We are happy to announce a new release of MetaPost: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost 1.504 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The standalone distribution package and a win32 binary can be downloaded immediately from http://foundry.supelec.fr/gf/project/metapost/ This is a bugfix release following the major internal rewrite done for 1.500. In fact, this will be the version of metapost that will be on TeXLive 2011. The win32 binary is intended for texlive or a similar web2c-based installation, this executable will *not* work for miktex. Of course, we welcome any comments (either good or bad) that you may have. Simply replying to this message is fine, but see the bottom of the message for a more formal way to report bugs and feature requests. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in MetaPost version 1.504: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * A fix to the automatic detection of 'dvitomp' mode based on the executable name (proposed by PEB). * A better way to discover the end of the preload file is used now. * A memory release bug that caused metapost to crash on exit when fontmaking:=1 has been fixed. * A memory leak in the string concatenation code has been removed. * Again, a set of improvements to the manual. * Updated the manual page mpost.man ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Legal notice / license / bug reports ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost is a system for producing graphics developed by John Hobby at AT&T, based on Donald Knuth's Metafont. The MetaPost home page is http://tug.org/metapost. MetaPost is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The MetaPost development project is currently hosted at Supelec, http://foundry.supelec.fr/gf/project/metapost; with a bug tracker at http://tracker.luatex.org/. Please report bugs and request enhancements through there if possible. Alternatively, you can reach us through the mailing list as well. Have fun! Taco Hoekwater, for the MetaPost team, May 6, 2011.