CTAN update: beamer

[CTAN Announcements]

This should be at your local mirror within a day.

Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: LaTeX Beamer class
Version number: 3.08
Author's name: Vedran Mileti\'c
Summary description: New Beamer version!
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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Finally, a new version of Beamer. Notable new features and
bugfixes include:
* notes about lualatex and xelatex in documentation,
* improve Linux distribution-specific information,
* add support for more professional fonts (suppresses Beamer
internal replacements),
* add support for 16:9, 16:10, 14:9, 5:4, 3:2 layout using
screensize class option (e.g. screensize=169)
* fix utf8, utf8x, ucs class options,
* add (an undocumented for now) option [noframenumbering] to
skip numbering a specific frame,
* merge lots of patches scattered around the Internet (see
ChangeLog if you are interested).
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