this is not used, rather it seems to use an internal copy of lua 5.3
instead. while it would be nice if it used our copy instead, for now
removing the luajit requirement at least improves portability.
Release 21.06.1:
glib:
* fix poppler_rectangle_free() regression. Issue #1087
Release 21.06.0:
core:
* Fix rendering of some extended latin1 characters in annotations. Issue #1070
* Support some not so well formed documents with password. Issue #1083
* Add API to get notified if the xref is reconstructed
* Add somewhat fancier left/right signature visual representation
* Fix crashes in malformed files
* Minor code improvements
qt6:
* Change some functions to return std::unique_ptr
qt5/qt6:
* Add API to get notified if the xref is reconstructed
* Add somewhat fancier left/right signature visual representation
* Don't assert when trying to invert singular matrices
build system:
* make boost opt-out if building splash
The 9.54.0 release is a maintenance release, and also adds new functionality.
Highlights in this release include:
Overprint simulation is now available to all output devices, allowing quality previewing/proofing of PostScript and PDF jobs that rely on overprint. See the -dOverprint option documentation in: Overprint
The "docxwrite" device adds the ability to output to Microsoft Word "docx" format. See: docxwrite
The pdfwrite device is now capable of using the Tesseract OCR engine when it is built into Ghostscript to improve searchability and copy and paste functionality when the input lacks the metadata for that purpose. See: UseOCR
Ghostscript/GhostPDL now includes a "map text to black" function, where text drawn by an input job (except when drawn using a Type 3 font) can be forced to draw in solid black. See: BlackText
Ghostscript/GhostPDL now supports simple N-up imposition "internally". See: NupControl
Our efforts in code hygiene and maintainability continue.
The usual round of bug fixes, compatibility changes, and incremental improvements.
(9.53.0) We have added the capability to build with the Tesseract OCR engine. In such a build, new devices are available (pdfocr8/pdfocr24/pdfocr32) which render the output file to an image, OCR that image, and output the image "wrapped" up as a PDF file, with the OCR generated text information included as "invisible" text (in PDF terms, text rendering mode 3).
Mainly due to time constraints, we only support including Tesseract from source included in our release packages, and not linking to Tesseract/Leptonica shared libraries. Whether we add this capability will be largely dependent on community demand for the feature.
This is a temporary package, which is used during a test phase
to load the new PDF management code of LaTeX. The new PDF
management code offers backend independant interfaces to
central PDF dictionaries, tools to create annotations, form
Xobjects, to embed files, and to handle PDF standards. The code
is provided, during a testphase, as an independant package to
allow users and package authors to safely test the code. At a
later stage it will be integrated into the LaTeX kernel (or in
parts into permanent support packages), and the current
testphase bundle will be removed.
* More fix of \fontshape etc to work fine with LaTeX2e 2021-06-01.
* Fix an error with rolling back with the platexrelease package.
Provides a format `pLaTeX2e <2021-06-01>`,
aiming to synchronize with `LaTeX2e <2021-06-01>`.
This is Texdoc update aiming to be contained in TeX Live 2021:
- Show all possible config files for -vf
- Show diagnostic message of DISPLAY only if viewer failed
- Alias adjustments
- Documentation tweaks
1. Cleaned up (hopefully all) references to licensing to not withstand
our claim that the package is under Knuth lincese. 2. In many places
encoding of texts changed to UTF-8, to make easier to read. 3.
Functionality should be same.
- scrlayer-fancyhdr has been removed from KOMA-Script bundle. It will be
released as stand-alone package soon.
- Several adaptions for better coorperation with up-comming LaTeX 2021/05/01.
New features:
- new extension: `mjcli`. It uses command line MathJax to convert math in
MathML or LaTeX syntax to HTML. The generated HTML doesn't need any
JavaScript to display math in web browsers. It replaces the older extension
`mathjaxnode`, which uses a deprecated version of command line MathJax, and
doesn't support the LaTeX input.
- exit status is now set, so it is possible to test if the compilation ran
without errors in scripts.
