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CTAN update: luadraw

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:38:10 +0200

Patrick Fradin submitted an update to the

                    luadraw

package.

Version:  3.3 2026-07-09
License:  lppl1.3c

Summary description:  Lua-based mathematical graphs for LuaLaTeX

Announcement text: * The *luadraw_pdfliteral* module has been added; it allows
   for direct drawing within the PDF stream — including 2D paths,

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CTAN update: luamplib

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:07:55 +0200

Dohyun Kim submitted an update to the

                luamplib

package.

Version: 2.42.3 2026-07-09
License: gpl2

Summary description: Use LuaTeX’s built-in MetaPost interpreter

Announcement text:- allow using the following macros multiple times:
  withcoonspatchinit, withtensorpatchinit, withtrianglepatchinit.


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CTAN update: hawkdraw

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:19:09 +0200

Jasper Habicht submitted an update to the

                hawkdraw

package.

Version: 0.4.1 2026-07-08
License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Draw vector graphics using l3draw with a simple syntax

Announcement text:- Enhancing pattern support;
- Adding conic shadings.
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CTAN update: marginalia

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:05:42 +0200

Alan J. Cain submitted an update to the

                marginalia

package.

Version:  0.83.23 2026-07-08
License:  lppl1.3c

Summary description:  Marginal content anywhere with automatic adjustment for LuaLaTeX

Announcement text: Fix: Correct default placement of marginal content items in
      two-column mode, on verso pages, with two-sided layout.

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New on CTAN: monoref

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:39:35 +0200

Srikanth Mohankumar submitted the

                monoref

package.

Version:  1.3 2026-07-07
License:  lppl1.3c

Summary description:  Single-pass cross-references, page totals, and a table of contents for LuaLaTeX

Announcement text: monoref (v1.3) — a new package that resolves forward \ref/\pageref,
 the total page count, and a multi-level table of contents in a single

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New on CTAN: carom-billiards

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:34:27 +0200

Anthony Saint-Criq submitted the

                carom-billiards

package.

Version: 2026-07-07
License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Environment to typeset annotated French billiard tables

Announcement text:
This package provides a new environment together with a collection of TikZ macros designed to facilitate the creation of French billiards table diagrams. This is a renaming of the `carom` package from 2026-06-30 to fix a file name conflict with an older package.
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New on CTAN: easter

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:56:17 +0200

Florian Tasso submitted the

                 easter

package.

Version: 1.0 2026-07-07
License: gpl3+

Summary description: Implementation of the Meeus algorithms to compute Easter's 
date an related

Announcement text:This package provides commands to compute the date of Easter, Ascension and 

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CTAN update: ZUGFeRD

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:42:47 +0200

Marei Peischl submitted an update to the

                   ZUGFeRD

package.

Version:  0.12 2026-07-06
License:  lppl1.3c

Summary description:  ZUGFeRD and Faktur-X invoicing using LaTeX

Announcement text: Bugfix release: Simplify checks for pdfmanagement + adjust timing for Metadata


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CTAN update: hvextern

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:39:52 +0200

Herbert Voß submitted an update to the

                hvextern

package.

Version: 0.44 2026-07-04
License: lppl1.3

Summary description: Write and execute external code, and insert the output

Announcement text:
v 0.44  2026-07-04  - added support for wolframscript
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CTAN update: olsak-misc

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:41:16 +0200

Petr Olšák submitted an update to the

                  olsak-misc

package.

Version:  Jul. 2026
License:  pd

Summary description:  Collection of plain TeX macros written by Petr Olšák

Announcement text: The package olsak-misc is a bundle of various TeX macros.
 This release improves the cropmarks.tex macro file: variant shape

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CTAN update: color-edits

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:40:09 +0200

David Kempe submitted an update to the

                   color-edits

package.

