+Compared with the latest stable release, this is the culmination of
+one year of hard work, and we sincerely hope you will enjoy the
+results. The changes are too numerous to summarize in a few words,
+with initial unicode support being the flagship among the new
+features, see the end of this announcement for details.
+
+As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
+visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
+some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
+
+The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release
+compared to the latest stable release (LyX 1.4.4). An updated list of
+issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes
+
+
+In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
+http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
+
+ LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
+ based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
+ is released under a Free Software / Open Source license.
+
+ LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
+ right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
+ details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with page
+ boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's legendary
+ TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.
+
+ On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output -- or
+ richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks like
+ nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, all
+ looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
+ different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes 'eating'
+ your dissertation the evening before going to press.
+
+ LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
+ internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the
+ Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.
+
+You can download LyX 1.5.0rc1 here (the .bz2 are compressed with
+bzip2, which yields smaller files):
+
+ ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0rc1.tar.gz
+ ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0rc1.tar.bz2
+
+Note that due to the amount of changes no patch is provided to upgrade
+from version 1.4.4.
+
+Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
+installers) should soon be available at
+ ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/
+
+As confusing as it is, two sets of installers are available to windows
+users: LyX-1.5.0rc1-Installer.exe, LyX-1.5.0rc1-Installer-bundle.exe and
+LyX-1.5.0rc1-AltInstaller.exe, LyX-1.5.0rc1-AltInstaller-Complete.exe.
+The former is our official installer and the latter is previously known
+as LyXWinInstaller. Please feel free to try either of them. Feedbacks
+and bug reports on both installers are welcome because they will help
+the merge of two installers, which is expected to happen during the
+1.5.x series of LyX development.
+
+If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0rc1, you may either
+e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel @ lists.lyx.org), or open
+a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org
+
+If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
+first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find the answer there,
+e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users @ lists.lyx.org).
+
+Enjoy!
+
+The LyX team.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1)?
+----------------------------
+
+* Unicode
+
+LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
+of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
+languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
+encodings current available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
+encoding or such brand new typesetting systems as XeTeX.
+Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
+areas still need a cleanup it is very likely that some bugs related to
+the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
+bugs in LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
+to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
+mailing list.
+
+* Integrated CJK support
+
+The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
+merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
+The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
+the user interface.
+Note that from now on, former encoding settings for these languages
+done via ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
+
+* Language support
+
+Besides the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi are now
+supported in the user interface.
+
+* Multiple views of the same buffer
+
+LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
+now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
+parts of it synchronously.
+
+* Outliner and embedded TOC
+
+LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
+you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
+dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
+1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
+
+* Session management
+
+LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
+reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
+selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
+cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
+can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
+the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
+
+* Source code Viewer
+
+As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
+you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole