Release Notes 2008

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Context 2008.10.31

New features:

• A Persian interface (format)
• The whole multilingual subsystem is rewritten and is now generated from a single lua database table. Note: external modules that define or set system constants and system variables will need updating.
• New versions of the greek, vim and bib modules
• More files have been split into mkii+mkiv parts
• The old, dvipdfm style font mapfiles have been removed because newer versions of (x)dvipdfmx support the pdftex-style map format
• mkiv now has support for 'special' features like knockout vs overprint and spot colors via attributes

Bugs fixed:

• lots of smaller bugs fixed, especially in the MPlib handling in mkiv, but many more small ones

Context 2008.08.05

New feature:

• mtx-fonts now supports displaying feature information for OTF fonts

Bugs fixed:

• a number of files were accidentally missing from the Context 2008.08.04 release
• Hyphenation patterns for bokmal and nynorsk were broken in Context 2008.08.04
• \Word now works ok in MKIV

Context 2008.08.04

New features:

• MKIV now works best with luatex 0.29.0
• Integrated support for 'arabic' languages and number conversions
• New hyphenation patterns from the tex-hyphen project, including support for the new languages Nynorsk (nn), Bulgarian (bg), Basque (eu), and Ukranian (il). The identifiers of Czech (cz -> cs), UK English (uk -> gb) and US English (en -> us) have changed.
• New third-party modules in cont-ext.zip: Account, Greek, and Letter
• new mtxrun scipts: grep, mptopdf, patterns
• New included module: calcmath (MKIV only)
• Typescripts for Herman Zapf's fonts in OTF format are now provided
• the mtxrun script 'context' is extended to be more like 'texexec'
• the mtxrun script 'convert' now supports a requested quality switch
• the mtxrun script 'server' is extended to support 'cgi' lua

Bugs fixed:

• Fix nasty font warnings in XeTeX
• Lots of small bugs. Please follow the link to the details page.

Context 2008.05.21

• MKIV now has support for running without any environment variables set (still experimental, details are discussed on the dev-context mailing list)
• Some of the internals of MathML support in MKIV have been reworked
• A few small bugfixes

Context 2008.05.13

This has:

• small bugfixes for 2008.05.09
• some corrections to the german interface messages

Context 2008.05.09

• A set of bugfixes relating to metapost labels in mkiv
• A rewritten MathML parser for mkiv
• Some math operator extensions for mkiv
• Other bugfixes

Context 2008.04.18

Small update to 2008.04.16:

• a few more bugfixes
• a bit of internal cleanup

Context 2008.04.16

Small update to 2008.04.15:

• mtxrun.lua now supports freebsd
• 2008.04.15 introduced a stray character in m-chemic removed
• the new MkIV font name resolver had an error
• a few more dummies for mplib in MkIV
• a fix for paragraph-shaped text in mplib (MkIV)
• a fix for disappearing colors in mplib (MkIV)

Context 2008.04.15

This release fixes a small set of bugs in MkIV:

• some mplib conversion errors (part of those need a new, to-be-released luatex) and a few dummy macros
• figures in subpaths were not found
• see the separate page for more details

And a few small extras for MkIV:

• zwn and zwnj support
• Environment variable MTX_FONTS_AUTOLOAD='yes' can be used to force automatic font database reloading on 'font not found' errors
• A parser that reads fontconfig's fonts.conf added (if it can be found)
• Better xml statistics reporting

As well as some internal changes:

• a bunch of counter implementations changed from macros to primitives. if you have styles that redefine core macros, they could be broken by this
• the experimental reserved object numbers patch from 2008.04.10 is reverted, didn't work out.

Context 2008.04.10

One big news item:

• MkIV now uses the embedded MPlib in the latest luatex release. No more external MP calls, resulting in a massive speedup (needs at least luatex 0.25.1)

Also a bunch of bugfixes from the mailing list, and some small speedups

Context 2008.03.24

Fixes some more bugs in 2008.03.10

Context 2008.03.11

Fixes a few bugs in 2008.03.10

Context 2008.03.10

This is a feature release. Main news:

• Image inclusion in mkiv now uses lua
• Better support for zips and zipped xml files
• And lots of bugfixes

Context 2008.01.28

• some small extensions to opentype support
• fix a glitch in luatools that broke format generation in the 'official' luatex beta
• brings locating of processed files in mkiv in line with mkii

Context 2008.01.26

• bugfixes in contextual lookups and kerning handling in opentype (mkiv)
• many macros that used \to for delimited arguments reimplemented without the need for \to
• new command \setupmathematics, for global math setup

Context 2008.01.16

• New feature compose=yes will add missing composed chars as virtual glyphs

 \definefontfeature[superdefault][default][compose=yes]

• Some math bugfixes in mkiv
• A few corrections to font synonyms

Context 2008.01.11

This release fixes:

• handling of truetype disguised as opentype and vice versa

This release adds:

• a prelude to math definitions for mkiv
• a cache=no option for \setupfloats, i.e. direct flushing
• support for new lm naming scheme + fallback