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V|!t Star|+ Novotn|+ submitted an update to the

markdown

package.

Version: 3.15.1-0-g51841b67 2026-06-11
License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Converting and rendering markdown documents inside TeX

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

### Fixes

This version of the Markdown package has fixed the following issues:

- Define unexpandable functions as protected.
([witiko/expltools#201][expltools-201], #644)

[expltools-201]: https://github.com/witiko/expltools/pull/201

### Defaults

This version of the Markdown package has made the following changes to the
default renderer and renderer prototype definitions.

- Render bracketed spans by default. (8c3b0716)

Previously, bracketed span contents were consumed by the default renderer
prototype.

- In LaTeX, format `[...]{.acronym}`s throughout the document. (#645)

After this change, explicitly listed acronyms using the HTML class `acronym`
will be recorded in the auxiliary file, so that they are applied throughout
the document in the next compilation run.

For example, assume the following LaTeX example document:

``` tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[bracketed_spans]{markdown}
\markdownSetup {
acronyms = {HTML, YAML},
}
\begin{document}
\begin{markdown}

HTML, JSON, and YAML are two staples of modern tooling that often get mentioned
in the same breath, even though they live in very different layers of the stack.

Here, the author has explicitly marked up [JSON]{.acronym}.

\end{markdown}

\begin{markdown}

In the following compilation runs, the previous occurrence of JSON will also
be correctly formatted as an acronym.

\end{markdown}
\end{document}
```

During the first compilation run, only HTML and YAML are formatted as acronyms
in the first paragraph, not JSON, which is only formatted as an acronym in the
second and third paragraphs. However, in the following compilation runs, JSON
is formatted as an acronym throughout.

### Continuous integration

This version of the Markdown package has made the following changes to our
continuous integration:

- Bump `softprops/action-gh-release` from 2 to 3. (added by @dependabot in #643)

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V|!t Star|+ Novotn|+ submitted an update to the

markdown

package.

Version: 3.16.0-0-g4d0fb773 2026-06-17
License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Converting and rendering markdown documents inside TeX

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

### Development

This version of the Markdown package has added the following new features:

- Allow delimiters other than `{` and `}` after `\markinline`. (#646, d17a31f6)

This allows potentially unbalanced braces to appear in the markdown text:

``` tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[bracketed_spans]{markdown}
\begin{document}
\markinline|[JSON]{.acronym}|
\end{document}
```

### Continuous integration

This version of the Markdown package has made the following changes to our
continuous integration:

- Fix @mermaid-js/mermaid-cli not downloading chrome-headless-shell. (b5cc155e)

- In `workflows/main.yml`, add `buildDocumentation` dispatch input. (effc46de,
8b6a4d20)

This allows running the pipeline without building the documentation and
example documents, which is helpful in quickly building a Docker image,
especially if building the documentation and example documents fails.

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https://ctan.org/pkg/markdown

The packagerCOs files themselves can be inspected at
https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/generic/markdown/

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For the CTAN Team
Petra R|+be-Pugliese

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