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-This file records noteworthy changes. (Public domain.)
-
-
-2021 (for TeX Live 2021)
-* Knuth 2021 tune-up, with fixes to all of his *.web files. Overview:
-https://tug.org/TUGboat/42-1/tb130knuth-tuneup21.pdf
-New TeX version is 3.141592653, MF 2.71828182.
-
-* for all engines except original TeX:
-- if \tracinglostchars >= 3, make missing characters an error (not just
- a log message), and always report the character code in hex.
-- if new primitive parameter \tracingstacklevels > 0, logging of macro
- expansion at higher levels is truncated; also, the macro expansion
- depth is indicated on \tracingmacros log lines.
-
-* obscure interaction sequences no longer crash.
-
-
-2020 (for TeX Live 2020, 27 March 2020)
-* \input now also accepts a group-delimited filename, e.g.,
-\input{foo.tex}. The usage with a standard space/token-delimited
-filename is completely unchanged.
-
-The group-delimited name 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 impact LaTeX's \input command, as
-that is a macro redefinition of the standard \input primitive.
-
-* New cross-engine option -cnf-line=STR.
-
-* All TeX engines except tex and etex now compress (with zlib) .fmt files
- (XeTeX and LuaTeX already did so).
-
-pTeX (and all variants): new primitives \ifjfont and \iftfont.
-eptex, euptex: new primitives \Uchar, \Ucharcat, \current(x)spacingmode,
- \ifincsname; revise \fontchar?? and \iffontchar.
-euptex only: new primitive \currentcjktoken.
-
-BibTeX: now reallocates on large (>20k) field values instead of aborting.
-
-
-2019 (for TeX Live 2019, 7 April 2019)
-BibTeX: subsidiary .aux files are looked for in the directory of the
-main .aux file, if not found as-is (to work better with -output-directory).
-
-CWEB: now comes from the CWEBbin package
-(https://github.com/ascherer/cwebbin), with translation capabilities,
-more language support, and more.
-
-
-2018 (for TeX Live 2018, 14 April 2018)
-* Directories in the -output-directory do not mask files by the same name.
-
-2017 (for TeX Live 2017, 19 May 2017)
-2016 (for TeX Live 2016, 21 May 2016)
-2015 (for TeX Live 2015, 21 May 2015)
-2014 (for TeX Live 2014, 24 May 2014)
-2013 (for TeX Live 2013, 30 May 2013)
-* Doc changes and bug fixes.
-
-2012 (for TeX Live 2012, 1 July 2012)
-* upTeX and e-upTeX Japanese engines added.
-
-2011 (for TeX Live 2011, 5 July 2011)
-* epTeX Japanese engine added.
-
-2010 (for TeX Live 2010, 4 June 2010)
-* BibTeX line-breaking bug fix in bibtex.web.
-* pTeX Japanese engine added.
-
-2009 (for TeX Live 2009, 13 October 2009)
-* --shell-restricted aka shell_escape=p for restricted shell access.
-* --enable-write18 and --disable-write18 accepted as synonyms for
- --shell-escape and --no-shell-escape, for compatibility with MiKTeX.
-* Omega removed; use Aleph.
-* Build system now automake-based.
-
-7.5.7 (for TeX Live 2008, 7 July 2008)
-* Include Knuth's 2008 updates.
-* Include LuaTeX.
-* Include SyncTeX.
-* Plenty of pdfTeX and MetaPost updates.
-* Pool strings now compiled into the binaries instead of .pool files.
-* autoconf support finally modernized.
-
-7.5.6 (for TeX Live 2006-07, 30 December 2006)
-* Include XeTeX.
-* pdfTeX and MetaPost updates.
-
-7.5.5 (26 June 2005)
-* BibTeX: dynamically resize the buffer (and related arrays).
-* MP: Version 0.9
-* mpware: Brought to the equivalent of version 0.9.
-* e-TeX, Aleph, pdfeTeX: You can use -ini -etex to start etex mode now
- instead of prepending an asterisk.
-
-7.5.4 (6 February 2005)
-* TeX: \ifeof18 is false if \write18 is enabled.
-* MF, MP: Prevent pathological code from overflowing the "serial number"
- counter for independent variables.
-
-7.5.3 (28 November 2004)
-* ctie: New program, from Julian Gilbey.
-* TeX, MF, MP: We now save the name of the engine in the dump, in
- order to be able to give better error messages in case a dump
- written by another engine is being read.
