TeX Live

Original author(s)| TeX Users Group
Developer(s)| Karl Berry
Initial release| 1996
Operating system| FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, Solaris, Windows
Predecessor| teTeX
Available in| English, Czech/Slovak, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese
Type| TeX distribution
License| LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL), GPL (Version 2)
Website| www.tug.org/texlive/

TeX Live is a cross-platform, free software distribution for the TeX typesetting system that includes major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts. It is the replacement of its no-longer supported[1] counterpart teTeX.[2] It is now the default TeX distribution for several Linux distributions such as openSUSE,[3] Fedora,[4] Debian,[5][6] Slackware,[7] Ubuntu,[8] Termux[9] and Gentoo.[10] Other Unix operating systems like OpenBSD,[11] FreeBSD[12] and NetBSD[13] have also converted from teTeX to TeX Live.

The project was originally started by Sebastian Rahtz in 1996 in collaboration with the TeX user groups worldwide, including the TeX Users Group. Today, it is maintained by Karl Berry, Norbert Preining, Akira Kakuto, Luigi Scarso and many other people.[14]

Up to version 2009, TeX Live could be run directly, or "live", from a CD-ROM, from a DVD-ROM, or from any other mobile device, hence its name. As of TeX Live 2010, it was no longer possible to run the distribution from the TeX Collection DVD due to restrictions in storage space. TeX Live follows the TeX Directory Structure.

Since the 2009 release, the editor TeXworks is included for Microsoft Windows, as well as the vector graphics language Asymptote.[15]

For macOS there is MacTeX,[16] which comprises the full TeX Live distribution as well as some additional tools for using TeX on the Mac, most notably the editor TeXShop and the bibliography manager BibDesk. Similar to Basic MikTeX in MikTeX, a substantially smaller download, BasicTeX, can also be used for Mac as well.[17] TeX Live can also be compiled and installed through MacPorts or Homebrew.

## Contents

* 1 Release history
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Release history

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Version  | Release date  | Significant changes

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2026  | 1 March 2026  | HiTeX exclusively uses UTF-8 input encoding.[18]
2025  | 8 March 2025  | Generate PDF-1.7 in all formats, both plain and LaTeX; before, it was 1.5.[19]
2024  | 12 March 2024  |
2023  | 19 March 2023  | Windows version starts and only provides 64-bit binaries.[20]
2022  | 4 April 2022  |
2021  | 1 April 2021  |
2020  | 10 April 2020  |
2019  | 19 April 2019  | New interface for TeX Live Manager.
2018  | 28 April 2018  | Case-insensitive file name matching on Unix by default. LaTeX default input encoding now UTF-8.
2017  | 4 June 2017  | LuaTeX 1.04.[21]
2016  | 5 June 2016  | LuaTeX 0.90.[21]
2015  |  | LaTeX2e now include fixes previously found in fixltx2e.[22] LuaTeX 0.80.[21]
2014  |  |
2013  |  | XeTeX now uses HarfBuzz for font layout.[22] LuaTeX 0.77.[21]
2012  |  | MorphOS port[23]
2011  |  | biber added.[22] LuaTeX 0.70.[21]
2010  |  | Automatic EPS conversion for pdfTeX. PDF 1.5 output by default. XeTeX have margin kerning.[24] LuaTeX 0.60.[21] Can no longer be run live from a DVD.[22]
2009  |  | TeXworks included in Windows and OSX ports. Asymptote included.[22] LuaTeX 0.40.[21]
2008  |  | Incremental updates over the internet. First release with LuaTeX.[22]
2007  |  | First release with XeTeX.[22]
2005  |  |
2004  |  | New folder structure.[22]
2003  |  | e-TeX as default. Latin Modern included.[25]
7  | 2002  | Mac OS X support[25]
6  | July 2001[25] | Finegrained collections.[25]
5  | March 2000[25] | Removed all non-free software.[25]
4  | 1999[25] | Windows support. Web2C 7.3.[25]
3  | 1998[25] | Web2C 7.2.[25]
2  | 1997[25] |
1  | May 1996[25] |

## See also

* MiKTeX

## References

1. ↑ Thomas Esser. "teTeX: no next release". http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.tetex.beta/812. Retrieved 20 November 2009.
2. ↑ "TeX Live". http://www.tug.org/texlive/. Retrieved 19 November 2009.
3. ↑ "openSUSE Software Search - TeX Live Packages". http://software.opensuse.org/package/texlive?search_term="texlive". Retrieved 31 July 2016.
4. ↑ "Fedora Wiki - TeX Live Migration". http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureTexLive. Retrieved 19 November 2009.
5. ↑ "Debian -- Details of package texlive in jessie". http://packages.debian.org/en/jessie/texlive. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
6. ↑ "TeX Live and Debian". http://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html. Retrieved 19 November 2009.
7. ↑ "Index of /slackware/slackware-15.0/slackware/t". https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-15.0/slackware/t/.
8. ↑ "Ubuntu – Details of package texlive in wily". http://packages.ubuntu.com/en/wily/texlive. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
9. ↑ "TeX Live Package Management". The Termux Wiki. https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/TeX_Live.
10. ↑ "Gentoo Monthly Newsletter: 30 September 2008". Archived from the original on 12 January 2013. https://archive.today/20130112193743/http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gmn/20080930-newsletter.xml. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
11. ↑ Edward Barrett (June 2008). Barbara Beeton. ed. "Porting TeX Live to OpenBSD". TUGboat (Portland, Oregon, United States: TeX Users Group) 29 (2): 303–304. ISSN 0896-3207. http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb29-2/tb92barrett.pdf. Retrieved 19 November 2009.
12. ↑ "FreeBSD ports for TeX Live". https://github.com/smortex/freebsd-texlive. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
13. ↑ "The NetBSD Packages Collection: print/texlive-tetex". Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110727115350/http://sup.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/pkgsrc/print/texlive-tetex/README.html. Retrieved 19 November 2009.
14. ↑ "TeX Live - TeX Users Group". https://www.tug.org/texlive/.
15. ↑ "Release notes for TeX Live 2009". http://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#news. Retrieved 20 November 2009.
16. ↑ "MacTeX". http://www.tug.org/mactex/. Retrieved 20 November 2009.
17. ↑ "New Features - MacTeX - TeX Users Group". https://www.tug.org/mactex/newfeatures.html.
18. ↑ "The TeX Live Guide—2026". https://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#news.
19. ↑ "The TeX Live Guide—2025". https://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x1-940009.2.
20. ↑ "TeX Live on Windows". https://www.tug.org/texlive/windows.html. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 21.5 21.6 "LuaTeX Roadmap". http://www.luatex.org/roadmap.html. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 22.4 22.5 22.6 22.7 "The TEX Live Guide—2016". https://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
23. ↑ "'MorphOS: TeX Live 2012'". https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2013-07-00028-EN.html.
24. ↑ Karl Berry. "TEX Live 2010 news". TUGboat (Portland, Oregon, United States: TeX Users Group) 31 (2): 173. http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb31-2/tb98berry.pdf. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
25. ↑ 25.00 25.01 25.02 25.03 25.04 25.05 25.06 25.07 25.08 25.09 25.10 25.11 Rahtz, Sebastian. "TeX-Collection 2003". ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2003/live.pdf. Retrieved 29 May 2017.

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