Version:  2.0 2026-07-05
License:  lppl1.3

Summary description:  Colorful edits for multiple authors of a shared document

Announcement text: color-edits is a macro package to facilitate joint editing of a
 document (e.g., research paper) by multiple authors, annotating

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CTAN update: luciole

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:15:19 +0200

Daniel Flipo submitted an update to the

                 luciole

package.

Version: 0.70 2026-07-05
License: cc-by-4 ofl lppl1.3c

Summary description: Luciole OpenType fonts for LuaTeX and XeTeX

Announcement text:- Script variant added for calligraphic capitals.
   - Circle, diamond and lozenge operators : sizes enlarged.
   - Brackets redesigned.

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CTAN update: archaeologie

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:24:31 +0200

Lukas C. Bossert submitted an update to the

                   archaeologie

package.

Version:  2.5.1 2026-07-04
License:  lppl1.3

Summary description:  A citation-style which covers rules of the German Archaeological Institute

Announcement text: Version 2.5.1 modernizes the PDF documentation layout, typography,
 headers, and example boxes. It also fixes the documentation build

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CTAN update: scholatex

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 06:20:46 +0200

Gérard Dubard submitted an update to the

                scholatex

package.

Version: 2.5
License: gpl3+

Summary description: A tag-based language for print-ready teaching worksheets, built on LuaLaTeX

Announcement text:scholatex 2.5 — the lycée release.

New: the equation form  declares a function as the board does; computes sign tables from the factored expression (exact zeros, forbidden values, checked invariants); weighted probability trees with automatic complements; areas, cobwebs and the normal/binomial laws in ; five descriptive statistics figures (bars, histogram-as-density, pie, boxplot, scatter with least-squares fit); the trigonometric circle with exact remarkable values; the number line, declared or solved from an inequality; six solids in cabinet projection with computed hidden edges; a full transcendental function library (circular, hyperbolic, their inverses, exp/ln/log/logb) shared between computed values and plots; a document-wide precision option for display rounding, and scale: on every drawing.

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CTAN update: NovaBeamer-Theme

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 06:20:29 +0200

Riccardo Martelli submitted an update to the

                NovaBeamer-Theme

package.

Version: 1.1
License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: A flexible and customizable LaTeX theme for creating professional presentations

Announcement text:
Version 1.1: Renamed the main file to beamerthemenovabeamer.sty to support the standard \usetheme mechanism.
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CTAN update: biblatex-ijsra

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 05:59:47 +0200

Lukas C. Bossert submitted an update to the

                 biblatex-ijsra

package.

Version:  0.2 2026-07-03
License:  lppl1.3

Summary description:  BibLaTeX style for the International Journal of Student Research in Archaeology

Announcement text: Version 0.2 is a security patch release.
 It removes an outdated external journal link because the target

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CTAN update: l3build

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 09:04:49 +0200

The LaTeX Project Team  submitted an update to the

                 l3build

package.

Version: 2026-07-03
License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: A testing and building system for (La)TeX

Announcement text:## [2026-07-03]

### Fixed

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CTAN update: hawkdraw

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:01:12 +0200

Jasper Habicht submitted an update to the

                  hawkdraw

package.

Version:  0.4.0 2026-07-01
License:  lppl1.3c

Summary description:  Draw vector graphics using l3draw with a simple syntax

Announcement text: - Adding shadings, opacity groups, blend modes and soft masks;


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CTAN update: CTeX

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:54:59 +0200

Liam Huang submitted an update to the

                CTeX

package.

Version: 2.6.1
License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: LaTeX classes and packages for Chinese typesetting

Announcement text:This release fixes one bug.

BUG FIXES

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CTAN update: xecjk

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:54:53 +0200

Liam Huang submitted an update to the

                xecjk

package.

Version: 3.10.1
License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Support for CJK documents in XeLaTeX

Announcement text:This release fixes three bugs related to spurious or missing CJKecglue spacing.

BUG FIXES

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CTAN update: l3build

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:58:39 +0200

The LaTeX Project Team  submitted an update to the

                 l3build

package.

