-Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 3)
+Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (release candidate 2)
===================================
-We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (beta 3).
+We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (release candidate 2).
+We expect this to be the last release before 1.5.0, and until the
+first stable release only critical bugs and regressions will be
+addressed.
-Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs
-and added some improvements, namely a new inset to support code listings.
+We encourage users to try this release candidate and report
+any feedback or problems to lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org.
-We have enabled the converter file cache by default.
-
-Internally we have renamed files to follow a consistent name pattern,
-this will allow an easier navigation of the source code thus simplifying
-bug fixing.
+Compared with the first release candidate we have mostly fixed bugs
+and polished the graphical interface.
Compared with the latest stable release, this is the culmination of
one year of hard work, and we sincerely hope you will enjoy the
internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the
Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.
-You can download LyX 1.5.0beta3 here (the .bz2 are compressed with
+You can download LyX 1.5.0rc2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with
bzip2, which yields smaller files):
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0beta3.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0beta3.tar.bz2
+ ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0rc2.tar.gz
+ ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0rc2.tar.bz2
Note that due to the amount 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 1.5.0beta3, you may either
+ ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/
+
+As confusing as it is, two sets of installers are available to windows
+users: LyX-1.5.0rc2-Installer.exe, LyX-1.5.0rc2-Installer-bundle.exe and
+LyX-1.5.0rc2-AltInstaller.exe, LyX-1.5.0rc2-AltInstaller-Complete.exe.
+The former is our official installer and the latter is previously known
+as LyXWinInstaller. Please feel free to try either of them. Feedbacks
+and bug reports on both installers are welcome because they will help
+the merge of two installers, which is expected to happen during the
+1.5.x series of LyX development.
+
+If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0rc2, 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
The LyX team.
-What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 3)?
+What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 2)?
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* Unicode
The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
+The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
+the user interface.
+Note that from now on, former encoding settings for these languages
+done via ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
+
+* Language support
+
+Besides the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi are now
+supported in the user interface.
* Multiple views of the same buffer
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,
Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
+* LaTeX-package support
+
+LyX provides the following new document classes:
+ - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
+ - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
+ - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
+ - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
+ - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
+
* Minor user interface improvements
Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of
- Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog)
- Support optional argument for environments
+* Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
+
+Clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications. Parallel
+to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button to paste
+selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows (but
+within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
+you can paste the selected text using middle button multiple times,
+even after the selection has been cleared.
+
* Under the hood
As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
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