TeX Live and MacTeX ⇒ Will TeXlive 2009 be out in 2009?

[frabjous]

Has anyone heard anything recently about when a full (i.e., non-testing) version of TeXlive 2009 will finally be released?

They've made it sound like it is imminent for awhile now, but I'm getting impatient. I want to do a complete system rehaul (upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 with grub2 and ext4 indexing), but I don't want to have to install TeXlive twice, and I can't live without a stable TeX system.

Any news?

[josephwright]

Probably some time in the next week. However, you can install the pretesting version now, and update as an when. The pretesting version doesn't "known" it's not the release: it will happily keep working after release, update as new packages appear, etc.

[frabjous]

Thanks. I can wait a week. I'll just cross my fingers that the rumors are true this time!

[frabjous]

It appears from looking at the TUG site that it's been released!

http://www.tug.org/

Woohoo!

[meho_r]

Great news. Hope it won't miss Debian/Ubuntu repos like 2008 did.

[josephwright]

That is not the TeX LIve team's fault! I believe that there are experimental Debian packages, so the chance of it appearing is good.

[meho_r]

It seems it'll hit Debian experimental repos soon. Can't wait