LaTeX2e Release Newsletters
The most recent version of LaTeX is nominally dated 2024/06/01 (it may additionally have a patch-level associated with it).
Due to the small number of changes these days new releases will appear at irregular intervals, normally once a year. If you are in need of some immediate bug fix you may 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/06/01 | 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 |