<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Folks,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">TUG has begun the testing period for TeX Live 2015 and associated packages.</div><div class="">A version of BasicTeX-2015 is ready for testing. Mojca Miklavec kindly offered</div><div class="">to host the package on her server:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <a href="http://ctan.ijs.si/mirror/mactex/BasicTeX-2015.pkg" class="">http://ctan.ijs.si/mirror/mactex/BasicTeX-2015.pkg</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The md5 sum of this package is b9eb80f893ea65adefcefe0535193b71.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">BasicTeX-2015 can exist alongside earlier distributions. It installs a Preference</div><div class="">Pane for Apple’s System Preferences which allows you to easily switch back to</div><div class="">an earlier distribution. The Pane installed when you are running Yosemite</div><div class="">will ask for a password twice, but works fine after that.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">TeX Live Utility can be used to upgrade this distribution, but for that to work, you</div><div class="">must configure it to look at one of the pretesting mirrors. See</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="http://www.tug.org/texlive/pretest.html" class="">http://www.tug.org/texlive/pretest.html</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In a couple of days, we expect to release a testing version of the full</div><div class="">MacTeX-2015.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please report any errors that you encounter See the TUG link just above</div><div class="">for instructions on reporting errors.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dick Koch</div></body></html>