-Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 5)
-=========================================================
+Public release of LyX version 2.3.4-2
+=====================================
-We are pleased to announce the fifth release candidate of LyX 1.6.0.
+This is an emergency release that fixes four bugs in 2.3.4. Only the
+first two really warrant an emergency release, but while we're at it...
-LyX 1.6.0 will be the culmination of 15 months of hard work since the
-release of the LyX 1.5 series. We sincerely hope you will enjoy the
-result.
+The first, bug #11728, caused a five-second delay when attempting
+to save files on Windows. This was a side effect of the fix for #10091
+and reminds us why it would be good to have more testing on Windows.
-This is the last planned release candidate. In order to guarantee a
-stable release of LyX 1.6.0 there are very few changes when compared
-with the last release candidate (rc4).
-The changes committed refer to bug and performance fixes and there are
-no known regressions compared to any of the previous release
-candidates.
+The second bug is discussed in this thread
+ https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg210294.html
+and concerns a crash related to the math toolbar. This was due to an
+uninitialize buffer_ member revealed by the fix for #11586.
-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 third, bug #11724, affects Beamer presentations and causes bad output
+when page geometry is set in certain ways. LyX should and how does ignore
+such settings.
-The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
-http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
+The last, bug #11579, is an old one, but a serious one, that prevents
+the use of CJKUtf8 in ERT. It's a straightforward fix for a bug that is
+pretty serious for people who encounter it.
-The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release
-compared to the current stable release (LyX 1.5.6). An updated list of
-issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes
+All LyX users are encouraged to upgrade to 2.3.4-2.
+The original announcement for 2.3.4 follows.
-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.
+We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.3.4. This is the fourth
+maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
- 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.
+You can download LyX 2.3.4 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/.
- 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 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.
- 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.
+LyX 2.3.4 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
+reliable and more stable. One important change is that we have finally fixed
+a large number of bugs related to bibitems (see bug #7548). We have also (we
+hope) fixed a long-standing bug involving the saving of files on Windows to
+Dropbox folders.
-You can download LyX 1.6.0rc5 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
-which yields smaller files):
+If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.3.4, 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.
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc5.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc5.tar.bz2
+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.
-Note that due to the amount of change, no patch is provided to upgrade
-from version 1.5.6.
+We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.3.4.
-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/
+The LyX team.
+http://www.lyx.org
-If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.0rc5, 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://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/. If you can't find the answer there,
-e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org).
+What's new
+==========
-Enjoy!
+** Updates:
+***********
+
+* USER INTERFACE
+
+- The "Rows & Columns" optional submenu has been added to the math context menu.
+
+- Avoid using text mode for unicode symbols representable in math mode (bug 9616).
+
+- Do not issue error dialog when no tag is found in git repository for
+ tree-revision info inset.
+
+- Fix display with Wayland (bug 11692).
+
+- Improve editing performance when there are Include insets that point to
+ non-existing files. (bug 11656).
+
+
+* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
+
+- New section about references in the example file colored-boxes.lyx.
+
+- The Dutch user interface localization has been revived, and the Dutch docs
+ revised.
+
+- The Russian Tutorial has been updated.
+
+- Updated localizations include Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, German, Hebrew,
+ Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Slovak, Swedish, and Ukrainian.
+
+- Fixed index processor in some manuals (bug 11708).
+
+
+** Bug fixes:
+*************
+
+* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
+
+- Prevent crash due to unencodable path (bug 11688).
+
+- Fix crash with polyglossia when the "Auto End" language preference setting
+ is off and titles are used.
+
+- (Re-)fix problems with activated equal sign and graphic options in Turkish
+ and Latin documents (bug 2005).
+
+- Correctly set language after intitle paragraphs (bug 11514).
+
+- Fix toprule with booktabs/longtable and captions (bug 11589).
+
+- Avoid adding spaces when parsing an array in a macro template (bug 10499).
+
+- Avoid superfluous braces in the optional argument of a macro (bug 11552).
