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.
20190410:
Kpathsea: More consistent brace expansion and path splitting; new variable TEXMFDOTDIR instead of hard-coded . in paths allows for easily searching additional or sub-directories (see comments in texmf.cnf).
epTEX, eupTEX: New primitives \readpapersizespecial and \expanded.
LuaTEX: Lua 5.3 now used, with concomitant arithmetic and interface changes. The homegrown library pplib is used to read pdf files, thus eliminating the dependency on poppler (and the need for C++); Lua interface changed accordingly.
MetaPost: r-mpost command name recognized as an alias for invocation with the –restricted option, and added to the list of restricted commands available by default. Minimum precision now 2 for decimal and binary mode. Binary mode no longer available in MPlib but still available in standalone MetaPost.
pdfTEX: New primitive \expanded; if new primitive parameter \pdfomitcharset is set to 1, the /CharSet string omitted from the PDF output, since it cannot feasibly be guaranteed correct, as required by PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3.
XeTEX: New primitives \expanded, \creationdate, \elapsedtime, \filedump, \filemoddate, \filesize, \resettimer, \normaldeviate, \uniformdeviate, \randomseed; extend \Ucharcat to produce active characters.
tlmgr: Support curl as a download program; use lz4 and gzip before xz for local backups, if available; prefer system-provided binaries over binaries provided with TEX Live for compressor and download programs, unless the environment variable TEXLIVE_PREFER_OWN is set.
install-tl: New option -gui (with no argument) is the default on Windows and Macs, and invokes a new Tcl/TK GUI (see sections 1.3 and 3.1.6).
Utilities:
cwebbin (https://ctan.org/pkg/cwebbin) is now the CWEB implementation in TEX Live, with support for more language dialects, and including the ctwill program to make mini-indexes.
chkdvifont: report font information from DVI files, also from tfm/ofm, vf, gf, pk.
dvispc: make a DVI file page-independent with respect to specials.
MacTEX: x86_64-darwin now supports 10.12 and higher (Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave); x86_64-darwinlegacy still supports 10.6 and newer. The spell checker Excalibur is no longer included, since it requires 32-bit support.
Platforms: removed sparc-solaris.
Updated converters/dvi2tty to 6.0.0nb1
Updated fonts/afm2pl to 0.7.1nb3
Updated fonts/gsftopkk to 1.19.2nb8
Updated fonts/lcdftypetools to 2.106
Updated fonts/ps2pkm to 1.8nb1
Updated fonts/ttf2pk to 2.0nb3
Updated fonts/ttfdump to 0.5.5nb4
Updated print/cjkutils to 4.8.4nb2
Updated print/dvidvi to 1.1nb1
Updated print/dviljk to 2.6.5nb8
Updated print/dvipdfmx to 20170318
Updated print/dvipsk to 5.997
Updated print/kpathsea to 6.2.3
Updated print/lacheck to 1.28nb2
Updated print/luatex to 1.0.4
Updated print/ptexenc to 1.3.5
Updated print/seetexk to 1.1nb3
Updated print/tex4ht to 0.0.20170523
Updated print/vlna to 1.5nb3
Updated print/web2c to 2017
Updated print/xdvik to 22.87.03nb1
Updated print/xetex to 0.99997
Updated print/xpdfopen to 0.86nb2
Updated textproc/makeindexk to 2.15nb9
Updated textproc/mendexk to 2.6fnb7
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.
Changes:
* mktexlsr outputs normal msgs to stdout instead of stderr.
* do not ignore a non-terminated last line of a file.
* new texmf.cnf variables SELFAUTOGRANDPARENT, guess_input_kanji_encoding.
Changes:
* Trailing comments and whitespace omitted from config values.
* Add .tlu to type lua suffixes, and .dfont to truetype suffixes.
* Prefix program_invocation{,_short}_name with kpse_.
* Finally remove kpse_set_progname (deprecated since 1998).
Kpathsea is a library to do path searching. It is used in the Web2C
implementation of TeX and friends. The library's fundamental purpose
is to return a filename from a list of directories specified by the
user, similar to what shells do when looking up program names to
execute.
