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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:
 
@@ -39,8 +57,16 @@
 
 !!!The following new LyX functions have been introduced in 2.4:
 
+* paragraph-select is a new convenience function to select the paragraph
+  surrounding the actual cursor position.
+
+* 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.
 
+* tabular-style-insert: Insert a table in a specified style.
+
 
 !!!The following LyX functions have been changed in 2.4:
 
@@ -48,6 +74,10 @@
 
 * info-insert buffer vcs-*: renamed to info-insert vcs *
 
+* file-insert: optional second parameter "ignorelang" to make the insertion
+  ignore the inserted file's main language (and rather adapt it to the insertion
+  context's language).
+
 
 !!!The following LyX functions have been removed in 2.4:
 
@@ -57,10 +87,21 @@
 
 !!!The following LyX documents have been moved in 2.4:
 
+* As a result of a major restructuring of the templates and example
+  directories, almost all examples and templates files have been renamed and
+  moved to subfolders that reflect the layout category.
+  The files now have much more decriptive (and longer) names, and they use
+  URL encoding for specific special characters such as '(', ')' and '&'.
+  Notably also the file that opens for new users has been renamed (from
+  splash.lyx to Welcome.lyx).
 
 
 !!!The following new folders have been added to the LyX directory
 
+* The examples and templates directories have been completely re-organized.
+  They are now much more structured (by means of layout categories) and thus
+  consist of many new subfolders. 
+
 
 
 !!!The following preferences files have been removed from the tarball in 2.4: