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J|+rgen Spitzm|+ller submitted an update to the

polyglossia

package.

Version: 2.10 2026-04-18
License: mit lppl1.3 cc0

Summary description: An alternative to babel for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX

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V. 2.10 (2026/04/18)

Bug fixes
* Do not assign patterns to a variety more than once.
* Optimize linebreaking with babelshorthands.
* Fix the output of "/ babelshorthand in math.
* Fix math mode output of some German babelshorthands for new spelling.
* Fix spacing issues in some gloss files.

New Features
* Add basic support for Kyrgyz (Cyrillic writing).
* Support legacy (LICR) macros for Cyrillic characters (\cyra etc.).
This requires the file cyrl2uni.def shipped with babel as of version 26.7.
* Add metadata to use the language provided in \DocumentMetaData rf?langrf- key as the default language.
* Add unibidi-lua option for unibidi-lua integration.
* Add bidi option to control the loading of bidi or luabidi.
* The language selected in the lang key in \DocumentMetaData is now used as the default language. You can suppress this with the metadata option.
* Add aliases for babel-germanrCOs new language names.
* Add ". shorthand to German.

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https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/unicodetex/latex/polyglossia

More information is at
https://ctan.org/pkg/polyglossia


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