-Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 1)
-=============================================
+Public release of LyX version 2.2.2
+===================================
-We are pleased to announce the first release candidate of LyX 1.6.0.
+We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.2.2. This is the second
+maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
-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.
+You can download LyX 2.2.2 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/.
-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.
+LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based
+on the structure of your documents and not simply their appearance. It is
+released under a Free and Open Source Software license.
-The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
-http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
+LyX 2.2.2 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
+reliable and more stable. We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number
+of improvements. Most of these are relatively minor, but we nonetheless
+encourage all users of 2.2.1 to upgrade to this version.
-The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release
-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
-In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
-http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
+One new feature is the use of the "scaling" option when exporting images
+for XHTML. This does not work the same way as with LaTeX export. What it
+does is add something like "width: 50%" to the style attribute. This will
+ordinarily be interpreted by the browser as a percentage relative to the
+current element.
- LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
- based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
- is released under a Free Software / Open Source license.
+If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.2.2, please open a bug report at
+http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome. If you're not sure whether it
+really is a bug, you can e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel
+<at> lists.lyx.org) and ask.
- LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
- right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
- details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with page
- boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's legendary
- TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.
+If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the
+documentation that comes with LyX and the LyX wiki, which lives at
+http://wiki.lyx.org/. If you can't find the answer there, e-mail the LyX
+users' list (lyx-users <at> lists.lyx.org).
- On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output -- or
- richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks like
- nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, all
- looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
- different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes 'eating'
- your dissertation the evening before going to press.
+We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.2.2.
- 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.
+The LyX team.
+http://www.lyx.org
-You can download LyX 1.6.0rc1 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
-which yields smaller files):
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc1.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc1.tar.bz2
+What's new
+==========
-Note that due to the amount of change, no patch is provided to upgrade
-from version 1.5.6.
+** Updates:
+***********
-Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
-installers) should soon be available at
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/devel/
+* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
-If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.0rc1, 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
+- Enable the use of LuaTeX for all polyglossia-supported languages.
-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 at lists.lyx.org).
+- New document parameter "Save transient properties" under Document Properties >
+ Format. (Output has been renamed into Format.) Disabling this option is made
+ to play nicer in collaborative settings. (bug 9841)
-Enjoy!
-The LyX team.
+* USER INTERFACE
+
+- Syntax highlighting in the preamble and and the source view has been made
+ compatible with dark themes (bug 8325).
+
+- Changed the display of buttons for collapsed branches. We now display the
+ same thing as if the branches were open (bug 10213).
+
+- "Provides <package> 1" now works with fontspec, subfig, and listings (bug
+ 10257).
+
+- Added a new module "Title and Preamble Hacks".
+
+- Bring window to front after loading a document in single instance (bug 7875).
+
+
+* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
+
+- Updated Brazilian, French, German, Interlingua, Italian and Slovakian user
+ interface localization.
+
+- Increase the maximum value for the number of last open files that LyX can
+ remember (bug 9924).
+
+- Change mouse cursor to indicate row/column selection in tabulars.
+
+- Make inset-select-all select all cells only in tables.
+
+- Automatically show the review toolbar if the document has tracked changes
+ (bug 8738), and related UI improvements.
+
+- Implement "Dissolve Inset" and "Show Label" context menu items for
+ arguments (bug 10150).
+
+- Restore selected reference when using "Go to label" and "Go back" in the
+ cross-reference dialog.
+
+
+** Bug fixes:
+*************
+
+* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
+
+- Correctly protect the \pagebreak command when needed (bug 10092).
+
+- Resolve problem on Windows with importing files from directories with
+ accented characters on FAT drives (bug 10218).
+
+- InPreamble styles should be written to the preamble as many times as the
+ user requests them, even if it results in duplicate commands.
+
+- Make sure we output all XHTML table cells, even the empty ones (bug 10153).
+
+- .svgz images are now converted to .svg for XHTML export (bug 10160).
+
+- Ask where to export file if not yet saved (bug 8814).
+
+- Fix size issue with outliner icons on HiDPI monitors (bug 10125).
