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Luatex beta-0.79.3 was released 20150121 (5130)

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* It's now possible with the MinGW compilers to build luatex and luajittex as DLL 

  for Windows 32bit/64bit.  The files are:

  libkpathsea-6.dll  luajittex.exe  luatex.exe  texlua52.dll  texluajit.dll

  In the next release the build.sh script be updated; for the moment just add

  "--enable-shared -disable-native-texlive-build " after --disable-all-pkgs 

  in TL_MAKE. 

  Building as DLL was tested only for Windows.

* When possibile  symbols in the exe are now hidden: 

  this should avoid conflicts with the loading of dynamic shared object.

* several bugfixes and improvements. The patches for MetaPost

  fix seg. faults occourred with wrong inputs.

  The functions:

   mp_get_numeric_value, mp_get_string_value, mp_get_boolean_value 

  works if the value is a variable (i.e. not an internal variable, 

  a loop variable and a macro argument);

  only mp_get_numeric_value now has support for loop variable

  and internal variable (but still  not for macro arguments).

We plan 0.80 for TL, with 

integration of the tokenlib branch, 

cleanup and  bugs fix. 

We will also test lua 5.3, but we are not sure that it will part

of the next TL .