-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.
+With this release, LyX celebrates 18 years of existence. The 2.1 series
+has a rich set of new features compared to the current stable series.