TeXLive 2022.0 merged into main branch, release coming soon

[pkgw]

Hi all,

With #936 I have merged in support for TeXLive 2022.0 to the main branch. This update bumps the XeTeX engine format version to 33.

There are only extremely modest changes to the engine implementations compared to TL2021.3. However, this new version will start picking up the updated TeXLive 2022.0 bundle, which will include a bunch changes to the packages and classes. In particular, for those of you trying to use biber with Tectonic, this update contains biblatex.sty version 3.17 which implements version 3.8 of the biblatex control file format. To start using the new bundle with a Tectonic.toml document, you'll need to manually update the bundle field to:

https://data1.fullyjustified.net/tlextras-2022.0r0.tar

(You can actually do this without installing the latest version of Tectonic and things will probably work, since the engine code updates were so minor this time around, but I don't recommend it.)

I intend to make official releases of this new code soon, but if anyone has the chance to test out the update and check for any issues, that would be most welcome!

— Peter