General:
* The \input primitive in all TeX engines, including tex, now also accepts a
group-delimited filename argument, as a system-dependent extension. The usage
with a standard space/token-delimited filename is completely unchanged. The
group-delimited argument was previously implemented in LuaTeX; now it is available
in all engines. ASCII double quote characters (") are removed from the filename,
but it is otherwise left unchanged after tokenization. This does not currently
affect LaTeX’s \input command, as that is a macro redefinition of the standard
\input primitive.
* New option –cnf-line for kpsewhich, tex, mf, and all other engines, to support
arbitrary configuration settings on the command line.
* The addition of various primitives to various engines in this and previous years
is intended to result in a common set of functionality available across
all engines.
epTeX, eupTeX: New primitives \Uchar, \Ucharcat, \current(x)spacingmode, \ifincsname;
revise \fontchar?? and \iffontchar. For eupTeX only: \currentcjktoken.
LuaTeX: Integration with HarfBuzz library, available as new engines luahbtex
(used for lualatex) and luajithbtex. New primitives: \eTeXgluestretchorder,
\eTeXglueshrinkorder.
pdfTeX: New primitive \pdfmajorversion; this merely changes the version number
in the PDF output; it has no effect on any PDF content. \pdfximage and similar
now search for image files in the same way as \openin.
pTeX: New primitives \ifjfont, \iftfont. Also in epTeX, upTeX, eupTeX.
XeTeX: Fixes for \Umathchardef, \XeTeXinterchartoks, \pdfsavepos.
Dvips: Output encodings for bitmap fonts, for better copy/paste capabilities.
Updated print/tex-koma-script to 3.23
Updated print/tex-kotex-oblivoir{,-doc} to 2.1.8
Updated devel/tex-l3experimental to 2017
Updated devel/tex-l3kernel{,-doc} to 2017
Updated devel/tex-l3packages{,-doc} to 2017
Updated print/tex-latex{,-doc} to 20170101.1
Updated textproc/tex-latexdiff{,-doc} to 1.2.0
Updated print/tex-leaflet{,-doc} to 1.1b
Updated fonts/tex-libertine{,-doc} to 5.3.0.43603
Updated devel/tex-lualibs{,-doc} to 2.5
Updated fonts/tex-luaotfload{,-doc} to 2.8.2
Updated print/tex-luatex{,-doc} to 1.0.4
Updated print/cjkutils to 4.8.4nb1
Updated print/dviljk to 2.6.5nb7
Updated print/dvipdfmx to 20160307
Updated print/dvipsk to 5.996
Updated print/kpathsea to 6.2.2
Updated print/lacheck to 1.28nb1
Updated print/luatex to 0.95
Updated print/ptexenc to 1.3.4
Updated print/seetexk to 1.1nb2
Updated print/tex4ht to 0.0.20160522
Updated print/vlna to 1.5nb2
Updated print/web2c to 2016
Updated print/xdvik to 22.87.03
Updated print/xetex to 0.99996
Updated print/xpdfopen to 0.86nb1
Updated print/tex-IEEEtran{,-doc} to 1.8b
Updated print/tex-abc{,-doc} to 2.0b
Updated print/tex-aleph to 0.2.40768
Updated print/tex-algorithm2e{,-doc} to 5.1
Updated print/tex-algorithms{,-doc} to 0.1
Updated print/tex-amsmath{,-doc} to 2.15b
Updated print/tex-babel{,-doc} to 3.9r
Updated print/tex-babel-bosnian to 1.1
Updated print/tex-babel-estonian to 1.1a
Updated print/tex-babel-french to 3.2c
Updated print/tex-babel-friulan to 1.3
Updated print/tex-babel-greek to 1.9f
Updated print/tex-babel-hungarian to 1.5c
Updated print/tex-babel-icelandic to 1.2b
Updated print/tex-babel-latin to 3.5
Updated print/tex-babel-russian to 1.3h
Updated print/tex-babel-spanish to 5.0p
Updated print/tex-babel-vietnamese to 1.4
Updated print/tex-babel-welsh to 1.1a
Updated print/tex-biblatex{,-doc} to 3.4
Updated print/tex-booktabs{,-doc} to 1.618033
Updated print/tex-breqn to 0.98d
Updated print/tex-caption{,-doc} to 20160202
Updated print/tex-chess-problem-diagrams{,-doc} to 1.12
Updated print/tex-cjk-gs-integrate{,-doc} to 20160115.0
Updated print/tex-cjk-ko{,-doc} to 1.8
Updated print/tex-cjkpunct{,-doc} to 4.8.4
Updated print/tex-context{,-doc} to 2016
Updated print/tex-csplain to 2016
Updated print/tex-csquotes{,-doc} to 5.1g
Updated print/tex-ctable to 1.31
Updated print/tex-cweb{,-doc} to 3.64af
Updated print/tex-datatool{,-doc} to 2.25
