<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></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="">The pretest has begun for TeX Live 2017, and both mactex-2017.pkg and</div><div class="">mactex-basictex-2017.pkg are available on pretest servers. Installation does </div><div class="">not overwrite your regular TeX distribution. See</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.tug.org/texlive/pretest.html" class="">https://www.tug.org/texlive/pretest.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Once MacTeX or BasicTeX is installed, it can be updated from the tlpretest servers</div><div class="">by TeX Live Utility.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In 2017 we begin a new policy of supporting versions of macOS for which</div><div class="">Apple still provides security updates. Thus the above packages require</div><div class="">Yosemite, El Capitan, or Sierra.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">TeX Live 2017 also has legacy binaries for older versions of macOS compiled by</div><div class="">Mojca Miklavec.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dick Koch</div></body></html>