+What's new in version 2.4.0?
+----------------------------
+
+The new features in LyX 2.4 are detailed in
+https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX24
+
+* DocBook 5 / ePub / XHTML 5 support
+* Default Unicode for new documents
+* Table improvements (styles and other)
+* Redesign of Find/Replace dialog
+* Flexible text fields
+* Counters
+* Global float settings
+* Insets external editing
+* Dark theme
+* Qt 5 default, Qt 6 supported, Qt 4 dropped
+
+
+
+What's new in version 2.3.7?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 2.3.7 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version
+more reliable and more stable. Since it has been quite a long time (for
+unsurprising reasons) since the last update, this one contains more fixes
+than usual. We have fixed a number of crashes.
+
+What's new in version 2.3.6?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 2.3.6 is the sixth maintenance release in the 2.3.x series. It is the
+result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more reliable and
+more stable. Most of the changes are fairly minor, fixes of smallish bugs,
+but a couple crashes have been fixed, as well.
+
+One oft-requested feature (going back 13 years) is the ability to create
+new child documents from within the 'include file' dialog. This is now
+possible. Another equally old bug that has been fixed is that pasting
+table content outside a table no longer pastes tab characters.
+
+
+What's new in version 2.3.5?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 2.3.5 is the fifth maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
+
+LyX 2.3.5 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
+reliable and more stable. Most of the changes are incremental, but quite a
+few important bugs have now been fixed.
+
+One important change is that Inkscape 1.0 is now supported: It will be detected
+and configured automatically. Users of previous versions have recently reported
+configuration failures when Inkscape 1.0 is installed, leading to an incomplete
+(and all but unusable) installation of LyX. This should also be fixed.
+
+
+What's new in version 2.3.4?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 2.3.4 is the fourth maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
+
+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 and another involving missing included files.
+
+
+What's new in version 2.3.3?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 2.3.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
+
+LyX 2.3.3 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
+reliable and more stable. One important change is that emergency files are
+now renamed when users wish to save them. As a result, older emergency files
+are not over-written. One major update allows for the editing of the contents
+of the user-provided premable, and the contents of ERT insets, in external
+editors, a request that goes back to 2003 and bug #991.
+
+
+What's new in version 2.3.2?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 2.3.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
+
+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.
+
+
+What's new in version 2.3.1?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 2.3.1 is the first maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
+
+We have fixed a number of bugs and added some new features. Perhaps the most
+important of these is that Jean-Marc Lasgouttes re-wrote the document painting
+mechanism. This makes LyX snappier, especially on repeated events.
+
+All python scripts distributed with LyX should now be compatible with both
+python 2.x and python 3.x.
+
+One oft-requested enhancement was to restore a keyboard shortcut for opening
+the 'settings' menu of graphics, reference, etc, insets. This is now Control-
+Alt-i, on Windows and Linux, and Control-Option-i on OSX (assuming you are
+using the default keybindings).
+
+
+
+What's new in version 2.3.0?
+----------------------------
+
+The new features in LyX 2.3 are detailed in
+http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX23
+
+* Biblatex support
+* Multiple bibliographies
+* Inverted branches
+* Quotation marks enhancements
+* Updates to reference handling
+* Improved LaTeX handling in dialogs
+* Fonts
+* New supported languages
+* New supported LaTeX commands
+* Improvements to on-screen display of math equations
+* Automatic detection of file changes
+* Citation & reference dialogs
+* Improvements to cursor movement and selection
+* Improvements to row breaking and alignment
+* Outliner and navigation menu
+* Forward/Reverse search and error reporting
+* Change tracking
+* Code preview & highlighting
+
+
+
+What's new in version 2.2.3?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 2.2.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
+
+We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements.
+Most of these are relatively minor, but the combined result of fixing
+them all has led to significant improvements. We encourage all users of
+2.2.2 to upgrade to this version.
+
+
+What's new in version 2.2.2?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 2.2.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
+
+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.
+
+Perhaps the most important bug we fixed affected use of covington.sty with
+2.2.1. This will only have affected users of the Linguistics module.
+
+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.
+
+
+What's new in version 2.2.1?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 2.2.1 is the first maintenance relase in the 2.2.x series.
+
+A large number of bugs have been fixed since the 2.2.0 release.
