+We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0.
+
+Since the announcement of release candidate 2, we have fixed bugs and
+we have updated the documentation.
+
+Following the ad hoc tradition of 1.5.0 pre-releases, called
+respectively Ruby (alpha), Towny (beta) and Quinta ("farm" in
+Portuguese for the release candidates) this release starts the Vintage
+selection that is (will be) the 1.5 series.
+
+LyX 1.5.0 is the culmination of 15 months of hard work since the
+release of the LyX 1.4 series. We sincerely hope you will enjoy the
+result. The changes are too numerous to summarize in a few words, but
+initial unicode support is the flagship among the new features. See
+the end of this announcement for further 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 current stable release (LyX 1.4.5). 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 1.5.0 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
+which yields smaller files):
+
+ ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
+ ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.bz2
+ ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
+ ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.bz2
+
+and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will
+also host the .bz2 versions):
+
+ ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
+ http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
+ ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
+ ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
+ http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
+ http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
+
+Note that due to the amount of change, no patch is provided to upgrade
+from version 1.4.5.
+
+Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
+installers) should soon be available at
+ ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/bin/1.5.0/
+
+As confusing as it is, two sets of installers are available to windows
+users:
+ * LyX-1.5.0-Installer.exe and LyX-1.5.0-Installer-bundle.exe;
+ * LyX-1.5.0-AltInstaller.exe and LyX-1.5.0-AltInstaller-Complete.exe.
+The former is our official installer and the latter was previously known
+as LyXWinInstaller. Please feel free to try either of them. Feedback
+and bug reports on both installers are welcome because they will help
+the merge of the 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 1.5.0, you may either
+e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at 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 at lists.lyx.org).