is no more (:gh:958) - Aarni Koskela
New features
* CLDR: Babel now uses CLDR 42 (:gh:`951`) - Aarni Koskela
* Dates: `pytz` is now optional; Babel will prefer it but will use `zoneinfo` when available. (:gh:`940`) - @ds-cbo
* General: Babel now ships type annotations, thanks to Jonah Lawrence's work in multiple PRs.
* Locales: @modifiers are now retained when parsing locales (:gh:`947`) - martin f. krafft
* Messages: JavaScript template string expression extraction is now smarter. (:gh:`939`) - Johannes Wilm
* Numbers: NaN and Infinity are now better supported (:gh:`955`) - Jonah Lawrence
* Numbers: Short compact currency formats are now supported (:gh:`926`) - Jonah Lawrence
* Numbers: There's now a `Format.compact_decimal` utility function. (:gh:`921`) - Jonah Lawrence
Bugfixes
* Dates: The cache for parsed datetime patterns is now bounded (:gh:`967`) - Aarni Koskela
* Messages: Fuzzy candidate matching accuracy is improved (:gh:`970`) - Jean Abou Samra
* Numbers: Compact singular formats and patterns with no numbers work correctly (:gh:`930`, :gh:`932`) - Jonah Lawrence, Jun Omae
Improvements & cleanup
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<li>Dates: <code>babel.dates.UTC</code> is now an alias for <code>datetime.timezone.utc</code> (:gh:<code>957</code>) - Aarni Koskela</li>
<li>Dates: <code>babel.localtime</code> was slightly cleaned up. (:gh:<code>952</code>) - Aarni Koskela</li>
<li>Documentation: Documentation was improved by Maciej Olko, Jonah Lawrence, lilinjie, and Aarni Koskela.</li>
<li>Infrastructure: Babel is now being linted with pre-commit and ruff. - Aarni Koskela</li>
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