-Public release of LyX version 1.5.0
+Public release of LyX version 2.2.2
===================================
-We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0.
+We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.2.2. This is the second
+maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
-Since the announcement of release candidate 2, we have fixed bugs and
-we have updated the documentation.
+You can download LyX 2.2.2 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/.
-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 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.
-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.
+LyX 2.2.2 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
+reliable and more stable. We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number
+of improvements. Most of these are relatively minor, but we nonetheless
+encourage all users of 2.2.1 to upgrade to this version.
-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.
+Perhaps the most important bug we fixed affected use of covington.sty with
+2.2.1. This will only have affected users of the Linguistics module.
-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
+One new feature is the use of the "scaling" option when exporting images
+for XHTML. This does not work the same way as with LaTeX export. What it
+does is add something like "width: 50%" to the style attribute. This will
+ordinarily be interpreted by the browser as a percentage relative to the
+current element.
+If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.2.2, 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.
-In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
-http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
+If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the
+documentation that comes with LyX and the LyX wiki, which lives 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).
- 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.
+We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.2.2.
- 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.
+The LyX team.
+http://www.lyx.org
- 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.
+What's new
+==========
-You can download LyX 1.5.0 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
-which yields smaller files):
+** Updates:
+***********
- 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
+* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
-and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will
-also host the .bz2 versions):
+- .xlsx is now a suggested extension in the spreadsheet external template.
- 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
+- Improve systemlyxdir handling.
-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/
+* USER INTERFACE
-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.
+- When changing zoom level, show current value in status bar (bug
+ 10212).
-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
+- Names containing @ are now recognised by the syntax highlighter in the
+ preamble.
-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).
+- Replace Insert>Caption submenu by a normal entry when there is only one
+ caption type.
-Enjoy!
-The LyX team.
+* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
+
+- Updated Brazilian, French, German, Italian and Slovak user interface localization.
+
+- Updated French Customizaion, Math, Tutorial and UserGuide manuals.
+
+- Update beamer manual with regard to the new Separator usage.
-What's new in version 1.5.0 ?
-----------------------------
+* BUILD/INSTALLATION
-* Unicode
+- If available, use qtchooser to select correct Qt tools when configuring.
-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 currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
-encoding or a brand new typesetting system such 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 on the 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 setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
-using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
-Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
-or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
+** Bug fixes:
+*************
-* Language support
+* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
-In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
-have full user interface support.
+- We no longer attempt to convert images for which we cannot find an
+ input format.
-* Multiple views of the same buffer
+- Fixed fen2ascii script.
-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.
+- Fixed preview of external material with plaintext and DocBook.
-* Outliner and embedded TOC
+- Fixed substitution for $$Contents in external templates.
-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.
+- Fixed usage of new module "Title and Preamble Hacks" (bug 10320).
-* Session management
+- Fix error with older versions of the covington package in the
+ Linguistics module (bug 10340).
-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.
+- Fix LaTeX error with recent LuaTeX versions when using landscape.
-* Source code Viewer
+- Fix data loss with [ in first cell of aligned environment (bug 10361).
-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.
-* New Font Selection Interface
+* LYX2LYX
-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.
+- Fix hang with some IEEEtran documents (bug 10307).
-* Tabular extensions
+- Fix export of compressed files to previous versions that were not
+ recognised on windows (bug 10273).
-LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
-LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
-providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
-* Nomenclatures
+* USER INTERFACE
-LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
-you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
-glossaries and fancy notations.
+- Avoid crashing in release mode if we stumble across an unrealized font.
-* Tabbed Widget
+- Correctly return exit code from spawned processes on Windows (bug 10327).
-LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
+- Fix display of citations with two authors.
-* Enhanced Math Toolbars
+- Fix display of multi-author citations when the GUI language is not English.
-The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
-added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
-to the math toolbars.
-Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
-panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
+- Fix bug where change tracking marks are lost under math insets (bug
+ 10265).
-* Frontend News
+- Fix display glitch when switching to Description layout with an inset
+ at the beginning of the paragraph (bug 10163)
-LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
-Windows users, because 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 also removed. The work on the GTK
-frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
-essentially stalled.
+- Fix display of label font for argument insets.
-* Change tracking enhancements
+- Keep leading whitespace when converting local layout.
-Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
-several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
+- Correct default font of beamer article layouts (bug 9977).
-* Converter file cache
+- Remove extra whitespace around Preview and IPA insets (bug 10304).
-A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
-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.
+- Let M-x give focus to minibuffer when it is already open.
-The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
-that with the line
+- When doing a selection with Shift-click, make sure that the selection anchor
+ is correct.
- \converter_cache_maxage xxx
+- Avoid to overwrite end-of-proof character with text on screen (bug
+ 10344).
-where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
+- Use proper dialog titles in InsetParams-derived dialogs (bug 10329).
-* Unified Windows installer
+- Fix "scroll here" feature of scrollbar (bug 10311).
-The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
-both installers are welcome.
+- Fix the minimum size of the citation dialog on first time (bug 10019).
-* Program listings
+- When Enter does nothing (empty paragraph), do not record undo (bug 10089).
-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.
+- Remove duplicate context menu item for Argument insets (bug 10368).
-Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
-supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
+- Fix display of vertical lines inside math matrices (bug 10363).
-* LaTeX-package support
-LyX provides the following new document classes:
- - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
- - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
- - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
- - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
- - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
+* LYXHTML
-* Minor user interface improvements
+- Enable export of external material (bug 8693).
-Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
+- Fix problem with output of branches (bug 8022).
- - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
- - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
- - Support for optional arguments for environments.
+- Fix output of table borders (bug 10154).
-* Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
+- Fix display of several math symbols (bug 8844).
-The 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 the middle button multiple times,
-even after the selection has been cleared.
+- Use scaling factor for export of images (bug 8742).
-* Limited support for local class and layout files
+- Fix display of listings (bug 8362).
-Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
-stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
-your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
-can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
-.cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
-.layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
-should you use different directories for master and child documents.
+- Fix output of floats, etc, inside environments (bug 9094).
-* Under the hood
+- Simplify XHTML output for floats, etc (bug 8605).
-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.
+- Add "dir='auto'" to body tag, which should help a lot with export of
+ RTL languages (bug 8279, partly).
-** Bug fixes
+- Fix display of cases and matrices (bugs 8753, 8755).
-Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
-bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
+- Fixed output of logos to the TOC.
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