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 | Version | Most relevant changes
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+| [24.13](news/whats-new-in-babel-24.13.html) | (dev) Transform variables for French. |
 | [24.12](news/whats-new-in-babel-24.12.html) | Manual revised. `\PassOptionsToLocale` |
 | [24.11](news/whats-new-in-babel-24.11.html) | Manual revised. Transform variables. |
 | [24.10](news/whats-new-in-babel-24.10.html) | `\localename`, `\mainlocalename`, `\babelhyphenmins` |
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+# What's new in babel 24.13
+
+**Draft**
+
+There is an important notice related to the LaTeX kernel, which affects
+how to deal with languages. Now, according to [Engine news from the
+LaTeX Project](https://www.texdev.net/2024/11/05/engine-news-from-the-latex-project),
+“LuaTeX is the recommended engine for all new documents”. Furthermore,
+“it is time to move away from XeTeX: certainly for new documents, and
+even for existing ones”.
+
+There is some work in progress to provide short examples in many languages.
+See [Index of locale guides](https://latex3.github.io/babel/guides/index-locale.html)
+
+## Transform variables fo French
+
+When the `ini` file is used, you can now configure the spacing with
+punctuation, with the new transform variables. See [What’s new in
+24.11](https://latex3.github.io/babel/news/whats-new-in-babel-24.11.html).
+
+Variables are:
+* `guillemet.natural`, `guillemet.plus`, `guillemet.minus`
+* `colon.natural`, `colon.plus`, `colon.minus`
+* `high.natural`, `high.plus`, `high.minus` 
+
+With, for example:
+```tex
+\SetTransformValue{french}{colon.natural}{.4}
+```
+spacing with the colon is slightly smaller (default is `.5`). Units
+are the current ordinary space.
+
+## Pashto Persian and Islamic calendar
+
+Added strings for the those calendars in the locale for Pashto. Since
+the default calendar was Persian, an error was even raised (which is
+now fixed).
+
+Emtpy strings has been added to Mazanderani and Northern Luri, which
+also require the Persian calendar. Sadly, the Unicode CLDR doesn’t
+define them yet. Feel free to contribute them.
+
+## Fixes
+
+* Uyghur hyphenation mechanism stopped working.
+* The Hebrew calendar converter raised an error.
+
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