From jeroen @end|ng |rom berke|ey@edu  Wed Jul  1 16:41:00 2020
From: jeroen @end|ng |rom berke|ey@edu (Jeroen Ooms)
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 16:41:00 +0200
Subject: [Rd] Changes in MiKTeX
Message-ID: <CABFfbXtp96g=Za0WzzVtq4B6rDNQz0ZfAJkwj6wCQNjhbZQ2-Q@mail.gmail.com>

MiKTeX released a major new version this week, with some breaking
changes that may be important for Windows users and sysadmins.

The MiKTeX versioning has changed to a date-based scheme. The previous
version was called 2.9, the distribution is now called miktex-20.6.

The default installation path has changed from "C:/Program
Files/MiKTeX 2.9/" to "C:/Program Files/MiKTeX/". Hence this may
require updating scripts that set the PATH to pdflatex and others. I
have updated the r-base build script, so people that use this to build
R locally need to make sure MikTeX is available at the new path.

Finally, the 20.6 release contains a bad bug that causes pdftex to not
work at all, including failing to build R manuals:
https://github.com/MiKTeX/miktex/issues/568 . It seems to have been
fixed and a new pdftex is rolled out via the miktex package manager,
so make sure to update the miktex packages after installing
miktex-20.6 (or wait for the 20.7 release).



[Rd] Changes in MiKTeX
Jeroen Ooms