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LaTeX Distributions
TeX Live 2017 released
Today TeX Live 2017 has been released. Some of the changes: TeX Live manager (tlmgr): new shell mode, that allows scripting. Commands are like invoking tlmgr with options. For interactive use but especially useful for scripting. TEXMF tree structure: users … Continue reading
TeX Live 2016 frozen
Karl Berry mentioned it on the TL mailing list: TL 2016 is frozen now, a final build has been made. The pretest of TL 2017 will start soon.
TeX Live 2016 released
You may have read the great news on ctan-ann or TeX.tips: this year’s update of TeX Live has been released. It is available on CTAN and via http://tug.org/texlive. What’s new? GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) is used for file verification for update security. … Continue reading
TeX Live 2015 pretest is running
The TeX Live mailing list shows increasing traffic: the TeX Live 2015 pretest version is available, and many users already downloaded and tested it. It contains the LaTeX2e 2015 release, which brought a notable change: the fixes, which were previously … Continue reading
TeX Live 2014 released – what’s new
TeX Live 2014 has been released and is now available for download. Let’s have a look at the changes. TeX TeX and MetaFont have been updated. This previously happened 2008, and this year Donald Knuth provided another update. Now we … Continue reading
TeX Live 2012 released
Today, TeX Live 2012 has been released. TeX Live is a comprehensive TeX and LaTeX system for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix systems. A special version called MacTeX 2012 is available for Mac OS X. Changes compared … Continue reading
TeX Live 2012 Schedule
Today Karl Berry announced on the TeX Live mailing list, that in about one week (May 10) TeX Live 2011 and tlnet will be frozen, and the building of the pretest version of TeX Live 2012 will start shortly after … Continue reading
TeX Live and MacTeX 2011 released
TeX Live 2011 is now available online. It is a comprehensive TeX system working on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix systems. It includes LaTeX and all the major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts that are free … Continue reading
TeX Live 2011 pretesting
Today Karl Berry announced that a pretest version of TeX Live 2011 is now available. It can be downloaded from several repositories. The documentation has not been fully updated yet. The TeX Live Team would like it if you send … Continue reading
TeX Live 2010 and MacTeX 2010 released
TeX Live 2010 is available now. Some changes in 2010, like announced in this blog post: pdfLaTeX automatically converts EPS files for inclusion, as already been planned but dismissed for the previous release The execution of a some external commands … Continue reading
MiKTeX 2.9 Beta released
The beta version of MiKTeX 2.9 has been released. Windows 7, Vista, XP (at least SP 3), Server 2003 and 2008 (at least SP 2) are supported, Windows 2000 no longer. LuaTeX has been integrated for the first time and … Continue reading
MiKTeX 2.6 and 2.7 marked for end-of-life
Christian Schenk announced today that the support for MiKTeX 2.6 and MiKTeX 2.7 will end at the end of this year. MiKTeX 2.6/2.7 will be removed from CTAN on January 1st, 2011. So, the last possible date for updating MiKTeX … Continue reading