+We are pleased to say that most of these were relatively minor:
+LyX 2.2.0 was perhaps the stable major version release we have
+produced in a some time. Nontheless, we encourage all users of
+2.2.0 to upgrade to this version.
+
+
+What's new in version 2.2.0?
+----------------------------
+
+The new features in LyX 2.2 are detailed in
+http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX22
+
+* HiDPI display support
+* Qt5 support
+* New text display algorithm
+* Horizontal scrolling for large insets
+* Improved control of paragraph breaks
+* Improved text color support
+* Improved box dialog
+* Improved table context menu
+* Reworked instant preview
+* Enhanced source panel
+* Improved outliner and navigation menu
+* Enhanced language support
+* New supported languages
+* New supported LaTeX commands
+* Layout enhancements
+* Module enhancements
+* New preferences settings
+* New converters
+
+
+What's new in version 2.1.5?
+----------------------------
+
+We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements. Many
+of these were minor, but there were a few crashes we fixed, too.
+
+Please note that this is the final release in the 2.1.x series. It is
+intended for users who for some reason do not wish to upgrade to 2.2.x
+at this time. We strongly encourage all such users to upgrade to this
+version.
+
+One of the main features of 2.1.5 is its ability to read and write files
+in the 2.2.x format. Since the conversion process back and forth usually
+will not leave one with an identical file, however, we do not recommend
+attempting to collaborate with users of 2.2.x.
+
+
+What's new in version 2.1.4?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 2.1.4 is the fourth maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
+
+A large number of bugs have been fixed. Many of these were minor, but
+there were a few crashes we fixed, too, so we encourage all LyX users
+to upgrade to this version.
+
+
+What's new in version 2.1.3?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 2.1.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
+
+A large number of bugs have been fixed, most of them fairly minor. But
+there were several additional improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion
+program that should make import of older beamer documents more reliable.
+
+
+What's new in version 2.1.2?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 2.1.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
+
+The most important fix here is that we believe we have resolved the problem
+that led several users to experience seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0,
+sometimes resulting in dataloss. (This was bug 9049.) These crashes generally
+happened when the user attempted to save a file containing a table, usually a
+fairly complex table. A seemingly unrelated bug report concerning a crash when
+trying to save a default template (bug 9236) led to the solution. That bug has
+also been fixed.
+
+There are also several other, smaller bug-fixes, including several more
+improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion scripts. This should make the import
+of older beamer documents easier.
+
+
+What's new in version 2.1.1?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 2.1.1 is the first maintenance release in the 2.1.x series. It is bug-
+fixing release, and a whole lot of bugs have been fixed. Please see the
+release announcement for the details.
+
+Several users have reported seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0, sometimes
+resulting in dataloss. These crashes appear to happen when the user attempts
+to save a file, and the dataloss occurs because the original LyX file is over-
+written by a corrupt file that then cannot be opened. The seemingly random
+crashes, we believe, are due to auto-save, which is enabled or disabled in
+Tools> Preferences> Document Handling > "Backup documents every...minutes".
+
+Unfortunately, we have been unable to find the cause of this bug, though all
+known reports seem to involve documents that contain tables, and the corrupt
+file always ends with: \begin_inset Tabular.
+
+To prevent dataloss, we have changed the way LyX saves files if the user
+has not enabled backups. LyX now renames the existing file before
+attempting to save the new one (in effect, making a temporary backup).
+Then, if the save fails, the original file can be restored.
+
+
+What's new in version 2.1.0?
+----------------------------
+
+The new features in LyX 2.1 are detailed in
+http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX21
+
+* Native IPA inset and IPA toolbar
+* New supported languages
+* Tex Fonts Additions
+* Basic support for Math OpenType fonts
+* Document class categories
+* Enhanced support for LaTeX options
+* New supported LaTeX commands
+* New export command-line option
+* Table rotations
+* Layout enhancements
+* New modules
+* Equation Editor "mode"
+
+
+What's new in version 2.0.8?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 2.0.8 is the final release in the 2.0 series. It is intended for
+those who for some reason wish or need to continue using LyX 2.0.x. Most
+users should upgrade to 2.1.0, which is being released simultaneously.
+
+This release incorporates a number of important bug fixes, almost all of
+which are also in 2.1.0. Those that are not will be released with 2.1.1.
