tlmgr news

tlmgr is the package and configuration manager included in native TeX Live. This page gives a high-level summary of changes. Running tlmgr --version will report the version number that you have.

tlmgr revision 23514 (released 12aug11):

• dependent formats are regenerated when necessary.
• on Windows only, do not update time stamps when unpacking, to partially avoid spurious errors.
• detect mipsel and mipsel64 platforms.

tlmgr revision 23117 (released 23jun11, TeX Live 2011):

• support gui-lang in tlmgr config file, and add GUI interface for it.

tlmgr revision 20975 (released 24jan11):

• fix usage of persistent connections in tlmgr.
• override locale settings when using wget as a subprocess.

tlmgr revision 20243 (released 1nov10):

• try (again) not to load the remote tlpdb if tlmgr update is called without arguments.
• fix bugs in autobackup/backupdir handling; unify error messages; on clean, also remove package backups for packages no longer present in tlpdb.
• support keyword searching as provided by the beta CTAN characterizations at http://az.ctan.org/ (no Internet access needed for the search, though). tlmgr documentation has details. Support is also present in tlmgrgui.

tlmgr revision 19923 (released 28sep10):

• add -R to the LESS environment variable, and unset LESSOPEN and LESSPIPE, before calling pod2usage.

tlmgr revision 19414 (TeX Live 2010 release):

• implement download selection mode in the file TEXMFCONFIG/tlmgr/config, option persistent-downloads, with value 0 or 1.
• remove support for old GUI (tlmgr gui-old).

tlmgr revision 17811 (released 25apr10):

• GUI: provide simple and expert modes (Expert options).
• GUI: provide access to the manual (tlmgr help) in Help menu.
• GUI: add support for restore action.
• GUI: add support for these command line options: --no-auto-install, --no-auto-remove (under Menu->Options), and --reinstall-forcibly-removed (just below the button “Update all installed”).
• tlmgr restore --all: restore the latest, using all available backups.
• bug fix: do not auto-install packages contained in forcibly removed collections.

tlmgr revision 17611 (released 30mar10):
Support automatic installation of new collections (when they are included in the selected scheme).

tlmgr revision 17455 (released 19mar10):

• persistent HTTP connections enabled by default (use --no-persistent-downloads to turn off).
• package update algorithm changed to avoid incorrect “forcibly removed” inferences. Should be invisible.
• report of the number of pending updates in tlmgr gui.

For all other information, see the main tlmgr page.