-Pre-release of LyX version 2.0.0 (beta 1)
+Pre-release of LyX version 2.0.0 (beta 3)
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-We are pleased to announce the first public pre-release of LyX 2.0.0.
-Development moved to the beta phase which basically means we will no more
-include new features and focus on polishing the current ones.
-We are thus grateful for any feedback you sent us regarding the bugs you
-encounter while testing the beta release. Except trying new features
-this is also good time to check that your favorite old files works with
-the new release as expected.
+We are pleased to announce the third public pre-release of LyX 2.0.0.
-Please note that this release is for testing purposes only, users are
+Except usual bugfixing we addressed long-term slowness issues during this
+cycle, in particular we tried to improve performance of the following areas:
+* exporting of longer documents
+* editing of documents with rich inset structure
+* editing with opened outliner.
+
+Please report the problems and bugs at our lists or bug tracker and
+also note that this release is for testing purposes only. Users are
encouraged to use current 1.6 stable release for any serious work.
Tarballs and binaries can be found at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/