Updated print/tex-dvipdfmx{,-doc} to 2016
Updated print/tex-dvipdfmx-def to 4.08
Updated print/tex-dvips{,-doc} to 2016
Updated print/tex-eplain{,-doc} to 3.8
Updated print/tex-etex-pkg{,-doc} to 2.6
Updated print/tex-europasscv{,-doc} to 2016
Updated print/tex-fix2col{,-doc} to 0.04
Updated print/tex-font-change{,-doc} to 2015.2
Updated print/tex-glossaries{,-doc} to 4.23
Updated print/tex-graphics{,-doc} to 1.0r
Updated print/tex-hausarbeit-jura{,-doc} to 1.4
Updated print/tex-hyperref{,-doc} to 6.83n
Updated print/tex-hyph-utf8{,-doc} to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-afrikaans to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-ancientgreek to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-arabic to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-armenian to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-base to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-basque to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-bulgarian to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-catalan to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-chinese to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-coptic to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-croatian to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-czech to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-danish to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-dutch to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-english to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-esperanto to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-estonian to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-ethiopic to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-farsi to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-finnish to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-french to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-friulan to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-galician to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-georgian to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-german to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-greek to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-hungarian to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-icelandic to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-indic to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-indonesian to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-interlingua to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-irish to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-italian to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-kurmanji to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-latin to 3.1.2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-latvian to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-lithuanian to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-mongolian to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-norwegian to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-piedmontese to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-polish to 3.0a.2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-portuguese to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-romanian to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-romansh to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-russian to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-sanskrit to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-serbian to 1.0a.2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-slovak to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-slovenian to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-spanish to 4.5.2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-swedish to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-thai to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-turkish to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-turkmen to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-ukrainian to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-uppersorbian to 2016
