CTAN Update: latex-base-dev

The LaTeX Team submitted an update to the latex-base-dev bundle. Version: 2021-05-01 pre-release 1 License: lppl1.3c Summary description: Development pre-release of the LaTeX kernel Announcement text:

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In addition to LaTeX2e 2020-10-01 patch level 4, this pre-release features the following changes: 2020-12-22 Frank Mittelbach <Frank.Mittelbach at latex-project.org> * ltfssaxes.dtx (subsection{Changing to a new series}): Distangle series and shape update by delaying the font series and font shape merging (gh/444) Move the rollback info for \normalshape after its main definition otherwise it will not be undone (gh/458) 2020-12-22 Frank Mittelbach <Frank.Mittelbach at latex-project.org> * ltfsstrc.dtx (subsection{General font loading}): Alter \selectfont to do the delayed merging of font series and font shape (gh/444) 2020-12-27 Frank Mittelbach <Frank.Mittelbach at latex-project.org> * letter.dtx (subsubsection{Page breaking control}): The \opening argument was splitting name and address using \\ but did not allow to use \\[...] for this (gh/427) 2020-12-10 Frank Mittelbach <Frank.Mittelbach at latex-project.org> * ltbibl.dtx (section{Bibliography Generation}): Delay any \cs{nocite} in the preamble instead of raising an error (gh/424) 2020-12-06 Johannes Braams <Johannes.Braams at latex-project.org> * miscelaneous files: gh/428, gh/429 and gh/430 list a number of typing mistakes and missing documentation that have crept in over the years. The following files were affected and have been corrected: alltt.dtx, classes.dtx, doc.dtx, docstrip.dtx, fix-cm.dtx, fontdef.dtx, ifthen.dtx, inputenc.dtx, latex209.dtx, latexrelease.dtx, ltbibl.dtx, ltboxes.dtx, ltclass.dtx, ltcntrl.dtx, ltcounts.dtx, ltdefns.dtx, ltdirchk.dtx, ltexpl.dtx, ltfilehook.dtx, ltfiles.dtx, ltfinal.dtx, ltfloat.dtx, ltfntcmd.dtx, ltfssaxes.dtx, ltfssbas.dtx, ltfsscmp.dtx, ltfssdcl.dtx, ltfssini.dtx, ltfsstrc.dtx, lthooks.dtx, ltlength.dtx, ltlists.dtx, ltluatex.dtx, ltmath.dtx, ltmiscen.dtx, ltoutenc.dtx, ltoutput.dtx, ltpage.dtx, ltpageno.dtx, ltpictur.dtx, ltplain.dtx, ltsect.dtx, ltshipout.dtx, lttextcomp.dtx, ltvers.dtx, ltxdoc.dtx, ltxref.dtx, nfssfont.dtx, proc.dtx, slides.dtx, utf8ienc.dtx. 2020-12-04 Frank Mittelbach <Frank.Mittelbach at latex-project.org> * ltfilehook.dtx (subsection{Declaring a file substitution}): Don't drop file substitution declarations when rolling back just render them no-ops 2020-12-04 Frank Mittelbach <Frank.Mittelbach at latex-project.org> Add a hook to \selectfont to be executed after the switch to the new font. This implements the functionality formerly in the everysel package. 2020-12-04 Frank Mittelbach <Frank.Mittelbach at latex-project.org> * ltfinal.dtx (subsection{File substitutions}): Emulate everysel package 2020-12-04 Frank Mittelbach <Frank.Mittelbach at latex-project.org> * ltfssini.dtx (subsection{Miscellaneous}): Setting up \f at series and \f at shape default values directly (gh/444) 2020-11-23 Frank Mittelbach <Frank.Mittelbach at latex-project.org> * ltshipout.dtx: Check for both kernel and user hooks and execute if either is non-empty (gh/431)} 2020-10-26 Frank Mittelbach <Frank.Mittelbach at latex-project.org> * ltmiscen.dtx (subsection{Environments}): \enddocument should always start out in vmode (gh/385)

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

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