[OS X TeX] Announce: MacTeX-2013 & TeX Live 2013 Released.

[R Martinez]

All,

I just installed MacTeX-2013 without a hitch. Then I typeset an existing .tex document with TeXShop 3.18 and everything worked normally.

Thanks for the great work on MacTeX-2013.

Raul Martinez

On Jun 19, 2013, at 10:20 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> MacTeX-2013 and TeX Live 2013 have been released.
> 
> Most major changes are ``under the hood;'' you can read more detailed information about the update at <http://www.tug.org/mactex/newfeatures.html>. 
> 
> MacTeX-2013 is available as MacTeX.pkg from <http://www.tug.org/mactex/>. Note: the size and date of the MacTeX.pkg file is noted as 2.3GB and May 30, 2013. There is a md5 checksum  available at <http://www.tug.org/mactex/downloading.html> so you can check that you have the correct download. We recommend downloading using Sasfari; in the past we have seen some problems when downloading .pkg files with other browsers.
> 
> BUT NOTE: since it was released last evening there are certainly repositories that have not updated to that release yet: please give it a few days time for all the repositories to update.
> 
> We appreciate using the mirror sites (the MacTeX.pkg link at <http://www.tug.org/mactex/> points to a mirror site chosen reasonably close to your location) but, at the start, it might be good to go directly to systems/mac/mactex at one of the CTAN servers on the list at <http://www.ctan.org/mirrors/>. On those servers MacTeX.pkg is a symbolic link to a dated file,
> 
> MacTeX.pkg --> mactex20130618.pkg
> 
> which is the actual file that gets downloaded when you double click the MacTeX.pkg file on that server. If the dated file is mactex20130618.pkg that repository has been updated.
> 
> By the way, all packages, e.g., BasicTeX.pkg and mactex-additions.pkg have been updated. Also, torrents are being generated and will be announced later.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 
> 
> 
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