DragonFlyBSD 6.x release status, TeX Live 2026, and document accessibility

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

A few minutes ago, I released the first binaries for DragonFlyBSD
6.4.0, 6.4.1, and 6.4.2 for the TeX Live 2026 release:

	https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/texlive-utah/#dragonflybsd-640-x86_64

The top of that Web site gives instructions for installing a pretest
release, and unpacking the platform-specific binaries.  No
reinstallation is later needed when the official release is made
... just a one-line command to change the TeX Live package repository.

We have gone into an almost-code-freeze for TeX Live 2026, but there
have been four releases of the graphics system, Asymptote, in the last
three weeks, as porting to new platforms turns up issues that are
rapidly fixed.

List readers with an interest in, or need for, sophisticated
typesetting, and for creation of PDF and HTML files that conform to
the coming US Federal mandates on document accessibility, should
definitely switch from earlier TeX Live year releases to the 2026
edition.

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P.S. There was significant LaTeX documentation advance when the
third edition of The LaTeX Companion, now in two large volumes,
was published: see their BibTeX entries at

	https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/texbook3.html#Mittelbach:2023:LCPa
	https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/texbook3.html#Mittelbach:2023:LCPb

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