1 Changelog for LyX-230-RC2:
2 - correct display of installer text for many languages
5 Changelog for LyX-230-RC1:
6 - installs LyX 2.3.0 RC1
7 - fix bug that the BibTeX editor Jabref and the image editor Krita
8 were not detected as 64bit application
10 - updated to ImageMagick 7.0.7-8
11 - updated to Ghostscript 9.22
12 - updated thesaurus for Ukrainian
13 - updated spell checker dictionaries for English (GB, US) and Tibetan
16 Changelog for LyX-230-beta1:
17 - installs LyX 2.3.0 beta1
18 - updated to MiKTeX 2.9 build 6361
19 - updated to ImageMagick 7.0.6-7
20 - updated to Perl 5.24.2.1
21 - updated to NSIS 3.0.2.1
22 - updated thesaurus for Ukrainian
23 - updated spell checker dictionaries for English (GB), Portuguese, Scottish and
27 Changelog for LyX-230-alpha1:
28 - installs LyX 2.3.0 alpha1
29 - updated to MiKTeX 2.9 build 6236
30 (fixes potential problems with the installation of LaTeX packages)
31 - updated to ImageMagick 7.0.5-4
32 - updated to JabRef 3.8.2
33 - updated to NSIS 3.0.1
34 - updated to Ghostscript 9.21
37 Changelog for LyX-222-4:
38 - fix bug that spell checker for Vietnamese was not installed
39 - fix bug that thesaurus for Ukrainian was not installed
40 - updated to MiKTeX 2.9 build 6219 (fixes problems with the update of LaTeX packages)
41 - updated to Python 2.7.13
42 - updated to ImageMagick 7.0.4-5
43 - updated to JabRef 3.8.1
44 - updated to Perl 5.22.3.1
45 - updated thesaurus for Ukrainian
46 - updated spell checker dictionaries for English (CA, GB and US) and Ukrainian
47 (To benefit from them you must uninstall an already installed LyX 2.2.x and
48 then use this installer.)
51 Changelog for LyX-222-3:
52 - updated to MiKTeX 2.9 build 6161
53 (should fix all compilation errors you might have encountered recently
55 - new spell checker for Tibetan
56 - correct Arabic translation of the installer (was accidentally in Farsi before)
57 - automatically install LaTeX package necessary for XeTeX in combinations with
58 document languages like e.g. Georgian
59 - fix bug that thesaurus for English (AU) was not installed
60 - fix bug when JabRef was uninstalled together with LyX
61 - updated Norwegian, Swedish and Ukrainian translation of the installer
62 - updated to JabRef 3.7
63 - updated to ImageMagick 7.0.3-8
64 - updated spell checker dictionary for English (GB)
65 (To benefit from it you must uninstall an already installed LyX 2.2.x and
66 then use this installer.)
69 Changelog for LyX-222-2:
70 - updated to Qt 5.6.2-1 (fixes Windows-specific bugs)
71 - updated to Perl 5.22.2.1
74 Changelog for LyX-222-1:
76 - updated to MiKTeX 2.9 build 6069
77 - updated to ImageMagick 7.0.3-3
78 - updated to JabRef 3.6
80 - updated to Ghostscript 9.20
81 - new thesaurus for English (AU)
82 - updated thesaurus for Portuguese and Ukrainian
83 - updated spell checker dictionaries for English (CA, GB and US), Portuguese
85 (To benefit from them you must uninstall an already installed LyX 2.2.x and
86 then use this installer.)
89 Changelog for LyX-221-2:
90 - fix broken LyX compilation that could not be installed on 32bit Windows
93 Changelog for LyX-221-1:
95 - recompiled LyX using MSVC 2015 update 3
96 - updated to Qt 5.6.1-1
97 - updated to MiKTeX 2.9 build 6022
98 - updated to ImageMagick 6.9.5
99 - updated to Python 2.7.12
100 - updated to JabRef 3.5
103 Changelog for LyX-220-3:
104 - updated to Qt 5.6.1
105 - updated to MiKTeX 2.9 build 5997
106 - updated to JabRef 3.4
107 - updated to ImageMagick 6.9.4-8
110 Changelog for LyX-220-2:
111 - remove also the user dependent LyX settings from the registry if the user
112 preferences should be uninstalled
113 - calculate the required installation size correctly
114 - updated to ImageMagick 6.9.4-6 (fixes 2 security issues)
117 Changelog for LyX.220-1:
119 - updated to MiKTeX 2.9 build 5987
120 - updated to ImageMagick 6.9.4-4
121 - updated to JabRef 3.3
122 - new thesaurus for Norwegian (Nynorsk)
123 - updated thesaurus for English (US) and Norwegian (Bokmål)
124 - updated spell-checker dictionary for English (AU and GB), Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk) and Scottish
125 (To benefit from it you must uninstall an already installed LyX 2.2.0 and
126 then use this installer.)
