[OS X TeX] large number of TeXLive 2025 updates?

[Gary L. Gray]

Thank you! It's nice to have a confirmation that it isn't something nefarious or something odd with my system.

Gary

> On Feb 15, 2026, at 11:49, Adam R. Maxwell via MacOSX-TeX <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:
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> No idea why I didn't get Gary's message; I've only been subscribed to this list for 23 years! Anyway, looks like a one-time giant update, based on a message from Karl Berry:
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> Adam
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>> On Feb 14, 2026, at 17:16 , Calum Mackay <calum.mackay at cdmnet.org> wrote:
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>> I had the same issuea few days ago; I do daily updates.
>> 
>> I updated them all, and now it is back to normal, with just a few each day.
>> 
>> best wishes,
>> calum.
>> 
>> On 14/02/2026 3:42 pm, Gary L. Gray via MacOSX-TeX wrote:
>>> TeX Live Utility did its automatic weekly check for updates to TeXLive 2025 this morning and it found hundreds of updates totaling 1.3GB. The version number of the vast majority of updates has not changed, though part of the version number has changed and all the numbers are the same.
>>> What is happening? Should I install these updates?
>>> Gary
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