Updated print/tex-hyphen-welsh to 2016
Updated print/tex-ifluatex{,-doc} to 1.4
Updated print/tex-koma-script to 3.20
Updated print/tex-kotex-oblivoir{,-doc} to 2.1.7
Updated print/tex-kotex-plain{,-doc} to 2.1.1.a
Updated print/tex-kotex-utf{,-doc} to 2.1.2
Updated print/tex-kotex-utils{,-doc} to 2.1.0
Updated print/tex-kpathsea{,-doc} to 2016
Updated print/tex-latex{,-doc} to 2016
Updated print/tex-latex-bin to 2016
Updated print/tex-latexconfig to 2016
Updated print/tex-leaflet{,-doc} to 1.1a
Updated print/tex-lettrine{,-doc} to 1.9
Updated print/tex-lollipop{,-doc} to 1.06
Updated print/tex-luatex to 0.95
Updated print/tex-mathtools to 1.18
Updated print/tex-media9{,-doc} to 0.68
Updated print/tex-memoir{,-doc} to 3.7f
Updated print/tex-mhchem{,-doc} to 4.04
Updated print/tex-microtype{,-doc} to 2.6a
Updated print/tex-minted{,-doc} to 2.1
Updated print/tex-musixtex{,-doc} to 1.22
Updated print/tex-oberdiek{,-doc} to 2016
Updated print/tex-pageslts to 1.2f
Updated print/tex-paralist{,-doc} to 2.5
Updated print/tex-pdfcomment{,-doc} to 2.3b
Updated print/tex-pdfpages{,-doc} to 0.5f
Updated print/tex-pdftex{,-doc} to 2016
Updated print/tex-pgf{,-doc} to 3.0.1a
Updated print/tex-pgfplots{,-doc} to 1.13
Updated print/tex-pict2e{,-doc} to 0.3b
Updated print/tex-plain to 3.141592653.40274
Updated print/tex-polyglossia{,-doc} to 1.42.4
Updated print/tex-powerdot to 1.5a
Updated print/tex-preview{,-doc} to 11.89
Updated print/tex-ptex to 3.2pl41220
Updated print/tex-realscripts{,-doc} to 0.3d
Updated print/tex-schwalbe-chess{,-doc} to 2.1
Updated print/tex-showlabels{,-doc} to 1.7
Updated print/tex-siunitx{,-doc} to 2.6q
Updated print/tex-sttools{,-doc} to 1.8
Updated print/tex-tetex{,-doc} to 3.0.41059
Updated print/tex-tex4ht{,-doc} to 2016
Updated print/tex-texinfo to 5.1.40618
Updated print/tex-texlive-scripts to 2016
Updated print/tex-texlive.infra to 2016
Updated print/tex-titlesec{,-doc} to 2.10.2
Updated print/tex-tools{,-doc} to 2016
Updated print/tex-toptesi{,-doc} to 5.91
Updated print/tex-udesoftec{,-doc} to 1.5.2
Updated print/tex-xcjk2uni{,-doc} to 0.6
Updated print/tex-xcolor{,-doc} to 2.12
Updated print/tex-xetex{,-doc} to 2016
Updated print/tex-xetex-def to 4.08
Updated print/tex-xetexconfig to 2016
Updated print/tex-xltxtra{,-doc} to 0.6
Added print/tex-pbibtex-base{,-doc} version 0.0.2016
Added print/tex-ptex-base{,-doc} version 0.0.2016
Added print/tex-tex-ini-files{,-doc} version 2016
Added print/tex-unicode-data{,-doc} version 1.4a
Added print/tex-updmap-map version 2016
Problems found locating distfiles:
Package acroread7: missing distfile AdobeReader_enu-7.0.9-1.i386.tar.gz
Package acroread8: missing distfile AdobeReader_enu-8.1.7-1.sparc.tar.gz
Package cups-filters: missing distfile cups-filters-1.1.0.tar.xz
Package dvidvi: missing distfile dvidvi-1.0.tar.gz
Package lgrind: missing distfile lgrind.tar.bz2
Otherwise, existing SHA1 digests verified and found to be the same on
the machine holding the existing distfiles (morden). All existing
SHA1 digests retained for now as an audit trail.
pdfTEX: Support JPEG Exif as well as JFIF; do not even emit a warning if
\pdfinclusionerrorlevel is negative; sync with xpdf 3.04.
LuaTEX: New library newtokenlib for scanning tokens; bug fixes in the normal
random number generator and other places.
XeTEX: Image handling fixes; xdvipdfmx binary looked for first as a sibling
to xetex; internal XDV opcodes changed.
MetaPost: New numbersystem binary; new Japanese-enabled upmpost and
updvitomp programs, analogous to up*tex.
Infrastructure: The fmtutil script has been reimplemented to read
fmtutil.cnf on a per-tree basis, analogous to updmap. Web2C mktex* scripts
(including mktexlsr, mktextfm, mktexpk) now prefer programs in their own
directory, instead of always using the existing PATH.