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 !!Interface changes
 
-- It is now possible to cancel background export processes. A menu entry
+* It is now possible to cancel background export processes. A menu entry
   to do so will appear on the Document menu when such a process is underway.
-  The LFUN for this is export-cancel.
+  The LFUN for this is export-cancel. One can also click on the 'spinner'
+  to cancel export.
+
+* The items on the Edit menu have been reordered, and many of the shortcuts
+  have been changed so that they are more intuitive in the case of often
+  used items. We understand that this may frustrate some users and apologize,
+  while noting that menu shortcuts can always be customized by copying the
+  stdmenus.inc file to the user directory and editing it.
 
 
 !!Documents compilation process and images conversion
 
+* LyX now uses utf8 encoding per default for all languages. This does not affect
+  existing documents. Note that LyX also does not touch personal defaults and templates.
+  That is to say, if you still see traditional encoding preset for new documents,
+  you can change that by selecting "Unicode (utf8) [default]" and hitting "Save
+  as Documents Defaults" afterwards. Your personal templates need to be changed manually
+  if desired.
+
+* LyX defaults to the "HE8" LaTeX font encoding with Hebrew if the
+  "Culmus" LaTeX fonts are installed.
 
+* Documents that use TeX fonts can only be compiled with XeTeX if the input
+  encoding is set to "utf8-plain" or "ascii".
 
 !!!The following pref variables were added in 2.4:
 
+* \ct_additions_underlined true|false: determines whether additions in change tracking
+  are underlined in the workarea (default: true).
+
+* \ct_markup_copied true|false: determines whether change tracking markup should be
+  preserved on copy/paste (default: false).
 
 
 !!!The following pref variables were changed in 2.4:
@@ -39,11 +62,25 @@
 
 !!!The following new LyX functions have been introduced in 2.4:
 
-* buffer-write-as-template is a new convenient function to ease saving a document
+* bidi is a helper function to implement icons that are different between LTR and RTL text. 
+
+* buffer-reset-export advises LyX to remove the auxiliary files before doing the next
+  export.
+
+* buffer-write-as-template is a new convenience function to ease saving a document
   in the (personal) templates folder.
 
 * export-cancel: Used to cancel background export processes.
 
+* ifrelatives is a helper function to check whether a buffer has a master or children.
+
+* master-buffer-forall executes an lfun in the master and all children of a document.
+
+* paragraph-select is a new convenience function to select the paragraph
+  surrounding the actual cursor position.
+
+* tabular-style-insert: Insert a table in a specified style.
+
 
 !!!The following LyX functions have been changed in 2.4:
 
@@ -94,6 +131,8 @@
 * The Qt5 libraries are now used by default. In order to link against
   Qt4 the configure option --disable-qt5 has to be used.
 
+* The pplatex/dvipost program is no longer used.
+
 
 
 !!Known issues in version 2.4.0