+* It is now possible to cancel background export processes. A menu entry
+ to do so will appear on the Document menu when such a process is underway.
+ The LFUN for this is export-cancel. One can also click on the 'spinner'
+ to cancel export.
+
+* The items on the Edit menu have been reordered, and many of the shortcuts
+ have been changed so that they are more intuitive in the case of often
+ used items. We understand that this may frustrate some users and apologize,
+ while noting that menu shortcuts can always be customized by copying the
+ stdmenus.inc file to the user directory and editing it.
+
+
+!!Documents compilation process and images conversion
+
+* LyX now uses utf8 encoding per default for all languages. This does not affect
+ existing documents. Note that LyX also does not touch personal defaults and templates.
+ That is to say, if you still see traditional encoding preset for new documents,
+ you can change that by selecting "Unicode (utf8) [default]" and hitting "Save
+ as Documents Defaults" afterwards. Your personal templates need to be changed manually
+ if desired.
+
+* LyX defaults to the "HE8" LaTeX font encoding with Hebrew if the
+ "Culmus" LaTeX fonts are installed.
+
+* Documents that use TeX fonts can only be compiled with XeTeX if the input
+ encoding is set to "utf8-plain" or "ascii".
+
+!!!The following pref variables were added in 2.4:
+
+
+
+!!!The following pref variables were changed in 2.4:
+
+
+
+!!!The following pref variables are obsoleted in 2.4:
+
+* \font_encoding
+ The font encoding is now automatically set depending on the document
+ fonts and languages.
+
+* \use_qimage
+ This is no longer necessary due to the rewrite of the painter.
+
+* \use_pixmap_cacheqimage
+ There is no evidence that this painting mode was useful anymore.
+
+* \date_insert_format
+ The function date-insert has been removed and superseded by info-insert date.
+ The latter does not need a pref value anymore.