-Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1)
+Public release of LyX version 2.3.2
===================================
-We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (release candidate 1).
+We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.3.2. This is the second
+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 2.3.2 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 2.3.2 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
+reliable and more stable. One main fix involves a crash with external viewers
+on Windows. We have also fixed a number of problems with the output of right-
+to-left languages, thanks to the involvement of users. There was also an
+infinite loop bug connected with the separation of environments that has been
+fixed. But, for the most part, the fixes here are incremental. Please see below
+for a full list.
+
+If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.3.2, 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.
-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 latest 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 2.3.2.
+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.
- 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.
+What's new
+==========
- 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.
+** Updates:
+***********
- 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.
+* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
-You can download LyX 1.5.0rc1 here (the .bz2 are compressed with
-bzip2, which yields smaller files):
+- Add support for non-ASCII characters in hyperlinks (bug 11165).
- 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
+- Support rotated table cells with linebreaks (bug 8085).
-Note that due to the amount of changes no patch is provided to upgrade
-from version 1.4.4.
+- Add support for LyX logo in RTL output (bug 10423).
-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/
+- Update support for linguistic subexamples.
-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.
+- Support key symbols via menukeys package (part of bug 10641).
-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).
+* TEX2LYX IMPROVEMENTS
-Enjoy!
+- Add support for multirow (bug 11164).
-The LyX team.
+- Improve import of titling commands other than \maketitle (bug 6461).
+
+- Add support for horizontal longtabular alignment.
+
+- Add support for btUnit (multibib).
+
+- Add support for decimal alignment in table cells.
+
+- Add support for plural and capitalized refstyle references.
+
+
+* USER INTERFACE
+
+- Improve layout of the character dialog (bugs 2752, 3804, 3884, and 4836).
+
+- Rework OK/Apply/Cancel behavior of preferences dialog (bug 10016).
+
+- Disambiguate dialog message (bug 11242).
+
+- Unify capitalzation in dialog (bug 11237).
+
+- Allow to change multiple table columns' width at once (bug 11205).
+
+- When using formal tables, draw top/bottom rules thicker when adequate.
+
+- Draw underline (and friends) over insets too (bug 11297).
+
+- Handle properly branches with a space in their name (bug 11108).
+
+- Allow the 'module in child not used in master' warning to be disabled.
+
+- Add bibtex inset to outliner if "add to toc" is checked (bug 11309).
+
+- Show module name with description (bug 11275).
+
+- GuiCitation: Don't reset filter on show (bug 11291).
+
+- If a master is being created at loading the child, un-hide it (bug 11162).
+
+
+* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
+
+- Update Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, German, Italian, Russian,
+ Slovak, Swedish and Ukrainian user interface localization.
+
+- Add some tooltips in citation dialog in favor of keyboard users (bug 11317).
+
+
+* BUILD/INSTALLATION
+
+- The Windows installer no longer has a 'bundled' version that installs MiKTeX
+ alongside LyX. Users will need to install their own LaTeX distribution (as on
+ other platforms), preferably before installing LyX itself.
+
+
+
+** Bug fixes:
+*************
+
+* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
+
+- Fix footnotes in table with hyperref (bug 11212).
+
+- When cloning a buffer, do not start from a parent if it is not the
+ current master (e.g., when compiling a child alone).
+
+- Disallow paragraph customization in some single-par charstyle insets
+ (bug 9192).
+
+- Fix problems with extra table borders added on table modification
+ (bug 10010).
+- Fix text direction in figure wrap floats with RTL (bug 11029).
-What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1)?
-----------------------------
+- Fix text direction issue in info insets with RTL context (bug 10463).
-* Unicode
+- Fix text direction problem with polyglossia with nested languages
+ (part of bug 10111).
-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.
+- Use LTR environment for forceLTR content in RTL context with
+ polyglossia (bug 10548).
-* Integrated CJK support
+- Fix output of key symbols with info inset on the Mac (bug 10641).
-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!
+- Fix output of table cells with multiple languages (bug 11128).
-* Language support
+- Fix RTL table output with bidi package (non-TeX fonts) (bug 9686).
-Besides the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi are now
-supported in the user interface.
+- Do not mark the import converters for Sweave and knitr as needauth.
-* Multiple views of the same buffer
+- Fix conversion of captions from LyX 2.0 documents.
-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.
+- Ignore horizontal wheel scrolling in work area (bug 11257).
-* Outliner and embedded TOC
+- Avoid crash when cursor is outside of work area (bug 11296).
-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 crash on Windows when closing external viewers (bug 11210).
-* Session management
+- Fix issue with erroneous qualified citations (bug 11308).
-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.
+- Add "hyperref-driver=dvips" option to the extra flags of the
+ latex->dvi converter (bug 11332).
-* Source code Viewer
+- Fix loading order conflict with beamer-article and covington.
-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.
+- Preserve a new paragraph after a float (bug 11398).
-* New Font Selection Interface
-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
-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
+* USER INTERFACE
-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.
+- Fix infinite loop while separating environments (bug 11295).
-* Tabbed Widget
+- Fix loss of citation list after Undo (bug 9158).
-LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
+- Fix document-wide language setting with minted (bug 11203).
-* Enhanced Math Toolbars
+- Fix display of percent sign with numbers in RTL (bug 4057).
-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 issues with dead key accents (bug 11183).
-* Frontend News
+- Fix disappearance of blue (language) line in some situations.
-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.
+- Draw menu separator symbol according to text direction.
-* Change tracking enhancements
+- Improve automatic removal of extra spaces, aka DEPM (bug 10503).
-Major parts of the change tracking code were rewritten addressing
-several problems that existed in the existing implementation.
+- Avoid white space before math completion (bug 11283).
-* Converter file cache
+- View and change Plural, Capitalization, and No Prefix options for
+ cross-references from the context menu (bug 11070).
-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.
+- Don't step counters in deleted material (bug 11135).
-The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
-that with the line
+- Fix display of raster graphics with viewports (bug 11180).
- \converter_cache_maxage xxx
+- Fix some missing screen updates (bug 11323, regression in 2.3.1).
-where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
+- Allow adjustment of margin settings in InsetLayout (bug 10177).
-* Unified Windows installer
+- Fix suprious comma in book and thesis bib preview (bug 11272).
-The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
-both installers are welcome.
+- Merge paragraphs when pasted into an inset that forbids multiple
+ paragraphs (bug 8281).
-* Program listings
+- Fix display issue of individual pre- and posttext in citation dialog
+ (biblatex only) (bug 11352).
-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 display of overset, underset, and stackrel insets (bug 11367).
-Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
-supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
+- Avoid extra space at the end of tooltips (bug 11353).
-* LaTeX-package support
+- Show cursor correctly when loading file (bug 11377).
-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
+* TEX2LYX
-Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of
-the user interface have been made, such as:
+- Consider required modules when checking for layout definitions in modules
+ (bug 11156).
- - 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
+- Fix import of Arabic polyglossia environment (part of bug 10111).
-* 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 import of unknown commands'/environments' options (bug 8685).
-* 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
+- Fix linker options for Mac builds to avoid failures when running
+ install_name_tool on Mac to create relocatable binaries using the
+ bundled private frameworks.
-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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