-Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (release candidate 2)
+Public release of LyX version 2.3.4
===================================
-We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (release candidate 2).
-We expect this to be the last release before 1.5.0. We do not anticipate
-any further changes before 1.5.0, although any critical bugs and regressions
-in 1.5.0rc2 will, of course, be addressed.
+We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.3.4. This is the fourth
+maintenance release in the 2.3.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 2.3.4 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/.
-Since the announcement of release candidate 1, we have mostly fixed bugs
-and polished the graphical interface.
+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.
+LyX 2.3.4 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
+reliable and more stable. One important change is that we have finally fixed
+a large number of bugs related to bibitems (see bug #7548). We have also (we
+hope) fixed a long-standing bug involving the saving of files on Windows to
+Dropbox folders.
-LyX 1.5.0 is the culmination of 15 months of hard work since the release
-of the LyX 1.4 series. We sincerely hope you will enjoy the result.
-The changes are too numerous to summarize in a few words, but initial
-unicode support is the flagship among the new features. See the end of
-this announcement for further details.
+If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.3.4, 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.
-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.
+If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the documentation
+that comes with LyX (under the Help or Apple menu) and the LyX wiki, which
+is 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), where you will find an
+active community of people who are ready to help.
-The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release
-compared to the current stable release (LyX 1.4.4). An updated list of
-issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes
+We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.3.4.
+The LyX team.
+http://www.lyx.org
-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.
+What's new
+==========
- 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.
+** Updates:
+***********
- 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.
+* USER INTERFACE
- 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 "Rows & Columns" optional submenu has been added to the math context menu.
-You can download LyX 1.5.0rc2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with
-bzip2, which yields smaller files):
+- Avoid using text mode for unicode symbols representable in math mode (bug 9616).
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0rc2.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0rc2.tar.bz2
+- Do not issue error dialog when no tag is found in git repository for
+ tree-revision info inset.
-Note that due to the amount of change, no patch is provided to upgrade
-from version 1.4.4.
+- Fix display with Wayland (bug 11692).
-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/
+- Improve editing performance when there are Include insets that point to
+ non-existing files. (bug 11656).
-As confusing as it is, two sets of installers are available to windows
-users:
- * LyX-1.5.0rc2-Installer.exe and LyX-1.5.0rc2-Installer-bundle.exe;
- * LyX-1.5.0rc2-AltInstaller.exe and LyX-1.5.0rc2-AltInstaller-Complete.exe.
-The former is our official installer and the latter was previously known
-as LyXWinInstaller. Please feel free to try either of them. Feedback
-and bug reports on both installers are welcome because they will help
-the merge of the 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 1.5.0rc2, 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
+* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
-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 section about references in the example file colored-boxes.lyx.
-Enjoy!
+- The Dutch user interface localization has been revived, and the Dutch docs
+ revised.
-The LyX team.
+- The Russian Tutorial has been updated.
+
+- Updated localizations include Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, German, Hebrew,
+ Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Slovak, Swedish, and Ukrainian.
+
+- Fixed index processor in some manuals (bug 11708).
+
+
+** Bug fixes:
+*************
+
+* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
+
+- Prevent crash due to unencodable path (bug 11688).
+
+- Fix crash with polyglossia when the "Auto End" language preference setting
+ is off and titles are used.
+
+- (Re-)fix problems with activated equal sign and graphic options in Turkish
+ and Latin documents (bug 2005).
+
+- Correctly set language after intitle paragraphs (bug 11514).
+
+- Fix toprule with booktabs/longtable and captions (bug 11589).
+
+- Avoid adding spaces when parsing an array in a macro template (bug 10499).
+
+- Avoid superfluous braces in the optional argument of a macro (bug 11552).
+
+- Do not replace a latex command with the corresponding symbol in the
+ unicodesymbols file, unless it can be encoded in the document encoding
+ (bug 11586).
+
+- Fix problems with paths that contain the tilde (~) character.
+
+- Fix nomenclature processing with LuaTeX (bug 11571).
+
+- Fix problem on Windows with saving files in Dropbox folders (bug 10091).
+
+- Find local bib files when they exist in the same directory as the LyX
+ file (bug 11588).
+
+- Fix table column order with RTL documents and LuaTeX (part of bug 9686).
+
+- Fix paragraph alignment with RTL documents and LuaTeX (part of bug 11399).
