[XeTeX] new version of HarfBuzz

[maxwell]

On 2017-04-24 11:15, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> On 24/04/2017 15:36, Bobby de Vos wrote:
>> The xetex binary as installed by the Tex Live installer in /usr/local
>> does not seem to load those two libraries.
> 
> Right; the TL-distributed binaries avoid dynamic linking as far as
> possible, in order to maximize portability and consistency. The other
> side of this, of course, is that they don't automatically benefit from
> library updates.

Which brings me back to my original question: will xetex as distributed 
in TeXLive 2017 include this harfbuzz update?  Or is it too late for 
that?

    Mike Maxwell