-* TeX, MF, MP: We now dump the xord, xchr, and xprn arrays, so if
- if a TCX file was loaded in INI mode, that will be retained
- when the dump is loaded. (Doesn't apply to Omega family.)
-* TeX, MF, MP: Add -8bit option, which makes all characters
- printable by default. Note that a TCX file can change this.
- (Doesn't apply to Omega family.)
-* TeX, MF, MP: In TCX files, a third number (0 or 1) can be
- used to set printability. (Doesn't apply to Omega family.)
-* TeX: Include encTeX extension.
-* mft: Allow more than one -style option.
-* pdfxTeX: New.
-* DVItoMP: Now supports color specials, like those added by the
- colordvi package. Note that this feature should be considered
- experimental, and may change in the future.
-* PATGEN: Peter Breitenlohner fixed some typos in text in patgen.web.
-
-7.5.2 (19 February 2003)
-* e-TeX: Remove last bits of support for installing it as 'tex'.
-* Makefile fixes.
-
-7.5.1 (17 February 2003)
-* New upstream sources from Knuth.
-* Lots of little fixes to the new makefiles.
-
-7.5.0 (15 February 2003)
-* Use libtool.
-* Use e-TeX, pdfeTeX as the engine for the latex, pdflatex format.
-
-7.4.6 (7 February 2003)
-* Makefile structure changed.
-* e-Omega: New
-
-7.4.5 (28 January 2003)
-* TeX: Obey locale setting only for terminal and log file.
-* METAFONT, MetaPost: Do not care about locale settings at all.
-
-7.4.4 (16 January 2003)
-* TeX: Increase maximum size of max_strings, main_memory, and pool_size.
-
-7.4.3 (11 January 2003)
-* CWEB: Add --help and --version options.
-* CWEB: Support both .w and and .web suffixes.
-* CWEB: When adding #line directives, put in the path, not just the filename.
-
-7.4.2 (23 December 2002)
-* Minor fixes to makefiles.
-
-7.4.1 (20 December 2002)
-* cweave: Fixed hangs caused by wrong argument order in two prototypes.
-
-7.4.0 (14 December 2002)
-* Using 7.4.x numbers now because the interface of kpathsea has changed in
- ABI-incompatible ways.
-* share/*: Stop shipping fontmap files and tcx files in the web2c tarball.
-* CWEB: Add protypes to code through the change files.
-* BibTeX: Names ending in 'aux' were not handled correctly.
-* METAPost: Handle date and time privitives correctly, instead of having
- them give the date of the mem file.
-
-7.3.11 (13 November 2002)
-* BibTeX: purify$ would strip characters with code >= 128 from its argument.
- This has now changed to just passing them through. This should have no
- effect if you don't use such characters in the input, but may result in
- different output otherwise. Note that other aspects, like proper sorting
- of such characters are not handled at all.
-* CWEB: Increase the maximum length of the names of the input files.
-
-7.3.10 (11 November 2002)
-* Added the CWEB programs. Thanks to Wlodek Bzyl.
-
-7.3.9 (22 October 2002)
-* TeX, METAFONT, METAPost: Add --jobname option to set the jobname. This
- supercedes the use of --fmt, --efmt, --mem, and --base to set the name of
- the format to be dumped in ini mode.
-* TANGLE: New options --length, --lowercase, --uppercase, --mixedcase,
- --underline, --strict, --loose. These affect the output generated by
- tangle.
-
-7.3.8 (11 October 2002)
-* BibTeX: do not split \% in an output line.
-* TeX: mention active extensions.
-* TeX: change name/banner if extensions that break strict compatibility with
- Knuth's TeX are active.
-* web2c: splitup now uses a command-line switch to determine how after
- how many lines it should split the sources.
-
-7.3.7 (27 November 2001)
-* Minor release, again incorporates internal changes to help Omega.
-* Update of the fontmaps.
-
-7.3.6 (18 November 2001)
-* Minor release, again incorporates internal changes to help Omega.
-* TeX, METAFONT, MetaPost:
- New option --recorder which enables a filename recorder. A file
- with extension .fls is created which contains the names of the
- files opened for reading or writing.
-
-7.3.5 (10 November 2001)
-* Minor release, incorporate many changes due to developments of Omega.
- These are mainly internal.
