Upgrade from TeX Live 2025 to 2026

[firefart]

When running tlmgr update --self in pandoc/extra:debian-latest you get an error because there seems to be a new version of tlmgr:

tlmgr: Local TeX Live (2025) is older than remote repository (2026).
Cross release updates are only supported with
update-tlmgr-latest(.sh/.exe) --update
See https://tug.org/texlive/upgrade.html for details.

The update-tlmgr-latest.sh script does not exist in the image and https://tug.org/texlive/upgrade.html says you should do a fresh install. So I guess the docker images need to be rebuild with the 2026 version.

[tarleb]

Thanks for the report. I'm rebuilding the images as we speak, should be done in ~1h.

[tarleb]

Looks like it might take a little longer: the builds fail due to the new 2025 archives not being quite ready yet.

[tarleb]

Builds are still failing, but I'll keep re-trying.

[firefart]

@tarleb any update on the build status?

[tarleb]

Thanks for the reminder, I forgot about it this week.

It seems that build mostly succeed now. I was able to re-build the pandoc 3.8.3 latex and extra images for Alpine, even though it required two runs before it succeeded. I'll work through the remaining images one by one.

I still don't know why download failures don't lead to build failures. We usually catch problems via the test suite, but there's a higher-than-normal chance that something slips through right now, so please let us know if something goes wrong.

[tarleb]

Alpine images are available, but Debian and Ubuntu builds keep failing. I'm not sure what changed for this to happen so consistently and might have to reach out to the TeXLive folks.

[lmunch]

Any update on this one? Thanks

[tarleb]

I ran out of build-minutes on the Docker Build Cloud, so I had to stop trying to get older images working. Those minutes are refilled around this time of the month, so I try again within the next days.

Are there images that are of special importance for you? I'd start with those.

[lmunch]

I use the Ubuntu versions

ARG PANDOC_VER=latest
FROM docker.io/pandoc/latex:${PANDOC_VER}-ubuntu

[tarleb]

That version should work already. If it doesn't, please raise a new issue so we can fix it asap.

[lmunch]

Oh, great. I'll go update my containers and give it a go. Thanks.