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Originally written by Norbert Preining and Karl Berry, 2010.) <p><b>tlmgr 45286 (released 15sep17):</b> <li>require the main repository to be signed. <li>fix tlmgr info output. <p><b>tlmgr 45190 (released 1sep17):</b> <li>fix tlmgrgui not to switch to single repo mode on CTAN mirror usage. <li>prohibit upgrades between releases using tlmgr. <li>add shell mode. <li>add tabulated info output. <p><b>tlmgr 44452 (released 9jun17):</b> <li>bug fix for tlmgr conf editing of line continuations. <p><b>tlmgr 44422 (TeX Live 2017):</b> <li>new action <tt>shell</tt> for interactive and scripted use. <li>new action <tt>conf auxtrees</tt> to easily add and remove extra texmf trees. <li>if backups are enabled, a backup is automatically made by the <tt>remove</tt> action. <li>the <tt>info</tt> output includes sizes for schemes and collections. <p><b>tlmgr 41476 (released 20jun16):</b> <li>fix <tt>tlmgr restore</tt> failure <p><b>tlmgr 41258 (TeX Live 2016, 19may16):</b> <li>support for system-level configuration files in <tt>TEXMFSYSCONFIG/tlmgr/config</tt>, where a restricted set of allowed actions can be defined, in addition to the usual tlmgr config file directives. <li>the font and other gui controls can be specified as options to the <tt>gui</tt> action. <li>verify package checksums during installation; sha-512 used instead of md5 for checksums; new config file setting <tt>no-checksums</tt>. <li>gpg verification supported, with new action <tt>key</tt> and new options and config settings <tt>--require-verification</tt> and <tt>verify-downloads</tt>. <li>unify installer and tlmgr package installation implementations. <p><b>tlmgr revision 39198 (released 5jan16):</b> <li>message and doc changes. <li>ConTeXt paper size changes. <p><b>tlmgr revision 37738 (released 3jul15):</b> <li>more accurate error codes, e.g., for paper sizes. <li>info searches titles, descriptions, file names, topics if available. <p><b>tlmgr revision 37030 (released 24apr15):</b> <li>more reliable exit status codes. <li>add --with-doc and --with-src options for use with install --reinstall, to get the doc and/or src files even if they were omitted at initial installation. <li>the install action reports explicitly-requested packages already installed. <li>restore --dry-run is now more of a no-op, as intended. <p><b>tlmgr revision 35841 (released 24dec14):</b> <li>remove taxonomy searching, since upstream data is no longer maintained. <p><b>tlmgr revision 34227 (released 23may14, TeX Live 2014):</b> <li>If the NOPERLDOC envvar is set, avoid fancy <tt>--help</tt> message formatting, regardless. (Same holds for install-tl.) <li><tt>tlmgr conf</tt> supports new options <tt>--delete</tt>, <tt>--conffile</tt>, and <tt>updmap</tt>. <li>doc and error checking updates as usual. <p><b>tlmgr revision 32912 (released 9feb14):</b> <li>tlmgrgui wordings, arrangements, etc. <p><b>tlmgr revision 31657 (released 15sep13):</b> <li>fix for "quoted" strings inside doc attributes, as in pythontex's Catalogue entry. <p><b>tlmgr revision 31400 (released 9aug13):</b> <li>fix for installation from file (install --file). <p><b>tlmgr revision 30643 (released 23may13, TeX Live 2013):</b> <li>documentation updates for the release. <li>new tlperl (version 5.16.2) for Windows, compiled without optimization and with debugging <p><b>tlmgr revision 28216 (released 09nov12):</b> <li>menu shortcuts are installed unconditionally, the desktop_integration option only controls shortcuts on the desktop (W32) <li>fix --self updates on W32 when multiple remote repositories are used <p><b>tlmgr revision 27748 (released 25oct12):</b> <li>support <tt>tlmgr repository list ...</tt> for listing of any repository <li>work around Cygwin Perl returning undef from an empty file <p><b>tlmgr revision 27601 (released 07sep12):</b> <li>allow for spaces in the repository path (again) <li>make <tt>tlmgr --help</tt> more robust against broken perldoc <p><b>tlmgr revision 27413 (released 16aug12):</b> <li>fix Perl syntax warning in trans.pl <li><tt>tar -m</tt> in Windows update to avoid spurious problems <p><b>tlmgr revision 27258 (released 30jul12):</b> <li>more fixes to updmap multi-tree support for TEXMFLOCAL <p><b>tlmgr revision 27170 (released 26jul12):</b> <li>consistently use ll_RR in .po file naming, per general gettext convention <li>make sure that an outdated updmap.cfg file is backed up and removed <p><b>texlive.infra (tlmgr) revision 26923 (released 07jul12):</b> <li>version with TeX Live 2012 <li>generate updmap is no more, since updmap.cfg is now per-tree <li>multiple repository support <li>tlmgr can now install a package from a file <p><b>tlmgr revision 24419 (released 01nov11):</b> <li>support addKanjiMap execute <p><b>tlmgr revision 23514 (released 12aug11):</b> <li>dependent formats are regenerated when necessary. <li>on Windows only, do not update time stamps when unpacking, to partially avoid spurious errors. <li>detect mipsel and mipsel64 platforms. <p><b>tlmgr revision 23117 (released 23jun11):</b> <li>version with TeX Live 2011. <li>support <tt>gui-lang</tt> in tlmgr config file, and add GUI interface for it. <p><b>tlmgr revision 20975 (released 24jan11):</b> <li>fix usage of persistent connections in tlmgr. <li>override locale settings when using wget as a subprocess. <p><b>tlmgr revision 20243 (released 1nov10):</b> <li>try (again) not to load the remote tlpdb if tlmgr update is called without arguments. <li>fix bugs in autobackup/backupdir handling; unify error messages; on clean, also remove package backups for packages no longer present in tlpdb. <li>support keyword searching as provided by the beta CTAN characterizations at <a href="http://az.ctan.org/">http://az.ctan.org/</a> (no Internet access needed for the search, though). tlmgr documentation has details. Support is also present in tlmgrgui. <p><b>tlmgr revision 19923 (released 28sep10):</b> <li>undo change for not loading remote db, needs more work. <p><b>tlmgr revision 19896 (released 27sep10):</b> <li>add <tt>-R</tt> to the <tt>LESS</tt> environment variable, and unset LESSOPEN and LESSPIPE, before calling pod2usage. <li>don't load the remote db if tlmgr update is called without arguments. <p><b>tlmgr revision 19414 (TeX Live 2010 release version):</b> <li>implement download selection mode in the file <tt>TEXMFCONFIG/tlmgr/config</tt>, option <tt>persistent-downloads</tt>, with value 0 or 1. <li>remove support for old GUI (<tt>tlmgr gui-old</tt>). tlmgr rev 17811 (2010-04-25) * tlmgr restore --all: restoring the latest, using all available backups. * GUI: add support for restore action. * do not auto-install packages contained in forcibly removed collections. * GUI: add support for the three command line options: --no-auto-install, --no-auto-remove (under Menu->Options), and --reinstall-forcibly-removed (just below the "Update all installed" button). * GUI: provide access to the manual (tlmgr help) in the Help menu * GUI: provide simple and expert modes (Options->Expert options) tlmgr rev 17611 (2010-03-30) * Support automatic installation of new collections (when they are included in the selected scheme). tlmgr rev 17455 (2010-03-19) * persistent HTTP connections enabled by default (use --no-persistent-downloads to turn off) * package update algorithm changed to avoid incorrect "forcibly removed" inferences. Should be invisible. * report of the number of pending updates in tlmgr gui. Save