-Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 2)
-===================================
-
-We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (beta 2).
-
-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.
-
-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.
-
-The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known problems with this release
-compared to the latest stable release, i.e. LyX 1.4.4.
-
-In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
-http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
-You can download LyX 1.5.0beta2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with
-bzip2, which yields smaller files):
-
- 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/devel/
-
-
-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
-
-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!
+Public release of LyX version 2.4.0 RC3
+=========================================
+
+We are proud to announce the first public release candidate of the new LyX 2.4
+series. This pre-release is meant for testing and should not be used for
+serious work. For curious users who would like to test in order to help catch
+bugs before the 2.4.0 release, please back up all of your documents and be
+prepared for the worst to happen. Most users (who desire a stable LyX version)
+should not use this pre-release.
+
+The 2.4 series has a rich set of new features compared to the current stable
+series. An overview of the new features can be found here:
+
+ https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX24
+
+As this release ships with new features, we strongly recommend that packagers
+of LyX on various platforms and distributions read RELEASE-NOTES in order to
+get the new dependencies right.
+
+You can download LyX 2.4.0 RC3 from http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/ or
+from a mirror listed at https://www.lyx.org/Download#toc11.
+
+We appreciate your help in testing this pre-release!
+
+If a file from an earlier version of LyX is opened *and saved* with
+any version of 2.4.x, then the original file will automatically be
+backed up. The backup file will be found in the backup directory, if one
+is set under Tools> Preferences> Paths, or else in the same folder as
+the original file, if no backup directory is set. The filename of the
+backup file will be:
+ ORIGNAME-lyxformat-NUM.lyx~
+where NUM is the LyX format number of the original file. In the case of
+2.3.x file, this will be 544, but in the case of older files it will be
+different.
+
+The file RELEASE-NOTES also lists some known issues and problems compared
+to the current stable releases (LyX 2.3.x).
+
+As with any major release, this one comes with a lot of new features but
+also some bugs. If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.4.0 RC3, either
+email the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org),
+or open a bug report at https://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome.
+Please specify if the behavior you are reporting is different from behavior
+in a previous LyX version.
+
+If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the
+documentation that comes with LyX (under Help) and the LyX wiki, which you
+will find at https://wiki.lyx.org/. You can also send email to the LyX users'
+list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org).
The LyX team.
-
-
-What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 2)?
-----------------------------
-
-* Unicode
-
-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.
-
-* 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 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.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
-
-* Session managment
-
-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 managment will remember their state.
-
-* Source code Viewer
-
-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
-
-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
-
-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,
-you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
-glossaries and fancy notations.
-
-* Tabbed Widget
-
-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
-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 transfered to a branch because its development has
-essentially stalled.
-
-* Change tracking enhancements
-
-Major parts of the change tracking code were rewritten addressing
-several problems that existed in the existing implementation.
-
-* Converter file cache
-
-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 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
-
- \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
-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.
-
-** Bug fixes
-
-Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
-bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
+https://www.lyx.org
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