-Except usual bugfixing we tried to address some performance issues
-during this cycle, in particular we touched the following areas:
-* exporting of longer documents
-* editing of documents with rich inset structure
-* editing with opened outliner.
+Except usual bugfixing we fixed random crashes connected with the
+new background export and compilation feature.
+
+As far as new features is considered it is now possible to set the
+table width, customize the language package per document and
+export LyX files as a single archive containing linked material
+(e.g. images) directly via export menu.
+
+Since this is most probably the last beta release we also added
+convertor for old (1.6) preference files which are automatically
+checked on the startup now.