Hi,

I just have uploaded a new teTeX-beta release which will soon appear on ctan, e.g.
  ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-src-beta-20021112.tar.gz
  ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmf-beta-20021112.tar.gz
  ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmfsrc-beta-20021112.tar.gz
or
  ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-src-beta-20021112.tar.gz
  ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmf-beta-20021112.tar.gz
  ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmfsrc-beta-20021112.tar.gz

This again is another sync point on the way to the next stable release.

src tarball:
        * mandir according to GNU coding standards
        * merge web2c-7.3.10
        * update xdvik (to version 22.40q)
        * update pdftex from TeX Live
        * add support for freetype lib and mminstance
        * update pdftex / omega from TeX Live
        * minor config stuff cleanup
        * update texinfo.tex
        * updamp writes output entries in normalized format and supports
        dvipdfm (dvipdfm support should not yet be used)
        * remove that parse_first_line.mpost line (it does not help)
        * update ncurses (now 5.3)

texmf tarball:
        * update hyperref
        * update eso-pic (2002/10/30)
        * update omega.sty (from TeX Live)
        * update texinfo.tex
        * change updmap.cfg and add dvipdfm35.map to support dvipdfm
        via updmap  (dvipdfm support should not yet be used)

Thomas