-Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1)
+Public release of LyX version 2.2.2
===================================
-We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (release candidate 1).
+We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.2.2. This is the second
+maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
-We encourage users to try this release candidate and report
-any feedback or problems to lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org.
+You can download LyX 2.2.2 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/.
-The difference to the last beta release is due to bug fixes only,
-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.
+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.
-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 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.
-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 file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release
-compared to the latest stable release (LyX 1.4.4). An updated list of
-issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes
+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.
-In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
-http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
+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 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 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).
- 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.
+We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.2.2.
- 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.
+The LyX team.
+http://www.lyx.org
- 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.
-You can download LyX 1.5.0rc1 here (the .bz2 are compressed with
-bzip2, which yields smaller files):
+What's new
+==========
- 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
+** Updates:
+***********
-Note that due to the amount of changes no patch is provided to upgrade
-from version 1.4.4.
+* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
-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/
+- Enable the use of LuaTeX for all polyglossia-supported languages.
-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.
+- 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)
-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
-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).
+* USER INTERFACE
-Enjoy!
+- Syntax highlighting in the preamble and and the source view has been made
+ compatible with dark themes (bug 8325).
-The LyX team.
+- 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).
-What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1)?
-----------------------------
+- Raise GuiView on buffer switch to bring it topmost in multi-window mode.
-* Unicode
+- Fix small typo in Reference dialog (bug 10194).
-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.
+- Fix default location for RPM based hunspell dictionary search (bug 10071 and 10192).
-* Integrated CJK support
+- Fix double input of tabulations with Qt5 < Qt5.5 (bug 9218).
-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!
+- Do not omit the first space of the selection when copying (bug 9995).
-* Language support
+- Do not allow non-default layouts to be pasted into table cells that are not fixed
+ width (bug 8782).
-Besides the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi are now
-supported in the user interface.
+- Display the correct column alignment and a better column spacing in AMS
+ environments (bugs 1861, 9908).
-* Multiple views of the same buffer
+- Disable properly toggling math display in places where it is not
+ possible (bug 10033).
-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.
+- Fix horizontal scrolling feature when inside a collapsable inset
+ with several paragraphs.
-* Outliner and embedded TOC
+- Fix selection of large formula with the mouse when horizontal
+ scrolling kicks in (but 10094).
-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.
+- Fix bug where cursor can't be put at the end of a line before an
+ inset (bug 10180).
-* Session management
+- Fix display of collapsable insets when the same document is shown in
+ two views with different width (bug 9756).
-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.
+- fix display glitches when editing changes the dimension of insets
+ (bug 6691).
-* Source code Viewer
+- Raise GuiView on buffer switch to bring it topmost in multi-window mode.
-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.
+- Fix cursor position after Redo of a document settings change (bug
+ 10097).
-* New Font Selection Interface
+- Handle undo after deleting end of paragraph in change tracking mode
+ (bug 10253).
-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
+- Disable Edit > Dissolve Inset in tabulars (bug 9954).
-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
+- Shortcut preferences: ask the user for removing bindings when using the
+ "restore" button (#9174).
-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.
+- Shortcut preferences: fix the already-bound-key detection logic.
-* Tabbed Widget
+- Shortcut preferences: don't forget to trigger the search when it is
+ initialized with the previous value.
-LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
+- Remove extra spacing around button insets (bug 10149).
-* Enhanced Math Toolbars
+- Fix drawing of buttons by enforcing equal left/right spacing (bug 10147).
-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.
+- Fix problem with drawing of lists after pasting normal text (bug 8735).
-* Frontend News
+- Accessibility of the document class selector from keyboard (bug 10035).
-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.
+- Fix title of LuaTeX and XeTeX error dialogs (part of bug 10013).
-* Change tracking enhancements
+- Remove special code for Qt5 to load SVG icons with HiDPI (bug 10281).
-Major parts of the change tracking code were rewritten addressing
-several problems that existed in the existing implementation.
-* Converter file cache
+* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
-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.
+- Move documentation change logs to lib/doc (they are not distributed).
-The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
-that with the line
- \converter_cache_maxage xxx
+* LYXHTML
-where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
+- Output width of table columns (bug 8168).
-* Unified Windows installer
+- Fix output of math sizes (bug 10129).
-The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
-both installers are welcome.
+- Fix output of vertical space in the middle of a paragraph (bug 8154).
-* Program listings
+- Fix output of ABOVE and CENTERED label types (bug 8843).
-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.
+- Output correct entities for named delimiters (bug 8280).
-Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
-supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
+- Added class attribute for mathbb to allow customization (part of bug
+ 8521).
-* LaTeX-package support
+- Use 'text-align: center;' with displayed equations (bug 8654).
-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
+* BUILD/INSTALLATION
-Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of
-the user interface have been made, such as:
+- Due to bug fixes, it is no longer discouraged to build against Qt 5.4.
- - 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
+- Building against Qt < 4.7 no longer fails.
-* 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.
+- Fix monolithic builds with autotools on Mac OS X.
-* Under the hood
+- Avoid 'ar' warning with recent binutils versions.
-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.
+- LyX compiled with Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 runs now on Windows Vista (bug 10186)
-** Bug fixes
+- Add some missing oxygen and IPA icons to the distribution.
-Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
-bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
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