Category Archives for TeX Live
LaTeX Distribution TeX Live
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
TeX Live 2010 pretesting
Today Karl Berry announced that a pretest version of TeX Live 2010 is available now. It can be downloaded from certain repositories. The documentation has not yet been updated. The same may still apply to versions for some Unix platforms. … Continue reading
TeX Live 2009 released
After development and many weeks of testing, final bug fixing and translations the new TeX Live 2009 has been released today. Some changes and improvements in 2009: pdf(La)TeX now automatically converts included eps files to pdf, using the epstopdf package, … Continue reading
