MiKTeX Dojo

I am pleased to announce the release of MiKTeX 2.7 Beta 1.

Pre-release software

This is pre-release software. It may contain fatal bugs or don't even run on your system.

System requirements

MiKTeX 2.7 Beta 1 requires one of the following Windows platforms:

• Windows Vista
• Windows Server 2003
• Windows XP
• Windows 2000

MiKTeX 2.7 Beta 1 does not work on legacy Windows platforms (Windows 9x/Me/NT).

What's new

XeTeX version 0.996-patch1 has been integrated into the MiKTeX distribution. If you are looking for a Unicode-based TeX engine, or if want to use Windows fonts, then you should give XeTeX a try.

Download link

Basic MiKTeX installer:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/miktex/basic-miktex-2.7-beta-1.exe

Net installer:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/miktex/setup-2.7-beta-1.exe

Reporting issues

Please post a reply to this thread, if you find it difficult to install/use MiKTeX 2.7 Beta 1.

First, thanks for your great work!

I found that latex with Miktex 2.7 chokes when there are graphic files names with accents (latex : assertion failed). It used to be ok with Miktex 2.6.

Martin.

Thank you, I will take a look at it. I think that a correction (Beta 2) will be available soon.

Hi:
   Can someone point me to some documentation on how Windows fonts can be used with MikTeX 2.7 (supposed to be quite easy with xetex)?

thanks,
-rsv

have not tried it, but there is a simple example (using xetex) here: http://docs.miktex.org/2.7/relnotes/

In future releases, is it possible to have the new version merely overwrite the files from the older version while keeping user specific information intact, e.g. local repository and dowloaded packages?