[tex-live] last-minute xetex bug [was: last-minute pdftex bug]

[Jonathan Kew]

On 5 Jan 2007, at 1:18 pm, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have just committed a two-line change to texmfmp.c that fixes a
> bug in the new 'pipe input' code that would cause pdftex to segfault
> whenever pipes were used (#3153).
>
> It was not noticed before because the pdftex beta releases used a
> different implementation from the one in TeXLive.
>
> I hope this is still in time. When is (was?) the final freeze planned?

I also hope there will be another build of all binaries before the  
release :) as I have just committed #3154, which fixes an issue where  
xetex was not handling optical sizing correctly with some new Adobe  
fonts. (Recently reported on the xetex mailing list with reference to  
Arno Pro.)

JK