Dohyun Kim submitted an update to the

            luamplib

package.

Version: 2.38.3 2026-01-27 License: gpl2

Summary description: Use LuaTeX’s built-in MetaPost interpreter

Announcement text:

Run file changes:

• new optional macro for shading: withshadingstroke
• avoid error upon shading a picture composed of multiple paths

Documentation changes:

• be more precise about the term 'textual picture'
• generalize the code for the example macro \mpnumeric
• add subsections on registerpattern() and registergroup()

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Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team Vincent Goulet

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