Feb26 news: 2026 memberships, TUG'26+conferences, CTAN

Hello TeX users,

The 2026 TUG membership forms are available now for your renewing and/or
joining pleasure:
  https://tug.org/join
The regular membership rates are unchanged in 2026.

For those at institutions that would like to provide significant support to
TeX and TUG, please consider the institutional and patron memberships:
  https://tug.org/forms/current/instapp.html

We greatly appreciate our members and all TeX users! Thank you!

One way that you can help keep TeX and friends strong is by helping get
the word out. We have a new poster in a variety of formats:
  https://tug.org/publicity/membership_poster_math/

It would be great if you could post this on an appropriate bulletin
board or mailing list near you. Thanks!

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TUG 2026 will take place in Calgary, Alberta, Canada,
from July 17-19 (Fri-Sun), 2026, with a LaTeX developers' workshop on
tagged PDF on Thursday July 16.
  https://tug.org/tug2026/

Conference information and the registration form are now available:
  https://tug.org/tug2026/
The venue is the Alt Hotel Calgary East Village:
  https://www.germainhotels.com/en/alt-hotel/calgary-east-village

The TUG bursary is available for those needing financial assistance to
attend the conference:
  https://tug.org/bursary/

The local organizer is Max Chernoff -- thanks, Max! As always, the
conference committee is happy to provide invitation letters for visas
and any other assistance; you can email us at [email protected]

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Other upcoming events:

- DANTE spring meeting, March 12-14, 2026, at WiWa GmbH,
  Lahnau, Germany (pre-meeting get-together on March 11).
  https://www.dante.de/veranstaltungen/dante2026/

- EuroBachoTeX 2026, April 29-May 3, 2026, Bachotek, Poland.
  https://bachotex.gust.org.pl/index_en.html

- OSSConf 2026, July 1-3, 2026, University of \v{Z}ilina, Slovakia,
  will have a dedicated TeX+R session. The conference will be multilingual.
  https://ossconf.fri.uniza.sk/

- ConTeXT meeting 2026: Maibach, Germany, August 24-29, 2026.
  Theme: Focussing.
  https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2026/

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New CTAN packages, January 2026 (for all updates: https://ctan.org/ctan-ann):

Information about any CTAN package is available at
  ctan.org/pkg/PACKAGE-NAME

- aspen, simple crypto notation in LaTeX
- beamer-reveal, convert beamer slides to reveal.js HTML presentations
- bussproofs-colorful, color extension for the bussproofs package
- forest-ext, fill vertical space with solid rules or dotted lines
- jsonresume, a minimal LuaLaTeX package for rendering JSON Resume data
  into LaTeX documents
- kkluaverb, provides a Lua-enhanced versatile \verb command
- luatex-cn, a LuaTeX-based package to handle Chinese text typesetting
- modernnewspaper, a modern, Unicode-first newspaper package for LaTeX
- modernruler, flexible ruler and annotation commands with key-value support
  and vertical writing compatibility
- paramcalc, compute params to fit conditions
- physics3, modularized package for easy setting of physical formulas
- pst-kepler, models for Johannes Kepler's view of the world
- secretx, put security classification marks in a document
- vexillology, vexillogical symbols (flags)

Happy \TeX{}ing,
Karl Berry, on behalf of the TUG Board