-Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 4)
+Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 5)
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-We are pleased to announce the fourth release candidate of LyX 1.6.0.
+We are pleased to announce the fifth release candidate of LyX 1.6.0.
-LyX 1.6.0 will be the culmination of 14 months of hard work since the
+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.
+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.
+
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.
internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the
Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.
-You can download LyX 1.6.0rc4 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
+You can download LyX 1.6.0rc5 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
which yields smaller files):
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc4.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc4.tar.bz2
+ 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
Note that due to the amount of change, no patch is provided to upgrade
from version 1.5.6.
installers) should soon be available at
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/
-If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.0rc4, you may either
+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