-
-7.3.4 (30 October 2001)
-* Minor release, incorporates most of the features also in TeX-live 6,
- which is known as release 7.3.3.1.
-* TANGLE: As an extension, you can define parametric macros where '[' and ']'
- delimit the argument.
-* MFT: Support METAPOST sources.
-* MPTO: Add -tex=program option. Buffer is now configurable.
-
-7.3.3 (5 August 2000)
-* Minor release.
-* METAFONT: Obey buf_size from texmf.cnf instead of using a hard-coded value.
-
-7.3.2 (19 April 2000)
-* Minor release containing bugfixes for 7.3.1. Web2C 7.3.1 was not released
- on CTAN, only in teTeX 1.0
-* The TeX-live 5 CD contains Web2C 7.3.1x, which is based on the 7.3.1 release
- and contains some changes that have yet to be merged into the main tree. In
- particular, the code for "C-style" error messages and the code for source
- specials has not been merged yet.
-
-7.3.1 (30 May 1999)
-* Minor release containing bugfixes for 7.3. Web2C 7.3 was not released
- on CTAN, only on the TeX-live 4 CD.
-
-7.3 (26 March 1999)
-* New upstream sources from Knuth.
-* TeX, METAFONT, MetaPost:
- (Re)introduction of TCX files.
-* Increased capacity of several programs.
-* Support for pdfeTeX added.
-* Long-standing bugs in VFtoPL and TFtoPL, which led to corrupted TFM
- files being generated, have been fixed.
-
-7.2 (15 March 1998)
-* New upstream version of MetaPost: 0.64.
-* TeX, METAFONT, MetaPost:
- Allow for more restrictions on the files written by \openout.
-* TeX, METAFONT, MetaPost:
- New option --interaction, which can be used to set batchmode, nonstopmode,
- scrollmode, or errorstopmode. Thus we can replace a construct like
- tex '\batchmode \input foo'
- with
- tex --interaction=batchmode foo
- and have a %&format line select the correct format.
-* When %&format selects a format, the search paths are changed to conform
- to that format.
-* TeX, METAFONT, MetaPost:
- During an "ini" run, the name of the format to be dumped can be set with
- the --fmt/--efmt/--base/--mem options.
-* web2c: Extensive support for building e-TeX, Omega, a PDFTeX.
-* web2c: The manual pages are back.
-
-7.1 (10 November 1997)
-* Some MSDOS/Win32 support added to the sources.
-* BibTeX: increased capacity.
-* VPtoVF: Increased capacity.
-* TeX, METAFONT, MetaPost:
- - File foo.bar.tex results in \jobname foo.bar, hence foo.bar.{log,dvi,...}.
- This as opposed to foo and foo.{log,dvi,...} which it how it used to be in
- version 6. In 7.0 situation was confusing, as the heuristics used would
- sometimes result in the extension being stripped, sometimes not.
-* TeX:
- - The -extend-jobname option has been removed.
- - Printing of non-ASCII characters in diagnostics, code by Bernd Raichle.
- - All three of LF, CR, and CRLF are recognized end-of-line tokens.
-* web2c:
- - Some support for e-TeX added to convert.
-
-7.0 (6 February 1997)
-* Update from Knuth for tex, mf, dvitype, pltotf, vptovf, and tangle,
- John Hobby's MetaPost (and support programs) included,
- update from P. Breitenlohner to dvicopy 1.5 and patgen 2.3.
-* Update for kpathsea 3.0.
-* Texinfo manual written.
-* Amiga, OS/2, Windows NT support in the sources.
-* TeX:
- - if -shell-escape or shell_escape in texmf.cnf is enabled,
- \write18{str} passes str to system(3) for processing by sh.
- - MLTeX extensions (\charsubdef, etc.) can be enabled at runtime.
- - Many array sizes can be set dynamically, in texmf.cnf.
- - MakeTeXTFM installed and enabled by default.
- - IPC communications to an external program for incremental DVI reading.
- - texfonts.map applies to TFM files, as originally intended.
- - More than 256 fonts are allowed.
- - DVI comment (with timestamp) can be overridden.
- - tex.web's consistency checks on .fmt files restored.
-* Metafont:
- - A few array sizes can be set dynamically, in texmf.cnf.
- - X11 support disabled by default; configure --with-x to enable it.
- - MakeTeXMF enabled and installed by default.