+The most important feature of 2.0.8 is that it is capable of reading and
+writing files from LyX 2.1.x. Files from the newer format should open in
+LyX 2.0.8 without the user needing to do anything special. Files can be
+exported to the 2.1.x format in the usual way: via File> Export.
+
+
+What's new in version 2.0.7?
+----------------------------
+
+2.0.7 is another bug-fixing release. Most of these are minor, but there
+is one that is very ipmortant: #8854, which could lead to file corruption
+in certain cases and, more often, would lead to errors in generated
+files (e.g., PDFs). We encourage all LyX users to upgrade to this
+version.
+
+A number of other, less critical bugs have also been fixed. Please see
+the ANNOUNCE file for details.
+
+
+What's new in version 2.0.6?
+----------------------------
+
+This is a bug-fixing release, for the most part. Though, as it has been
+almost six months since the last release, a lot of important bugs have
+been fixed. Please see the ANNOUNCE file for details.
+
+
+What's new in version 2.0.5?
+----------------------------
+
+The View>Source widget now allows you to select the backend to display,
+e.g., LaTeX or XHTML, rather than the output format. The previous choice
+really made no sense: You didn't see a PDF there if you chose one of the
+PDF output formats, but rather LaTeX. This solves some long-standing issues
+with View>Source.
+
+There has been an important change in how the "language" lfun works.
+ - "language <LANG>" now toggles between languages
+ (status quo ante LyX 2.0.2)
+ - "language <LANG> set" sets to language <LANG>
+ (meaning of "language <LANG>" as of LyX 2.0.2)
+ - "language [reset]" resets to the document language.
+ - Menu functions are unchanged.
+
+
+What's new in version 2.0.4?
+----------------------------
+
+We have migrated our development from subversion to the git revision
+control sytem. If you follow or maintain packaging of up-to-date versions
+of LyX 2.0.x, you must switch to the new repository address:
+ git://git.lyx.org/lyx
+Branch 2.0.x is the stable branch. See
+ http://www.lyx.org/HowToUseGIT
+for details.
+
+Most of the improvements in 2.0.4 are bug fixes, some of them important. In
+particular, we have fixed several crashes. The main outstanding problem is
+the inability to cancel the background export process. Some improvement has
+been made here, by updating the timeout mechanism, but more needs to be done,
+and hopefully will be done for 2.0.5.
+
+There have been several updates to LyX's XHTML export routines. Work on this
+will continue for 2.0.5.
+
+
+What's new in version 2.0.3?
+----------------------------
+
+There have been several more updates to LyX's Sweave support. Work on this
+is expected to continue through the 2.0.x series.
+
+LyX 2.0.3 still requires a python 2 interpreter, but steps have been taken
+to avoid problems on systems where python 3 is the default python interpreter.
+A python 2 interpreter is now automatically detected and used. Additionally,
+byte-compiled python files changed their installation target. Distribution
+maintainers are encouraged to verify their patch sets.
+
+There have again been several updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Not
+as many as with 2.0.2, but quite a few.
+
+
+What's new in version 2.0.2?
+----------------------------
+
+There have been several improvements to LyX's ability to export documents
+in the background, so the program does not freeze during compilation. We
+hope to continue these improvements throughout the 2.0.x series.
+
+There have been major updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Please see
+below for the details.
+
+The ctex document classes, used for Chinese documents, are now supported
+by LyX.
+
+Support for the Springer document classes has been updated for compatibility
+with the lasest versions. This has the side-effect that files, created with
+LyX 2.0.2 or future, using a Springer document class, will not be compilable
+with LyX versions older than LyX 2.0.2. The same applies for files created
+with LyX 1.6.10 or older that are saved with LyX 2.0.2 or future.
+
+
+What's new in version 2.0.1?
+----------------------------
+
+We have fixed an unusually large number of bugs for this release and made
+a number of improvements. All of these are detailed in the ANNOUNCE file.
+We would like to highlight the improved handling of external files referenced
+from ERT. This may cause issues for those who made use of the undocumented
+\input@path hack. See the ANNOUNCE file again for how to do things the new
+way. New methods for calling external scripts should also solve several issues
+on Windows.
+
+
+What's new in version 2.0.0?
