X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ANNOUNCE;h=02f4d217ce95f757ada0265bc0118f3c6d98c6ec;hb=a128c373f9e3563a52405a485d9a672e210208b0;hp=333370f4880d43f411fd22a444943577fd659935;hpb=224a56f21509cb09bd3875a73de1d2aa2305bf56;p=lyx.git diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index 333370f488..02f4d217ce 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,38 +1,186 @@ -Pre-release of LyX version 2.0.0 (beta 1) -========================================== +Public release of LyX version 2.3.5 +=================================== -We are pleased to announce the first public pre-release of LyX 2.0.0. -Development moved to the beta phase which basically means we will no more -include new features and focus on polishing the current ones. -We are thus grateful for any feedback you sent us regarding any bugs you -encounter while testing the beta release. Except trying new features -this is also good time to check that your favorite old files works with -the new release as expected. +We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.3.5. This is the fifth +maintenance release in the 2.3.x series. We encourage all users to +upgrade to this version. -Please note that this release is for testing purposes only, users are -encouraged to use current 1.6 stable release for any serious work. +You can download LyX 2.3.5 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/. -Tarballs and binaries can be found at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/ +LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based +on the structure of your documents and not simply their appearance. It is +released under a Free and Open Source Software license. -LyX 2.0.0 will be culmination of more than two years of hard work -and you can find an overview of the new features here: -http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20 +LyX 2.3.5 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more +reliable and more stable. Most of the changes are incremental, but quite a +few important bugs have now been fixed. -Known issues with LyX 2.0 can be found at the following addresses: -http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/LyX20Road -http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome +One important change is that Inkscape 1.0 is now supported: It will be detected +and configured automatically. Users of previous versions have recently reported +configuration failures when Inkscape 1.0 is installed, leading to an incomplete +(and all but unusable) installation of LyX. This should also be fixed. +If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.3.5, please open a bug report at +http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome. If you're not sure whether it +really is a bug, you can e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel + lists.lyx.org) and ask. -If you think you found a bug in LyX 2.0.0, either e-mail the LyX -developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org), or open a bug -report at http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome +If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the documentation +that comes with LyX (under the Help or Apple menu) and the LyX wiki, which +is at http://wiki.lyx.org/. If you can't find the answer there, e-mail the +LyX users' list (lyx-users lists.lyx.org), where you will find an +active community of people who are ready to help. -If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the -documentation that comes with lyx and http://wiki.lyx.org. If you -can't find the answer there, e-mail the LyX users' list -(lyx-users at lists.lyx.org). - -We hope you will enjoy the result! +We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.3.5. The LyX team. http://www.lyx.org + + +What's new +========== + +** Updates: +*********** + +* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT + +- Add layout file for revtex 4.2. + + +* USER INTERFACE + +- Keep citation style when all selected citations are deleted (bug 11748). + +- Add shortcut for Insert > Separated Above. + + +* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION + +- Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Dutsch, German, Interlingua, Italian, Russian + and Slovak user interface localization. + + +* BUILD/INSTALLATION + +- Provide the option to code sign the LyX application on Mac. + + + +** Bug fixes: +************* + +* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT + +- Fix crash with non-encodable glyph in nomcenlature inset (bug 11584). + +- Fix crash with non-encodable glyph in class options (bug 11865). + +- Support for Inkscape 1.0 (new command line syntax) (bug 11742). + +- Fix problems with non-ASCII characters in file path with recent LaTeX + (bug 11146). + +- Fix problems with recent LaTeX when \input@path contains tilde and space + (bug 11699). + +- Fix output with class-provided geometry package (bug 11724). + +- Fix erroneous space in output caused by changebar module (bug 11473). + +- Correctly strike out deleted text after deleted display math (bug 11716). + +- Fix loading of amsmath in beamer article classes (bug 11768). + +- Prevent polyglossia options from being output to PDF TOC (bug 11813). + +- Use real typographic quotation marks in PDF TOC (with pdflatex). + +- Fix problems with apostrophe in path on Windows (bug 9368). + +- Don't open a new instance just because no files are given (bug 11635). + +- Fix tablefootnote loading order (bug 11841). + +- Fix reloading of changed include inset (bug 11842). + +- Don't output \maketitle twice with branches (bug 11787). + +- Output \PassOptionsToPackage before any package is loaded (bug 11862). + + +* USER INTERFACE + +- Avoid crash in some cases where a dialog is shown during operation + (bug 11763). + +- Fix crash with nested insets when spaces are removed automatically (bug 11777). + +- Fix a crash reported on lyx users. + There was an uninitialized buffer member of MathData in LFUN dispatch. + +- Fix backspace deletion of selected items with change tracking (bug 11630). + +- Fix display glitch where the change tracking cue blinks with the cursor + (bug 11684). + +- Consider shorthand in biblatex cite display (bug 11696). + +- Properly resize columns of child document table widget. + +- Fix problem with validation of InsetLayout. + +- Fix over-hasty resetting of dialog in Child Documents settings (bug 11564). + +- Fix problems when pasting ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER (bug 11790). + +- Remove newlines from LFUNs entered in the shortcut dialog. + +- Add copy, paste, etc, to math context menu (but 11799). + +- Avoid bleeding of inset background outside of inset (bug 11786). + +- Disallow adding columns with gathered environment as this is not + supported (bug 11812). + +- Preserve paragraph spacing when breaking a paragraph at the start + (bug 11817). + +- Improve reporting of undefined control sequences in preamble (bug 11844). + +- Fix direction of some parts of text in bidi texts (bug 11691). + +- Do not insert \textquoteright with Hunspell (bug 11832). + +- Fix disappearing selection with clipboard managers on X11 (bug 11715). + +- Correct hierarchy level of Bib(la)tex inset in outliner if "Show in Toc" + is selected (bug 11863). + +- Don't close a document if the "close or hide" dialog is canceled (bug + 11456). + +- Disable PDF bookmarksopen level widget if booksmarksopen is false + (bug 11289). + +- Fix encoding issues with python 3 when generating preview snippets. + + +* TEX2LYX + +- Fix import of nested polyglossia language environments (bug 11878). + + +* LYXHTML + +- Don't output LaTeX preamble snippets with HTML (bug 11780). + + +* BUILD/INSTALLATION + +- Do not break configuration if a layout file is not decodable. Rather than that, + issue a warning and skip that file (bug 11736). + +- Download dictionary and thesaurus files, on Windows, from our SVN repo (bug 11192). + +- Avoid many warnings with g++ 10 and clang++ 10.