+
+- Load math packages automatically with JSS template (bug 9242).
+
+- Calling a Computer Algebra System from LyX works again (windows only bug 10262).
+
+- Fix command clash between beamer and covington (from the Linguistics module).
+
+- Fix crash on Buffer preview when not exporting in thread.
+
+
+* LYX2LYX
+
+- Fix paragraph argument conversion for \labelwidthstring etc (bug 10243).
+
+
+
+* USER INTERFACE
+
+- CharStyles now prohibit layout changes by default (bug 10237).
+
+- Fix display of labels in right-to-left languages (bug 10169).
+
+- Fix button label font of inset arguments when some traits are inherited.
+
+- When a counter is stepped, reset recursively all subcounters (bug #10063).
+
+- Fix on screen narrow box when using \width as box width unit (bug 10048).
+
+- Raise GuiView on buffer switch to bring it topmost in multi-window mode.
+
+- Fix small typo in Reference dialog (bug 10194).
+
+- Fix default location for RPM based hunspell dictionary search (bug 10071 and 10192).
+
+- Fix double input of tabulations with Qt5 < Qt5.5 (bug 9218).
+
+- Do not omit the first space of the selection when copying (bug 9995).
+
+- Do not allow non-default layouts to be pasted into table cells that are not fixed
+ width (bug 8782).
+
+- Display the correct column alignment and a better column spacing in AMS
+ environments (bugs 1861, 9908).
+
+- Disable properly toggling math display in places where it is not
+ possible (bug 10033).
+
+- Fix horizontal scrolling feature when inside a collapsable inset
+ with several paragraphs.
+
+- Fix selection of large formula with the mouse when horizontal
+ scrolling kicks in (but 10094).
+
+- Fix bug where cursor can't be put at the end of a line before an
+ inset (bug 10180).
+
+- Fix display of collapsable insets when the same document is shown in
+ two views with different width (bug 9756).
+
+- fix display glitches when editing changes the dimension of insets
+ (bug 6691).
+
+- Raise GuiView on buffer switch to bring it topmost in multi-window mode.
+
+- Fix cursor position after Redo of a document settings change (bug
+ 10097).
+
+- Handle undo after deleting end of paragraph in change tracking mode
+ (bug 10253).
+
+- Disable Edit > Dissolve Inset in tabulars (bug 9954).
+
+- Shortcut preferences: ask the user for removing bindings when using the
+ "restore" button (#9174).
+
+- Shortcut preferences: fix the already-bound-key detection logic.
+
+- Shortcut preferences: don't forget to trigger the search when it is
+ initialized with the previous value.
+
+- Remove extra spacing around button insets (bug 10149).
+
+- Fix drawing of buttons by enforcing equal left/right spacing (bug 10147).
+
+- Fix problem with drawing of lists after pasting normal text (bug 8735).
+
+- Accessibility of the document class selector from keyboard (bug 10035).
+
+- Fix title of LuaTeX and XeTeX error dialogs (part of bug 10013).
+
+- Remove special code for Qt5 to load SVG icons with HiDPI (bug 10281).
+
+
+* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
+
+- Move documentation change logs to lib/doc (they are not distributed).
+
+
+* LYXHTML
+
+- Output width of table columns (bug 8168).
+
+- Fix output of math sizes (bug 10129).
+
+- Fix output of vertical space in the middle of a paragraph (bug 8154).
+
+- Fix output of ABOVE and CENTERED label types (bug 8843).
+
+- Output correct entities for named delimiters (bug 8280).
+
+- Added class attribute for mathbb to allow customization (part of bug
+ 8521).
+
+- Use 'text-align: center;' with displayed equations (bug 8654).
+
+
+* BUILD/INSTALLATION
+
+- Due to bug fixes, it is no longer discouraged to build against Qt 5.4.
+
+- Building against Qt < 4.7 no longer fails.
+
+- Fix monolithic builds with autotools on Mac OS X.
+
+- Avoid 'ar' warning with recent binutils versions.
+
+- LyX compiled with Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 runs now on Windows Vista (bug 10186)
+
+- Add some missing oxygen and IPA icons to the distribution.
+
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