MiKTeX 2.9.7200

Breaking changes

Windows: text files with UNIX line endings

All TeX engines now write text output files with UNIX line endings.

EPS-to-PDF converter embeds all fonts

The miktex-epstopdf utility now creates a PDF with embedded fonts.

New programs

• synctex 1.5

Downgraded programs

• luatex 1.10.0

Fixed issues

• 353: luatex 1.10.1 has a bug affecting font usage
• 363: SyncTeX binaries?
• 369: luatex doesn't handle commands in the name of the main file correctly
• 370: line endings
• 373: tftopl failed with large .tfm file
• 376: Miktex Update removes essential packages
• 377: pdfcrop: The script engine could not be found.
• 391: miktex-console_admin building format fails

MiKTeX 2.9.7140

New programs

• harftex: new TeX enginge with embedded HarfBuzz and Lua

Upgraded programs

• dvipdfmx 20190522
• luatex 1.10.1

Upgraded libraries

• harfbuzz 2.5.3

MiKTeX 2.9.7050

Breaking changes

--c-style-errors does not imply \scrollmode anymore

You can use the --interaction=scrollmode option, if you depend on the old behaviour:

pdflatex --c-style-errors --interaction=scrollmode document.tex

Upgraded programs

• dvipdfmx 20190305

Upgraded libraries

• uriparser 0.9.2

Fixed issues

• 181: Make file-line-error more talkative
• 293: Bundles old vulnerable copy of uriparser 0.8.6, please update
• 294: kpsewhich not in PATH in MacOS
• 312: MiKTeX Setup Wizard ignores --user-install in Windows 10

MiKTeX 2.9.7000

Upgraded programs

• dvipdfmx 20190225
• dvipng 1.16
• dvips 5.999
• dvisvgm 2.6.3
• Gregorio 5.2.0
• luatex 1.10.0
• tex4ht 2018-07-03-10:36
• TeXworks 0.6.3

Fixed issues

• 195: Add option to change directory for binaries (Linux)
• 262: keeping user/admin updates in sync
• 263: MPM crashes with --require=@
• 264: MiKTeX failed to test file existence for /dev/null, on macOS and Linux
• 272: TEXMFHOME is empty on Windows
• 279: Latest GregorioTeX update did not include updated binary

MiKTeX 2.9.6980

Fixed issues

• 254: biber: missing on Ubuntu and Mac

MiKTeX 2.9.6960

Upgraded programs

• dvipdfmx 20190127
• dvisvgm 2.6.2
• luatex 1.09.2

Fixed issues

• 249: TeXworks blocks FNDB

MiKTeX 2.9.6930

Resetting personal MiKTeX configuration

In order to avoid leftovers, MiKTeX Console learned to reset the
personal MiKTeX configuration if MiKTeX was installed system-wide:

This allows users to remove their MiKTeX related installation files
before a system administrator completely uninstalls MiKTeX.

Admin mode: blinding out of personal MiKTeX configuration

Prior to MiKTeX 2.9.6930, personal TEXMF root directories were visible
(e.g., in MiKTeX Console) when running in administrator mode. This
behaviour has been changed: in MiKTeX 2.9.6930 and higher, personal
TEXMF root directories are blinded out when running in administrator
mode.

Update improvements

The Check for updates operation is much faster now.

Upgraded programs

• dvipdfmx 20181221
• XeTeX 0.999991

Fixed issues

• 43: MPM (admin) cannot be run if TeXworks is running
• 220: MikTex TexWorks on Mac not displaying any text.
• 222: Running MiKTeX commands in parallel fails
• 226: xetex does not look for local user's font folder
• 235: Multithreading poppler utilities on windows yields errors

MiKTeX 2.9.6840

Fixed security issues

CVE-2018-17407

This applies to MiKTeX (TeX Live is an upstream source):

An issue was discovered in t1_check_unusual_charstring functions in writet1.c files in TeX Live before 2018-09-21.
A buffer overflow in the handling of Type 1 fonts allows arbitrary code execution when a malicious font is loaded by one of
the vulnerable tools: pdflatex, pdftex, dvips, or luatex.

More info: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17407

Fixed issues

• 199: miktex searches the whole file system if grffile is used

MiKTeX 2.9.6800

Fedora 28 & openSUSE Leap 15

MiKTeX is now available for Fedora 28 and openSUSE Leap 15.

Fixed issues

• 36: enhance support to install packages from a list file
• 50: pdftex (started via the compiler driver) can't find input files if the main file is on a network drive
• 66: [MikTeX Portable] Can't add local texmf directory
• 149: Texify / macOS: "The TeX engine could not be found."
• 156: latexmk does not work on a fresh mac install
• 161: xelatex: -disable-installer is not propagated to miktex-makemf
• 166: Alternative for sudo
• 168: Installing MiKTex via Command Line
• 174: initexmf --force --mklinks --admin fails if TeXworks is open

MiKTeX 2.9.6730

OS X El Capitan & macOS Sierra

MiKTeX is now available for these older Macintosh platforms:

• OS X El Capitan
• macOS Sierra

Upgraded libraries

• HarfBuzz 1.8.0

Fixed issues

• 42: download of cm-super is speed-limited
• 116: Cannot run on El Capitan
• 138: U+0361 COMBINING DOUBLE INVERTED BREVE is misaligned when using Linguistics Pro font
• 143: MiKTeX portable creates start menu entries
• 148: MiKTeX Console: uninstall MiKTeX