- Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog)
- Support optional arguments for environments
-Compare with the latest stable release this is the culmination of 1
-year of hard work, and we sincerely hope this you will enjoy the
+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 as the flagship of new features, jump
-directly to the end of this message if you want to know more.
+with initial unicode support being the flagship among the new
+features, see the end of this announcement for details.
-As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
+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: