-Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1)
+Public release of LyX version 2.3.5
===================================
-We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (release candidate 1).
+We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.3.5. This is the fifth
+maintenance release in the 2.3.x series. We encourage all users to
+upgrade to this version.
-We encourage users to try this release candidate and report
-any feedback or problems to lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org.
+You can download LyX 2.3.5 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/.
-The difference to the last beta release is due to bug fixes only,
-no new features are allowed at this stage of development. The only
-exception to this rule is the addition of Farsi as a supported language
-since the available patch was not integrated in the previous release.
+LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based
+on the structure of your documents and not simply their appearance. It is
+released under a Free and Open Source Software license.
-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.
+LyX 2.3.5 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
+reliable and more stable. Most of the changes are incremental, but quite a
+few important bugs have now been fixed.
-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.
+One important change is that Inkscape 1.0 is now supported: It will be detected
+and configured automatically. Users of previous versions have recently reported
+configuration failures when Inkscape 1.0 is installed, leading to an incomplete
+(and all but unusable) installation of LyX. This should also be fixed.
-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
+If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.3.5, please open a bug report at
+http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome. If you're not sure whether it
+really is a bug, you can e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel
+<at> lists.lyx.org) and ask.
+If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the documentation
+that comes with LyX (under the Help or Apple menu) and the LyX wiki, which
+is at http://wiki.lyx.org/. If you can't find the answer there, e-mail the
+LyX users' list (lyx-users <at> lists.lyx.org), where you will find an
+active community of people who are ready to help.
-In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
-http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
+We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.3.5.
- 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.
+The LyX team.
+http://www.lyx.org
- 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.
+What's new
+==========
- 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.
+** Updates:
+***********
-You can download LyX 1.5.0rc1 here (the .bz2 are compressed with
-bzip2, which yields smaller files):
+* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
- 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
+- Add layout file for revtex 4.2.
-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/
+* USER INTERFACE
+- Keep citation style when all selected citations are deleted (bug 11748).
-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
+- Add shortcut for Insert > Separated <Environment> Above.
-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!
+* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
-The LyX team.
+- Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Dutsch, German, Interlingua, Italian, Russian
+ and Slovak user interface localization.
+
+
+* BUILD/INSTALLATION
+
+- Provide the option to code sign the LyX application on Mac.
+
+
+
+** Bug fixes:
+*************
+
+* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
+
+- Fix crash with non-encodable glyph in nomcenlature inset (bug 11584).
+
+- Fix crash with non-encodable glyph in class options (bug 11865).
+
+- Support for Inkscape 1.0 (new command line syntax) (bug 11742).
+
+- Fix problems with non-ASCII characters in file path with recent LaTeX
+ (bug 11146).
+
+- Fix problems with recent LaTeX when \input@path contains tilde and space
+ (bug 11699).
+
+- Fix output with class-provided geometry package (bug 11724).
+- Fix erroneous space in output caused by changebar module (bug 11473).
-What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1)?
-----------------------------
+- Correctly strike out deleted text after deleted display math (bug 11716).
-* Unicode
+- Fix loading of amsmath in beamer article classes (bug 11768).
-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.
+- Prevent polyglossia options from being output to PDF TOC (bug 11813).
-* Integrated CJK support
+- Use real typographic quotation marks in PDF TOC (with pdflatex).
-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!
+- Fix problems with apostrophe in path on Windows (bug 9368).
-* Multiple views of the same buffer
+- Don't open a new instance just because no files are given (bug 11635).
-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.
+- Fix tablefootnote loading order (bug 11841).
-* Outliner and embedded TOC
+- Fix reloading of changed include inset (bug 11842).
-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.
+- Don't output \maketitle twice with branches (bug 11787).
-* Session management
+- Output \PassOptionsToPackage before any package is loaded (bug 11862).
-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
+* USER INTERFACE
-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
-document.
+- Avoid crash in some cases where a dialog is shown during operation
+ (bug 11763).
