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[lyx.git] / ANNOUNCE

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@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ We encourage users to try this release candidate and report
 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
@@ -48,21 +50,29 @@ 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 1.5.0beta3 here (the .bz2 are compressed with
+You can download LyX 1.5.0rc1 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-1.5.0rc1.tar.gz
+       ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0rc1.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-1.5.0rc1-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
 a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org
 
@@ -75,7 +85,7 @@ Enjoy!
 The LyX team.
 
 
-What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 3)?
+What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1)?
 ----------------------------
 
 * Unicode