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    From CTAN Announcements via ctan-ann@erik@ctan.org to ctan-ann on Fri May 29 08:12:16 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.text.tex

    Thomas F. Sturm submitted an update to the

    tcolorbox

    package.

    Version number: 6.10.0 2026-05-28
    License type: lppl1.3

    Summary description: Coloured boxes, for LaTeX examples and theorems, etc.

    Announcement text: ----------------------------------------------------------------------


    ### Added
    - Documentation:
    - Examples for `halign code` and warning at `halign` (issue #361)
    - Macro `\renewthetcbcounter` to allow redefinition of `\thetcbcounter`
    - Alias `counter within` for `number within`
    - Alias `counter within from` for `number within from`
    - Library `theorems`:
    - Options `ams subequations`, `ams subequations upper`, and `ams subequations lower` (issue #366)
    - Options `ams subequations align`, `ams subequations align upper`, and `ams subequations align lower`
    - Options `ams subequations gather`, `ams subequations gather upper`, and `ams subequations gather lower`
    - Library `documentation`:
    - More semantic description in key documentation (issue #354)
    - Options `doclang/default`, `doclang/initially`, `doclang/initiallyempty`,
    `doclang/nodefault`, `doclang/noinitially`
    - `\tcbdocdescNoDefaultInit`, `\tcbdocdescInitEmpty`, `\tcbdocdescInit`,
    `\tcbdocdescDefault`, `\tcbdocdescDefaultInitEmpty`, `\tcbdocdescDefaultInit`
    - Options `doc description no default init`, `doc description init empty`, `doc description init`,
    `doc description default`, `doc description default init empty`, `doc description default init`
    - List of choices inside `\docKeyChoices`, `doc key choices` now take options
    `default`, `init`, `defaultinit`
    - Options `doc parameter eq`, `doc parameter eq meta`, `doc parameter eq marg`,
    `doc parameter eq meta*`, `doc parameter eq marg*`
    - Options `doc parameter marg`, `doc parameter oarg`, `doc parameter marg marg`,
    `doc parameter oarg marg`, `doc parameter marg oarg`

    ### Changed
    - Required LaTeX version bumped to 2025-06-01
    - Internal code changes
    - Tagging code adapted to fix https://github.com/latex3/tagging-project/issues/1114
    - Implementation for numbered boxes is partially rewritten using the L3 API
    - Documentation:
    Replace `minted2` with `minted` v3 for production since `minted` v3.8.0 has fixed incompatibility with Python 3.14
    (https://github.com/gpoore/minted/issues/463)
    - Documentation: Manually composed label references replaced by `\zvref` (where sensible, issue #348)

    ### Fixed
    - Library `documentation`:
    - Add missing spaces in a `\docKeyChoices` warning (pull request #360)
    - Documentation for `index key formatter`, `index key formatters`, `page ref formatter`, `ctan formatter`
    - Changelog typos corrected (pull request #359)
    - `\thetcbcounter` was not completely redefined using `\counterwithout` / `\counterwithin` (issue #362)
    - Code style improved with explcheck (issue #235)


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    This package is located at
    https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tcolorbox

    More information is at
    https://www.ctan.org/pkg/tcolorbox

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    Thanks for the upload.

    For the CTAN Team
    Erik Braun

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