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 pretest (for TeX Live 2016):

• support for system-level configuration files in TEXMFSYSCONFIG/tlmgr/config, where a set of allowed actions can be defined, in addition to the usual tlmgr config file directives.
• unify installer and tlmgr package installation routine.
• verify package checksums during installation.
• optional gpg verification.

tlmgr revision 39198 (released 5jan16):

• message and doc changes.
• ConTeXt paper size changes.

tlmgr revision 37738 (released 3jul15):

• more error code fixes, e.g., for paper sizes.
• info searches titles, descriptions, file names, topics if available.

tlmgr revision 37030 (released 24apr15):

• more reliable exit status codes.
• add --with-doc and --with-src options for use with install --reinstall, to get the doc and/or src files even if they were omitted at initial installation.
• the install action reports explicitly-requested packages already installed.
• restore --dry-run is now more of a no-op, as intended.

tlmgr revision 35841 (released 24dec14):

• remove taxonomy searching, since upstream data is no longer maintained.

tlmgr revision 34227 (released 23may14, TeX Live 2014):

• If the NOPERLDOC envvar is set, avoid fancy --help message formatting, regardless. (Same holds for install-tl.)
• tlmgr conf supports new options --delete, --conffile, and updmap.
• doc and error checking updates as usual.

tlmgr revision 32912 (released 9feb14):

• tlmgrgui wordings, arrangements, etc.

tlmgr revision 31657 (released 15sep13):

• fix for "quoted" strings inside doc attributes, as in pythontex's Catalogue entry.

tlmgr revision 31400 (released 9aug13):

• fix for installation from file (install --file).

tlmgr revision 30643 (released 23may13, TeX Live 2013):

• documentation updates for the release.
• new tlperl (version 5.16.2) for Windows, compiled without optimization and with debugging

tlmgr revision 28216 (released 09nov12):

• menu shortcuts are installed unconditionally, the desktop_integration option only controls shortcuts on the desktop (W32)
• fix --self updates on W32 when multiple remote repositories are used

tlmgr revision 27748 (released 25oct12):

• support tlmgr repository list ... for listing of any repository
• work around Cygwin Perl returning undef from an empty file

tlmgr revision 27601 (released 07sep12):

• allow for spaces in the repository path (again)
• make tlmgr --help more robust against broken perldoc

tlmgr revision 27413 (released 16aug12):

• fix Perl syntax warning in trans.pl
• tar -m in Windows update to avoid spurious problems

tlmgr revision 27258 (released 30jul12):

• more fixes to updmap multi-tree support for TEXMFLOCAL

tlmgr revision 27170 (released 26jul12):

• consistently use ll_RR in .po file naming, per general gettext convention.
• make sure that an outdated updmap.cfg file is backed up and removed

tlmgr revision 26857 (released 8jul12, TeX Live 2012):

• generate updmap is no more, since updmap.cfg is now per-tree.
• multiple repository support
• tlmgr can now install a package from a file
• support addKanjiMap execute

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.