any feedback or problems to lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org.
The difference to the last beta release is due to bug fixes only,
-no new features are allowed at this stage of development.
+no new features are allowed at this stage of development. The only
+exception to this rule is the addition of Farsi as a supported language
+since the available patch was not integrated in the previous release.
Compared with the latest stable release, this is the culmination of
one year of hard work, and we sincerely hope you will enjoy the
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