-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 second public pre-release of LyX 2.0.0.
+
+Due to the many reports we received, support for polyglossia, XeTeX's new
+language interface and babel replacement, has been added. Apart from this
+better support for sub/superscript has been added and externally launched
+documents are now possible to load in an already running LyX instance.
+
+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.