129 Changelog for LyX.220-RC1-1:
130 - installs LyX 2.2.0 RC1
131 - updated to Ghostscript 9.19
132 - updated to ImageMagick 6.9.3-8
133 - updated to Perl 5.22.1.3
134 - updated to Python 2.7.11
135 - updated to Qt 5.6.0
136 - updated thesaurus for Italian
137 - updated spell-checker dictionary for Italian
138 (To benefit from it you must uninstall an already installed LyX 2.2.0 and
139 then use this installer.)
142 Changelog for LyX.220-beta-2-1:
143 - installs lyX 2.2.0 beta2
144 - new support for the document converter program Pandoc (http://pandoc.org/),
145 see http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX22#converters
146 - new support to use Krita (https://krita.org/) as image editor from within LyX
147 - updated support to use Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/) as image editor from within LyX
148 - support to use JabRef 3.x as editor for BibTeX files from within LyX
149 - updated detection of TeXLive 2015 as LaTeX distribution for LyX
150 - updated thesaurus for Slovenian
151 - updated spell-checker dictionaries for Portuguese (PT) and English (GB and US)
152 - new Brazilian translation of the installer messages
155 Changelog for LyX-214-5:
156 - enable the usage of 'texindy' as index generation program in LyX
157 - updated to JabRef 2.11
158 - updated to Perl 5.22
159 - updated to ImageMagick 6.9.2-6
162 Changelog for LyX-214-4:
163 - fixed broken US English spell-checker.
164 (To benefit from it you must uninstall an already installed LyX 2.1.x and
165 then use this installer.)
168 Changelog for LyX-214-3:
169 - updated to MiKTeX 2.9 build 5721
170 - updated to ImageMagick 6.9.2-3
171 - updated spell-checker dictionaries for English (GB and US)
172 (To benefit from them you must uninstall an already installed LyX 2.1.x and
173 then use this installer.)
176 Changelog for LyX-214-2:
177 - fix bug that viewing/exporting of some file formats failed because of
178 unknown executable for .py files
179 - updated to Python 2.7.10 (fixes problems that LyX got erroneous if
180 Python 2.7.10 was installed before LyX)
181 - updated spell-checker dictionary for English (GB)
182 (To benefit from it you must uninstall an already installed LyX 2.1.x and
183 then use this installer.)
184 - updated thesaurus for Slovenian
185 (you need to reinstall LyX to benefit from this)
188 Changelog for LyX-214-1:
190 - fixes problems with viewing PDF files
191 NOTE: If you use Adobe Reader as PDF viewer the view is updated by pressing
192 again the view button in LyX while the update button does nothing
193 - new method to view/export LyX files to OpenDocument and MS Word
194 - updated Slovak translation of the installer
195 - updated to Ghostscript 9.16
196 - updated to Qt 4.8.7
197 - updated spell-checker dictionaries for Catalan, English (GB), English (US),
198 Portuguese, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Spanish (MX) and Turkish
199 (To benefit from them you must uninstall an already installed LyX 2.1.x and
200 then use this installer.)
201 - updated thesaurus for English (US), Portuguese and Spanish
202 (you need to reinstall LyX to benefit from this)
205 Changelog for LyX-213-1:
209 Changelog for LyX-212-2:
210 - fix problem that some LaTeX language packages were not installed automatically
211 leading to LaTeX errors when compiling LyX documents
212 - new spell checker for Turkish
213 - updated spell-checker dictionaries for English, Norwegian(Bokmål), Portuguese
215 (To benefit from them you must uninstall an already installed LyX 2.1.x and
216 then use this installer.)
217 - updated thesaurus for Slovenian
218 (you need to reinstall LyX to benefit from this)
219 - updated to Python 2.7.9
222 Changelog for LyX-212-1:
226 Changelog for LyX-211-2:
227 - updated to Python 2.7.8
230 Changelog for LyX-211-1:
232 - updated to Ghostscript 8.14
233 - updated to Qt 4.8.6
236 Changelog for LyX-210-2:
237 - LyX can now also be installed over an existing installation of the same LyX version
238 if the users really wants this.
