-Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 1)
+Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 2)
===================================
-We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (beta 1).
+We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (beta 2).
-It is the culmination of 1 year of hard work, and we sincerely hope
-this you will enjoy the results. The changes are too numerous to
-summarize in a few words, with initial unicode support as the flagship
-of new features, jump directly to the end of this message if you want
-to know more.
+Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs and
+added some graphical improvements:
+ * A new math toolbar replaces the old (faithful) math panel.
+ * The converter file cache can be now configured in the graphical interface.
+ * The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
-As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
+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 arguments for environments
+
+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.
+
+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.
-See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in that release.
+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
+
In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the
Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.
-You can download LyX 1.5.0beta1 here (the .bz2 are compressed with
+You can download LyX 1.5.0beta2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with
bzip2, which yields smaller files):
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.bz2
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.bz2
-
-and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will also host
-the .bz2 versions):
-
- http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.gz
- ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.gz
+ ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.gz
+ ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.bz2
Note that due to the ammount 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.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.0beta1/
+ ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/
-If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0beta1, you may either
+If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0beta2, 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
The LyX team.
-What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 1)?
+What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 2)?
----------------------------
* Unicode
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.
+
* Multiple views of the same buffer
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.
-* Outliner
+* Outliner and embedded TOC
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.)
+1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
* Session managment
provides beautiful and elegant tabulars.
-* Glossaries
+* Nomenclatures
Native LyX support for the nomencl package was implemented. With this,
you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
+* Enhanced Math Toolbars
+
+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 superseeded by the toolbars.
+
* Frontend News
LyX 1.5 will use the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
* Change tracking enhancements
-Major parts of the change tracking code were rewrote addressing
+Major parts of the change tracking code were rewritten addressing
several problems that existed in the existing implementation.
* Converter file cache
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 disabled by default, and there is no GUI for configuring it yet. If
-you want to use it, add the line
+is disabled by default, and it can be enabled in the Preference
+Settings dialog, in the Converters section or, if you want to use it,
+add the line
+
\use_converter_cache true
-to your preferences file. The default maximum age of a cached file is
-6 months. You can change that with the line
+to your preferences file.
+
+The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
+that with the line
+
\converter_cache_maxage xxx
where xxx is the maximum age in seconds.
+* Unified Windows installer
+
+The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
+both installers are welcome.
+
+* Minor user interface improvements
+
+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
+
* Under the hood
As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
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