babel-french update breaks previous documents

[Norbert Preining]

Hi all,

the following minimal document stopped compiling with the update of
babel-french

\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\newfloat{figure}{ht}{lof}
\begin{document}
Hello World
\end{document}

With version 3.5j (TeX Live package revision 55742) it compiles, with
the current version 3.5k (TL package revision 56333) it fails with

! LaTeX Error: Command \fnum at table undefined.

Mind that the line
	\newfloat{figure}{ht}{lof}
is essential, commenting it makes the document work again.

I am not really sure where the issue is, anyone having an idea?

Thanks

Norbert

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