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Does the letterspacing (and tracking) options of microtype not work with the latest version of LuaTeX?

When I try:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[no-math]{fontspec}
\fontspec[SmallCapsFont={LinLibertineCapitalsO},
          SmallCapsFeatures={Letters=SmallCaps}]{Linux Libertine O}
\usepackage[tracking,letterspace=500]{microtype}
\begin{document}\parindent0em

stealing sheap

\textsc{Stealing Sheep}

\textls[800]{\scshape Stealing Sheep}

\end{document}

I get error messages in my .log:

This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.70.2-2012062812 (TeX Live 2012) (format=lualatex 2012.7.13)  10 AUG 2012 09:14
.....
! Package microtype Error: The `tracking' feature doesn't currently work
(microtype)                with luatex.
......
! Package microtype Error: Letterspacing currently doesn't work with luatex.

See the microtype package documentation for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              

l.18 \textls[800]{\scshape Stealing Sheep}

Run pdftex, or use the `soul' package instead.
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    I believe that when a warning "Letterspacing currently doesn't work with luatex" appears, it is true. I'm afraid there is nothing to answer here: it is a bug and the package maintainers clearly know about it. Even if they didn't, is was agreed that bug reports does not belong to TeX.SX.
    – yo'
    Aug 10, 2012 at 14:33
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    Kerning is not yet enabled for the latest version of microtype (version 2.5) and luatex (version >=0.62). However, tracking should work if you use version 2.5 of microtype; this is one of the significant changes over version 2.4. However, version 2.5 is still in late-beta ('beta08' as of May 2012) and must be downloaded and installed by hand. You may obtain it from, e.g., tlcontrib.metatex.org/cgi-bin/package.cgi/action=view/id=608.
    – Mico
    Aug 10, 2012 at 14:34
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    tohecz: I took this example from a fairly recent TeX & friends posting where it appeared to work with LuaTeX, so I wanted to make sure it wasn't something funny about my setup that triggering this. I in no way indicated this as a "bug report". Mico: Thanks! In general: is there another way to handle letterspacing in LuaTeX? Aug 10, 2012 at 14:42
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    @BeSlayed: Letterspacing and tracking should both work if you use version 2.5 of the microtype package and a version of lua(la)tex more recent than 0.62.
    – Mico
    Aug 10, 2012 at 14:54

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If you use version 2.5 of the microtype package -- still in "late beta", but available online at http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/cgi-bin/package.cgi/action=view/id=608 -- you can use the letterspacing and tracking features of the package -- but not (yet) the kerning features; the latter are available only if the package is used with pdflatex.

% !TEX TS-program = lualatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[no-math]{fontspec}
\fontspec[SmallCapsFont={LinLibertineCapitalsO},
          SmallCapsFeatures={Letters=SmallCaps}]{Linux Libertine O}
\usepackage[tracking,letterspace=500]{microtype}
\begin{document}    
stealing sheap

\textsc{Stealing Sheep}

\textls[800]{\scshape Stealing Sheep}
\end{document}

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