Andreas Hirsch wrote:
zu meiner Uberraschung musste ich eben auf der MiKTeX-Seite lesen, dass das jahrliche Update verfugbar ist.
Ich dachte, sowas erfahrt man hier als erster ...
[ Translation: Andreas asks why the MiKTeX update has been announced on the MiKTeX website but not on CTAN ]
We send to CTAN-ANN information about things that we manually install on the CTAN hosts unless these are minor updates (whatever that is). Lots of other things get mirrored from other sites though, e.g. MiKTeX. Unfortunately we can't announce such things regularly as we would have to wade through each updated package, analyse the - hopefully existent - readme files, etc. Therefore we have to trust the owners of packages mirrored to CTAN to announce their new versions by themselves. Of course we are glad if they send us a release/update notice that we can forward to CTAN-ANN.
Having said all this, I should add that the LaTeX release <2001/06/01> is on CTAN for two days now. See CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/doc/ltnews14.{dvi,pdf,ps} for news.
Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team