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Luatex 1.12.0 announcement.
by luigi scarso 27 May '23

27 May '23

============================================================== LuaTeX 1.12.0 2020-03-15 ============================================================== This is the release for TeX live 2020. --shell-restricted now forbids loading of dso (dll/so object) Scaled virtual font Aadditional primitives \eTeXglue[stretch|shrink]order for querying order the etex way. Extra features runtoks tex.getmodenames() (as these can differ per engine/version) Permit nested runtoks in more complex situations of nesting (HH) More accurate and correct test for tex.[set|get]math Minor clean-up and bugs fixed -- luigi

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Re: [Dev-luatex] bug#48064: texlive-* packages fail to build non-deterministically
by Ludovic Courtès 31 Dec '21

31 Dec '21

Hello, While investigating luatex crashes in the TeX Live 2020 package of GNU Guix¹, we identified the following heap corruption reported by Valgrind (this is on GNU/Linux, with glibc 2.33): --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- sh-5.0$ ~ludo/.guix-profile/bin/valgrind --extra-debuginfo-path=/gnu/store/f933bvd6ab6l2lg6xl6k1a6jwvcls0z6-glibc-2.33-debug/lib/debug "luatex" "-interaction=nonstopmode" "-output-directory=build" "&luatex" "amsbsy.dtx" ==28531== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==28531== Copyright (C) 2002-2017, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==28531== Using Valgrind-3.16.1 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info ==28531== Command: luatex -interaction=nonstopmode -output-directory=build &luatex amsbsy.dtx ==28531== This is LuaTeX, Version 1.12.0 (TeX Live 2020) restricted system commands enabled. ==28531== Invalid write of size 8 ==28531== at 0x485C691: lua_pushlstring (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/lib/libtexlua53.so.5.3.5) ==28531== by 0x568E03: load_hyphenation (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/bin/luatex) ==28531== by 0x56B41C: undump_language_data (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/bin/luatex) ==28531== by 0x4DFB9F: load_fmt_file (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/bin/luatex) ==28531== by 0x4EF0ED: main_body (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/bin/luatex) ==28531== by 0x45118D: main (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/bin/luatex) ==28531== Address 0xae14170 is 0 bytes after a block of size 1,168 alloc'd ==28531== at 0x483EBE1: realloc (in /gnu/store/jlmh0jbgr6zn4iyvhfbvxps8pykzj5ry-valgrind-3.16.1/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) ==28531== by 0x46695D: ??? (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/bin/luatex) ==28531== by 0x486D932: ??? (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/lib/libtexlua53.so.5.3.5) ==28531== by 0x48660F2: ??? (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/lib/libtexlua53.so.5.3.5) ==28531== by 0x4868BE7: ??? (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/lib/libtexlua53.so.5.3.5) ==28531== by 0x4868FCF: ??? (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/lib/libtexlua53.so.5.3.5) ==28531== by 0x486988B: ??? (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/lib/libtexlua53.so.5.3.5) ==28531== by 0x485C6BB: lua_pushlstring (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/lib/libtexlua53.so.5.3.5) ==28531== by 0x568E03: load_hyphenation (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/bin/luatex) ==28531== by 0x56B41C: undump_language_data (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/bin/luatex) ==28531== by 0x4DFB9F: load_fmt_file (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/bin/luatex) ==28531== by 0x4EF0ED: main_body (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/bin/luatex) ==28531== ==28531== Invalid write of size 4 ==28531== at 0x485C6A2: lua_pushlstring (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/lib/libtexlua53.so.5.3.5) ==28531== by 0x568E03: load_hyphenation (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/bin/luatex) ==28531== by 0x56B41C: undump_language_data (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/bin/luatex) ==28531== by 0x4DFB9F: load_fmt_file (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/bin/luatex) ==28531== by 0x4EF0ED: main_body (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/bin/luatex) ==28531== by 0x45118D: main (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/bin/luatex) ==28531== Address 0xae14178 is 8 bytes after a block of size 1,168 alloc'd ==28531== at 0x483EBE1: realloc (in /gnu/store/jlmh0jbgr6zn4iyvhfbvxps8pykzj5ry-valgrind-3.16.1/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) ==28531== by 0x46695D: ??? (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/bin/luatex) ==28531== by 0x486D932: ??? (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/lib/libtexlua53.so.5.3.5) ==28531== by 0x48660F2: ??? (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/lib/libtexlua53.so.5.3.5) ==28531== by 0x4868BE7: ??? (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/lib/libtexlua53.so.5.3.5) ==28531== by 0x4868FCF: ??? (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/lib/libtexlua53.so.5.3.5) ==28531== by 0x486988B: ??? (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/lib/libtexlua53.so.5.3.5) ==28531== by 0x485C6BB: lua_pushlstring (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/lib/libtexlua53.so.5.3.5) ==28531== by 0x568E03: load_hyphenation (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/bin/luatex) ==28531== by 0x56B41C: undump_language_data (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/bin/luatex) ==28531== by 0x4DFB9F: load_fmt_file (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/bin/luatex) ==28531== by 0x4EF0ED: main_body (in /gnu/store/w20xxg8p0wksbrxxvj3y46fngvr3954w-texlive-bin-20200406/bin/luatex) ==28531== [...] valgrind: m_mallocfree.c:305 (get_bszB_as_is): Assertion 'bszB_lo == bszB_hi' failed. valgrind: Heap block lo/hi size mismatch: lo = 1232, hi = 68. This is probably caused by your program erroneously writing past the end of a heap block and corrupting heap metadata. If you fix any invalid writes reported by Memcheck, this assertion failure will probably go away. Please try that before reporting this as a bug. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Does that ring a bell? Is there a chance this problem was fixed in the meantime? Thanks in advance, Ludovic. ¹ https://issues.guix.gnu.org/48064

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LuaTeX doesn't discard empty paragraphs when textdir is used
by Marcel Krüger 02 Sep '21

02 Sep '21

Hi, consider the following plain LuaTeX document: \textdir TRT \noindent\par \bye without the `\textdir TRT` line or with `\textdir TLT`, this would lead to "warning (pdf backend): no pages of output.", but with the non default "\textdir", it creates an empty (except for the page number) page instead. This can be avoided by setting \pardir too: \textdir TRT\pardir TRT \noindent\par \bye again produces no output, but adding a group around it reintroduces the issue: \begingroup \textdir TRT\pardir TRT \noindent\par \endgroup \bye leads to an empty page. Of course similar things happen not only for otherwise empty documents: Instead of empty paragraphs disappearing, they add empty lines. Together, this is not only inconsistent with other engines which always discard empty paragraphs, but also leads to hard to predict behavior (especially for users who are not familiar with the implementation of LuaTeX's directional system), so I think it would be great if LuaTeX could always remove such empty paragraphs. Best, Marcel

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