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+What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
+--------------------------------
+
+Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added. 
+We are taking the C++ Standard Library in greater use for each day,
+this will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
+and expand.
+We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
+this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
+
+User-visible changes:
+
+- Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
+
+- New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
+
+- New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
+
+- Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
+  only and is likely to improve in future versions.
+
+- New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
+  in the margin for margin notes has been removed). 
+
+- Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
+  command-line/window:
+      paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
+
+- More accurate error reporting from LaTeX runs.
+
+- Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
+
+- Better definition for LyXList style.
+
+- A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
+  1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
+  spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
+  support is of course not supported in older versions.
+
+- Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
+
+- Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
+  (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
+
+- new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
+  screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
+  by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether 
+  lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true). 
+
+
+
+
 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
 --------------------------------
 
@@ -15,8 +67,8 @@ In the user-visible department, we find:
 
 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
 
-- improved translations, in particular in finnish (overhauled UI
-  translation), dutch (tutorial and examples), german
+- improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
+  translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
 
 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
   under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
@@ -91,7 +143,7 @@ branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
 
-User visible changes in lyx 1.0.1: 
+User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1: 
 
 - New export to HTML feature