From v. 4.48 to 4.52
Optimize number of calls to kpsewhich. This often gives a
considerable savings of run time when a document includes many
graphics files that are in a texmf tree.
Fix bug that if an .aux file is deleted and latexmk is run, the
wrong number of runs of (pdf)latex was made.
Fix related problem that latexmk sometimes does too few runs of
(pdf)latex because of the incorrect detection that a file is only
read after being written.
Implement direct support for xelatex and lualatex. Previously these
programs were used by configuring the $pdflatex so that the desired
program is run instead of pdflatex. There are now configuration
variables $xelatex and $lualatex to specify the commands used, and
extra command line options -pdfxe and -pdflua.
In the case of xelatex, considerable improvement in run time is
given for documents containing large graphics files. This is
because compilation is made first to an xdv file instead of direct
to a pdf file. Only when this file is finalized is a single
conversion to a pdf file made. (This last step can be especially
time-consuming for documents that bring in large graphics files.)
Correct detection for missing graphics files with xelatex.
Work around LuaTeX line-wrapping bug.
Update documentation.
Minor improvements in code and diagnostics.
From v. 4.52 to 4.52b
Fix bug introduced in 4.52 that use of bibtex wasn't always detected
when recorder mode is on.
From v. 4.52b to 4.52c
Document $kpsewhich_show variable.
Make -jobname work with -pdfxe and -pdflua
From v. 4.45 to 4.46
Correct creation of output and aux directories to correctly handle
relative paths when -cd is used.
Minor documentation corrections.
From v. 4.46 to 4.48
Correct documention: default value of $recorder is 1
Add routines rdb_list_source, rdb_set_source for manipulating
dependency lists of a rule. Add these to the documentated
interface, in addition to the already documented rdb_ensure_file,
rdb_remove_files.
Update webpages in documentation.
From v. 4.39 to 4.39 documentation update of 2 Dec 2013
Correct two errors in documentation and in the file COPYING.
From v. 4.39 to 4.40
Fix failure to clean up correctly when root filename contains [,
which is a glob metacharacter.
From v. 4.40 to 4.41
-c also deletes $deps_file if it is used
Quote jobname when needed.
Change maintainer's preferred e-mail
Attempt to improve handling of errors from (pdf)latex.
Fix up for the making of -eps-converted-to.pdf
Improve listing of warning lines from log file.
Fix failure when using both -cd and -output-directory
If user's home directory can't be determined, then don't read ~/.latexmkrc
Introduce configuration variable $silence_logfile_warnings
In setting $pscmd, allow for non-existent environment variable USER
Correct subroutine Run for internal cmd w/o arguments
Experimental: Add analysis hook for aux file.
System initialization files: allow them to be named latexmkrc as
well as LatexMk, for more consistency with user directory names.
Keep both cases, to preserve backward compatibility.
Change sign-on message. Bug report info with help.
From v. 4.41 to 4.42
Fix bugs associated with the -cd option
Add missfont.log and the generated synctex.gz to standard cleaned-up files
From v. 4.42 to 4.43a
Fix problem that source files are not correctly detected under
MiKTeX when name of current working directory contains non-ASCII
characters.
On cleanup, synctex.gz files are deleted only by -C, not by -c.
From v. 4.43a to 4.43c
Correct normalization of filenames, so that initial "./" is always
removed. This prevents custom dependencies being run twice on the
same file.
Documentation correction on use of @BIBINPUTS.
Diagnostic correction.
Example rc file for using texinfo (thanks to Vincent Bela\"iche).
Additions to documentation concerning advanced configuration.
From v. 4.43c to 4.44
Correct bug in use of %hash_calc_ignore_pattern
(Previously it only had its documented effect when a targetted
file hadn't changed in size.)
Correct error handling when biber finds a malformed .bcf file.
From v. 4.44 to 4.45
Fix problem of -C not always working correctly when compilation was
with -pdf and clear was default.
Fix bug in limiting number of passes when $max_repeat >= 10
Fix bug in finding id of viewer process id under OS-X
From v. 4.35 to 4.37
Correct failure that happens when name of current directory
contains characters with special meaning in regular expression.
-rules option now works with -pvc
Add -lualatex option, like -xelatex.
File specifications in $clean_ext and $clean_full_ext are allowed
to contain wildcards.
Warnings are given when rc file is a directory instead of a file.
Correct bug that if revtex4-1.cls is used, footnotes are set to
be in the bibliography, and latexmk's aux_dir or out_dir is set,
then latexmk fails to run bibtex when needed, because the
relevant bib file is not found.
Other minor corrections and code improvements.
Documentation updates and corrections.
From v. 4.37 to 4.39
Automatic creation of necessary subdirectories of auxdir when needed
for writing aux files.
Add error diagnostics to if_source
Allow $print_type = 'auto', and make this the default, so that
when the -p option to latexmk is used to print the file, the
default is to determine the type of file to be printed, rather
than always requiring postscript.
Fix the failures when dealing with directories whose names contained
certain special characters in them (notably '[', ']' and space).
[Technical issue: these characters had special meaning when
previously interpreted as metacharacters in a glob operation.]
This gives dependency on Perl's File::Glob module, which is a
standard module in normal installations of Perl.
When an output directory is a subdirectory of a directory, ensure
that it is correctly created, if it has to be created.
Previously, the creation of the output directory when it does not
exist only worked for one level.
This gives dependency on Perl's File::Path module with v. >= 2.08,
which is a standard module in normal installations of Perl.
In output of dependencies, include pathname of target file(s) in the
rule.
In -pvc mode, writing of deps file (caused by the -M and related
options) is per make not per overall run.
From v. 4.39 to 4.39 documentation update of 2 Dec 2013
Correct two errors in documentation and in the file COPYING.
Do it for all packages that
* mention perl, or
* have a directory name starting with p5-*, or
* depend on a package starting with p5-
like last time, for 5.18, where this didn't lead to complaints.
Let me know if you have any this time.
LatexMk completely automates the process of generating a LaTeX document.
Essentially, it is a highly specialized relative of the general make
utility. Given the source files for a document, latexmk issues the
appropriate sequence of commands to generate a .dvi, .ps, .pdf or hardcopy
version of the document. It will run LaTeX the correct number of times to
resolve cross references, and run auxiliary programs (bibtex, makeindex) if
necessary. It can also be set to run continuously with a previewer, in which
case the needed commands are re-run whenever one of the source files is
modified.