+----------------------------
+
+The new features in LyX 2.0 are detailed in
+http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20
+
+* Advanced Search Facility
+* Spell-checking on the Fly
+* Compare Documents Feature
+* XHTML Output
+* Multilingual Thesaurus
+* XeTeX Backend
+* Multiple Indices Support
+* Progress View and Debugging Pane
+* Enhanced Instant Preview
+* Forward Search for DVI/PDF Files
+* Enhanced Version Control Features
+* Typesetting in background
+
+
+What's new in version 1.6.10?
+------------------------------
+The most notable new feature of this version is that it is able to read and
+import documents of our new stable series, LyX 2.0.x. This is for the benefit
+of users who want to stick with LyX 1.6.x for the time being, but still want
+to cooperate with users of the new version. Note that LyX 1.6.10 still
+writes the 1.6 format, so it cannot produce (but only interpret) LyX 2.0's
+new features.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.6.9?
+-----------------------------
+
+We have fixed yet another number of crashes that have been reported to us
+and ironed out many small glitches. Also, some features and additions from
+the forthcoming 2.x series, such as support for CVS revision control and a
+new Swedish localization, have been backported to LyX 1.6.9.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.6.8?
+-----------------------------
+
+LyX 1.6.8 is the result of our ongoing efforts to make our stable version
+even more reliable and stable. We have fixed crashes that have been
+reported to us, ironed out many small glitches, further polished the user
+interface, updated the documentation and added some new layouts.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.6.7?
+-----------------------------
+
+From the list of fixes and improvements, we'd like to highlight
+particularly that this release irons out all known stability problems with
+Qt 4.6. LyX 1.6.7 is our first release that is supposed to run smoothly
+with Qt 4.6, so we urge all distributors who use that version to upgrade
+LyX as well.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.6.6.1?
+------------------------------
+
+The sole purpose of this release is to fix one glitch that was introduced
+by LyX 1.6.6: The spellchecker missed further misspellings after applying
+a correction. This was due to the fix to different bug that had to be
+reverted. In any other respect, this release is identical to Lyx 1.6.6.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.6.6?
+-----------------------------
+
+The release features a long list of fixes and improvements. Yet a number
+of crashes, reported by our users or our automatic stability testing
+program, were fixed. Moreover, LyX was improved in many details. It also
+introduces new features, such as support for the enchant spell checking
+backend and for aspell language varieties (such as old and new German
+spelling in parallel).
+
+
+What's new in version 1.6.5?
+-----------------------------
+
+The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly
+reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and
+some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX
+server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other
+applications such as JabRef on this platform as well).
+
+
+What's new in version 1.6.4.2?
+-------------------------------
+
+The upgrade fixes recurring pseudo-crashes when running LyX on
+Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
+
+
+What's new in version 1.6.4.1?
+-------------------------------
+
+The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac,
+which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible
+via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.6.4?
+-------------------------------
+
+This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release
+covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe
+issues, such as:
+
+* A workaround to a nasty problem in recent Qt versions (Qt 4.5.0 up to
+ 4.5.2) that made LyX crash if the document included images that were
+ scaled to certain sizes in the work area.
+* Fixes to problems that might result in the loss of data.
+* Many other stability improvements, thanks to a new debugging script that
+ helped to reveal uncovered critical bugs.
+* Further fixes to the LaTeX importer (tex2lyx) and the conversion of
+ older LyX documents (lyx2lyx).
+
+
+What's new in version 1.6.3?
+-------------------------------
+
+This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual
+improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are:
+
+* tex2lyx is now able to read files in all latex supported encodings and
+ transform them into the proper unicode-based format introduced in 1.5.0.
+ This paves the way for many other improvements in LaTeX->LyX translation
+* The performance problems when editing a master with child documents have
+ been resolved.
+* LyX 1.6.3 introduces some goodies provided by Qt 4.5 (menu support for
+ fullscreen mode in linux, close button on tabs). Of course these
+ improvements (as well as some Qt-related fixes) only show up if LyX is
+ compiled against Qt 4.5.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.6.2?
+-------------------------------
+
+This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release
+fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by
+users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to
+dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes,
+file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the
+performance of the application has been improved, and the release also
+introduces some new features and user interface improvements.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.6.1?
+-------------------------------
+
+This is the first maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and
+as such, it mainly focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major
+problems that slipped into the application in the wake of the new
+features.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.6.0?