+
+- Do not replace a latex command with the corresponding symbol in the
+ unicodesymbols file, unless it can be encoded in the document encoding
+ (bug 11586).
+
+- Fix problems with paths that contain the tilde (~) character.
+
+- Fix nomenclature processing with LuaTeX (bug 11571).
+
+- Fix problem on Windows with saving files in Dropbox folders (bug 10091).
+
+- Find local bib files when they exist in the same directory as the LyX
+ file (bug 11588).
+
+- Fix table column order with RTL documents and LuaTeX (part of bug 9686).
+
+- Fix paragraph alignment with RTL documents and LuaTeX (part of bug 11399).
+
+- Fix direction of brackets with RTL documents and LuaTeX (part of bug 11187).
+
+- Fix direction of roman numbers with RTL documents and LuaTeX.
+
+- Fix direction of numbered citations outside XeTeX/bidi (bug 3005).
+
+- Fix direction of references with XeTeX/bidi (bug 11626).
+
+- Fix interplay of the memoir class and custom page size/geometry (bug 10970).
+
+- Fix compilation of Hebrew Article with XeTeX and LuaTeX (bug 10525).
+
+- Fix greyedout note with RTL documents (bug 8647).
+
+- Fix colored and shaded boxes with RTL documents (bug 8642).
+
+- Fix loading order problem with rotfloat/rotating and graphicx (bug 11502).
+
+- Fix LaTeX error with Canadian French as second language. LyX now uses
+ the (recommended) babel option "acadian" rather than "canadien".
+
+- Do not create unnecessary directories when exporting from the command
+ line (bug 11636).
+
+- Fix problem with included objects with Linkback service on Mac (bug 6961).
+
+- Fix termination of commands after math insets (bug 11667).
+
+- Fix \binom command clash in beamer.
+
+
+* USER INTERFACE
+
+- Fix configure process with Python 3 (bug 11642).
+
+- Fix some numbering issues with bibitems (bug 2743, 8499).
+
+- Deal properly with orphaned bibitems (bug 7160).
+
+- Fix endless loop when a macro definition references itself (bug 11595).
+
+- Use the selection as the argument of a macro also when the macro has only
+ optional arguments (bug 10498).
+
+- Correctly close a language opened in a branch inset (bug 9633).
+
+- Fix additional problem with display of inline equations in outliner
+ (bug 11423).
+
+- Preserve "all authors" state when switching citation style via context
+ menu (bug 11439).
+
+- Fix right and left layout alignment (in workarea) with RTL (bug 11606).
+
+- Show filenames for verbatim includes in outliner (bug 11612).
+
+- Enable change tracking if paragraph break change (bug 11629).
+
+- Fix crash when deleting column in math grid (bug 11623).
+
+- Hide "LaTeX (Clipboard)" entry from import menu (bug 11657).
+
+- Enable dissolve in undefined Flex inset context menu (bug 8650).
+
+- Enable dissolve in context menu of element in table cells.
+
+- Fix bad caret position when row scrolls horizontally (bug 11603).
+
+- Fix crash when inserting some insets in math split insets (bug 11686).
+
+- Properly remember cursor position when many files have been opened
+ (bug 10310).
+
+
+* INTERNALS
+
+- Fix TeX file listing with the Nix package manager.
+
+- Fix Python detection routines, and so instant preview on some platforms
+ (bug 11282).
+
+
+* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
+
+- Fix string direction in Hebrew localization (bug 11607).
+
+
+* LYX2LYX
+
+- Fix typo in the code that converts from file formats older than lyx 2.1
+ (thanks to Salvatore Falco).
+
+
+* TEX2LYX
+
+- Significantly improve support for modules (bug 11259, 8229).
+
+- Prevent multiplication of preamble code on (re-)import (bug 8229).
+
+- Fix import of custom float definitions.
+
+
+* BUILD/INSTALLATION
+
+- avoid annoying warnings with g++ 9.
-The LyX team.
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