Browsing the TeX Live site today, I see that TeX Live 2013 has been released. There are as usual a few changes to note. My highlights:

  • XeTeX now uses the HarfBuzz shaper rather than the older ICU engine (which is no longer being developed): see my earlier post about this change
  • LuaTeX is updated to Lua 5.2 (the latest Lua release)
  • Microtype now supports protrusion in XeTeX and LuaTeX

I’ve been using the pretest version of TeX Live for a while, and am very happy that all seems to be working just fine. Of course, many people will want the DVD version, which will be a while, but for the downloaders you can grab it now.