Log Message:
py-babel: update to 2.12.1.

Version 2.12.1
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Fixes
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* 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
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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
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* 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
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* 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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* Dates: `babel.dates.UTC` is now an alias for `datetime.timezone.utc` \ 
(:gh:`957`) - Aarni Koskela
* Dates: `babel.localtime` was slightly cleaned up. (:gh:`952`) - Aarni Koskela
* Documentation: Documentation was improved by Maciej Olko, Jonah Lawrence, \ 
lilinjie, and Aarni Koskela.
* Infrastructure: Babel is now being linted with pre-commit and ruff. - Aarni Koskela

Version 2.11.0
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Upcoming deprecation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* This version, Babel 2.11, is the last version of Babel to support Python 3.6.
  Babel 2.12 will require Python 3.7 or newer.

Improvements
~~~~~~~~~~~~

* Support for hex escapes in JavaScript string literals :gh:`877` - Przemyslaw \ 
Wegrzyn
* Add support for formatting decimals in compact form :gh:`909` - Jonah Lawrence
* Adapt parse_date to handle ISO dates in ASCII format :gh:`842` - Eric L.
* Use `ast` instead of `eval` for Python string extraction :gh:`915` - Aarni Koskela
    * This also enables extraction from static f-strings.
      F-strings with expressions are silently ignored (but won't raise an error \ 
as they used to).

Infrastructure
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* Tests: Use regular asserts and ``pytest.raises()`` :gh:`875` – Aarni Koskela
* Wheels are now built in GitHub Actions :gh:`888` – Aarni Koskela
* Small improvements to the CLDR downloader script :gh:`894` – Aarni Koskela
* Remove antiquated `__nonzero__` methods :gh:`896` - Nikita Sobolev
* Remove superfluous `__unicode__` declarations :gh:`905` - Lukas Juhrich
* Mark package compatible with Python 3.11 :gh:`913` - Aarni Koskela
* Quiesce pytest warnings :gh:`916` - Aarni Koskela

Bugfixes
~~~~~~~~

* Use email.Message for pofile header parsing instead of the deprecated \ 
``cgi.parse_header`` function. :gh:`876` – Aarni Koskela
* Remove determining time zone via systemsetup on macOS :gh:`914` - Aarni Koskela

Documentation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* Update Python versions in documentation :gh:`898` - Raphael Nestler
* Align BSD-3 license with OSI template :gh:`912` - Lukas Kahwe Smith

Version 2.10.3
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This is a bugfix release for Babel 2.10.2, which was mistakenly packaged with \ 
outdated locale data.

Thanks to Michał Górny for pointing this out and Jun Omae for verifying.

This and future Babel PyPI packages will be built by a more automated process,
which should make problems like this less likely to occur.

Version 2.10.2
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This is a bugfix release for Babel 2.10.1.

* Fallback count="other" format in format_currency() (:gh:`872`) - Jun Omae
* Fix get_period_id() with ``dayPeriodRule`` across 0:00 (:gh:`871`) - Jun Omae
* Add support for ``b`` and ``B`` period symbols in time format (:gh:`869`) - \ 
Jun Omae
* chore(docs/typo): Fixes a minor typo in a function comment (:gh:`864`) - Frank \ 
Harrison

Version 2.10.1
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This is a bugfix release for Babel 2.10.0.

* Messages: Fix ``distutils`` import. Regressed in :gh:`843`. (:gh:`852`) - \ 
Nehal J Wani
* The wheel file is no longer marked as universal, since Babel only supports \ 
Python 3.

Version 2.10.0
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Upcoming deprecation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* The ``get_next_timezone_transition()`` function is marked deprecated in this \ 
version and will be removed
  likely as soon as Babel 2.11.  No replacement for this function is planned; \ 
based on discussion in
  :gh:`716`, it's likely the function is not used in any real code. (:gh:`852`) \ 
- Aarni Koskela, Paul Ganssle

Improvements
~~~~~~~~~~~~

* CLDR: Upgrade to CLDR 41.0. (:gh:`853`) - Aarni Koskela

   * The ``c`` and ``e`` plural form operands introduced in CLDR 40 are parsed, \ 
but otherwise unsupported. (:gh:`826`)
   * Non-nominative forms of units are currently ignored.

* Messages: Implement ``--init-missing`` option for ``pybabel update`` \ 
(:gh:`785`) - ruro
* Messages: For ``extract``, you can now replace the built-in ``.*`` / ``_*`` \ 
ignored directory patterns
  with ones of your own. (:gh:`832`) - Aarni Koskela, Kinshuk Dua
* Messages: Add ``--check`` to verify if catalogs are up-to-date (:gh:`831`) - \ 
Krzysztof Jagiełło
* Messages: Add ``--header-comment`` to override default header comment \ 
(:gh:`720`) - Mohamed Hafez Morsy, Aarni Koskela
* Dates: ``parse_time`` now supports 12-hour clock, and is better at parsing \ 
partial times.
  (:gh:`834`) - Aarni Koskela, David Bauer, Arthur Jovart
* Dates: ``parse_date`` and ``parse_time`` now raise ``ParseError``, a subclass \ 
of ``ValueError``, in certain cases.
  (:gh:`834`) - Aarni Koskela
* Dates: ``parse_date`` and ``parse_time`` now accept the ``format`` parameter.
  (:gh:`834`) - Juliette Monsel, Aarni Koskela

Infrastructure
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* The internal ``babel/_compat.py`` module is no more (:gh:`808`) - Hugo van Kemenade
* Python 3.10 is officially supported (:gh:`809`) - Hugo van Kemenade
* There's now a friendly GitHub issue template. (:gh:`800`) – Álvaro \ 
Mondéjar Rubio
* Don't use the deprecated format_number function internally or in tests - Aarni \ 
Koskela
* Add GitHub URL for PyPi (:gh:`846`) - Andrii Oriekhov
* Python 3.12 compatibility: Prefer setuptools imports to distutils imports \ 
(:gh:`843`) - Aarni Koskela
* Python 3.11 compatibility: Add deprecations to l*gettext variants (:gh:`835`) \ 
- Aarni Koskela
* CI: Babel is now tested with PyPy 3.7. (:gh:`851`) - Aarni Koskela

Bugfixes
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* Date formatting: Allow using ``other`` as fallback form (:gh:`827`) - Aarni Koskela
* Locales: ``Locale.parse()`` normalizes variant tags to upper case (:gh:`829`) \ 
- Aarni Koskela
* A typo in the plural format for Maltese is fixed. (:gh:`796`) - Lukas Winkler
* Messages: Catalog date parsing is now timezone independent. (:gh:`701`) - \ 
rachele-collin
* Messages: Fix duplicate locations when writing without lineno (:gh:`837`) - \ 
Sigurd Ljødal
* Messages: Fix missing trailing semicolon in plural form headers (:gh:`848`) - \ 
farhan5900
* CLI: Fix output of ``--list-locales`` to not be a bytes repr (:gh:`845`) - \ 
Morgan Wahl

Documentation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* Documentation is now correctly built again, and up to date (:gh:`830`) - Aarni \ 
Koskela