* src/Text3.cpp: don't reset current_layout too early (fix bug 3727).

[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
@@ -101,6 +111,11 @@ 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
@@ -141,7 +156,6 @@ 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,
@@ -206,6 +220,15 @@ 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
@@ -224,7 +247,6 @@ 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