CTAN update: TeXRocks

Date: October 11, 2026 12:44:07 PM CEST

Zhenyu Wu submitted an update to the TeXRocks bundle. Version: 0.3.20 License: gpl3 Summary description: A minimal (La)TeX distribution Announcement text:

Upgrade to luahbtex 1.27.0 and latex2e 2026.6.1

The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/texrocks The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/texrocks/

Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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TeXRocks – A minimal (La)TeX distribution

TeXRocks is a minimal (La)TeX distribution powered by Luarocks/Lux and LuaTeX. It has the following features:

virtual environment: all TeX packages are installed to .lux/5.3/XXXXX-package_name@version/, like nodejs’s node_modules/ and python’s .venv/. After development of PDF, you can delete it safely, and it will not affect your next development of PDF.
minimal: we only install required packages
package version control: when you declare latex-base == '2026.06.01-1', it will install exactly latex-base and no other versions! Pin the version like nodejs’s package.json and python’s requirements.txt
package installation in parallel: install many packages at the same time
a server to host compiled TeX packages: TeXRocks
use Lua to develop TeX packages: texmf

We also provide some related TeX tools, like kpsewhich and texdef written in Lua. See official website TeXRocks

Package	TeXRocks
Version	0.3.20
Maintainer	Zhenyu Wu

CTAN update: TeXRocks

TeXRocks – A minimal (La)TeX distribution

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