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