the daemon greeted me (after i came home from a food-shopping trip):
The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: tabu (v2.8)
Author's name: Florent CHERVET
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/tabu
Summary description: Flexible LaTeX tabulars
License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
. Bug in {longtabu*} the starred form of the environment
{longtabu} which used scantokens to insert verbatim
text.
Fixed after Ahmed Musa bug report.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository.
Users may view the package catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/tabu (v2.8).html
or they may browse the package directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tabu
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team