Bug fixes:
- fixed handling of nested `<span>` elements in `joincharacters` filter.
- generate YAML header for all produced HTML files in `staticsite` extension.
- various fixes for the MathML output.
In the course of the "2021 TeX tuneup", Don Knuth kindly transferred the
responsibility for CWEB to me; see the original CWEB home page
(https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/cweb.html), section "CWEB
4.0".
This first new release draws heavily on the multi-decade work collected in
my "CWEBbin" project (https://github.com/ascherer/cwebbin). I moved
(almost) all stuff from the "*-patch.*" changefiles into the new CWEB
sources and applied all of the "*-ansi.*" changes as well.
Moreover, I made "common.h" the full interface of "common.w" in order to
avoid code redundancy. And I tried to fix as many of the bugs reported by
email to DEK and/or tex-k at tug.org.
In total, "make; make cautiously; make fullmanual" runs flawlessly with
GCC on Linux and with CLang on MacOS. And with the help of the remaining
stuff in the "CWEBbin" project, "CWEB" is smoothly integrated in "TeX
Live".
- Disable use of new (x)dvipdfmx color stacks pending further testing
- Correct error given if .gz files are given as graphics with (x)dvipdfmx
Further work to support multiple color stacks in (x)dvipdfmx
This update allows use of new colour stacks in dvipdfmx/XeTeX.
General:
* Donald Knuth’s changes for his 2021 tuneup of TeX and Metafont are
incorporated (https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb42-1/tb130knuth-tuneup21.pdf). They
are also available on CTAN as the knuth-dist and knuth-local packages. As
expected, the fixes are for obscure cases and do not affect any behavior in
practice.
* Except in original TeX: if \tracinglostchars is set to 3 or more, missing
characters will result in an error, not just a message in the log file, and
the missing character code will be shown in hex.
* Except in original TeX: a new integer parameter \tracingstacklevels, if
positive, and \tracingmacros is also positive, causes a prefix indicating the
macro expansion depth to be output on each relevant log line (e.g., ~.. at
depth 2). Also, macro logging is truncated at a depth ≥ the parameter value.
Aleph: The Aleph-based LaTeX format, named lamed, has been removed. The aleph
binary itself is still included and supported.
LuaTeX:
* Lua 5.3.6.
* Callback for nesting level used in \tracingmacros, as generalized variant
of the new \tracingstacklevels.
* Mark math glyphs as protected to prevent processing as text.
* Removed width/ic compensation for traditional math code path.
MetaPost:
* SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable support for reproducible output.
* Avoid wrong final % in mpto.
* Document -T option, other fixes to manual.
* Value of epsilon changed in binary and decimal modes, so mp_solve_rising_cubic
works as expected.
pdfTeX:
* New primitives \pdfrunninglinkoff and \pdfrunninglinkon; e.g., for
disabling generation of links in headers and footers.
* Warn instead of aborting when “\pdfendlink ended up in different nesting
level than \pdfstartlink”.
* Dump \pdfglyphtounicode assignments in fmt file.
* Source: poppler support removed, as it was too hard to keep in sync with
upstream. In native TL, pdfTeX has always used libs/xpdf, which is cut-down
and adapted code from xpdf.
XeTeX: Fixes for math kerning.
Dvipdfmx:
* Ghostscript is now invoked safely by default; to override (assuming all
input files are trusted), use -i dvipdfmx-unsafe.cfg. To use PSTricks with
XeTeX, this is required, as in:
xetex -output-driver="xdvipdfmx -i dvipdfmx-unsafe.cfg -q -E" ...
* If an image file is not found, exit with bad status.
* Extended special syntax for color support.
* Specials for manipulating ExtGState.
* Compatibility specials pdfcolorstack and pdffontattr.
* Experimental support for dviluatex’s extended fnt_def.
* Support new feature of virtual font to fallback Japanese font definition.
Dvips:
* Default PostScript document title is now the basename of the input file,
and can be overridden with the new option -title.
* If an .eps or other image file is not found, exit with bad status.
* Support new feature of virtual font to fallback Japanese font definition.
