CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to the l3kernel bundle since the start of 2018 will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, this project uses date-based 'snapshot' version identifiers.

Unreleased

Added

• \box_(g)set_eq_drop:NN, \hbox_unpack_drop:N
• \file_get:nnN and \file_get:nnNTF
• Experimental functions \sys_shell_get:nnN and \sys_shell_get:nnNTF

Changed

• \char_generate:nn now always takes exactly two expansions
• Move \prg_generate_conditional_variant:Nnn to stable

Deprecated

• \box_(g)set_eq_clear:NN, replaced by \box_(g)set_eq_drop:NN
• \hbox_unpack_clear:N, replaced by \hbox_unpack_drop:N
• \tl_(g)set_from_file(_x):Nnn, replaced by \file_get:nnN

Fixed

• In (u)platex: detection of spaces in \tl_rescan:nn and related functions

Removed

• Experimental function family \tl_(g)set_from_shell:(N|c)nn (replaced by \sys_shell_get:nnN)

2019-01-13

Added

• \ior_map_variable:NNn and \ior_str_map_variable:NNn

Fixed

• Unclosed conditional with Unicode engines

2019-01-12

Changed

• Improved expl3 loading time with LuaTeX and XeTeX
• Improved performance of \ior_map_inline:Nn and related functions

Fixed

• Handling of accented characters under mixed case changing in 8-bit engines (see #514)

2019-01-01

Added

• \iow_allow_break:

Fixed

• Correct fp randint with zero argument (see #507)
• Handling of \current@color with (x)dvipdfmx` (see #510)

Removed

• Support for stand-alone l3regex, l3sort, l3srt, l3tl-analysis, l3tl-build
• \box_resize:Nnn
• \box_use_clear:N
• \c_minus_one
• \file_add_path:nN
• \file_list:
• \file_path_include:n and \file_path_remove:n
• \io(r|w)_list_streams: and \io(r|w)_log_streams:
• \sort_ordered: and \sort_reversed:
• \token_new:Nn
• Generation of invalid variants from n/N base types

2018-12-12

Changed

• Move \tl_range:nnn to stable

Fixed

• Loading in ConTeXt MkIV

2018-12-11

Changed

• Enable \char_generate:nn to create active tokens with XeTeX

2018-12-06

Changed

• Apply \par only at the end of vertical boxes
• Move \int_rand:n to stable
• Move \<var>_rand_item:N to stable

Fixed

• Typo in \lua_shipout_e:n (see #503)

2018-11-19

Added

• Support for cross-compatibility primitives in XeTeX
• \int_sign:n, \dim_sign:n and \fp_sign:n

2018-10-19

Fixed

• Wrapping of text in messages, etc., for some line lengths (fixes #491)

2018-10-17

Added

• \g_msg_module_documentation_prop (see #471)
• \peek_remove_spaces:n

Changed

• Formatting of messages: now follows LaTeX2e closely

Deprecated

• \msg_interrupt:nn, \msg_log:n and \msg_term:n

Fixed

• Handling of inheritance for choice keys (fixes #483)

2018-09-24

Added

• Some driver-level support for PDF features
• \peek_catcode_collect_inline:Nn, \peek_charcode_collect_inline:Nn, \peek_meaning_collect_inline:Nn

Fixed

• Handling of unknown keys when inheritance is active (fixes #481)

2018-08-23

Added

• \lua_escape:e, \lua_now:e and \lua_shipout_e:n
• \str_case_e:nn(TF) and \str_if_eq:ee(TF)
• \sys_if_platform_unix:(TF) and \sys_if_platform_windows:(TF)
• \tl_(g)set_from_shell:Nnn

Deprecated

• \lua_escape_x:n, \lua_now_x:n and \lua_shipout_x:n
• \str_case_x:nn(TF) and \str_if_eq_x:nn(TF)

2018-06-14

Added

• Support for e-type argument using \expanded or macro emulation

2018-06-01

Added

• CHANGELOG.md (fixes #460)

Fixed

• Loading expl3 with LuaTeX/XeTeX and certain letter tokens set to be active (see #462)

Changed

• Alter \char_codepoint_from_bytes:n to produce four groups in all cases; make f-type expandable

2018-05-13

Fixed

• Cor­rect date string in ex­pl3.dtx
• Cor­rect \c_sys_en­gine_ver­sion_str when using XeTeX

2018-05-12

Added

• Define \c_zero_int and \c_one_int
• Im­ple­ment \c_sys_en­gine_ver­sion_str
• Im­ple­ment \seq_in­dexed_map_func­tion/in­line
• Im­ple­ment \in­tar­ray_gzero:N
• Im­ple­ment \in­tar­ray_const_from_clist:Nn
• Im­ple­ment \bool_set_in­verse:N
• Im­ple­ment \bool_xor:nnTF in­stead of just \bool_xor_p:nn
• Im­ple­ment can­di­date \int_rand:n
• Im­ple­ment \in­tar­ray_gset_rand:Nnn
• Im­ple­ment can­di­date l3f­par­ray mod­ule

Changed

• Up­date min­i­mal re­quired ver­sions of XeTeX and LuaTeX
• Dep­re­cate named in­te­ger con­stants \c_zero. etc.
• Move all prim­i­tives to \tex_...:D names­pace, dep­re­cat­ing older en­gine-de­pen­dent pre­fixes
• Several internal optimisations

Fixed

• Ex­pand boolean ex­pres­sion be­fore call­ing \chardef (fixes #461)

Removed

• Re­move un­doc­u­mented \fp_func­tion:Nw and \fp_new_func­tion:Npn

2018-04-30

Added

• Implement \tl_analysis_map_inline:nn
• Implement \exp_args_generate:n to define new \exp_args:N... functions
• Low-level \int_value:w function
• New experimental functions for
  • Building token lists piecewise
  • Fast manipulation of integer arrays
  • Sequence shuffling
  • \seq_set_from_function:NnN
  • \char_codepoint_to_bytes:n

Changed

• Significant internal revision to use only internal functions 'private' to specific modules
• Better documentation of cross-module kernel-internal functions
• Enable \char_generate:nn for active chars
• Renamed \tl_show_analysis:(N|n)n as \tl_analysis_show:(N|n)n
• Change \int_rand:nn (and rand_item functions) to better use the RNG
• Make prg break functions public
• Make scan marks mechanism public
• Make \prg_do_nothing: long rather than nopar (fixes #455)
• Several performance improvements
• Documentation improvements

Fixed

• Only index TF, T, F functions together if they are expl3 functions (fixes #453)
• Make \infty and \pi into errors in fp expressions (fixes #357)

Removed

• Deprecated functions expiring at end of 2017
• Old module .sty files

2018-03-05

Changes

• Adjustments to l3drivers to support l3draw development in l3experimental bundle

2018-02-21

Added

• Tuple support in fp expressions
• Step func­tions have been added for dim vari­ables, e.g. \dim_step_in­line:nnnn