TeX Live 2010 - bugs and updates

Most of TeX Live is a redistribution of packages and programs from elsewhere, primarily CTAN. So, the target for bug reports varies according to the nature of the problem.

• If you have problems with a TeX document, e.g., a package is no longer behaving as it used to, this needs to be reported to the package maintainer. As a rule, packages fixes are not installed directly in TL, or made by the TL developers.
• If you have questions about using TeX, or need help achieving a particular result, please use the general help resources.
• For TeX Live installation and infrastructure bug reports, please email the tex-live mailing list.

Highlights of changes in this release. Some selected items: PDF 1.5 output by default, EPS-to-PDF conversion by default, execution of a very few external commands enabled by default, Japanese pTeX included.

Known issues in TeX Live 2010:

• It is not possible to upgrade from TL 2009 to TL 2010, so install the new release in a new directory (as is done by default). install-tl may offer to import options (not packages) from a previous release, but results are not guaranteed.
• FreeBSD binaries might not work for a (very) small number of users; for them, extended FreeBSD support is available. Adventurous FreeBSD users might want to try development builds.
• When running lualatex '\input foo', the jobname is not set to foo. This only applies to lualatex. The workaround is to specify -jobname on the command line. (Related thread.)
• TeX4ht, as distributed, is unfortunately broken under Windows (fine on other platforms). It has been fixed in the repository, so tlmgr update tex4ht should get it going.
• XeTeX, on x86_64-linux (but not i386-linux, and perhaps not if recompiled from source), crashes with certain OpenType math constructs, e.g., stretchy characters. (Related thread, another report.)
• tlmgrgui appears not to work properly with the SCIM daemon running; for instance, input text boxes might not be writable. Use IBUS instead, or try XIM_PROGRAM=scim; XIM_ARGS=-d. (If the gui is working fine for you, never mind.)
• On *BSD systems, by default perl-Tk is compiled without XFT support, and the result can have font problems in tlmgrgui. On FreeBSD, you need to pass WITH_XFT to the port, for example:

  # cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/p5-Tk
  # make -DWITH_XFT install clean
  

Bug archives for the previous release and earlier years are still online.