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After today's update, when I try to use one of the RevTeX classes:

\documentclass{revtex4-2}
\begin{document}    
\end{document}

I get:

! Extra \endgroup.
\document ->\endgroup 
                      \document@inithook \true@sw {}\UseOneTimeHook {begindo...
l.3 \begin{document}

?

How can I fix this?

Phelype Oleinik
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    it will be repaired tomorrow. You could install a new revtex manually, or use the tlmgr backup facilities to revert to the previous latex version. – Ulrike Fischer Oct 03 '20 at 13:49
  • @UlrikeFischer It is not my lucky day then. Thank you for your quick reply! Should I then install REVTeX 4.2c? I also saw an issue with natbib on a file that was typeset before without issue. Will that be fixed as well or should I make it a separate question? – my2cts Oct 03 '20 at 13:53
  • natbib? better show it. – Ulrike Fischer Oct 03 '20 at 13:54
  • @UlrikeFischer I extended the question rather than asking a new one since a period of 40 min between questions is imposed. – my2cts Oct 03 '20 at 14:06
  • you need revtex 4.2d it is on ctan (but perhaps not in all mirrors), it is missing a bst-file but the old one from your previous version should work. This is only temporary, tomorrow there should be 4.2e on ctan. – Ulrike Fischer Oct 03 '20 at 14:07
  • you can not use biblatex together with revtex, as it loads natbib (perhaps it has an option to suppress natbib but I doubt it). – Ulrike Fischer Oct 03 '20 at 14:09
  • @UlrikeFischer Which mirror do you recommend? – my2cts Oct 03 '20 at 14:13
  • simply try one, but pay attention to the version number (and install so that you can remove it easily again when the fix is in texlive. – Ulrike Fischer Oct 03 '20 at 14:19
  • @UlrikeFischer I updated with the tex live utility but the error remains. – my2cts Oct 04 '20 at 22:35
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    the new revtex did make it too late yesterday to ctan to get into texlive, it should be there tomorrow, (version 4.2e, it is already on ctan: https://ctan.org/pkg/revtex) – Ulrike Fischer Oct 04 '20 at 22:41
  • @UlrikeFischer Nice to know, thanks, and I can wait another day. – my2cts Oct 04 '20 at 22:46
  • well I hope it is then there, if not get the tds,zip http://mirrors.ctan.org/install/macros/latex/contrib/revtex.tds.zip,unpack it somewhere (outside your texsystem) and add the root with tlmgr conf auxtrees add path/to/root – Ulrike Fischer Oct 04 '20 at 22:51
  • difficult birth, but today revtex was in the updates. So it should work now. – Ulrike Fischer Oct 06 '20 at 08:54
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    @my2cts Hi, sorry about the mess with RevTeX, it was mostly my fault. Glad to know it's working now. I edited your question to be more easily searchable (pictures of code/log are terrible) for future users, and removed the biblatex issue, which is unrelated. Hope it's okay. – Phelype Oleinik Oct 07 '20 at 21:54
  • Thanks to the team for their good work! – my2cts Oct 09 '20 at 22:16
  • I'm also having the same problem as of 10th of Oct 2020. Is it fixed already? How can I fix it? – user226462 Oct 10 '20 at 19:43
  • hellbourne, Phelype Oleinik. Nothing strange - it never worked. user226462 and me already reported about it, but our reports are simply ignored. – Andy Nov 30 '20 at 13:58

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The problem is solved in RevTex 4.2e.

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