David Latchman has posted daily reports from the TeX User Group conference 2012 in Boston:

• Day 1
• Day 2
• Day 3

Very nice to read what happened at the meeting, who talked and about what. Thanks, David!

Furthermore, a new issue of the LaTeX3 News paper has been published. Here’s a short overview and the link to the issue:

• LaTeX3 News July 2012

Issue 6 of the LaTeX3 news has been published yesterday. Some of the news:

• Bruno Le Floch joined the LaTeX3 team. He is a teaching assistant at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cape Town, South Africa. Some might know him from his contributions on TeX.SX. He has developed some packages and contributed to expl3 especially regarding performance and reliability.
• The LaTeX3 code has been re-organized into these parts:
  • l3kernel - the core of LaTeX3, mostly made up of expl3
  • l3packages - LaTeX2ε packages using LaTeX3 concepts, such as xparse and xtemplate
  • l3experimental - LaTeX2ε packages with rather experimental LaTeX3 ideas in continuing development, intended to be moved into l3kernel or l3packages later
  • l3trial - the same says it all: code for exploring ideas, to be used or dropped later
• The documentation has been improved, especially for expl3.
• A mirror of the development SVN repository has been established on GitHub. This allows better tracking of issues and following the development.

Since there are still some compatibility issues because of the recent changes, the newest updates will not appear on the TeX Live 2011 DVD. However, they will be added to the usual regular updates of TeX Live soon.

This text is available in German. Dieser Text ist auch in Deutsch verfügbar.

Issue 5 of the LaTeX3 news has been published on January 28. It reports some developments of last year, talks about the current progress and shows plans for 2011.

Issue 4 of the LaTeX3 news has been published today.

Issue 03 of the LaTeX3 news has been published today.