-* New Font Selection Interface
+- Fix crash with nested insets when spaces are removed automatically (bug 11777).
-LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
-outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
-provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
-
-* Tabular extensions
+- Fix a crash reported on lyx users.
+ There was an uninitialized buffer member of MathData in LFUN dispatch.
-LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
-LaTeX. support for the booktabs package was implemented, which
-provides beautiful and elegant tabulars.
-
+- Fix backspace deletion of selected items with change tracking (bug 11630).
-* Nomenclatures
+- Fix display glitch where the change tracking cue blinks with the cursor
+ (bug 11684).
-Native LyX support for the nomencl package was implemented. With this,
-you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
-glossaries and fancy notations.
+- Consider shorthand in biblatex cite display (bug 11696).
-* Tabbed Widget
+- Properly resize columns of child document table widget.
-LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
+- Fix problem with validation of InsetLayout.
-* Enhanced Math Toolbars
+- Fix over-hasty resetting of dialog in Child Documents settings (bug 11564).
-The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
-added, that allowed to integrate all of the math panel' content to the
-math toolbars.
-Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
-panel itself has been removed and superseded by the toolbars.
+- Fix problems when pasting ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER (bug 11790).
-* Frontend News
+- Remove newlines from LFUNs entered in the shortcut dialog.
-LyX 1.5 will use the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
-Windows users, since there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
-longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
-Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
-was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
-in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
-unicode. The Qt3 frontend was removed. The work on the GTK frontend
-has been transferred to a branch because its development has
-essentially stalled.
+- Add copy, paste, etc, to math context menu (but 11799).
-* Change tracking enhancements
+- Avoid bleeding of inset background outside of inset (bug 11786).
-Major parts of the change tracking code were rewritten addressing
-several problems that existed in the existing implementation.
+- Disallow adding columns with gathered environment as this is not
+ supported (bug 11812).
-* Converter file cache
+- Preserve paragraph spacing when breaking a paragraph at the start
+ (bug 11817).
-A cache for converted files, such as included figures, was
-implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
-displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
-to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
-is enabled by default.
+- Improve reporting of undefined control sequences in preamble (bug 11844).
-The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
-that with the line
+- Fix direction of some parts of text in bidi texts (bug 11691).
- \converter_cache_maxage xxx
+- Do not insert \textquoteright with Hunspell (bug 11832).
-where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
+- Fix disappearing selection with clipboard managers on X11 (bug 11715).
-* Unified Windows installer
+- Correct hierarchy level of Bib(la)tex inset in outliner if "Show in Toc"
+ is selected (bug 11863).
-The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
-both installers are welcome.
+- Don't close a document if the "close or hide" dialog is canceled (bug
+ 11456).
+
+- Disable PDF bookmarksopen level widget if booksmarksopen is false
+ (bug 11289).
-* Program listings
+- Fix encoding issues with python 3 when generating preview snippets.
-The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
-of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
-does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
-Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
-supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
+* TEX2LYX
-* Minor user interface improvements
+- Fix import of nested polyglossia language environments (bug 11878).
-Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of
-the user interface have been made, such as:
- - Syntax highlighting for the user preamble and the LaTeX log file
- - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog)
- - Support optional argument for environments
+* LYXHTML
-* Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
-
-Clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications. Parallel
-to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button to paste
-selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows (but
-within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
-you can paste the selected text using middle button multiple times,
-even after the selection has been cleared.
+- Don't output LaTeX preamble snippets with HTML (bug 11780).
-* Under the hood
+* BUILD/INSTALLATION
-As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
-core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
-easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
-application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
-code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
-1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
-series has been to bring this speed back.
+- Do not break configuration if a layout file is not decodable. Rather than that,
+ issue a warning and skip that file (bug 11736).
-** Bug fixes
+- Download dictionary and thesaurus files, on Windows, from our SVN repo (bug 11192).
-Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
-bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
+- Avoid many warnings with g++ 10 and clang++ 10.
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