CTAN update: zref
Date: September 18, 2026 7:01:02 PM CEST
The LaTeX Project Team submitted an update to the
zref
package.
Version: 2.38 2026-09-16
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: A new reference scheme for LaTeX
Announcement text:
- adapted titleref module to `\DocumentMetadata` - documentation is now tagged - added some missing command documentations - removed loading of `atbegshi` and removed `\zref@thepage@atbegshi@hook` in the zref-thepage module
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/zref The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/zref/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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- adapted titleref module to `\DocumentMetadata` - documentation is now tagged - added some missing command documentations - removed loading of `atbegshi` and removed `\zref@thepage@atbegshi@hook` in the zref-thepage module
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/zref The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/zref/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
Zref – A new reference scheme for LaTeX
This package offers a means to remove the limitation of only five properties that is inherent in the way LaTeX’s reference system works. The package implements an extensible referencing system, where properties may be defined and used in the course of a document. It provides an interface for macro programmers to access the new reference scheme and some modules that use it.
Modules available are:
-
zref-user, use zref for
traditional
labels and references; -
zref-abspage, retrieve absolute page numbers (physical
pages, as opposed to the
logical
page number that is normally typeset when a page number is requested; - zref-lastpage, provide a zref-label for the last page of the document;
- zref-nextpage, provide the page number of the next page of the document;
- zref-totpages, provide the total number of pages in the document;
- zref-pagelayout, provide the page layout parameters of a each page (which may then be printed at the end of the document);
- zref-perpage, make a counter reset for each new page;
- zref-titleref, make section title or caption text available through the reference system; zref-savepos, make positions on a page available;
- zref-dotfill, controlled dot-filling;
- zref-env, record the latest environment’s name and the line it started on; and
- zref-xr, provide the facilities of the xr and xr-hyper packages.
| Package | Zref |
| Version | 2.38 2026-09-16 |
| Copyright | 2006–2012 Heiko Oberdiek 2016–2026 Oberdiek Package Support Group 2026 LaTeX Project |
| Maintainer | The LaTeX Project Team Heiko Oberdiek |