• CTAN update: polyglossia

    From CTAN Announcements@petra@ctan.org to ctan-ann on Mon Jul 20 21:17:22 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.text.tex

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

    polyglossia

    package.

    Version: 2.11 2026-07-19
    License: mit lppl1.3 cc0

    Summary description: An alternative to babel for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX

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

    Bug fixes

    * Allow again to load polyglossia at begindocument/before (#705).


    New Features

    * The languages selected in the language and other-languages keys
    in \DocumentMetadata are now used as main and other languages.
    You can suppress this with the metadata option (#699).

    * Support the (void) \cyr macro which is used in Russian
    hyperref captions.

    * Add the chinesecal package for typesetting dates in the
    traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar, together with a
    calendar option and a \chinesedate command for the Chinese
    language (LuaLaTeX only).

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

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

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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 Thu Jul 23 18:43:58 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.text.tex

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

    polyglossia

    package.

    Version: 2.12 2026-07-22
    License: mit lppl1.3 cc0

    Summary description: An alternative to babel for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX

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

    Bug fixes
    rCu Fix other-languages key in \DocumentMetadata (#699).

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    This package is located at
    https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/unicodetex/latex/polyglossia

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


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    Thanks for the upload.

    For the CTAN Team
    Erik Braun


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