-Public release of LyX version 1.4.0
+Public release of LyX version 2.2.2
===================================
-We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.4.0.
+We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.2.2. This is the second
+maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
-It is the culmination of 3 years of hard work, and we sincerely hope
-this you will enjoy the results. The changes are too numerous to
-summarize in a few words, jump directly to the end of this message if
-you want to know more.
+You can download LyX 2.2.2 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/.
-As usual with major releases, 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.
-See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in that release.
+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.
-In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
-http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
- 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.
- 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.
+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.
- 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.
+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 stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
- internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the
- Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.
+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).
-You can download LyX 1.4.0 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
-which yields smaller files):
+We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.2.2.
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.bz2
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.0.tar.bz2
+The LyX team.
+http://www.lyx.org
-and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will also host
-the .bz2 versions):
- http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
- ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
+What's new
+==========
-Note that no patch is provided to upgrade from version 1.3.7.
+** Updates:
+***********
-Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
-installers) should soon be available at
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.0/
+* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
+- Enable the use of LuaTeX for all polyglossia-supported languages.
-If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.4.0, 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
+- 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'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).
-Enjoy!
+* USER INTERFACE
-The LyX team.
+- 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).
-What's new in version 1.4.0?
-----------------------------
+- Display the correct column alignment and a better column spacing in AMS
+ environments (bugs 1861, 9908).
-** Improved user interface
+- Disable properly toggling math display in places where it is not
+ possible (bug 10033).
-LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
-clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
-menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
-the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
-classic UI) is still available, for now.
+- Fix horizontal scrolling feature when inside a collapsable inset
+ with several paragraphs.
-It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
-editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
-the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
-extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
-available: one for tables, and one for math.
+- Fix selection of large formula with the mouse when horizontal
+ scrolling kicks in (but 10094).
-Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
-toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
-table.
+- Fix bug where cursor can't be put at the end of a line before an
+ inset (bug 10180).
-** Change tracking
+- Fix display of collapsable insets when the same document is shown in
+ two views with different width (bug 9756).
-This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
-makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
-changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
-changes.
+- fix display glitches when editing changes the dimension of insets
+ (bug 6691).
-** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
+- Raise GuiView on buffer switch to bring it topmost in multi-window mode.
-The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
-and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
-parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
-much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
+- Fix cursor position after Redo of a document settings change (bug
+ 10097).
-** Character styles
+- Handle undo after deleting end of paragraph in change tracking mode
+ (bug 10253).
-For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
-logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
-omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
-addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
-styles.
+- Disable Edit > Dissolve Inset in tabulars (bug 9954).
+- Shortcut preferences: ask the user for removing bindings when using the
+ "restore" button (#9174).
-** Branches
+- Shortcut preferences: fix the already-bound-key detection logic.
-The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
-seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
-document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
+- Shortcut preferences: don't forget to trigger the search when it is
+ initialized with the previous value.
-That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
-"branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
-more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
+- Remove extra spacing around button insets (bug 10149).
-** Minipages evolve to Boxes
+- Fix drawing of buttons by enforcing equal left/right spacing (bug 10147).
-In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
-use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
-GUI
+- Fix problem with drawing of lists after pasting normal text (bug 8735).
-** Notes
+- Accessibility of the document class selector from keyboard (bug 10035).
-LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
-the Insert>Note menu:
+- Fix title of LuaTeX and XeTeX error dialogs (part of bug 10013).
-- the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
-- exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
- further.
-- The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
- well, greyed-out text.
+- Remove special code for Qt5 to load SVG icons with HiDPI (bug 10281).
-** Better language and numbering on screen
-Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
+* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
-- the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
- the language of the document, which may be different from the
- language of the menus;
-- sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
- document class specifications.
+- Move documentation change logs to lib/doc (they are not distributed).
-** Word count
-Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
-count of the document or of the current selection.
+* LYXHTML
-** Error Lists
+- Output width of table columns (bug 8168).
-Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
-of errors popping up at compilation time.
+- Fix output of math sizes (bug 10129).
-** Improved bibliography support
+- Fix output of vertical space in the middle of a paragraph (bug 8154).
-- LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
- "before citation" field is supported;
-- We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
- flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
- and law fields;
-- Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
-- the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
- index processor is invoked).
+- Fix output of ABOVE and CENTERED label types (bug 8843).
-** Improved microtypography support
+- Output correct entities for named delimiters (bug 8280).
-LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
+- Added class attribute for mathbb to allow customization (part of bug
+ 8521).
-- more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
- between "e." and "g.");
-- inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
- style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
-- the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
- improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
- much space between figure/table and caption.
+- Use 'text-align: center;' with displayed equations (bug 8654).
-** Small bits
-- Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
+* BUILD/INSTALLATION
-- The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
- pdf generation
+- Due to bug fixes, it is no longer discouraged to build against Qt 5.4.
-- The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
- edit the included figure
+- Building against Qt < 4.7 no longer fails.
-- For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
- has poor support for other than English index sorting.
+- Fix monolithic builds with autotools on Mac OS X.
-** Bug fixes
+- Avoid 'ar' warning with recent binutils versions.
-Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
-bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
+- 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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