1 Public release of LyX version 2.3.4
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4 We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.3.4. This is the third
5 maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
7 You can download LyX 2.3.4 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/.
9 LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based
10 on the structure of your documents and not simply their appearance. It is
11 released under a Free and Open Source Software license.
13 LyX 2.3.4 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
14 reliable and more stable. One important change is that we have finally fixed
15 a large number of bugs related to bibitems (see bug #7548). We have also (we
16 hope) fixed a long-standing bug involving the saving of files on Windows to
19 If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.3.4, please open a bug report at
20 http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome. If you're not sure whether it
21 really is a bug, you can e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel
22 <at> lists.lyx.org) and ask.
24 If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the documentation
25 that comes with LyX (under the Help or Apple menu) and the LyX wiki, which
26 is at http://wiki.lyx.org/. If you can't find the answer there, e-mail the
27 LyX users' list (lyx-users <at> lists.lyx.org), where you will find an
28 active community of people who are ready to help.
30 We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.3.4.
43 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
45 - Preserving .lyx file permission when saving on linux systems (Qt5-only).
47 - Properly implement CJKutf8 (which never really worked as intended).
52 - Allow external editing of preamble and ERT (bugs 991, 7404).
54 - Allow nameref in math references (bug 9798).
56 - Fix renaming of citation references after changing bibliography key
59 - Make tab movement visible (bug 10733).
61 - Add "Reset" and "Reset All Fields" buttons to Text Properties
64 - Add "Reset to Default" and "Reset All" buttons to Color Preferences
67 - Insert new graphics inset on the correct cursor position.
69 - Fix regression where spaces are disappearing when editing text (bug 11412).
71 - The function textstyle-update now only changes explicitly stated font
72 attributes (bug 11111).
74 - Fix bad error message (bug 11486).
76 - Improve performance on Windows with lots of math insets or very long
77 math formulas (bug 11546).
79 - Add Shortcut (Command-0) for workarwa zoom reset to mac.bind.
81 - Improve some icons (bug 11476).
83 - Improve line breaking of Chinese, Japanese and Korean text. There are still
84 issues, though (bug 10299).
87 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
89 - The Bulgarian user interface localization has been updated and re-enabled.
91 - Updates to the Arabic, Czech, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese,
92 Russian, Slovak, Swedish, and Ukrainian localizations.
94 - Minor rework of the thesis example file in order to clear some confusion about
95 the included bibliography (bug 10748).
103 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
105 - Added support for aastex62 (bug 11397)
107 - Fix problems with non-ASCII characters in path with recent LaTeX versions
110 - Fix parsing of math-macro optional arguments after save-reopen (bug 11346).
112 - Fix handling of InPreamble styles in insets (bug 11557).
114 - Fix problem with wrongly inserted separator.
116 - Beamer: automatically nest column in columns.
118 - Fix Autonests and IsAutonestedBy layout tags with specific layout names
119 (with space, underbar and enquoted).
121 - Fix SVG to PNG image conversion problem with inkscape on Mac.
122 On-screen display of SVG graphics was broken for e.g. users guide.
124 - Fix paragraph alignment in RTL when using polyglossia (bidi) (bug 11399).
126 - Fix text direction of namerefs in RTL scripts when using polyglossia (bidi)
129 - Use proper listings font styles with polyglossia (bidi) and RTL (bug 11554).
131 - Fix LaTeX export of query strings in Hyperlinks (bugs 11482, 11511).
133 - Fix breakage caused by commas in the caption of listings (bug 11484).
135 - Fix LaTeX error caused by Control key shortcut inset on the Mac (remainder
138 - Correctly add the branch name suffix when the stem of the filename
139 contains a dot (bug 11490).
141 - Load required packages to correctly typeset unicode symbols entered
142 in math mode (bug 11526).
144 - Only write btUnits if we have a bibliography (bug 11562).
146 - Fix paragraph break in particular cases (bug 11528).
151 - Rename emergency file when user wants to save it (bug 11464).
153 - Fix reloading of local layout file (bug 11120).
155 - Check for dirty hidden child documents when closing (bug 11405).
157 - Fix selection of unmarked RtL characters with Qt 5.11 (bug 11284).
159 - Fix on-screen display of macros whose name is a single non-letter symbol
162 - Fix problem with collapsing insets after searches.
164 - Do not swallow backspaces in custom viewer/editor paths (bug 9622).
166 - Fix broken space dialog in mathed (bug 7747).
168 - Fix undo in some cases involving nesting (bug 11292).
170 - Fix some display problems in the Text Properties dialog (bug 11385).
172 - Accept/reject changes inside selection only if there are changes (bug
175 - Fix missing TOC update (and related bugs) when setting default master (bug
178 - Properly update bibliography information (with bibliography environment)
179 before opening the citation dialog (bug 4899).
181 - Fix problem with undo of document settings (bug 9004).
183 - Fix size of layout combo (bug 6096).
185 - Completion popup context menu now properly responds to Esc key.
187 - Fix document updating issues with split view (bug 11354).
189 - Fix cases where text is offset vertically (bug 10532, 10767).
191 - Display of start/end labels of paragraphs in insets (bug 11425).
193 - Fix crash when using inset-select-all in tabular.
195 - Only allow toggling math limits when it makes sense.
197 - Repair (de)activation of plural, capitalize, etc, for refstyle.
199 - Fix display of gather environment in leqno mode (bug 11324).
201 - Fix handling of labels with change tracking (bug 6563).
203 - Expand environment variables when modifying the PATH prefix.
205 - Fix language of Help documents when LyX UI language is different from
208 - Fix many drawing glitches in the IPA icons.
210 - Fix crash when disabling math preview (bug 11498).
212 - Quote filenames when calling gunzip and avoid a crash when the filename
213 of a compressed file does not end with a proper extension (bug 4269).
215 - Fix behavior of (un)setting all tabular borders (bug 11382).
217 - Place the indentation bars correctly in full-screen mode (bug 11286).
219 - Fix display of formal table bottom line with multirows (bug 11445).
221 - Fix left/right border UI when toggling formal table style (bug 9835).
223 - Fix bold-like characters when selecting bidi text (bug 11198).
225 - Make sure there are markers when editing variable-size delimiters (bug 11516).
227 - Fix pre- and postnote fields in year-only biblatex-natbib citations.
229 - Get rid of spurious empty entry in list of equations when creating new
232 - Handle some cases where the change bar in the margin did not get updated
235 - Handle some cases where underline across insets did not painted (bug 11402).
237 - Fix minimal height of delimiters inset (bug 11337).
242 - Fix reconfigure issues on Windows in the presence of an external
247 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
249 - The Korean splash.lyx can now be compiled out-of-the-box.
251 - Fix description of change bar module.
257 - Speed up some lyx2lyx conversions (bug 11200).
259 - Fix routine that left some old parameters unremoved (bug 11373).
264 - Take account of 'free spacing' (bug 11432).
267 * ADVANCED FIND AND REPLACE
269 - Pay attention to layout modules in Advanced F&R (bug 11138).
274 - Fix build with boost 1.69 (bug 11349).
276 - Update bundled boost distribution to 1.68.
278 - Fix warnings with clang 7.
280 - Allow automake 1.16.