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These -dev executables are made so that anyone interested can easily help test upcoming L A T E X releases. They correspond to new formats which have been tested by the L A T E X team for stability and usability. They are not arbitrary development snapshots; more like release candidates and checkpoints.

Testing by as many users as possible is desired and requested. Simply replacing the regular engine (e.g., pdflatex) with the -dev engine name (pdflatex-dev) in your invocations is all that should be needed. No changes to source documents should be required.

The lualatex-dev format is built with the luahbtex engine, the LuaT E X variant with HarfBuzz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarfBuzz) supported for glyph shaping.

The latest ltnews document present in latex-dev describes the changes present in -dev compared to the previous official release. E.g., if the official release has a document ltnews42.pdf, then look for ltnews43.pdf in the -dev tree.

See tex(1) for details of command-line parsing.

See the individual engines (pdflatex(1), lualatex(1), etc.), for engine-specific options.

latex(1).

Package page on CTAN: https://ctan.org/pkg/latex-dev
The L A T E X home page: https://latex-project.org

Please report bugs in these -dev versions, like all L A T E X releases, following the procedure at https://www.latex-project.org/bugs.

Public discussion list for all things TeX: https://lists.tug.org/texhax

The man pages dvilualatex-dev(1), lualatex-dev(1), pdflatex-dev(1), platex-dev(1), uplatex-dev(1) and xelatex-dev(1) are aliases of latex-dev(1).