-Public release of LyX version 2.1.0rc1
-========================================
+Public release of LyX version 2.2.1
+===================================
-We are proud to announce the first release candidate of the new
-LyX 2.1 series.
+We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.2.1.
-With this release, LyX celebrates 18 years of existence. The 2.1 series
-has a rich set of new features compared to the current stable series.
+LyX 2.2.1 is the first maintenance release in the 2.2.x series. You can
+download LyX 2.2.1 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/.
-LyX 2.1.0rc1 is the culmination of three years of hard work.
-This release is meant for testing before we actually release LyX 2.1.
+LyX 2.2.1 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
+reliable and more stable. We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number
+of improvements. FILL IN
-An overview of the new features can be found here:
- http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX21
+One important change is to the behavior of character styles. By default,
+these now prohibit changes to the paragraph layout. Putting a description
+inside a character style typically results in invalid LaTeX code, so this
+makes certain mistakes harder to make. Power users who have taken advantage
+of the previous behavior can restore it by adding "ForcePlain 0" to the
+declaration of the character style, so long as this is done after "LyXType
+charstyle" has been declared.
-You can download LyX 2.1.0rc1 from ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/.
+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.
-We hope you will enjoy the result!
-
-The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues and problems compared
-to the current stable releases (LyX 2.0.x). We strongly recommend that
-packagers of LyX on various platforms and distributions read this file.
-
-As with any major release, this one comes with lot of new features but
-also some bugs. If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.1.0rc1,
-either email the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org),
-or open a bug report at http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome.
+If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.2.1, 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.
If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the
-documentation that comes with LyX (under Help) and the LyX wiki, which you
-will find at http://wiki.lyx.org/. You can also send email to the LyX users'
-list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org).
+documentation that comes with LyX and the LyX wiki, which lives 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).
+
+We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.2.1.
The LyX team.
http://www.lyx.org
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