CTAN Update: l3kernel

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at ctan.org
Sat Oct 12 19:45:23 CEST 2019


The LaTeX Team  submitted an update to the

                l3kernel

package.

Version:  2019-10-11
License:  lppl1.3c

Summary description:  LaTeX3 programming conventions

Announcement text:
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 ## [2019-10-11]

 ### Changed

 - Standard backend for (u)pTeX is now `dvips`
 - Minimum LuaTeX version now v0.95
 - Moved `\debug_on:`, `\debug_off:`, `\debug_suspend:` and `\debug_resume:`
   to stable
 - Accept 'traditional' class options for backend (`dvipdfmx`, `dvips`, etc.)
 - Performance enhancements when loading `expl3`

 ### Fixed

 - Handling of files with no extension
 - Behaviour of Lua function `l3kernel.charcat` in some circumstances
 - Loading under ConTeXt

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The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at
   https://ctan.org/pkg/l3kernel

The package’s files themselves can be inspected at
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/

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   Thanks for the upload.

     For the CTAN Team
    Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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