-* TeX, Metafont, MetaPost:
- - If the first line of the main input file starts with %&, the rest of
- the line is used as the fmt/base/mem file (if it can be found),
- except that %&ini means initex/inimf/inimpost.
- - One binary: initex/mf/mpost capabilities merged with virtex/mf/mpost.
- - New option -progname sets program name independently of argv[0].
- - Eight-bit filenames are output correctly in ^^ notation, instead of
- always being simplified to ^^@.
- - MakeTeX* scripts can be named and disabled via texmf.cnf.
- - MakeTeX* scripts are silent if \batchmode is in effect.
- - TEXMFINI environment variable checked for pool/fmt/base/mem lookups.
- - \openout (TeX) and write (MP) by default will not write to files
- whose names start with `.'.
- - ``Small'' versions no longer supported without source hacking.
- - Length bug regarding single non-ASCII characters in MF and MP fixed.
-* BibTeX:
- - Some arrays dynamically reallocated as needed, other sizes increased.
- - Default behavior is verbose; new -terse option changes that.
- - Statistics are written to the .blg file.
- - Does not look at TEXINPUTS to find .bst files, but does check
- TEXBIB (after BIBINPUTS).
- - Does not interactively ask for the top-level .aux name.
-* All programs:
- - Supply default extensions and default output files.
- - Support the standard --help and --version options.
- - Filenames not arbitrarily restricted in length.
- - Output written in the current directory, not the directory of
- an input file. (Most interesting for tangle.)
- - Times-Roman etc. work as font names, via texfonts.map and subsidiaries.
-* dvitype prints decimal opcode numbers with --show-opcodes.
-* bibtex and gftodvi never interactively ask for filenames;
- dvitype and dvicopy do not enter interactive dialogues.
-* mft looks in MFTINPUTS, not TEXINPUTS.
-* Configuration:
- - Optional features are enabled via configure --with-* and --enable-*
- options. Run configure --help.
- - There is no small TeX, Metafont, or MetaPost. If you want it, you'll
- have to change the change files, #define SMALL* yourself, and do
- whatever else is necessary yourself.
-* Source hierarchy substantially simplified.
-* Web2c:
- - Support for ifndef...endifn, a la ifdef.
- - Support for const expressions.
- - Can generate ANSI code.
-
-Version 6.1 (3 February 1994)
-* foo.bar found before foo.tex (found before foo).
-* configure links sun.c to sun-sunview.c if SUNWIN is defined.
-* -DLONG_64_BITS is supplied automatically (if appropriate).
-* Various changes for configure --srcdir.
-* Sample MakeTeX* scripts included.
-
-Version 6.0 (24 January 1994)
-* Default paths changed.
-* Update for TeX 3.1415, etc.
-* Change to use the kpathsea library, a la dvipsk and xdvik.
-
-* TeX's \openin command invokes MakeTeXTeX just like \input.
-
-* TeX & Metafont:
- - 16-byte values can be dumped, thus allowing native `long' on the DEC Alpha.
- - But 32-bit integers are used if sharable format files are desired,
- even on 64-bit machines.
- - Interrupts are accepted when waiting for input.
-
-* Online output support in Metafont for Regis terminals and the NeXT.
-* gftopk can handle characters with up to 100,000 rows.
-* vftovp's -charcode-format=ascii works properly.
-* patgen doesn't give bizarre numeric output where it should be text.
-
-* configuration:
- - -lX11 is used for OpenWindows.
- - The MakeTeX... scripts are individually selectable by default, and
- can always be invoked if certain environment variables are set.
- - The subdirectory trick using st_nlink can be turned off.
-
-* Makefiles:
- - man/Makefile doesn't remove itself at `clean'.
- - {tex,mf}/clean-tr[ia]p doesn't reinstall a {tex,mf}d.h with the test
- constants.
- - web2c/Makefile removes lex and yacc output at `clean'.
- - mkdirchain invoked as an absolute filename.
-
-* web2c:
- - sync is no longer invoked; instead the Makefiles touch texd.h and
- mfd.h after they are finished.
-
-Version 5.851d (22 February 1993)
-
-* A file `texfonts.map' allows arbitrary mapping of font names (as given
- to, for instance, \font) to filenames.
-
-* Metafont & TeX:
- - If a .tex, .tfm, or .mf file can't be found, MakeTeX{TeX,TFM,MF} is
- invoked before giving up, as in dvips' MakeTeXPK.
- - Sharable format/base files load faster on LittleEndian machines.
