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diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
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--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -1,79 +1,32 @@
-This file lists interface changes that might affect users in 1.5.0 and
-also some known problems in LyX 1.5.0 that did not occur in
-1.4.5. Note that fixes are available for many of these, but they have
-not yet been applied because of incomplete testing.
+This file lists interface changes that might affect users in 2.0.0, some 
+known problems in LyX 2.0.0 and some things you have to take into account
+when upgrading from earlier versions to a version of the 2.0.x series.
+Note that fixes are available for some of these, but they have not yet
+been applied because of incomplete testing.
 
 
 Interface changes
 -----------------
 
-Some of the LyX functions have changed names :
+The following variables are obsoleted in 2.0
 
+- \plaintext_roff_command (was not used anymore)
+- \spell_command and \use_spell_lib (ispell support has been removed)
 
-Known issues with version 1.5.0
-------------------------------------
+Known issues in version 2.0.0
+-----------------------------
 
-- User layout files must be converted to UTF-8
 
-In previous versions, layout styles were allowed to use non-ASCII names
-using the local encodings. LyX-1.5 now assumes that all layout files are
-UTF-8 encoded. This means that non-ASCII style names are still allowed
-but they must be valid UTF-8 strings. One way of doing the conversion
-is to use iconv. Using bash, the script below should work:
+Caveats when upgrading from earlier versions to 2.0.x
+-------------------------------------------------------
 
-#! /bin/sh
 
-cd /path/to/layouts
-for l in *
-do
-  cp "$l" tmp.txt
-  iconv -f latin1 -t utf8 tmp.txt -o "$l"
-done
-rm -f tmp.txt
-
-- Cursor restoration problems with Multiple-View
-
-When using multiple Windows to edit different parts of the
-same document, the cursor position is sometimes not correctly restored
-when you switch from one view to the other.
-
-- Languages/encodings and insets
-
-One of the bugs fixed in LyX 1.5.0 is that previously, there were certain 
-specific cases in which the LaTeX generated did not correctly reflect 
-language/encoding transitions in and around insets (footnotes, LyX notes).
-After much deliberation, it was decided not to change older files such that
-they will still reflect the old LaTeX output; rather, they will now correctly
-reflect the situation as it appears in the GUI. This means, however, that if 
-you mangled the text in the GUI in the older versions, in order that it
-generate the correct LaTeX output, the LaTeX will now generate the mangled 
-text. If this is problematic for you, please get in touch with us on the
-developers mailing list, we do have some possible solutions for this.
-
-The effects of this will be more pronounced for RTL (Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi) 
-users --- though they affect users of other languages as well.
-
-- Inset encodings and Conversion from earlier LyX versions
-
-One of the main new features in version 1.5.0 is Unicode. As part of the
-transition, lyx2lyx (the scripts used for converting back and forth between
-different versions of the lyx files) converts old .lyx files, which may use 
-a number of different encodings, to UTF-8. This conversion depends on
-correctly identifying the language of the text. There were previously some
-edge-cases (insets embedded in different-language text type scenarios) in 
-which the language was incorrectly identified, which caused some text to 
-appear incorrectly after having upgraded from older versions. This has now been
-fixed. Unfortunately, however, the fix cannot be applied to files which have
-already been converted past format 249.  So if you have already converted 
-your old files (using a development version or release candidate), this fix
-won't help, unless you still have the originals lying around (and haven't 
-yet made too many changes to the newer versions ;) ).
-
-Generally, it is probably wise to keep a backup of the old version of your 
-files, at least until you are sure that the upgrade went smoothly (which it 
-almost always will).
 
 
 Note: There may later be an updated list of known issues online at
 	http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes
 
+TODO
+----
+Somebody should create a rc2rc script...
+http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/27531