On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Bill Meahan wrote:
Which beta will be included in the released version of texlive 2012?
2012.05.24 19:36 (plus two or three minor changes from later versions)
Will other updates be included in texlive updates?
No. They might be included in TLContrib, but betas are often "a bit broken" and I find it very important to have a stable working version at least in TeX Live.
Just curious about how closely the texlive version (which I use) follows the beta version referred to on the list.
ConTeXt is updated only once per year for TeX Live, during TeX Live freeze period & short before a new release. Just enough to allow some testing. Bugs that are reported & easy to fix may see bugfixes in TeX Live, but betas as such won't propagate into TL. Also, if fonts that are being used by ConTeXt will be updated during the year, it might be desirable to update font names in ConTeXt in TeX Live as well. Mojca