# MiKTeX 2.9: Release Notes

### Christian Schenk

Copyright © 2011 Christian Schenk

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## Highlights

- LuaTeX

## System requirements

MiKTeX 2.9 requires one of the following Windows platforms:

- Windows 7

- Windows Vista with Service Pack 2 (all editions except Starter Edition)

- Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (all editions except Starter Edition)

- Windows Server 2008 R2

- Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack 2

- Windows Server 2003 R2

- Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2

## Breaking changes

### Windows Platforms

Windows 2000 is no longer supported.

Windows XP platforms must have at least service pack 3 installed.

Windows Vista platforms must have at least service pack 2 installed.

Windows Server 2003 platforms must have at least service pack 2 installed.

Windows Server 2008 platforms must have at least service pack 2 installed.

## LuaTeX

The MiKTeX distribution now includes LuaTeX (Version beta-0.60.2).

## ConTeXt

MiKTeX 2.9 brings back ConTeXt to MiKTeX users.

## Yap

The classic (version 2.4) render method has been reimplemented: DVI files are rendered using bitmaps fonts (text) and Ghostscript (EPS figures). The slow Dvips render method still can be selected for documents containing a lot of fancy PostScript specials.

## Upgrades

- BibTeX 0.99d

- Dvipng 1.14

- Dvips 5.99

- MakeIndex 1.15

- pdfTeX 1.40.11

- TeXworks 0.4

- XeTeX 0.9997.4

## Hyphenation Patterns

The TeX engines now load all known hyphenation patterns.