+-------------------------------
+
+The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
+http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
+
+* Multiple Work Areas
+* Split Views
+* User-formattable Collapsible Insets
+* Layout Modules
+* Layout combobox changes
+* Support for the LaTeX package hyperref
+* Support for hyperlinks and URLs
+* Improved floats
+* New implementation of math macros
+* Completion popup
+* Inset Tooltip
+* Context Menu
+* Symbols dialog
+* Shortcut Configuration dialog
+* Paste Graphics from the Clipboard
+* "Visual mode" for bidirectional cursor movement
+* Fullscreen mode
+* Extended Outliner
+* Session management
+* Subversion support
+* Graphics parameters groups
+* LyX functions manual
+* Multi-LFUN Keybindings
+
+
+What's new in version 1.5.7?
+----------------------------
+
+This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle and it is
+expected to be the final release in this series, since a new series of
+stable releases has just been introduced by our new major release,
+LyX 1.6.0. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, the main feature of this
+release is the ability to read files created by LyX 1.6.0 (this feature
+requires python 2.3.4 or newer).
+
+
+What's new in version 1.5.6?
+----------------------------
+
+This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been
+started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX
+even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also,
+further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23
+languages.
+
+What's new in version 1.5.5?
+----------------------------
+
+This release further improves the stability and usability of the
+application. Besides this, it also introduces some new features. Most
+notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has just
+been released: the stability issues that occurred in previous versions
+of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.5.4?
+----------------------------
+
+This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability
+improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements in
+the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and
+scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a character
+count option).
+
+While this release continues the stable 1.5.x series, work on the next
+major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha version of LyX
+1.6.0 will be released later this week for those who like the bleeding
+edge experience. Notwithstanding this, expect one or two more 1.5.x
+versions to be released, of which the last one will be able to read
+the 1.6 format.
+
+All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to upgrade to this
+version. Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX package
+'floatflt' to 'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license
+problem that limited the availability of the former package. In
+general, this should improve your documents containing wrap figures,
+however, it is possible that the look and positioning of the floats
+changes due to the package change. If you have documents with wrap
+floats, please make a backup before upgrading and check the output.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.5.3?
+----------------------------
+
+This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and
+the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that
+slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on
+Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes
+were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that
+should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this
+version also provides some new features.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.5.2?
+----------------------------
+
+This is a maintenance release that focuses on improving the
+stability. We have fixed numerous crashes, performance problems, and
+other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation has been revised. It covers
+all new features of the 1.5.x series now.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.5.1?
+----------------------------
+
+We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few
+bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with
+the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It
+was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area
+and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.
+
+All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.5.0?
+----------------------------
+
+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.
+
+* Unicode
+
+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.
+
+* Integrated CJK support
+
+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!
+Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
+or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
+
+* Language support
+
+In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
+have full user interface support.
+
+* Multiple views of the same buffer
+
+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.
+
+* Outliner and embedded TOC
+
+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.
+
+* 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.
+
+* Source code Viewer
+
+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.
+
+* 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 has been implemented,
+providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
+
+* Nomenclatures
+
+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.
+
+* Tabbed Widget
+
+LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
+
+* Enhanced Math Toolbars
+
+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.
+
+* Frontend News
+
+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.
+
+* Change tracking enhancements
+
+Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
+several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
+
+* Converter file cache
+
+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.
+
+The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
+that with the line
+
+ \converter_cache_maxage xxx
+
+where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
+
+* Unified Windows installer
+
+The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
+both installers are welcome.
+
+* Program listings
+
+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.
+
+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
+
+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
+
+Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
+
+ - 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.
+
+* Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
+
+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.
+
+* Limited support for local class and layout files
+
+Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
+stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
+your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
+can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
+.cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
+.layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
+should you use different directories for master and child documents.
+
+* 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.
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
+bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
+
+
+What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
+------------------------------
+
+The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
+of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.4.5?
+----------------------------
+
+This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable
+branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the
+ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires
+python 2.3.4 or later).
+
+
+What's new in version 1.4.4?
+----------------------------
+
+This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:
+
+*) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
+documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
+
+*) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
+allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.
+
+*) Improved documentation.
+
+*) Speed improvements, especially on windows.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.4.3?
+----------------------------
+
+This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows
+ support. Notable new features include:
+
+*) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools)
+ installation anymore.
+
+*) A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text
+ inset and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be
+ accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the start
+ of an inset, or Delete at the end.