239 - LyX can now also be installed if the uninstaller executable of a former LyX was
240 accidentally deleted.
241 - If a user set MiKTeX's automatic package installation to "No" the installer will
242 respect that and not re-enable it.
245 Changelog for LyX-210-1:
247 - fixed a bug that MiKTeX was not found if Windows' PATH variable is very long
250 Changelog for LyX-208-1:
252 - fixed a bug that MiKTeX was not found if Windows' PATH variable is very long
255 Changelog for LyX-207-4:
256 - downgraded to Qt 4.8.4
257 (there is a bug in the newer Qt 4.8.5 that destroys some shortcuts)
258 - updated to JabRef 2.10
261 Changelog for LyX-207-3:
262 - fix serious bug that LyX could directly be installed to c:\programs
263 the uninstaller would then delete the whole c:\programs folder
264 - install a stripped-down version of Perl to be able to use LyX's feature
265 to have several indexes also when LyX is installed without admin privileges
266 - updated to Qt 4.8.5
267 - updated to Perl 5.18
270 Changelog for LyX-207-2:
271 - LyX can now be installed and uninstalled silently
272 (administrators can start the installer with "LyX-207-Installer-2.exe /S")
273 - updated to Python 2.7.6
274 - new spell checker for Turkmen
275 - new thesaurus for Galician
276 - updated spell-checker dictionaries for Gaelic, Galician, Interlingua,
277 Italian, Lower Sorbian, Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, serbian (Latin and Cyrillic) and Ukrainian
278 (To benefit from them you must uninstall an already installed LyX 2.0.x and
279 then use this installer.)
280 - updated thesaurus for Slovenian and Ukrainian
281 (need to reinstall LyX to benefit from this)
284 Changelog for LyX-207:
286 - updated to GhostScript 9.10
287 - updated to MiKTeX 2.9 build 5105
290 Changelog for LyX-206-3:
291 - XeTeX support for Arabic and Farsi will now
292 automatically be installed to MiKTeX
293 - updated spell-checker dictionary for Norwegian(Bokmål)
296 Changelog for LyX-206-2:
297 - fix bug that View/Export a file as HTML did not work.
298 - enable to use multiple indexes also with 64bit-MiKTeX
299 - updated to Python 2.7.5
302 Changelog for LyX-206-1:
304 - support for Vietnamese, Thai, Serbian Cyrillic and Mongolian will now
305 automatically be installed to MiKTeX
306 - language support files for Belarusian and Hungarian are now included
307 - spell-checker dictionaries for Serbian(Latin) and French(Canada) are now available
308 (for French(Canada) see also http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/FrenchCanadian)
309 - thesaurus dictionaries for Icelandic and Ukrainian are now available
310 - updated to eLyXer 1.2.5
311 - updated spell-checker dictionaries for Belarusian, Breton, Gaelic, Interlingua,
312 Italian, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian(Cyrillic),
313 Slovakian and Swedish
314 (To benefit from them you must uninstall an already installed LyX 2.0.x and
315 then use this installer.)
316 - updated thesaurus for Italian, Norwegian(Bokmål), Portuguese, Romanian,
317 Slovakian and Slovenian
318 (need to reinstall LyX to benefit from this)
319 - updated to Python 2.7.4
322 Changelog for LyX-2051-5:
323 - Fix broken importing of TeX files to LyX
324 - If a 64bit version of MiKTeX is installed it is now recognized by LyX
325 - Fix broken installation of the Perl interpreter (Perl is only necessary to use
326 several global indexes in a LyX document.)
327 - Fix bug that installation of LyX was not aborted if no LaTeX-distribution was found
328 but LaTeX should be used (does not affect the bundle installer)
329 - updated to GhostScript 9.07
330 - updated to MiKTeX 2.9 build 4813
333 Changelog for LyX-2051-4:
334 - If LyX is installed together with MiKTeX (bundle installer) the installation of
335 LaTeX-packages required by LyX takes now much less time and you get a visual feedback
336 about the installation process.
