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This file records noteworthy changes. (Public domain.)
+See also */NEWS, */ChangeLog, etc.
+
+2024 (for TeX Live 2024)
+
+* For all engines: if the --output-directory option is given, its value
+ is saved in the enviroment variable TEXMF_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY, for the
+ benefit of subprograms (called with \write18).
+
+ Furthermore, if the --output-directory option is not given, but
+ the TEXMF_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY environment variable is set, that is used
+ for all output files, as if it had been the value given to the
+ --output-directory option. More details:
+ https://tug.org/texinfohtml/web2c.html#Output-file-location
+
+* mpost: new option --numbersystem=interval to support interval
+ arithmetic, via the mpfi library.
-2023 (for TeX Live 2023)
+2023 (for TeX Live 2023, 9 March 2023)
* (u)pTeX: now using as aliases of e(u)ptex. Also support guessing input
encodings with these and (u)pbibtex.