• CTAN update: moderncv

    From CTAN Announcements@petra@ctan.org to ctan-ann on Sun Jun 21 08:20:38 2026
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    Daniel Adlkofer submitted an update to the

    moderncv

    package.

    Version: 2.6.0 2026-06-19
    License: lppl1.3c

    Summary description: A modern curriculum vitae class

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

    We are happy to announce the moderncv release v2.6.0 including
    features and bug fixes like:
    - Upgrade to Fontawesome 6 before it gets too old as well
    - Adding optional \postscript{PS text} command for your important
    addendum during applications
    - Documentation improvement including descriptions for
    - setting up custom strings for social
    - \moderncvcolor before \moderncvstyle ordering
    - additional example on how to adjust the skill matrix
    - Complete the color and style listings
    - Correct additional link signatures
    - news for the social icons world:
    - Decreasing the size of born symbol to "tiny" and raising it by .5ex
    - Eliminate extra horizontal space for tikz icons
    - Fix missing Senders Name in Header
    - Remove arydshln dependency to fix tabular parser conflicts:
    no obstacles for your next banking application or when you
    want to have fun with tables
    - New Contemporary style option - separator under the CV header:
    better coverage of your taste upon separators

    For a detailed list please refer to the CHANGELOG.

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    The packagerCOs Catalogue entry can be viewed at
    https://ctan.org/pkg/moderncv

    The packagerCOs files themselves can be inspected at
    https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/moderncv/

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    Thanks for the upload.

    For the CTAN Team
    Petra R|+be-Pugliese

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  • From CTAN Announcements via ctan-ann@erik@ctan.org to ctan-ann on Fri Jun 26 07:23:40 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.text.tex

    Daniel Adlkofer submitted an update to the

    moderncv

    package.

    Version: 2.6.1 2026-06-24
    License: lppl1.3c

    Summary description: A modern curriculum vitae class

    Announcement text: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    We are happy to announce the moderncv release v2.6.1 as a new patch release including the following bug fixes:
    - mitigation of issues with the use of fontawesome short notation \fa<x>, which
    lead to compilation failures with LuaLaTeX/XeLaTeX (now using \faIcon{<x>} notation, see
    https://github.com/moderncv/moderncv/issues/296)
    - documentation corrections for default style options
    - explicit setting of style options

    For a detailed list please refer to the CHANGELOG. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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

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


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    Thanks for the upload.

    For the CTAN Team
    Erik Braun


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