MiKTeX 2.9.6400

MiKTeX 2.9.6400 was released on July 31, 2017. It is a binary release which brings the following changes:

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:

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