Javier Bezos López submitted an update to the
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> babel
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> package.
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> Version: 25.16 2025-11-23
> License: lppl1.3
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> Summary description: Multilingual support for LaTeX, LuaLaTeX, XeLaTeX, and Plain TeX
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> Changes in version 25.16 are described in:
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> https://latex3.github.io/babel/news/whats-new-in-babel-25.16.html
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> Here is a summary:
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> * Julian calendar.
> * New Greek counters without keraia
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Romano Giannetti submitted an update to the
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> CircuiTikZ
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> package.
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> Version: 1.8.3 2025-11-23
> License: lppl gpl
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> Summary description: Draw electrical networks with TikZ
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> Announcement text:
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> The main highlight of this version is the fix of the oo-type sources and transformers.
> They used parameters different from width and height to define the shape,
> and the anchors were not stable (and some of them were plain wrong).
> It also adds several capabilities to them (anchors, additional windings, and so on).
> Additionally, IGT thyristors and a couple of generic shapes (AC/DC symbols)
> have been added.
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> - Add anchors, additional winding, global scale switch, and symbol
> rotation to the oo-type component
> - Add IGCT thyristors
> - Add ac/dc symbols
> - Fix definition and stabilize anchors of oo- and ooo-type components.
> - Fix encoding of the manual, removing some latin1 chars and
> converting to utf8. Why that was working is a mystery.
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The LaTeX Project Team submitted an update to the
l3kernel
package.
Version: 2025-11-14
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions
Announcement text:
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### Fixed
- Fix `\peek_regex_remove_once:nTF` and `\peek_regex_remove_once:NTF`
on reinserting special token `{` or `}` (issue \#1805)
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Alceu Frigeri submitted an update to the
codedescribe
package.
Version: 1.18 2025-11-22
License: lppl1.3c gpl
Summary description: LaTeX code description and documentation
Announcement text:
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Addressing issues 16, 17 and (partially) 18. New commands for
setting locale, and companion package option (issue 17).
Added a package option to suppress some bad boxes warnings.
See manual.
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Plante submitted the
freemath
package.
Version: 1.0
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: LaTeX maths without backslashes
Announcement text:
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The freemath package allows for the omission of backslashes from
most math mode commands. Specifically, any consecutive string of
at least two (Latin) letters appearing in math will automatically
be turned into the control sequence with the same name, if it exists.
The package provides the `\freemathon` and `\freemathoff` commands
which respectively activate and deactivate this behaviour.
It is disabled by default upon loading.
Regular commands initiated by a backslash may of course
still be used when freemath is active, and can furthermore
be freely mixed with backslash-free commands.
Example:
With freemath: `lim_{n to infty} int_Omega n log left( 1 + frac{f}{n} right) d mu`.
Without freemath: `\lim_{n \to \infty} \int_\Omega n \log\left( 1 + \frac{f}{n} ) d\mu`.
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Jonathan P. Spratte submitted an update to the
ducksay
package.
Version: 2.8 2025-11-22
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Draw ASCII art of animals saying a specified message
Announcement text:
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This release fixes two bugs which were introduced by changes
in the kernel in 2025-06-01 and 2025-11-01.
- `tail-symbol` wasn’t using the correct category codes if the
symbol was a letter since `ltcmd`’s `v`-type no longer sets
all category codes to 12.
- `\AddColoredAnimal` wasn’t working due to the same reason and
the used regular expression being too restrictive.
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Benoît Corsini submitted the
slixte
package.
Version number: 2025-11-21
License type: lppl1.3c
Summary description: A customizable class for creating slides
Announcement text:
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A new class powered by beamer and tikz to create custom slides.
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https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/slixte
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Alceu Frigeri submitted an update to the
codedescribe
package.
Version number: 1.17 2025-11-20
License type: lppl1.3c gpl
Summary description: LaTeX code description and documentation
Announcement text:
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New auxiliary package codelstlang (defining a series of listings' TeX dialects)
and a companion package option to use those new dialects and others. A new code
key allowing the default listings style to be replaced by an user defined one.
See documentation for details.
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Shiro Takeda submitted an update to the
econ-bst
package.
Version: 3.3
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: BibTeX style for economics papers
Announcement text:
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This is update of the existing package.
This update includes bug fixes.
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