## Babel 3.61 This package manages culturally-determined typographical (and other) rules, and hyphenation patterns for a wide range of languages. Many language styles work with pdflatex, as well as with xelatex and lualatex out of the box. A few even work with plain formats. Included is a set of ini files for about 250 languages. The latest stable version is available on . Changes in version 3.61 are described in: https://latex3.github.io/babel/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.61.html Apart from the manual, you can find information on some aspects of babel at: https://latex3.github.io/babel/ The best way to install and/or update it is with the help of package managers. ### Reporting Bugs If you wish to report a problem or bug in any of these packages please use the [Issue Tracker for LaTeX2e on GitHub](https://github.com/latex3/babel/issues) and follow the guidelines that pop up if you press the `New issue` button. In particular, to check that you are really seeing a bug, please write a short, self-contained document that shows the problem. This should include the `latexbug` package, which will warn if your test file is not suitable for one or the other reason. See the [CONTRIBUTING guide](https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for further details, or if you need to obtain the `latexbug` package. If the bug turns out to be with third-party software then please contact the developer, and not us! You may also report them to the current maintainer more informally on: http://www.texnia.com/contact.html Bugs related to specific languages are best reported to their respective authors. ### Summary of Latest changes ``` 3.61 2021-06-28 * Improved justification=kashida/elongated: hboxes (lua). * Transform danda.nobreak for several Indic scripts (lua): Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu. * Improved \babelprovide when used to reconfigure a language. * Fixes: - Partial fix for #114 (bad breaks and spacing with \selectlanguage). - \shorthandoff*{^} caused error for \section command (#129). ``` ### Previous changes See https://latex3.github.io/babel/