Theses, Books, Title pages ⇒ Master-doctoral-thesis template not compiling after updating Miktex

[rj2585]

I am trying to use the template for a thesis found at http://www.latextemplates.com/template/ ... ral-thesis . The package worked fine for me on overleaf, but the project got to big to manage there. I downloaded the zip file to open it on TexStudio and it compiled fine until I updated the Tex packages in Tex Live (I am using MacTex but the same happened with MikTex after updating in Windows). After the update, when I compile the project, I get the following error:

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Missing \endcsname inserted.
<to be read again> 
                   \tex_let:D 
l.164 \cleardoublepage
                      
The control sequence marked <to be read again> should
not appear between \csname and \endcsname.

This error appears every time commands like \cleardoublepage, \chapter, \begin{abstract}, \tableofcontents and others are called.

The log file is included as an attachment as well as the template from latextemplates.

Thank you for your help.

[BlackForestrian]

The issue is related to the recent (2017/10/02) update of the xparse and l3kernel packages, leading to an error with commands defined with

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\NewDocumentCommand

.

The precise reason is yet unclear.

As a bypass, add this code in your preamble:

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\makeatletter
\AtBeginDocument{
  \renewcommand{\blank@p@gestyle}{empty}
}
\makeatother

[rj2585]

That solved the problem.
Thank you very much.

[Johannes_B]

With the next update, everything should be working like before without the hack.