Version 3.06 of beamer, version 1.00 of pgf/TikZ

Till Tantau — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 17:18:22 -0000

Version 3.06 of beamer is available. This version is the first to use the new stable version 1.00 of pgf. This combination is hopefully quite stable and should not produce any (or at least too many) unexpected behaviour as compared to previous versions.

In beamer there have been only very small changes; mostly, the new pgf/TikZ version is totally new.

version 0.99 of pgf available

Till Tantau — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:25:47 -0000

Version 0.99 of pgf is available. This version will be the last before the stable release 1.00 of pgf/TikZ.

New version of pgf available

Till Tantau — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 20:33:53 -0000

There is a new version of pgf (version 0.97) available for the pgf project. Go to sourceforge.net/projects/pgf to get it. While this version is still a beta version, it is already very close to the forthcoming version 1.00 of pgf.

If you have been using pgf <= 0.65, you really should have a look at pgf 0.97. It's quite a difference...

PGF development moved to new project

Till Tantau — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:37:18 -0000

The development of pgf has moved to a new sourceforge project called "pgf". All further development of pgf will be done there. However, the last release of pgf needed for the most recent beamer version will also be put on the beamer page.

Alpha release 0.95 of new PGF system

Till Tantau — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 20:20:18 -0000

The PGF system has been almost entirely rewritten, resulting in a much more powerful system than what we had in version 0.65. Most importantly, there is now a special frontend layer that introduces a simple, powerful syntax.

The new version works well enough and should be completely compatible with the old one. However, since there may still be syntax changes with the new frontend and since this version is not yet very well tested, this is an alpha release only. So, feel free to try it, but if you need a stable system, wait for version 1.00 of pgf.

There is also a beamer update (version 3.05) for use with the new pgf system. However, there are much less changes in beamer than in the pgf system.

The Latex Beamer Class Version 3.00 is out

Till Tantau — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 13:18:43 -0000

The beamer class is a LaTeX class for creating presentations using a video projector. It offers incremental display, prearranged themes, automatic table of contents, navigation bars, bibliographies, and other features. Can be used with pdflatex and LyX. Version 3.00 is out, the next major update of beamer. Most importantly, this new version comes with a very much improved theming mechanism. You can now change every aspect of your presentation easily and independently of everything else.

Because of the many changes, do not update if you have to give a talk within the next hour or so. However, most presentations should still compile fine under the new version.

You can find this latest release here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=92412&package_id=97753

Version 2.99: pretest for next major release

Till Tantau — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 16:44:07 -0000

Finally, version 3.00 is just around the corner. Version 2.99 has everything the final version 3.00 will have, but I hope that users will find at least some of the bugs before version 3.00 is published.

So, if you a bit advanturous, download version 2.99 of beamer and version 0.63 of pgf (and, if you have not done already, xcolor 2.00). Your old presentations should compile fine. If they don't and you did not do anything wicked, please tell me.

Once the new version has stabalized (in a week or two), I'll release the official version 3.00.

Version 2.20: compatibility with xcolor 2.00

Till Tantau — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 21:47:11 -0000

Version 2.20 of beamer and pgf version 0.62 now work together with xcolor 2.00. If you need/want to use xcolor 2.00, you'll have to update. Otherwise, you can just as well wait for the next "real" version of beamer.

Version 2.20: movies, sounds, broken frames

Till Tantau — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 05:12:25 -0000

This new version includes a package for including sounds and movies in a beamer presentation. The package also works stand-alone and can be used with any other latex class (like article or prosper). Other new features are the option to automatically break a frame into several frames, to automatically shrink a frame to fit the available area, to add special zoom areas and some other new stuff.

Also, this version fixes a bug that has caused PostScript text to disappear from slides.

Version 2.11: Compatibility with xcolor 1.10

Till Tantau — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 05:32:22 -0000

The new version 2.11 restores compatibility with xcolor 1.10. To use it, you must update to beamer 2.11, pgf 0.61, and xcolor 1.10. It also contains some bugfixes.

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