• CTAN update: xecjk

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    Liam Huang submitted an update to the

    xecjk

    package.

    Version: 3.10.0
    License: lppl1.3c

    Summary description: Support for CJK documents in XeLaTeX

    Announcement text: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    xeCJK v3.10.0 is a major release focused on Chinese inter-character spacing (CJKglue/CJKecglue) correctness across whatsit-bearing contexts, with broad fixes and a few breaking changes. Highlights:

    NEW FEATURES
    * New \xeCJKchar command bypassing interchar handling, replacing the
    earlier \char redefinition that broke xint and other packages
    (resolves #407, #800).
    * New experiment/halfright-prebreakpenalty option (#811).
    * New experiment/punct-measure-fix option for paragraph-mode
    punctuation-compensation glue eaten by \unskip.
    * New NoBreakLongPunct character property forbidding line breaks
    before long punctuation such as ellipses.
    * Document fonts unified to Noto Serif CJK; xunicode-symbols.tex now
    uses a five-level per-character font fallback chain
    (FreeSerif -> Noto Sans Symbols 2 -> Symbola -> Segoe UI Symbol ->
    DejaVu Sans) for #878.
    * Unicode data resynchronised through Unicode 17.0 (with 15.0 / 15.1
    catch-up).

    BUG FIXES (CJKglue / CJKecglue / boundary recovery)
    * \textcolor and other color whatsit nodes no longer drop CJKecglue
    on either side (#807, #809, #810, #831, #832).
    * \textcolor wrapping ulem-family underline commands no longer
    corrupts CJK inter-character spacing (#830).
    * Spurious inter-word glue after explicit "}", \mbox and \textcolor
    is suppressed (#831).
    * hyperref link annotations preserve CJKecglue across the
    \Hy@BeginAnnot whatsit (#809, #810).
    * xeCJKfntef commands no longer leave a stray space on their right
    side; font-state and \g_@@_last_node_tl are now saved across the
    hbox (#465, #826).
    * hypdoc \HD@target hbox and url \Url@FormatString math entry no
    longer shadow boundary markers (#873, #880).
    * \lstinline now preserves the character code of catcode-6 tokens
    beyond '#' (e.g. when \catcode`\&=6) (#879).
    * Trailing space after a CJK character before a macro is no longer
    emitted as glue prematurely.
    * xCJKecglue option and \xeCJKnobreak handling corrected.

    BREAKING CHANGES
    * \newCJKfontfamily now defines its font-switching command locally
    instead of globally (#751/PR #773).
    * Removed compatibility shims for LaTeX2e versions older than
    2020/10/01 (#746).
    * Minimum LaTeX3 (expl3) version raised to 2025/10/09.


    DEPRECATED
    * \xeCJKsetcharclass is deprecated.

    Full ChangeLog (per \changes{v3.10.0} entries) is available in the package documentation. Source and issue tracker:
    https://github.com/CTeX-org/ctex-kit --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    This package is located at
    https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/xecjk

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


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    Thanks for the upload.

    For the CTAN Team
    Erik Braun


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