1.5.0 (Release Candidate 2)

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@@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
-Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1)
+Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (release candidate 2)
 ===================================
 
-We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (release candidate 1).
+We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (release candidate 2).
+We expect this to be the last release before 1.5.0, and until the
+first stable release only critical bugs and regressions will be
+addressed.
 
 We encourage users to try this release candidate and report
 any feedback or problems to lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org.
 
-The difference to the last beta release is due to bug fixes only,
-no new features are allowed at this stage of development.
+Compared with the first release candidate we have mostly fixed bugs
+and polished the graphical interface.
 
 Compared with the latest stable release, this is the culmination of
 one year of hard work, and we sincerely hope you will enjoy the
@@ -61,6 +64,14 @@ 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/
 
+As confusing as it is, two sets of installers are available to windows
+users: LyX-1.5.0rc1-Installer.exe, LyX-1.5.0rc1-Installer-bundle.exe and
+LyX-1.5.0rc1-AltInstaller.exe, LyX-1.5.0rc1-AltInstaller-Complete.exe.
+The former is our official installer and the latter is previously known
+as LyXWinInstaller. Please feel free to try either of them. Feedbacks
+and bug reports on both installers are welcome because they will help 
+the merge of two installers, which is expected to happen during the 
+1.5.x series of LyX development.
 
 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
@@ -101,6 +112,11 @@ 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!
 
+* Language support 
+
+Besides the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi are now
+supported in the user interface.
+
 * Multiple views of the same buffer
 
 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
@@ -141,7 +157,6 @@ 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.
  
-
 * Nomenclatures
 
 Native LyX support for the nomencl package was implemented. With this,
@@ -206,6 +221,15 @@ 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.
 
+* 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
+
 * Minor user interface improvements
 
 Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of
@@ -224,7 +248,6 @@ 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.
 
-
 * Under the hood
 
 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX