+What's new in version 1.3.0?
+----------------------------
+
+As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
+release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
+on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
+glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
+LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
+
+Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
+hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
+been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
+
+** Qt frontend
+
+This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
+either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
+of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
+functionally equivalent.
+
+Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
+latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
+symbols displayed properly.
+
+** Xforms frontend
+
+The advent of the Qt frontend does not mean that the historical xforms
+frontend is dead. Actually, it is still the one which is the best
+implemented, because we have had more time to polish it. In this release,
+most of the dialogs have been redesigned to be tighter.
+
+Note also that the xforms library has been very recently updated to
+version 1.0. This version has been released under the LGPL (Lesser
+General Public License), and the availability of the source means that
+many bugs that have been plaguing LyX have been fixed in xforms. You
+are advised to upgrade to xforms 1.0 to enjoy all these new fixes.
+In fact, LyX 1.3.0 no longer supports versions of xforms older than 0.89.5.
+
+In most cases the dialogs have been designed to make it impossible to input
+invalid parameters. The exception to this rule is the input of length data.
+Power LaTeX users can still input obtuse "glue lengths", but the widgets are
+highlighted in red if this input is invalid or incomplete. This visual
+feedback makes it easy to see why LyX won't allow you to Apply your changes.
+
+** Gnome frontend
+
+Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
+stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
+strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
+developer's list.
+
+** Instant preview
+
+preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
+of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
+LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
+http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
+Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
+allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
+figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
+rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
+preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
+actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
+
+** Math editor
+
+There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
+visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
+a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
+formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
+minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
+package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
+structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
+anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
+the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
+"regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
+behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
+get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
+support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
+"switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
+trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
+
+- Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
+ in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
+
+- Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
+ will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
+ removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
+ like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
+ the inset and press 'backspace'.
+
+** Reading old files
+
+LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
+produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
+created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
+in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
+
+There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
+_newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
+to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
+1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
+
+** Miscellaneous changes
+
+- LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
+ equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
+ configure your font server).
+
+- The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
+ for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
+ tables of contents.
+
+- The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
+ to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
+ removed in 1.2.0
+
+- If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
+ spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
+ multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
+ installed.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.2.3?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
+where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
+special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
+Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
+
+** Updates
+
+- updated italian User Guide
+
+- updated french localization
+
+
+What's new in version 1.2.2?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
+1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
+1.2.1.
+
+** Updates
+
+- LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
+ advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
+ support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
+
+- selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
+ when dragging the mouse)
+
+- it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
+ particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
+ require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
+ found)
+
+- when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
+ automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
+ who are not aware that it is needed
+
+- when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
+ keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
+
+- in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
+ other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
+
+- Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
+
+- new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
+
+- update sciword bindings
+
+- small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
+ Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
+
+- update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
+ the interface
+
+
+What's new in version 1.2.1?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
+1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
+developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
+1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
+recommended.
+
+** Updates
+
+- it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
+ when this gets released)
+
+- partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
+ the performance problems
+
+- new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
+
+- revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
+ table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
+ seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
+
+- it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
+ "document defaults"
+
+- when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
+ float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
+ help entering of ERT insets)
+
+- update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
+
+- update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
+
+- better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
+
+- cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
+ obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
+ M-p asterisk 6)
+
+- add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
+
+- support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
+ keys
+
+- it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
+ line and have this file created for you
+
+- new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
+ heb-article and hollywood textclasses
+
+
+What's new in version 1.2.0?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
+really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
+further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
+versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
+be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
+and 1.1.6).
+
+This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
+which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
+are now possible:
+
+- Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
+ positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
+ float-by-float
+
+- Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
+ (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
+ Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
+
+- TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
+ can be shown inline
+
+- Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
+ appear in the output.
+
+- New minipage inset
+
+Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
+versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
+1.2.0.
+
+
+Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
+
+- New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
+ image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
+ rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
+ ghostscript method.
+
+- Support for natbib for bibliography citations
+
+
+
+The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
+cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
+process, among which:
+
+- many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
+
+- possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
+ also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
+ relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
+
+- support for many amsmath features
+ Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
+ over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
+ Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
+ split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
+ Vmatrix
+
+- Preliminary support for xymatrix
+
+- Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
+
+- Improvements to the parser
+
+- Improvements to math text mode
+
+- (Better) support for nested macros
+
+- Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
+
+- Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
+
+- GUI support provided for many more features
+
+
+Other changes include:
+
+- Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
+ distribution.