- - TEXMFOUTPUT is only used for those files which can't be written in
- the current directory, instead of all files after the first such.
- Its usage is also reflected in the `... written on ...' messages at
- the end of the run.
- - If the DISPLAY environment variable is set, Metafont assumes you are
- running under X11 for the purposes of online output (instead of
- relying on the TERM or MFTERM envvar).
- - Checks for write errors on DVI/GF output.
- - Unusual glue values no longer make TeX dump core on some systems.
-
-* BibTeX:
- - The cross-reference feature works as documented (I had foolishly
- changed the default value of min_crossrefs to eliminate it).
- - New option -min-crossrefs=<number> to change it dynamically.
- - New option -verbose; without it, normal reportage is eliminated.
- - Maximum number of .bib files increased to 100.
- - Non-printable-ASCII characters in .bib files are preserved.
-
-* TeXware:
- - tftopl adds a default extension `.tfm' to the input file if necessary.
-
-* web2c:
- - Unsigned types are used where possible to represent Pascal
- subranges. Among other things, this eliminates a system dependency
- in creating format/base files (small_number was defined as `schar',
- which varies between systems).
-
-* configuration:
- - Unpacks into web2c-<version> instead of src-<version>.*.
- - site.h merged into lib/c-auto.h.in and ./Makefile.in.
- - sed is used instead of patch to make the ``small'' change files.
- - sed is used instead of ed to make the trip/trap files.
- - The configure script looks in more directories for the X libraries
- and include files, and is generated from the latest version of Autoconf.
- - mfware and texware directories merged into the others.
- - The web2c version is defined in one place, so system information can
- be added to the banners more easily.
-
-* Makefiles:
- - Makefiles in subdirectories are created by configure.
- - $(srcdir) (i.e., compiling in a different directory) is closer to working.
- - Stamp files are not used at the top level, or for {tex,mf}/convert.
- - New targets install-data and install-exec, to only install
- architecture-(in)dependent files.
-
-* PROBLEMS.W2C has some notes on compiling and using these programs
- under DOS, contributed by melvin@math.psu.edu.
-
-* The man pages have been significantly updated and improved by
- beebe@math.utah.edu.
-
-* The original web files haven't changed.
-
-Release 4.893b:
-* Include patches from Tim to web2c to turn off the verbose output,
- unless -d is supplied to web2c.
-* Change $(AR) in the MFwindow Makefile to `ar'.
-* Try to get the base file from the program name in Metafont, as well in
- TeX. Implication: mf.script and tex.script are no longer supplied,
- since a link to plain.{base,fmt} named {mf,tex}.{base,fmt} suffices.
- `make install' doesn't create these links, since they only need to be
- done once.
-* Move some stuff from site.h that should never be changed to a new
- file, defaults.h. Add a new definition, SIGNAL_HANDLER_RETURN_TYPE, to
- site.h, to get rid of the warnings in {tex,mf}/extra.c.
-* Use a sed script, contributed by eggert@twinsun.com, instead of the
- awk script, at the beginning of the pipeline.
-* Fix an unsigned comparison problem in pltotf, that made cc produce
- infinite ligature loops when converting trip.pl.
-* Change threshold in Metafont, and f in tftopl, so broken C compilers
- (like some versions of pcc) don't get confused.
-* Port vftovp and vptovf. Move pktogf and pktype to fontutil.
-* Allow more than 500 kern pairs in pltotf.
-* Change the first parameter to {mf,extra}/extra.c to *filename from
- filename[].
-* Use a better hack for the mutually recursive procedures in pltotf et al.,
- from Tor Lillqvist <tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi>.
-
-Release 2.993+1.9 = 4.893a:
-Sebastian contributed the updates to ctex.ch, tftopl.ch, and pltotf.ch.
-Karl did the cmf.ch update.
-
-Release 3.0:
-Brings everything up to the new 8-bit versions.
-Almost every file has changed at least somewhat, so I'm not going to
-list all the changes. Here are some highlights:
-* char is now 0..255 instead of 0..127 in *.defines.
-* `packed' is no longer ignored as part of an identifier (e.g., `packed_trie').
-* new Makefiles to make it easier to do the trip/trap test, and with all
- the support programs integrated.
-* ctex.ch has a hack to get around trie_op_hash being an array with a
- negative lower bound.
-* pltotf.ch has a hack to get around mutually recursive routines.