-Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (release candidate 2)
-===================================
+Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 2)
+=========================================================
-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.
+We are pleased to announce the first release candidate of LyX 1.6.0.
-We encourage users to try this release candidate and report
-any feedback or problems to lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org.
-
-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
-results. The changes are too numerous to summarize in a few words,
-with initial unicode support being the flagship among the new
-features, see the end of this announcement for details.
+LyX 1.6.0 will be the culmination of 12 months of hard work since the
+release of the LyX 1.5 series. We sincerely hope you will enjoy the
+result.
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 new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
+http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
+
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
+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
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.
+ Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.
-You can download LyX 1.5.0rc1 here (the .bz2 are compressed with
-bzip2, which yields smaller files):
+You can download LyX 1.6.0rc2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
+which yields smaller files):
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0rc1.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0rc1.tar.bz2
+ ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc2.tar.gz
+ ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc2.tar.bz2
-Note that due to the amount of changes no patch is provided to upgrade
-from version 1.4.4.
+Note that due to the amount of change, no patch is provided to upgrade
+from version 1.5.6.
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/
-As confusing as it is, two sets of installers are available to windows
-users: LyX-1.5.0rc1-Installer.exe, LyX-1.5.0rc1-Installer-bundle.exe and
-LyX-1.5.0rc1-AltInstaller.exe, LyX-1.5.0rc1-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 1.5.0rc1, you may either
-e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel @ lists.lyx.org), or open
+If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.0rc2, 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://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find the answer there,
-e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users @ lists.lyx.org).
+e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org).
Enjoy!
The LyX team.
-
-
-What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1)?
-----------------------------
-
-* Unicode
-
-LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
-of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
-languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
-encodings current available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
-encoding or such brand new typesetting systems as XeTeX.
-Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
-areas still need a cleanup it is very likely that some bugs related to
-the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
-bugs in LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
-to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
-mailing list.
-
-* Integrated CJK support
-
-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
-
-LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
-now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
-parts of it synchronously.
-
-* Outliner and embedded TOC
-
-LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
-you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
-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 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 management will remember their state.
-
-* Source code Viewer
-
-As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
-you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
-document.
-
-* New Font Selection Interface
-
-LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
-outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
-provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
-
-* Tabular extensions
-
-LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
-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,
-you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
-glossaries and fancy notations.
-
-* Tabbed Widget
-
-LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
-
-* Enhanced Math Toolbars
-
-The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
-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 superseded by the toolbars.
-
-* Frontend News
-
-LyX 1.5 will use the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
-Windows users, since there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
-longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
-Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
-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 transferred to a branch because its development has
-essentially stalled.
-
-* Change tracking enhancements
-
-Major parts of the change tracking code were rewritten addressing
-several problems that existed in the existing implementation.
-
-* Converter file cache
-
-A cache for converted files, such as included figures, was
-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 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, 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.
-
-* 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
-the user interface have been made, such as:
-
- - Syntax highlighting for the user preamble and the LaTeX log file
- - 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
-core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
-easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
-application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
-code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
-1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
-series has been to bring this speed back.
-
-** Bug fixes
-
-Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
-bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
projects / lyx.git / blobdiff