On the 1st of December, the STIX Fonts project announced the release of STIX 2. If you never heard about this project, it is described as follows:
The mission of the Scientific and Technical Information Exchange (STIX) font creation project is the preparation of a comprehensive set of fonts that serve the scientific and engineering community in the process from manuscript creation through final publication, both in electronic and print formats.
This sounds a very exciting goal but the way it has been achieved has made the STIX project infamous for its numerous delays, for its poor or confusing packaging, for delivering math fonts with too many bugs to be usable, for its lack of openness & communication, for its bad handling of third-party feedback & contribution…
Because of these laborious travels towards unsatisfactory releases, some snarky people claim that the project was actually named after Styx (