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This file describes what has been done in the preparation of LyX 2.2.1.
All comments are welcome.

We try to group things by topic and in decreasing order of importance.
Please feel free to re-arrange if that seems like a good idea.

What's new
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** Updates:
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* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT



* TEX2LYX IMPROVEMENTS



* USER INTERFACE

- Syntax highlighting in the preamble and and the source view has been made
  compatible with dark themes (bug 8325).

- Changed the display of buttons for collapsed branches. We now display the
  same thing as if the branches were open (bug 10213).

- "Provides <package> 1" now works with fontspec, subfig, and listings (bug
  10257).

- Added a new module "Title and Preamble Hacks".


* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- Updated German and Interlingua user interface localization.

- Increase the maximum value for the number of last open files that LyX can
  remember (bug 9924).

- Change mouse cursor to indicate row/column selection in tabulars.

- Make inset-select-all select all cells only in tables.

- Automatically show the review toolbar if the document has tracked changes
  (bug 8738), and related UI imrovements.

- Implement "Dissolve Inset" and "Show Label" context menu items for
  arguments (bug 10150).

- Restore selected reference when using "Go to label" and "Go back" in the
  cross-reference dialog.


* BUILD/INSTALLATION




** Bug fixes:
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* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Correctly protect the \pagebreak command when needed (bug 10092).

- Resolve problem on Windows with importing files from directories with
  accented characters on FAT drives (bug 10218).

- InPreamble styles should be written to the premable as many times as the
  user requests them, even if it results in duplicate commands.

- Make sure we output all XHTML table cells, even the empty ones (bug 10153).

- Ask where to export file if not yet saved (bug 8814).

- Fix size issue with outliner icons on HiDPI monitors (bug 10125).

- Load math packages automatically with JSS template (bug 9242).


* LYX2LYX

- Fix paragraph argument conversion for \labelwidthstring etc (bug 10243).



* USER INTERFACE

- CharStyles now prohibit layout changes by default (bug 10237).

- Fix display of labels in right-to-left languages (bug 10169).

- When a counter is stepped, reset recursively all subcounters (bug #10063).

- Fix on screen narrow box when using \width as box width unit (bug 10048).

- Raise GuiView on buffer switch to bring it topmost in multi-window mode.

- Fix smal typo in Reference dialog (bug 10194).

- Fix default location for RPM based hunspell dictionary search (bug 10071 and 10192).

- Fix double input of tabulations with Qt5 < Qt5.5 (bug 9218).

- Do not omit the first space of the selection when copying (bug 9995).

- Display the correct column alignment and a better column spacing in AMS
  environments (bugs 1861, 9908).

- Disable properly toggling math diplay in places where it is not
  possible (bug 10033).

- Fix horizontal scrolling feature when inside a collapsable inset
  with several paragraphs.

- Fix selection of large formula with the mouse when horizontal
  scrolling kicks in (but 10094).

- Fix bug where cursor can't be put at the end of a line before an
  inset (bug 10180).

- Fix display of collapsable insets when the same document is shown in
  two views with different width (bug 9756).

- fix display glitches when editing changes the dimension of insets
  (bug 6691).

- Raise GuiView on buffer switch to bring it topmost in multi-window mode.

- Fix cursor position after Redo of a document settings change (bug
  10097).

- Disable Edit > Dissolve Inset in tabulars (bug 9954).

- Shortcut preferences: ask the user for removing bindings when using the
  "restore" button (#9174).

- Shortcut preferences: fix the already-bound-key detection logic.

- Shortcut preferences: don't forget to trigger the search when it is
  initialized with the previous value.

- Remove extra spacing around  button insets (bug 10149).

- Fix drawing of buttons by enforcing equal left/right spacing (bug 10147).

- Fix problem with drawing of lists after pasting normal text (bug 8735).


* INTERNALS



* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- Move documentation change logs to lib/doc (they are not distributed).


* LYXHTML

- Fix output of math sizes (bug 10129).


* TEX2LYX



* ADVANCED FIND AND REPLACE



* BUILD/INSTALLATION

- Due to bug fixes, it is no longer discouraged to build against Qt 5.4.

- Building against Qt < 4.7 no longer fails.

- Fix monolithic builds with autotools on Mac OS X.

- Avoid 'ar' warning with recent binutils versions.