timeline for pandoc 3.6.1

[michalovadek]

Description

I was wondering if it is possible to get a rough approximation of when it is likely that Quarto (even pre-release) will be updated to Pandoc 3.6.1. There was a fix that is critical to my project (jgm/pandoc#2773) and would save me a lot of time in manually editing a big manuscript. Any pointers would be really helpful, thanks

[mcanouil]

Dependencies are updated at most once per release.
There are too many dependencies with very different release lifecycle for the Quarto team to update them at every new releases of each.
Quarto CLI 1.7 uses Pandoc 3.4, so 1.8 is likely the version that will get a Pandoc update.

You can force the use of another Pandoc version that the embedded one using the environment variable QUARTO_PANDOC.

Warning

Using QUARTO_PANDOC environment variable can lead to unexpected results (or worst).
No support will be provided by the Quarto team.

[cderv]

Quarto CLI 1.7 uses Pandoc 3.4, so 1.8 is likely the version that will get a Pandoc update.

Pandoc 3.4 was the update done in 1.6. So latest Pandoc 3.6.1 will be part of 1.7.

Tips for everyone wondering about Pandoc version update, we update generally Pandoc once per version and you can try see when the last updated was done

• You can check the commit to see to which version it belongs and so know this is previous version update
• Release not also have the version of dependencies: https://quarto.org/docs/download/
• quarto check versions is also a way to see that:

   ❯ quarto check versions
   Quarto 1.6.41
   [>] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
         Pandoc version 3.4.0: OK
         Dart Sass version 1.70.0: OK
         Deno version 1.46.3: OK
         Typst version 0.11.0: OK
   [>] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
  

It is taking a bit longer that usual to come to 1.7 pre-release because of Pandoc's LaTeX template update that we need to reconcile. Should be done soon.