+
+- Fix direction of brackets with RTL documents and LuaTeX (part of bug 11187).
+
+- Fix direction of roman numbers with RTL documents and LuaTeX.
+- Fix direction of numbered citations outside XeTeX/bidi (bug 3005).
-What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 2)?
-----------------------------
+- Fix direction of references with XeTeX/bidi (bug 11626).
-* Unicode
+- Fix interplay of the memoir class and custom page size/geometry (bug 10970).
-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 currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
-encoding or a brand new typesetting system such 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 on the 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 compilation of Hebrew Article with XeTeX and LuaTeX (bug 10525).
-* Integrated CJK support
+- Fix greyedout note with RTL documents (bug 8647).
-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 setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
-using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
+- Fix colored and shaded boxes with RTL documents (bug 8642).
-* Language support
+- Fix loading order problem with rotfloat/rotating and graphicx (bug 11502).
-In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
-have full user interface support.
+- Fix LaTeX error with Canadian French as second language. LyX now uses
+ the (recommended) babel option "acadian" rather than "canadien".
-* Multiple views of the same buffer
+- Do not create unnecessary directories when exporting from the command
+ line (bug 11636).
-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 problem with included objects with Linkback service on Mac (bug 6961).
-* Outliner and embedded TOC
+- Fix termination of commands after math insets (bug 11667).
-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 \binom command clash in beamer.
-* Session management
-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.
+* USER INTERFACE
-* Source code Viewer
+- Fix configure process with Python 3 (bug 11642).
-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 some numbering issues with bibitems (bug 2743, 8499).
-* New Font Selection Interface
+- Deal properly with orphaned bibitems (bug 7160).
-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.
+- Fix endless loop when a macro definition references itself (bug 11595).
-* Tabular extensions
+- Use the selection as the argument of a macro also when the macro has only
+ optional arguments (bug 10498).
-LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
-LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
-providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
+- Correctly close a language opened in a branch inset (bug 9633).
-* Nomenclatures
+- Fix additional problem with display of inline equations in outliner
+ (bug 11423).
-LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
-you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
-glossaries and fancy notations.
+- Preserve "all authors" state when switching citation style via context
+ menu (bug 11439).
-* Tabbed Widget
+- Fix right and left layout alignment (in workarea) with RTL (bug 11606).
-LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
+- Show filenames for verbatim includes in outliner (bug 11612).
-* Enhanced Math Toolbars
+- Enable change tracking if paragraph break change (bug 11629).
-The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
-added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
-to the math toolbars.
-Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
-panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
+- Fix crash when deleting column in math grid (bug 11623).
-* Frontend News
+- Hide "LaTeX (Clipboard)" entry from import menu (bug 11657).
-LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
-Windows users, because 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 also removed. The work on the GTK
-frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
-essentially stalled.
+- Enable dissolve in undefined Flex inset context menu (bug 8650).
-* Change tracking enhancements
+- Enable dissolve in context menu of element in table cells.
-Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
-several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
+- Fix bad caret position when row scrolls horizontally (bug 11603).
-* Converter file cache
+- Fix crash when inserting some insets in math split insets (bug 11686).
-A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
-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.
+- Properly remember cursor position when many files have been opened
+ (bug 10310).
-The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
-that with the line
- \converter_cache_maxage xxx
+* INTERNALS
-where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
+- Fix TeX file listing with the Nix package manager.
-* Unified Windows installer
+- Fix Python detection routines, and so instant preview on some platforms
+ (bug 11282).
-The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
-both installers are welcome.
-* Program listings
+* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
-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.
+- Fix string direction in Hebrew localization (bug 11607).
-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
+* LYX2LYX
-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
+- Fix typo in the code that converts from file formats older than lyx 2.1
+ (thanks to Salvatore Falco).
-* Minor user interface improvements
-Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
+* TEX2LYX
- - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
- - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
- - Support for optional arguments for environments.
+- Significantly improve support for modules (bug 11259, 8229).
-* Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
+- Prevent multiplication of preamble code on (re-)import (bug 8229).
-The 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 the middle button multiple times,
-even after the selection has been cleared.
+- Fix import of custom float definitions.
-* Under the hood
-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.
+* BUILD/INSTALLATION
-** Bug fixes
+- avoid annoying warnings with g++ 9.
-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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