+
+*) Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on
+ gcc 4.1.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.4.2?
+----------------------------
+
+This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include:
+
+*) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
+ [Windows and Mac OS X only].
+
+*) The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
+
+*) A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
+ in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will
+ be compressed on disk or not.
+
+*) A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
+ format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
+ figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.4.1?
+----------------------------
+
+This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular:
+
+*) fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
+ documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.
+
+*) fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with
+ LyX/Mac.
+
+*) fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.
+
+*) let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
+
+*) Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows
+ installer. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this
+ release.
+
What's new in version 1.4.0?
----------------------------
-A long time since 1.3.0 now and a lot has happened. Alsmost the whole
-core of LyX has been rewritten.
+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.
+
+** Improved user interface
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+** Change tracking
+
+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.
+
+** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
+
+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.
+
+** Character styles
+
+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.
+
+
+** Branches
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+** Minipages evolve to Boxes
+
+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
+
+** Notes
+
+LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
+the Insert>Note menu:
+
+- 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.
+
+** Better language and numbering on screen
+
+Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
+
+- 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.
+
+** Word count
+
+Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
+count of the document or of the current selection.
+
+** Error Lists
+
+Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
+of errors popping up at compilation time.
+
+** Improved bibliography support
+
+- 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).
+
+** Improved microtypography support
+
+LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
+
+- 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.
+
+** Small bits
+
+- Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
+
+- The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
+ pdf generation
+
+- The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
+ edit the included figure
+
+- For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
+ has poor support for other than English index sorting.
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
+bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
+
+
+What's new in version 1.3.7?
+----------------------------
+
+We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
+addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
+noting:
+
+- LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
+ the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
+
+- The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
+ installer and in the handling of file names.
+
+All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.3.6?
+----------------------------
+
+Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
+
+To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
+to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
+effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
+unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
+touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
+confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
+Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
+
+We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
+ * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
+ spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
+ as teTeX 3.0).
+ * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
+ and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
+ * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
+ considered as part of words
+
+
+
+What's new in version 1.3.5?
+----------------------------
+
+This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
+improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
+ * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
+ broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
+ case where the files are in different directories.
+ * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
+
+What's new in version 1.3.4?
+----------------------------
+
+This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
+five main areas:
+ * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
+ * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
+ they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
+ * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
+ drag-and-drop);
+ * Mac OS X support is much improved;
+ * The interface and documentation localization have
+ been polished.
+
+What's new in version 1.3.3?
+----------------------------
+
+This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
+four main areas:
+ * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
+ * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
+ * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
+ * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
+ the user interface and documentation.
+
+What's new in version 1.3.2?
+----------------------------
+
+This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
+three main areas:
+ * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
+ have been squashed;
+ * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
+ * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
+ the user interface.
+
+What's new in version 1.3.1?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
+features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
+significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
+also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
+improvements) for good measure.
+
+** Updates
+
+- when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
+ is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
+
+- reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
+ descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
+
+- new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
+ polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
+ Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
+ scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
+ class kluwer
+
+- new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
+ keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
+ (documentation has been updated too)
+
+- updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
+ spanish translation of menus
+
+- Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
+ of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
+ release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
What's new in version 1.3.0?
----------------------------
latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
symbols displayed properly.
-** Xforms frontend
-
-The advent of the Qt frontend does not mean that the historical xforms
-frontend is dead. Actually, it is still the one which is the best
-implemented, because we have had more time to polish it. In this release,
-most of the dialogs have been redesigned to be tighter.
-
-Note also that the xforms library has been very recently updated to
-version 1.0. This version has been released under the LGPL (Lesser
-General Public License), and the availability of the source means that
-many bugs that have been plaguing LyX have been fixed in xforms. You
-are advised to upgrade to xforms 1.0 to enjoy all these new fixes.
-In fact, LyX 1.3.0 no longer supports versions of xforms older than 0.89.5.
-
-In most cases the dialogs have been designed to make it impossible to input
-invalid parameters. The exception to this rule is the input of length data.
-Power LaTeX users can still input obtuse "glue lengths", but the widgets are
-highlighted in red if this input is invalid or incomplete. This visual
-feedback makes it easy to see why LyX won't allow you to Apply your changes.
-
** Gnome frontend
Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as
template.
+
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