-We are pleased to announce the second alpha release of LyX 2.0.0.
-This release is for testing purposes only, users are encouraged
-to use current 1.6 stable release for any serious work.
+We are pleased to announce the third public pre-release of LyX 2.0.0.
+
+Except usual bugfixing we addressed long-term slowness issues during this
+cycle, in particular we tried to improve performance of the following areas:
+* exporting of longer documents
+* editing of documents with rich inset structure
+* editing with opened outliner.
+
+Please report the problems and bugs at our lists or bug tracker and
+also note that this release is for testing purposes only. Users are
+encouraged to use current 1.6 stable release for any serious work.