Hans-Martin Münch submitted an update to the
thumbs
package.
Version: 1.1d 2026-01-18
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Create thumb indexes
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Provided alt-text for the used picture-environments for compatibility with tagging.
(But the crop package seems to have issues when tagging:
https://github.com/latex3/tagging-project/issues/341
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Package kvoptions is no longer in direct use, but the required rerunfilecheck package loads it.
Cleaned up the index in the documentation.
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Javier Bezos López submitted an update to the
babel
package.
Version: 26.1 2026-01-18
License: lppl1.3
Summary description: Multilingual support for LaTeX, LuaLaTeX, XeLaTeX, and Plain TeX
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Changes in version 26.1 are described in:
https://latex3.github.io/babel/news/whats-new-in-babel-26.1.html
Here is a summary:
* Improved 'kashida.base'.
* \otherlanguage* can be used as a declaration command.
* Option 'nofiles' in \selectlanguage.
* Several bug fixes.
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The LaTeX Project Team submitted an update to the
l3kernel
package.
Version number: 2026-01-10
License type: lppl1.3c
Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions
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## [2026-01-10]
### Fixed
- Usage of logical AND (`&&`) in `l3fp` inside alignments (see issue
\#1833)
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Rolf Niepraschk submitted an update to the
tikz-kalender
package.
Version number: 0.5a
License type: cc-by-sa-1
Summary description: A LaTeX based calendar using TikZ
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Incorporated a patch from github user "plytimebandit": Recognizable weekends when displaying longer periods
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Mingyu Xia submitted an update to the
LXGW-fonts
package.
Version: 1.521M 2026-01-18
License: ofl
Summary description: A CJK font family with a comprehensive character set
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- Merged the font original links into the `.dtx` file
- Replaced with the GB style for the `\kaishu` command
- Changed the appearance of the demos and firstpage in the manual
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Joseph Wright submitted an update to the
ltx-talk
package.
Version: 0.3.11 2026-01-16
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: A class for typesetting presentations
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### Fixed
- Avoid unreliable tabular width if last cell contains `\onslide`
(see issue [\#148](https://github.com/josephwright/ltx-talk/issues/148))
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Clea F. Rees submitted the
forest-ext
package.
Version: 0.1
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Fill vertical space with solid rules or dotted lines
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forest-ext is a new package offering additional libraries for Forest:
- ext.tagging supports tagging forest trees
- ext.multi provides styles for limited inclusion of children with multiple parents
- ext.utils provides some utilities and miscellaneous styles
- ext.ling provides some simple extensions for linguistics, but currently only one is enabled
Debugging versions of all libraries are provided.
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Edgar Olthof submitted an update to the
fcolumn
package.
Version: 1.4.4
License: lppl1.3
Summary description: Typesetting financial tables
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New version of fcolumn, fixing a severe bug in 1.4.3. Now fcolumn is tagging aware.
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Rushikesh Kamalapurkar submitted an update to the
bodeplot
package.
Version number: 3.0.3 2026-01-15
License type: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Draw Bode, Nyquist and Nichols plots with gnuplot or pgfplots
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Made the complex number parser more robust to address issue #19.
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Joseph Wright submitted an update to the
ltx-talk
package.
Version: 0.3.10 2026-01-16
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: A class for typesetting presentations
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### Changed
- Avoid adding redundant opacity where block environments have
no overlays active
### Fixed
- Handling of comma-separated overlay specs (see issue
[\#145](https://github.com/josephwright/ltx-talk/issues/145))
- Opacity propagation to figures and tables (see issue
[\#146](https://github.com/josephwright/ltx-talk/issues/146))
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