[luatex] Luatex 1.08.0 announcement

[Henri Menke]

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On 02/09/18 12:57, Henri Menke wrote:
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> On 01/09/18 07:00, luigi scarso wrote:
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>> LuaTeX 1.08 2018-08-28
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>> (1) This release is a prelude to 1.10, the next stable iteration of LuaTeX
>> after version 1.00.
>>
>> (2) Lua 5.3 is now considered to be default and we might use 5.4 in version
>> 1.10. There are no real functional changed expected. You still need to
>> rename
>> the binary for 5.3!
>>
>> (3) Binary mode is no longer available in MPlib but it is still available in
>> stand alone MetaPost. This simplifies compilation and reduces dependencies.
>>
>> (4) The dependency on Poppler for pdf image inclusion has been removed. We
>> now use a small dedicated library written by Pawel Jakowski. We no longer
>> need c++ compilers. We're in the process of making it behave well on all
>> platforms. It has been tested on intel platforms.
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> Hm, a C++ compiler still seems to be necessary.  The build fails without
> one.
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> configure: LuaTeX enabled, requiring C++11 support
> [...]
> configure: error: *** A compiler with support for C++11 language
> features is required.
> 
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>> (5) We know that there can be some (alignment) issues with the arm platform
>> but these are looked into. Therefore, later this year we will release 1.09.
>> Version 1.10 is planned for TeXlive. We hope that ffi works ok on intel and
>> arm platforms at that point.
>>
>> (6) There have been some extensions to the Lua libraries and some callbacks
>> have been added. Also, a few new primitives have been introduced. The
>> documentation mentions the stable extensions.
>>
>> (7) There are the usual bug fixes and cleanups but there have been no real
>> fundamental changes in the API.
>>
>> The LuaTeX team 
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