TeX Live 2015 DVD preparation starts

As the last step in the preparation of the TeX Live 2015 release we have now completely frozen updates to the repository and built the (hopefully) final image. The following weeks will see more testing and preparation of the gold master for DVD preparation.

The last weeks were full of frantic rebuilds of binaries, in particular due to the always in the last minute found bugs in several engines. Also already after the closing time we found a serious problem with Windows installations in administrator mode, where unprivileged users didn’t have read access to the format dumps. This was due to the File::Temp usage on Windows which sets too restrictive ACLs.

Unless really serious bugs show up, further changes will have to wait till after the release. Let’s hope for some peaceful two weeks.

So, it is time to prepare for release parties 😉 Enjoy!