LaTeX3 Project Newsletters

Newsletters by the LaTeX3 project team covering topics of interest in the area of LaTeX3/expl3 development. They appear in irregular intervals and are not necessarily tied to individual releases of the software (as the LaTeX3 kernel code is updated rather often).

A document with all available issues bundled together in their historical order is l3news.pdf. In addition the newletters are individually available below.

Release date	LaTeX3 News issue (PDF)	Important Topics covered
2020/01/05	LaTeX3 News Issue 12	Better expansion support: e-type; new options; extension to `xparse`; better support for (u)pTeX; various fixes and changes
2018/02/01	LaTeX3 News Issue 11	Move to `GitHub`; updates and extensions to `expl3`; updates to `l3build`
2016/11/21	LaTeX3 News Issue 10	`l3build` for testing general LaTeX packages; `expl3` refinements; `xparse` extension; Globally optimized pagination framework
2014/03/24	LaTeX3 News Issue 09	`expl3` in the comunity; Logo for the LaTeX3 programming language; Article: “What can you do for the LaTeX3 project?”
2012/07/29	LaTeX3 News Issue 08	Extended floating point support; More on regex with `expl3`; Separation internal/external code; Code naming conventions
2012/02/26	LaTeX3 News Issue 07	After Big Bang; A regex engine for `expl3`
2011/08/09	LaTeX3 News Issue 06	Bruno joins the team; Big Bang reimplementations; LaTeX3 code now on GitHub
2011/01/28	LaTeX3 News Issue 05	LPPL now OSI-approved; reflections on 2010; plans for 2011
2010/08/25	LaTeX3 News Issue 04	`expl3` in practice; new developments
2010/01/10	LaTeX3 News Issue 03 Nouvelles de LaTeX3 03, traduction française	`xparse`and `xtemplate` released
2009/06/10	LaTeX3 News Issue 02 Nouvelles de LaTeX3 02, traduction française	Joseph and Will join the team; Code release for TeX Live; Plans for 2009
2009/02/11	LaTeX3 News Issue 01 Nouvelles de LaTeX3 01, traduction française	First newsletter specifically on LaTeX3 development