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<h3>PDFTeX and LuaTeX</h3>
<p/>As is said elsewhere in these FAQs, development of
<a href="FAQ-whatpdftex.html">PDFTeX</a> is &ldquo;in essence&rdquo; complete &mdash;
-no new facilities are being developed, since the limitations of the
-present structure mean that the returns on effort invested are
-diminishing. The PDFTeX team has announced that no further
-developments will be added after the release of PDFTeX 1.50.0,
-which will be the next major release.
+no new facilities are being developed. The PDFTeX team has
+announced that they have frozen PDFTeX in its current state
+(version 1.49.10), and that nothing but bug corrections will be
+provided up to the time of the final release, PDFTeX 1.50.0.
<p/>In parallel with the running-down of PDFTeX development,
development of a new system, LuaTeX is under way.
<a href="http://www.lua.org/"><i>Lua</a></i> is a script
@@ -29,10 +28,15 @@ support from various sources) pursuing avenues that many of the other
current projects have in their sights, notably Unicode character
representations and support for OpenType fonts. The intention is
to integrate the extensions pioneered by <a href="FAQ-omegaleph.html">Aleph</a>.
-<p/>A release of LuaTeX whose functionality is declared (version 0.50)
-has recently appeared. TeX Live 2008 incorporates an early release
-of LuaTeX, and the upcoming MiKTeX version 2.8 (no current
-release date) will probably incorporate LuaTeX. ConTeXt
-distributions can already make use of LuaTeX.
+<p/>Version 0.50.0 of LuaTeX is intended to at least demonstrate the final
+functionality; it was released near the end of December 2009. Much
+work remains to be done, and this remains a beta-release.
+TeX Live 2009 incorporates (at the time of writing) LuaTeX
+version 0.44.0, but the latest MiKTeX (version 2.8) still doesn&rsquo;t
+offer it.
+<p/>ConTeXt &lsquo;Mark 4&rsquo; can already make use of LuaTeX; much of its
+code already appears in two forms &mdash; a TeX-based version
+(<code>.mkii</code>) and a &lsquo;<code>.mkiv</code>&rsquo; version. LaTeX is also
+steadily acquiring macro packages in support of its use.
<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=luatex">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=luatex</a>
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