339 Changelog for LyX-2051-3:
340 - fix bug that MiKTeX was not correctly configured on some 64bit versions of Windows
341 - don't overwrite the MiKTeX package repository from where missing packages will be installed
342 - updated to JabRef 2.9.2
343 - updated to MiKTeX 2.9 build 4757
346 Changelog for LyX-2051-2:
347 - fix bug that an installed MiKTeX was not found on Windows 7 and 8 with 64 bit
348 - adapt the source package to make it easier to compile the installer;
349 added a Readme file describing how to compile
352 Changelog for LyX-2051-1:
353 Nothing changed except of LyX.
356 Changelog for LyX-205-5:
358 - fix bug that installer stopped working if LyX was installed
359 the first time on a computer
360 - fix failing installation of Slovakian spellcheck dictionary
361 - prevent case that the installer could run an infinite loop if the
362 installation of dictionaries was interrupted
363 - added missing files to the installer source zip-file so that it can now really be
364 used to compile the installer
365 - updated to Qt 4.8.4 (Fixes a problem that with some screen font zooms, lines and dots disappeared.)
368 - give feedback about the state of the package installation
369 (Especially if LyX is installed the first time, the package installation can take several minutes.
370 Now the installer prints in the progress window the name of the package that is currently installed.)
371 - the installer supports now the usage of TeXLive as LaTeX distribution.
372 (TeXLive must be manually installed before LyX.)
373 - updated spell-checker dictionaries for Scottish and Swedish
374 (To benefit from them you must uninstall an already installed LyX 2.0.x and
375 then use this installer.)
376 - updated thesaurus for Slovenian
377 (need to reinstall LyX to benefit from this)
378 - updated Hungarian, Indonesian and Swedish translation of the installer messages
379 - new Basque translation of the installer messages
382 Changelog for LyX-205-4:
383 - support to update the view as PDF if Adobe Reader XI is used
384 - fix long standing bug that updating a PDF view failed for larger
385 LyX documents if Adobe Reader or Acrobat was used as PDF viewer
386 - fixed bug that viewing PDF files could fail if Acrobat or Adobe Reader was
387 not the default PDF viewer of the system while LyX was installed, but
388 became later the default PDF viewer
389 - fixed bug that EPS and PDF images were not displayed if LyX was installed this time without
390 admin privileges but an older LyX version was once installed with admin privileges
391 - correct the required disk space for the German thesaurus dictionaries
392 - updated Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Slovak and Ukrainian translation of the installer messages
395 Changelog for LyX-205-3:
396 - fixed infinite loop when starting the installer and not having Ghostscript previously installed (LyX bug #8417)
397 - updated to JabRef 2.8.1
398 - updated French and Spanish translation of the installer messages
399 - removed support for old installations of MiKTeX version 2.7 and older
402 Changelog for LyX-205-2:
403 - the installer detects now existing spell-checker and thesaurus dictionaries
404 of existing LyX installations
405 - fixed un/installation of Jabref if bundle installer is executed without having admin privileges
406 - fixed uninstallation of Metafile2EPS printer
407 - fixed detection for already installed Ghostscript and GSview on 64bit Windows
408 - fixed detection for jEdit, Vim, WinEdt and TeXnicCenter as LaTeX source file editor
409 - fixed detection of Gimp and Photoshop as image manipulating program
410 - updated spell-checker dictionaries for German and Belorussian
411 (To benefit from them you must uninstall an already installed LyX 2.0.x and
412 then use this installer.)
413 - updated thesaurus for German
414 (need to reinstall LyX to benefit from this)
415 - bugfix: remove registry entries of existing LyX version when installing over it
416 - don't allow to install an older LyX version over an existing newer one
419 Changelog for LyX-205-1:
421 - updated to Python 2.7.3
422 - updated to ImageMagick 6.8.0-4
423 - updated to Ghostscript 9.06
426 Changelog for LyX-204-3:
427 - renamed the proposed LyX installation folder to "LyX 2.0" instead of the former "LyX 2.0.4"
428 (reason: it should be default be possible to override existing older version of the LyX 2.0.x series)
429 - link the LyX Wiki and website in LyX's start menu folder
432 Changelog for LyX-204-2:
433 - Prevent that LyX can first be installed with admin privileges and afterwards without them
434 - In the uninstaller it is now the default not to uninstall the user preferences and settings
435 - Fix the path in which the LyX start menu shortcut is executed
436 - Also if LyX is installed without admin privileges, the .lyx file associations are set
437 - Fix a typo in English translation
440 Changelog for LyX-204-1:
441 - It is now possible to install LyX also without administrator privileges.
442 (Note that the support for the image file formats WMF and EMF can only be installed if LyX is installed with administrator privileges.)
443 - Added support for multiple indexes in LyX documents
444 - Support to install spell checker and thesaurus dictionaries for all languages supported by LyX.