LaTeX2e Release Newsletters
The most recent version of LaTeX is nominally dated 2024/11/01 (it may additionally have a patch-level associated with it).
We are back to a fairly regular release cycle with two releases per year: typically June and November. If you are in need of some immediate bug fix you may try the latex-dev version that contains code updates for the next release (distributed as part of your normal TeX installation, see ltnews30 for details) or try the Git Repository of the source code.
Starting with the 2015/01/01 release we provide a "latexrelease" package that allows you to emulate older (or newer) versions of the format without regenerating it from scratch; see ltnews22 for further details.
Note: ltnews18 doesn't exist.
By mistake we incremented the issue number twice moving directly from 17 to 19.
A document with all available issues bundled together in their historical order is ltnews.pdf.
In addition the newsletters are individually available below.
| Release date | LaTeX2e News issue (PDF) | Important Topics covered |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/11/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 40 | Thirty years of LaTeX2e; an important update on engine support; automatic tagging of math formulas; tagging support for external packages; various smaller changes and improvements to the base, amsmath, tools, and l3build bundles |
| 2024/06/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 39 | News from tagging project; enhancements to the mark mechanism; xtemplate in the format; various smaller changes and improvements to the base, amsmath, tools, and cyrillic bundles |
| 2023/11/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 38 | News from tagging project; new management concept: sockets and plugs; new management concept: document properties and cross-referencing; various smaller changes and improvements to the base and tools bundles |
| 2023/06/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 37 | Advances in the tagging project; hooks with arguments; various smaller changes and improvements to the base and tools bundles |
| 2022/11/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 36 | Auto-detecting key/value arguments; various smaller changes and improvements to the base, graphics, and tools bundles |
| 2022/06/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 35 | Document metadata interface; new mark mechanism; key/value approach for options; doc version 3; latex-lab bundle; various smaller changes and improvements to the base, amsmath, graphics, and tools bundles |
| 2021/11/15 | LaTeX2e News Issue 34 | Updates to hook management system; new and improved commands; code improvements & bug fixes in kernel graphics, tools, and amsmath |
| 2021/06/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 33 | Hooks for paragraphs and generic hooks for commands; improved copy & paste; file handling improvements; NFSS improvements; various smaller improvements and bug fixes |
| 2020/10/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 32 | New hook management for LaTeX; xparse now part of the kernel; various smaller improvements and bug fixes |
| 2020/02/02 | LaTeX2e News Issue 31 | L3 programming layer now part of the 2e kernel; improvements and new features for LaTeX font selection (NFSS); various bug fixes |
| 2019/10/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 30 | LaTeX development formats available; Unicode now allowed in labels, file names and other places; improvements to filecontents, robustify many commands; further changes to base, tools, and amsmath |
| 2018/12/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 29 | Bug fix release with changes to base, tools, and amsmath |
| 2018/04/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 28 | LaTeX now on GitHub; Bug report policy change; UTF-8: new default input encoding; General rollback concept for packages; Changes to base, tools, and amsmath |
| 2017/04/15 | LaTeX2e News Issue 27 | ISO Date support; TU encoding improvements; Hyphenation and default language; Small code updates |
| 2017/01/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 26 | eTeX support now required; Default encodings for Unicode engines; Updates to amsmath and tools packages; New latexbug package; Vertical spacing in old documents |
| 2016/03/31 | LaTeX2e News Issue 25 | LuaTeX support; amsmath maintenance now done by the LaTeX Project Team; Small code updates |
| 2016/02/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 24 | LuaTeX support; Unicode engines; East European accents; \ShellEscape |
| 2015/10/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 23 | LuaTeX support; Extra floats; Comma accents; inputenc and multicol updates |
| 2015/01/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 22 | Bug-fix policy change; Introduced latexrelease package; Kernel updates (incorporating all bug fixes from fixltx2e package); l3build used to build and test distribution |
| 2014/05/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 21 | Bug-fix release; New fltracepackage; Code updates in several areas |
| 2011/06/27 | LaTeX2e News Issue 20 | Bug-fix release; Code updates in several areas |
| 2009/10/15 | LaTeX2e News Issue 19 | New SVN code repository for LaTeX |
| 2005/12/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 17 | Small LPPL update (1.3c); New guide on font encodings; Code updates in several areas |
| 2003/12/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 16 | 10 years of LaTeX2e; The LaTeX Companion 2ed |
| 2003/12/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 15 | LPPL 1.3 now officially approved license; Unicode input support; Smaller enhancements |
| 2001/06/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 14 | Babel 3.7 released; Latin9 encoding support; New trace package; Some expl3 experimental packages published |
| 2000/06/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 13 | AMS-LaTeX 2.0 released; Switch to yearly kernel releases; Latin4 encoding support |
| 1999/12/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 12 | LPPL 1.2 released; New fixltx2epackage |
| 1999/06/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 11 | New math font encoding developed |
| 1998/12/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 10 | Five years of LaTeX2e |
| 1998/06/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 09 | |
| 1997/12/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 08 | |
| 1997/06/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 07 | Bug policy on standard classes; \normalsfcodes |
| 1996/12/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 06 | |
| 1996/06/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 05 | |
| 1995/12/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 04 | |
| 1995/06/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 03 | |
| 1994/12/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 02 | |
| 1994/06/01 | LaTeX2e News Issue 01 |