We currently are shipping a 12 years old tachyon (0.98.9).

0.99.2 was released Dec 2021. http://jedi.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/raytracer/files/

This is also needed to make Sage work on arm64/aarch64, see #23687.

Many distributions are still on 0.99.beta6 - https://repology.org/project/tachyon/versions

In Debian:

• https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/tachyon
• https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/tachyon
• https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/tachyon
• https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/tachyon

CC: @slel @orlitzky @kiwifb @antonio-rojas @tscrim

Component: packages: standard

Keywords: upgrade, tachyon

Author: Dima Pasechnik, Gonzalo Tornaría

Branch/Commit: u/dimpase/packages/tachyon0992 @ d3034fc

Reviewer: Matthias Koeppe

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/23712