CTAN update: latex
Date: July 4, 2015 5:54:07 AM CEST
The LaTeX Team submitted an update to the
latex
package.
Version number: 2015-07-01
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: Base sources of LaTeX.
Announcement text:
LaTeX2e 2017/07/01 Release =============================== This patch level release of LaTeX2e fixes the following issues in the 2015/01/01 kernel: - Missing DocStrip guards for latexrelease package and ltcount - Duplicate defintion of \newtoks - Missing first char in a range in Unicode catcode settings (XeTeX/LuaTeX usage) - Fix accents for 0403,0453,040C,045C with utf8 option for inputenc As a patch level release, these changes are bug fix *only* and are therefore not reversed by the new latexrelease mechanism.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/base More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/latex We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz
LaTeX2e 2017/07/01 Release =============================== This patch level release of LaTeX2e fixes the following issues in the 2015/01/01 kernel: - Missing DocStrip guards for latexrelease package and ltcount - Duplicate defintion of \newtoks - Missing first char in a range in Unicode catcode settings (XeTeX/LuaTeX usage) - Fix accents for 0403,0453,040C,045C with utf8 option for inputenc As a patch level release, these changes are bug fix *only* and are therefore not reversed by the new latexrelease mechanism.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/base More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/latex We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz
latex – A TeX macro package that defines LaTeX
LaTeX is a widely-used macro package (format) for TeX, providing many basic document formatting commands extended by a wide range of packages. It was originally created by Leslie Lamport, whose last release was LaTeX 2.09. The current LaTeX superseded that release in June 1994. The basic distribution is catalogued separately, at latex-base.
Apart from a large set of contributed packages and third-party documentation (elsewhere on the archive), the distribution includes:
- a number of required packages, which LaTeX authors may assume will be present on any system running LaTeX; and
- a minimal set of documentation detailing differences from the ‘old’ version of LaTeX in the areas of
For downloading details, documentation links, etc., see the linked catalogue entries above.
| Package | latex |
| Version | 2025-11-01 |
| Copyright | 1989–2025 The LaTeX3 Project et al. |
| Maintainer | The LaTeX Project Team Leslie Lamport (inactive) |
Announcements
- 2015-07-04 CTAN update: latex
- 2010-06-12 CTAN update: beamer
- 2009-11-10 CTAN Update: pauldoc
- 2003-02-27 CTAN upload: LaTeX Font Sampler
- 2002-12-20 Package upgrade on CTAN: LaTeX for Word Processor Users
- 2002-02-05 CTAN update: LaTeX for Word Processor Users
- 2002-01-04 CTAN submission – LaTeX WIDE
- 2001-11-02 New CTAN material: LaTeX for Word Processor Users