[tex-live] 2018 TL freeze

[president at dante.de]

Hello,

is TUG going to produce its own copies this year? I will ask all user groups to send me their orders till next week. We will probably order at the same manufacturer as last year.

Best
Martin

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Am 14. Apr. 2018, 00:53, um 00:53, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> schrieb:
>Barring disaster, I plan to make tonight's build the last.  The only
>changes from yesterday should be the patch to mathtext.sty just
>mentioned, plus irrelevant minor text updates inserting the final
>release date in ChangeLog files, etc.
>
>Then it will be over to Manfred and crew to make the final TeX
>Collection
>DVD image. I hope to make the public release in a week or so, when the
>DVD image goes to manufacturing, but I can't make any firm predictions.
>
>BTW, the final TL images built tonight will necessarily specify going
>to
>CTAN for updates. That won't actually work until we update TL on CTAN,
>so don't worry when it fails for the next few days. --best, karl.