At the ConTeXt intro workshop last Wednesday, participants struggled with ConTeXt on the newly released TeX Live 2026.
Not the usual about wrong paths or unwritable cache directories.
ConTeXt was apparently correctly installed, generating the file database and the format was working, but then it couldn’t find the format file if the "context" or "mtxrun" command wasn’t called with its full path.
TeX Live’s processes were changed before this release and something’s broken.
TeXLive2026 is released!
Please give it a couple of days to reach the mirrors.
https://tug.org/texlive/acquire.html
https://tug.org/mactex
Get the Champagne ready, we have released the final images of TeX Live 2026. Nothing spectacularly new in this version, but improvements across that bank, and a new player: `xdvipsk`, an extended dvips with support for more image formats and (with LuaTeX) OpenType and TrueType fonts. Things I was very…
The announced update has happened.
Beware of changes WRT footnotes!
Full announcement:
https://mailman.ntg.nl/archives/list/n[email protected]/thread/DGZ4OPUVDEI7BW6FSTZ5RUXIFZ3QHIKX/
Another addition is:
\setuplayout[grid=snapping]
different grid snapping model that delegates more to the TeX engine. Some info in beyond-snapping.tex; still experimental. Some mechanisms (like section heads & math) accept a snapping parameter.
Several bug fixes & small enhancements.
Wolfgang updated the interface definition files!
Prep for #TeXlive 26
The #TeXLive 2026 pretest has started. I activated the pretest builds within our #IslandOfTeX #docker images yesterday.
So in case you want to help testing wthout killing/replacing your local installation feel free to use those. e.g. the full image is available via:
registry.gitlab.com/islandoftex/images/texlive:pretest-full
Rebuild will happen daily to keep you up to date.
Thanks for helping!
More Information on the pretest can be found at https://www.tug.org/texlive/pretest.html
Hey #Fedora friends. Good news! #TeXLive 2025 is finally in rawhide (and Fedora 44). If you update, you should see all of your epoch 11 texlive* packages upgraded to epoch 12 packages.
I'm sure there are bugs, there always are, please file them or poke me here.
The majority of the components now live inside of separated "texlive-collection" packages which match up to the upstream TeXLive collections (except for the components which are non-free, boooo). This makes it much easier to update them (without updating every other component at the same time).
All of this done just in time for TeXLive 2026 (in a few months).
Big thanks to @mirek for doing so many reviews and helping to finish off this herculean task.
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