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    From CTAN Announcements@manfred@ctan.org to ctan-ann on Mon Aug 3 10:37:43 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.text.tex

    The PGF/TikZ Team submitted an update to the

    pgf

    package.

    Version: 3.1.12
    License: lppl1.3c gpl2 fdl

    Summary description: Create PostScript and PDF graphics in TeX

    Announcement text: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ## [3.1.12] - 2026-08-01 Henri Menke

    ### BREAKING CHANGES

    - PGF/TikZ now requires support for the braced `\input{...}` syntax, i.e. TeX
    built with Web2C 2020 or newer.
    - When using LaTeX the internal functions `\pgfutil@IfFileExists` and
    `\pgfutil@InputIfFileExists` are now aliases to their counterparts from the
    LaTeX format. This could potentially change the precedence in file lookup.
    - The precision of the scaling operation from bp to pt has been improved, which
    changes all the values emitted in the PDF literals. #1434

    ### Fixed

    - Resolve parsing ambiguity in general shadow #1435
    - Fix clobbered register in `bending` library #896
    - Fix handling of closepath command in svg.path library #1189
    - Use luatexbase to register pgfsys@strcmp to not sidestep their allocation counting
    - Allow XOR and XNOR gates to have more than 2 inputs #376
    - Fix missing inclusion of libraries in `graphdrawing` examples
    - Fix missing inclusion of libraries in the examples at https://tikz.dev/gd-trees and https://tikz.dev/gd-usage-tikz
    - Fix mis-spelled Kellermann to Kellerman
    - Support an apply-all feature (suggested in issue #640) to
    apply a single definition of options to multiple examples.
    - Support directions in LuaTeX and LuaMetaTeX
    - Fix unused variable in tikzmath example #1142
    - Correct source comment on `\pgfshadepath` #437
    - Mention `\pgfinterruptpath` in the documentation of `\pgfextra` #1327
    - Prevent math active character from causing infinite loops #1391
    - Extended the valid range of `\pgfmathscientific` #1444

    ### Added

    - Comprehenive testsuite generated from the examples in the manual #666
    - Documentation of `\pgfkeysifassignable` #1423
    - Add a new monotonic interpolation plot handler #1358
    - The keys `actualtext`, `alt`, and `artifact` are now pre-defined
    in both `tikz` and `pgf` as no-ops for usage in tagging #1370 #1453
    - Documentation of the default z-axis vector #611
    - The manual now has PDF bookmarks for the index sections #1307
    - New expansion helpers and emptiness check in pgfkeys #1254

    ### Changed

    - Typo fixes in the manual
    - Replace `\begingroup`...`\endgroup` by an explicit brace group in `pgfscope` to fix usage in alignments #1417
    - Update the engine requirements in the manual #1242

    ### Removed

    - The long deprecated `vtex` and `textures` drivers have been removed
    - The long deprecated `pgfutil-common-lists` (part of pgfplots since 1.18.2) has been removed
    - Removed duplicate definition of `\pgfmath@tempdima` in pgfutil #1384

    ### Contributors

    - Dominik Peters
    - Erin Cold
    - Hanson Char
    - Udi Fogiel --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    This package is located at
    https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/base

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


    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Thanks for the upload.

    For the CTAN Team
    Manfred Lotz


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