-Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 2)
+Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1)
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-We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (beta 2).
+We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (release candidate 1).
-Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs and
-added some graphical improvements:
- * A new math toolbar replaces the old (faithful) math panel.
- * The converter file cache can be now configured in the graphical interface.
- * The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
+We encourage users to try this release candidate and report
+any feedback or problems to lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org.
-Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of
-the user interface have been made, such as:
+The difference to the last beta release is due to bug fixes only,
+no new features are allowed at this stage of development.
- - Syntax highlighting for the user preamble and the LaTeX log file
- - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog)
-
-Compare with the latest stable release this is the culmination of 1
-year of hard work, and we sincerely hope this you will enjoy the
+Compared with the latest stable release, this is the culmination of
+one year of hard work, and we sincerely hope you will enjoy the
results. The changes are too numerous to summarize in a few words,
-with initial unicode support as the flagship of new features, jump
-directly to the end of this message if you want to know more.
+with initial unicode support being the flagship among the new
+features, see the end of this announcement for details.
-As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
+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.
-See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in that release.
+The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release
+compared to the latest stable release (LyX 1.4.4). An updated list of
+issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes
+
In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the
Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.
-You can download LyX 1.5.0beta2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with
+You can download LyX 1.5.0beta3 here (the .bz2 are compressed with
bzip2, which yields smaller files):
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.bz2
+ 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
-Note that due to the ammount of changes no patch is provided to upgrade
+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
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/
-If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0beta2, you may either
+If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0beta3, 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 2)?
+What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 3)?
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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!
* Multiple views of the same buffer
dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
-* Session managment
+* Session management
LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
-the LyX window. The session managment will remember their state.
+the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
* Source code Viewer
provides beautiful and elegant tabulars.
-* Glossaries
+* Nomenclatures
Native LyX support for the nomencl package was implemented. With this,
you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
added, that allowed to integrate all of the math panel' content to the
math toolbars.
Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
-panel itself has been removed and superseeded by the toolbars.
+panel itself has been removed and superseded by the toolbars.
* Frontend News
was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
unicode. The Qt3 frontend was removed. The work on the GTK frontend
-has been transfered to a branch because its development has
+has been transferred to a branch because its development has
essentially stalled.
* Change tracking enhancements
implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
-is disabled by default, and it can be enabled in the Preference
-Settings dialog, in the Converters section or, if you want to use it,
-add the line
-
- \use_converter_cache true
-
-to your preferences file.
+is enabled by default.
The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
that with the line
\converter_cache_maxage xxx
-where xxx is the maximum age in seconds.
+where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
* Unified Windows installer
The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
both installers are welcome.
+* Program listings
+
+The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
+of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
+does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
+
+Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
+supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
+
* 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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