-Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (alpha 2)
-=============================================
+Public release of LyX version 2.3.1
+===================================
-We are pleased to announce the second alpha release of LyX 1.6.0 (the
-first to be publicly announced).
+We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.3.1. This is the first
+maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
-LyX 1.6.0 will be the culmination of 9 months of hard work since the
-release of the LyX 1.5 series. We sincerely hope you will enjoy the
-result.
+You can download LyX 2.3.1 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/.
-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.
+LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based
+on the structure of your documents and not simply their appearance. It is
+released under a Free and Open Source Software license.
-The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release
-compared to the current stable release (LyX 1.5.4). An updated list of
-issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes
+LyX 2.3.1 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
+reliable and more stable. <CONTINUE>
+All python scripts distributed with LyX should now be compatible with both
+python 2.x and python 3.x.
-In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
-http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
+One oft-requested enhancement was to restore a keyboard shortcut for opening
+the 'settings' menu of graphics, reference, etc, insets. This is now Control-
+Alt-i, on Windows and Linux, and Control-Option-i on OSX (assuming you are
+using the default keybindings).
- 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.
+If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.3.1, please open a bug report at
+http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome. If you're not sure whether it
+really is a bug, you can e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel
+<at> lists.lyx.org) and ask.
- 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.
+If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the documentation
+that comes with LyX (under the Help or Apple menu) and the LyX wiki, which
+is at http://wiki.lyx.org/. If you can't find the answer there, e-mail the
+LyX users' list (lyx-users <at> lists.lyx.org), where you will find an
+active community of people who are ready to help.
- 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 1.6.0alpha2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
-which yields smaller files):
-
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0alpha2.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0alpha2.tar.bz2
-
-Note that due to the amount of change, no patch is provided to upgrade
-from version 1.5.4.
-
-Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
-installers) should soon be available at
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/bin/1.6.0alpha2/
-
-If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.0alpha2, you may either
-e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at 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 at lists.lyx.org).
-
-Enjoy!
+We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.3.1.
The LyX team.
+http://www.lyx.org
-
-What's new in version 1.6.0alpha2?
-----------------------------
-
-The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
-http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
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