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Hi, We're entering the TeXLive code freeze period. TL 2019 will ship luatex 1.10 (currently we have 1.09 but that version number will be bumped). After 1.00 this more or less what stock luatex will be from now on. In a few weeks we will post a new current. As previous years it will probably take a few currents before mojca/luigi push it into the tex live repository. Of course serious bugs (show stoppers) will be fixed but no functional changed wil happen. As most users normally update from the garden fixes will happen anyway, but it's nice to have a tl version that works well. After that I will start shuffling around some lua code that can be better organized and as that might lead to (e.g. renaming) issues it's best if users keep a snapshot, although as usual fixes will be asap. On the agenda for later this year are for instance some more font juggling (more for fun), new metapost modules (alan is for instance working on a new graph module), some bidi-layout stuff, some (interfaces to) low level math configuration options (needs thinking). These will happen in the betas but they are unlikely to interfere with regular functionality. If something more drastic happens I'll try not to forget to warn you. We currently have mkii and mkiv, using the rsync based installer. Mkii is frozen for years now, and seldom needs fixes. I have a new installer in the working that uses http (so we can avoid rsyn port limitations that some organizations impose) and that one will be used to experiment with a mkiv only installation (it works ok at my end already, a bit slower initial install but a faster update). For all this to be possible the context garden as well as the build farm are pretty important. Hans (A big thank you to all those involved in making this possible; you know the names!) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------