the daemon called (as i was washing the dishes):

Name of contribution: polyglossia Author's name: Arthur Reutenauer Package version: 1.2.0cc Location on CTAN: macros/xetex/latex/polyglossia Summary description: Babel replacement for XeLaTeX License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:

Polyglossia is a Babel replacement for XeTeX, originally developed by François Charette. This version (1.2.0cc) fixes a number of outstanding bugs that have been around for about one year, and adds Kannada to the list of supported languages.

thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository.

Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/polyglossia.html or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/polyglossia/