Either:
* a Unix-like system (including Windows with Cygwin)
- * Windows 2000 or newer
+ * Windows Vista or newer
* Mac OS 10.4 or newer
A decent LaTeX2e installation (e.g. TeX Live for Linux, MikTeX for
Windows).
- Python 2.7 to convert old LyX files and for helper scripts.
- Note: Python 3 (3.3 or later) support is work in progress.
+ Python (2.7 or 3.5 and newer) to convert old LyX files and for
+ helper scripts.
How does the LyX version scheme work?
* A C++11 compiler. Development is being done mainly with gcc/g++,
but clang and MSVC are known to work too. As of LyX 2.4.0, you
- need at least gcc 4.7.
+ need at least gcc 4.9.
* The Qt library, at least version 5.2 (5.6 recommended). It is
still possible to compile with Qt 4.8, but this is not