Hi, The upload of a new snapshot will be finished in a few moments. This is a bugfix only, no new features, but I wanted to get this out of the way quickly. The list of fixed bugs/problems: * Previously, including \the inside and argument to \directlua could result in crashes and failures (due to \the changing a key variable) * texio.write() failed to clean up correctly so that the string pool became corrupted * The lua package.path contained backslashes on windows, but that doesnt work because lua interpreted them als string escapes * Assigning large values to one of the tex.toks[] registers could fill up main_memory because the memory was never cleared * tex.toks[], tex.count[] and tex.dimen[] assignments did not respect grouping * \directlua containing empty lines made the lua interpreter crash because of auto-generated \par tokens. * \string created non-utf-8 output * Bare bytes with values 0x80-0xBF in the input went unnoticed. This now raises an utf-8 encoding error * startup.lua is now searched for by the C code instead of lua 'require'. This eliminates the warning message if it cannot be found. The search path has also changed slightly: Only the current directory and the internal equivalent of 'kpsewhich --format=texmfscripts' are tried. Cheers, Taco