1 This file lists interface changes that might affect users in 2.2.0, some
2 known problems in LyX 2.2.0 and some things you have to take into account
3 when upgrading from earlier versions to a version of the 2.2.x series.
11 The following pref variables were added in 2.2:
15 The following pref variables were changed in 2.2:
19 The following pref variables are obsoleted in 2.2:
22 This variable was introduced to guard against any bad consequence of
23 the then-new right-to-left languages support. It is no longer needed
24 because of improvements. Now right-to-left support is always enabled.
27 The following new LyX functions have been introduced in 2.2:
31 The following LyX functions have been changed in 2.2:
35 The following LyX key bindings have been changed in 2.2:
37 - "C-a" is now bound to "inset-select-all" and "C-M-a" is now
38 bound to the old function (a command-sequence to select the
42 The following LyX documents have been moved in 2.2:
46 The following metadata files have been added to the tarball in 2.2:
50 Changes with respect to external programs and libraries in 2.2:
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54 - LyX is not yet supposed to work with Qt5. It is advised to compile and
55 run LyX against Qt 4.8.x. On Windows, Qt 4.8.5 suffers from a bug that
56 breaks the use of shortcuts, so on Windows Qt 4.8.4 is advised.
59 Known issues in version 2.2.0
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62 - LyX needs to be run under Python 2 and will not work properly on systems
63 where Python 3 is the default binary. See bug #7030 to know how to fix
64 this properly, since simple sheebang conversion in *.py files will not
68 Caveats when upgrading from earlier versions to 2.2.x
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