+
+- Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
+ improved in the process
+
+- The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
+ Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
+ version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
+
+- The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
+ expressions.
+
+- New ligature break special character, useful for words like
+ "shelfful", or many german words
+
+- Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
+ with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
+ improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
+ LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
+
+- Updated documentation
+
+- a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
+ svprobth.
+
+- Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
+
+- It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
+
+- Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
+
+- Babel can be disabled
+
+- A thesaurus facility (English only)
+
+What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
+------------------------------------
+
+LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
+
+New features:
+
+- add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
+
+- change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
+ appears to be more suitable.
+
+- add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
+ This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
+
+- add support for dvipdfm
+
+- when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
+ extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
+
+- insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
+ tokens in the file
+
+- new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
+
+- the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
+ slightly updated
+
+- updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
+
+- updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
+
+
+What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
+------------------------------------
+
+LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
+
+New features:
+
+- documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
+ change
+
+- new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
+ documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
+
+- the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
+ support
+
+- it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
+ different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
+
+- new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
+ Theoretical Computer Science
+
+- new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
+
+- new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
+ versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
+
+- the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
+ LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
+ with the older version
+
+
+What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
+------------------------------------
+
+LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
+
+New features:
+
+- add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
+
+- the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
+ to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
+ install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
+
+- many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
+ documentation update.
+
+- preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
+
+
+What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
+------------------------------------
+
+LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
+
+New features:
+
+- updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
+ translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
+
+- better support for ukrainian language
+
+- non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
+ working --with-lyx-suffix.
+
+- in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
+ line-delete-forward.
+
+- Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
+
+- Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
+
+
+What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
+--------------------------------
+
+As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
+of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
+the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
+
+Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
+new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
+GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
+from the older development version:
+
+- many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
+ process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
+ popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
+ in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
+ have been overhauled.
+
+- LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
+ lyxrc settings.
+
+- the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
+ display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
+
+- it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
+
+- last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
+ LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
+ will give you an idea of what is happening.
+
+Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
+
+- the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
+ object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
+ inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
+ cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
+ layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
+ not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
+ is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
+
+ While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
+ easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
+ features may not work right now, but at least it is much
+ better than before.
+
+- new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
+ inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
+ applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
+ include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
+ images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
+ rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
+
+- The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
+ viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
+ rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
+ import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
+ formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
+ in lyxrc settings
+ (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
+
+- LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
+
+- The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
+ document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
+ Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
+ iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
+ have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
+ The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
+
+- Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
+
+- included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
+ docbook-book.
+
+- PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
+ largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
+
+And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
+mentioned here for your information
+
+- the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
+ (this can be changed in preferences).
+
+- new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
+ -height, etc.
+
+
+
+What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
+--------------------------------
+
+Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
+We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
+This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
+and expand.
+We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
+this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
+
+User-visible changes:
+
+- Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
+
+- New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
+
+- New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
+
+- multilingual documents (preliminary support)
+
+- Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
+ only and is likely to improve in future versions.
+
+- Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
+ command-line/window:
+ paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
+
+- New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
+ in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
+
+- End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
+
+- labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
+
+- Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
+
+- The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
+ earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
+ errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
+ (And you probably had the error always.)
+
+- Better definition for LyXList style.
+
+- hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
+ LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
+
+- support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
+
+- A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
+ 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
+ spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
+ support is of course not supported in older versions.
+
+- Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
+
+- Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
+ (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
+
+- New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
+ use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
+
+- new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
+ screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
+ by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
+ lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
+
+
+What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
+--------------------------------
+
+More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
+routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
+changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
+SGI STL 3.2.
+
+In the user-visible department, we find:
+
+- new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
+ direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
+ ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
+ the GUI pops up during the process...
+
+- better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
+
+- improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
+ translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
+
+- new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
+ under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
+ to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
+ in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
+
+And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
+
+
+What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
+--------------------------------
+
+More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
+small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
+
+- LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
+ (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
+ LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
+
+- The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
+ creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
+ problems.
+
+- the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
+ works now.
+
+- Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
+
+- The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
+ swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
+ should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
+ will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
+ for the sake of correctness.
+
+- The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
+ formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
+
+- Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
+ which improves the result with T1 fonts.
+
+- new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
+
+- The textclass g-brief has been updated.
+
+And of course many bugs have been fixed.
+