CTAN update: latex-base
Date: June 15, 2016 4:20:37 PM CEST
LaTeX3 project submitted an update to the
latex-base
package.
Version number: 2016/03/31 PL 1 2016-05-08
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: Base sources of LaTeX
Announcement text:
LaTeX 2016/03/31 Patch Level 1 Release Update LaTeX to change the XeTeX character class allocation as XeTeX now has 4096 rather than 256 classes.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/base More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/latex-base
We are supported by the TeX user groups. Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz
LaTeX 2016/03/31 Patch Level 1 Release Update LaTeX to change the XeTeX character class allocation as XeTeX now has 4096 rather than 256 classes.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/base More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/latex-base
We are supported by the TeX user groups. Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz
LaTeX-base – Base sources of LaTeX
This bundle comprises the source of LaTeX itself, together with
several packages which are considered part of the
kernel
. This bundle, together with the
required packages, constitutes what
every LaTeX distribution should contain.
| Package | LaTeX-base |
| Version | 2026-06-01 |
| Copyright | 1989–2026 The LaTeX3 Project et al. |
| Maintainer | The LaTeX Project Team Frank Mittelbach |