Version: 2026-07-02
License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: A testing and building system for (La)TeX

Announcement text:## [2026-07-02]

### Added

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CTAN update: ltx-talk

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:25:18 +0200

Joseph Wright submitted an update to the

                 ltx-talk

package.

Version:  0.5.1 2026-07-02
License:  lppl1.3c

Summary description:  A class for typesetting presentations

Announcement text: ### Changed


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New on CTAN: mahjong-tiles

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:54:05 +0200

C M Wither submitted the

                mahjong-tiles

package.

Version: 2.2.0
License: mit

Summary description: mahjong-tiles is a LaTeX package for typesetting Japanese/Riichi Mahjong tiles

Announcement text:`mahjong-tiles` is a new LaTeX package for typesetting Japanese/Riichi Mahjong tiles, hands, and discard rivers using compact MPSZ notation. This initial CTAN release provides:

* `\mahjong{...}` for typesetting Mahjong hands;

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CTAN update: gbt7714

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:25:31 +0200

Zeping Lee submitted an update to the

                gbt7714

package.

Version: 3.0.0 2026-07-01
License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: A BibTeX implementation of China National Standard GB/T 7714

Announcement text:
Update the default version of BibTeX styles to 2025.
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CTAN update: piton

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:25:28 +0200

François Pantigny submitted an update to the

                piton

package.

Version: 4.14 2026-07-01
License: lppl1.3

Summary description: Typeset computer listings with LPeg of LuaLaTeX

Announcement text:The key 'line-numbers/format' has now an additive syntax.

New keys 'after-begin-escape' and 'before-begin-escape'.

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CTAN update: fonts-tlwg

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:25:26 +0200

Theppitak Karoonboonyanan submitted an update to the

                fonts-tlwg

package.

Version: 0.7.4
License: gpl2+ lppl1.3 other-free

Summary description: Thai fonts for LaTeX from TLWG

Announcement text:Build system:

  - Fix make rules to prevent parallel build failure.

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CTAN update: testhyphens

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:16:50 +0200

Claudio Beccari submitted an update to the

                  testhyphens

package.

Version:  1.1 2026-06-29
License:  lppl1.3c

Summary description:  Testing hyphenation patterns

Announcement text: This upgrade lets users typeset a hyphenated word list
 with specified language and hyphenation parameters.

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CTAN update: csvsimple

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:04:27 +0200

Thomas F. Sturm submitted an update to the

                csvsimple

package.

Version: 3.0.0 2026-07-01
License: lppl1.3

Summary description: Simple CSV file processing

Announcement text:### Added
- Documentation example section "Storing Data in L3 Property Lists"
- Some further additions to the documentation.

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New on CTAN: tagsnip

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:21:57 +0200

Rostislav Brož submitted the

                tagsnip

package.

Version:  1.0.1
License:  mit

Summary description:  Include tagged code snippets from local files or remote URLs

Announcement text: tagsnip provides a LaTeX command for including tagged code snippets
 from local files or remote URLs. Snippets are extracted by an external

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CTAN update: pst-geo

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 05:58:41 +0200

Herbert Voß submitted an update to the

                 pst-geo

package.

Version: 0.09a 2026-06-30
License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Geographical Projections

Announcement text:
Reduce the file size of the documentation by using png images instead of pdf
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CTAN update: plantuml

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:24:30 +0200

Oliver Kopp submitted an update to the

                 plantuml

package.

Version: 0.7.0 2026-06-29
License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Support for rendering UML diagrams using PlantUML

Announcement text:### Added

- Added support for `pdflatex`. PlantUML is now driven directly via shell escape, mirroring the LuaLaTeX path (same `plantuml.jar` invocation and MD5-based source caching). [#1](https://github.com/koppor/plantuml/issues/1)

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CTAN update: hvextern

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:24:06 +0200

Herbert Voß submitted an update to the

                 hvextern

package.

Version: 0.43 2026-06-30
License: lppl1.3

Summary description: Write and execute external code, and insert the output

Announcement text:
added option png for conversion pdf->png
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