MiKTeX 2.9.6500

Upgraded programs

• dvipdfmx 20170918, XeTeX
  Support /Rotate in PDF image inclusion
• Dvisvgm 2.2
• LuaTeX 1.06.2

Upgraded libraries

• fontconfig 2.12.6
• FreeType 2.8.1
• HarfBuzz 1.6.3
• ICU 60.1
• libcurl 7.56.1
• LibGD 2.2.5
• libpng 1.6.34
• Poppler 0.60.1
• Qt 5.9.2

Bug fixes

• 4: xdvipdfmx with options supplied as output-driver to XeLaTeX results in can't write on file error
• 5: Package manager "Miktex encountered an internal error" [windows]
• 19: option --user-install of MiKTeX setup utility is ignored [windows]
• 22: miktex is noticably slower than texlive
• 2618: Unknown filter "JPXDecode" Syntax Error
• 2620: xetex can't input files with BOM anymore
• 2622: shell commands are not executed correctly
• 2624: Problem with \pdfresettimer & \pdfelapsedtime
• 2625: Package installation fails as normal user account

MiKTeX 2.9.6400

New programs

• asy: asymptote - 2D and 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language
• lacheck: a consistency checker checker for LaTeX documents

Upgraded programs

• autosp 2017-07-14

Upgraded libraries

• cairo 1.4.10
• fontconfig 2.12.3
• freetype 2.8
• graphite2 1.3.10
• HarfBuzz 1.4.7
• libcurl 7.54.1
• libpng 1.6.30
• teckit 2.5.7
• zzip 0.13.66

Ubuntu 16.04 / Linux Mint 18.x

It is now possible to install MiKTeX on Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit and Linux Mint 18.x 64-bit:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys D6BC243565B2087BC3F897C9277A7293F59E4889
echo "deb http://miktex.org/download/ubuntu xenial universe" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/miktex.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install miktex

See this howto for more info.

Dockerized build environments

The MiKTeX build environment has been dockerized for the following
Linux distros:

• Ubuntu 16.04
• Debian 9
• Fedora 25

This makes it possible to build MiKTeX using Docker. No build tools
required.

For example, to build MiKTeX for Debian 9:

mkdir -p /tmp/miktex
curl -fsSL https://miktex.org/download/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/source/miktex-2.9.tar.xz | \
  tar -xJ --strip-components=1 -C /tmp/miktex
docker pull miktex/miktex-build-stretch
docker run --rm -t \
  -v /tmp/miktex:/miktex/source:ro \
  -v `pwd`:/miktex/build:rw \
  miktex/miktex-build-stretch

Closed feature requets

• 345: Build pdftocairo with libpng support
• 346: Include Asymptote

Bug fixes

• dvipdfmx: warning: Ignore invalid attribute dictionary

MiKTeX 2.9.6350

New programs

• axohelp: a helper utility for the axodraw2 package.

Upgraded programs

• TeXworks 0.6.2

Changed programs

• dvipdfmx
  • Support additional length units
• pdfTeX
  • Adding SyncTeX support to \pdfxform

Upgraded libraries

• HarfBuzz 1.4.6
• libcurl 7.54.0
• LibreSSL 2.5.3
• Poppler 0.55.0

macOS support

It is now possible to install MiKTeX via the Homebrew package manager:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew tap miktex/miktex
brew install miktex

See this howto for more info.

Bug fixes

• 2604: Report clearly when repository servers are intentionally offline

MiKTeX 2.9.6300

Additions

• Gregorio - convert from gabc to GregorioTeX
• autosp - a preprocessor that generates note-spacing commands for MusiXTeX scores

Upgraded programs

• Dvisvgm 2.1.3
• LuaTeX 1.0.4
• pdfTeX 1.40.18
• XeTeX 0.99998

New features

• LuaTeX now understands the --include-directory option.

New platforms

It is possible to build this release on Linux and macOS.

Bug fixes

• 2593: luatex can't include colors of a plot
• 2591: Noto fonts not listed in MO font list
• 2586: Bis: lualatex.exe fails if the profil name has non ASCII characters
• 2581: epstopdf creates .eps.pdf file instead of .pdf as in TeXLive
• 2580: wrong output to stdin when using lualatex
• 2579: xelatex adds unwanted stuff to stdin at the end of the compilation
• 2570: pdflatex doesn't ignore BOM (byte order mark)