X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ANNOUNCE;h=248e1c90a3f7cfc739a58a907eebef208db5a37a;hb=c7d29be153debac82e3d2e8865fcc849f0a5f40d;hp=1ec699f7ac8c4d58522955de38b18189fdc4dd22;hpb=92e397670cf5770a76c01e9e58afdc12e3d17fab;p=lyx.git diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index 1ec699f7ac..248e1c90a3 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,243 +1,165 @@ -Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1) +Public release of LyX version 2.3.6 =================================== -We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (release candidate 1). +We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.3.6. This is the sixth +maintenance release in the 2.3.x series. We encourage all users to +upgrade to this version. -We encourage users to try this release candidate and report -any feedback or problems to lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org. +You can download LyX 2.3.6 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/. -The difference to the last beta release is due to bug fixes only, -no new features are allowed at this stage of development. The only -exception to this rule is the addition of Farsi as a supported language -since the available patch was not integrated in the previous release. +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. -Compared with the latest stable release, this is the culmination of -one year of hard work, and we sincerely hope you will enjoy the -results. The changes are too numerous to summarize in a few words, -with initial unicode support being the flagship among the new -features, see the end of this announcement for details. +LyX 2.3.6 is the sixth maintenance release in the 2.3.x series. It is the +result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more reliable and +more stable. Most of the changes are fairly minor, fixes of smallish bugs, +but a couple crashes have been fixed, as well. -As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly -visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and -some of the new features are the direct results of this work. +One oft-requested feature (going back 13 years) is the ability to create +new child documents from within the 'include file' dialog. This is now +possible. Another equally old bug that has been fixed is that pasting +table content outside a table no longer pastes tab characters. -The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release -compared to the latest stable release (LyX 1.4.4). An updated list of -issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes +If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.3.6, 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 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. -In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what -http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject: +We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.3.6. - LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing - based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It - is released under a Free Software / Open Source license. +The LyX team. +http://www.lyx.org - LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great, - right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting - details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with page - boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's legendary - TeX typesetting engine makes you look good. - On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output -- or - richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks like - nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, all - looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably - different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes 'eating' - your dissertation the evening before going to press. +What's new +========== - LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully - internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the - Macintosh and modern Windows platforms. +** Updates: +*********** -You can download LyX 1.5.0rc1 here (the .bz2 are compressed with -bzip2, which yields smaller files): +* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0rc1.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0rc1.tar.bz2 +- Added layout for American Psychological Association (APA), v. 7 (apa7). -Note that due to the amount of changes no patch is provided to upgrade -from version 1.4.4. -Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows -installers) should soon be available at - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/ +* USER INTERFACE +- Improve UI of math matrix dialog UI (bug 11888). -If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0rc1, you may either -e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel @ lists.lyx.org), or open -a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org +- Fix display of 'by chapter' labels in AMS classes (bug 11741). -If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question, -first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find the answer there, -e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users @ lists.lyx.org). +- Add support for the doublestroke package in mathed (bug 11887). -Enjoy! +- Fix behavior of text style dialog when "Immediate Apply" is checked (bug 11926). -The LyX team. +- Focus keyword field in Thesaurus dialog. + +- Allow creation of a child file from the include dialog (bug 4475). + +- Make sure to load the correct math fonts in certain cases. + +- Update autocorrect in mathed so that pressing '*' after a delimiter will + cycle through all sizes. +- Display character styles along with fonts in status bar (bug 11951). -What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1)? ----------------------------- -* Unicode +* MISCELLANEOUS -LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew -of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic -languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to -encodings current available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8 -encoding or such brand new typesetting systems as XeTeX. -Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some -areas still need a cleanup it is very likely that some bugs related to -the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known -bugs in LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related -to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel -mailing list. +- Adjust debug output for fonts by not breaking lines that should go together. -* Integrated CJK support -The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally -merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch. -The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in -the user interface. -Note that from now on, former encoding settings for these languages -done via ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors! +* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION -* Multiple views of the same buffer +- Update Czech, German, Italian, Slovak, Russian and French user interface localizations. -LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can -now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different -parts of it synchronously. +- Update French translation of Customization manual -* Outliner and embedded TOC -LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which -you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents -dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX -1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window. +* BUILD/INSTALLATION -* Session management +- Wininstaller, temporary remove the option to run LyX from the finish page + due to upcoming fix of the issue where after installing LyX as admin, this option + would execute LyX as admin too. -LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will -reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've -selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the -cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars -can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in -the LyX window. The session management will remember their state. -* Source code Viewer -As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets -you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole -document. +** Bug fixes: +************* -* New Font Selection Interface +* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT -LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most -outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that -provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme. - -* Tabular extensions +- Fix output of titles in branches and other insets (follow-up to bug 11787). -LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of -LaTeX. support for the booktabs package was implemented, which -provides beautiful and elegant tabulars. - +- Fix clipping of vector images and when exporting from command line + (follow-up to bug 11180). -* Nomenclatures -Native LyX support for the nomencl package was implemented. With this, -you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures, -glossaries and fancy notations. +* USER INTERFACE -* Tabbed Widget +- Fix crash when pasting math grid with more rows in source than target + (bug 11897). -LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents. +- Fix problem with drawing of auto-opened insets (bug 11870). -* Enhanced Math Toolbars +- Fix crash when rejecting changes and the cursor is in an inset that will be + deleted (bug 10316). -The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were -added, that allowed to integrate all of the math panel' content to the -math toolbars. -Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math -panel itself has been removed and superseded by the toolbars. +- Ask to save hidden dirty documents (bug 11405). -* Frontend News +- Fix background color of collapsible insets with sublabel. -LyX 1.5 will use the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for -Windows users, since there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no -longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to -Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It -was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX -in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to -unicode. The Qt3 frontend was removed. The work on the GTK frontend -has been transferred to a branch because its development has -essentially stalled. +- Do not paste tabulators when pasting multiple cell outside table (bug 4449). -* Change tracking enhancements +- Fix language when pasting multiple cell outside table (bug 11898). -Major parts of the change tracking code were rewritten addressing -several problems that existed in the existing implementation. +- Fix input of decimal numbers in RtL context (bug 11900). -* Converter file cache +- Fix the LyX icon in the Wayland dash (bug 11847). -A cache for converted files, such as included figures, was -implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when -displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion -to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache -is enabled by default. +- Fix display bug when typing in a paragraph where row heights change (bug 11601). -The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change -that with the line +- Fix wrong marking-text-behavior with doubleclick on notebook touchpads (Windows) - \converter_cache_maxage xxx +- Fix spacing of limits of sum-like operators in display style. -where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file. +- Fix positioning of super- and subscripts with integral signs. -* Unified Windows installer +- Fix counter in bibliography inset (bug 11920). -The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding -both installers are welcome. +- Do not allow editing of math package list in Document > Settings > Math Options, + thus preventing a crash (bug 11931). -* Program listings +- Maintain standard layout for separating paragraphs when switching layouts (bug 11936). -The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use -of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but -does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files. +- Prevent permanent disabling of widgets in Vertical/Horizontal Space dialogs + (bug 11952). -Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that -supports all these three ways of listing computer programs. +- Fix behavior of Edit button in Include dialog. -* Minor user interface improvements +- Localize some previously unlocalized strings (bug 11954 ). -Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of -the user interface have been made, such as: +- Fix bug where cursor blinks at the wrong position after changing layout (bug 11912). - - Syntax highlighting for the user preamble and the LaTeX log file - - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog) - - Support optional argument for environments +- Fix PrettyFormat for Part (bug 11986). -* Enhanced clipboard/selection handling - -Clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications. Parallel -to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button to paste -selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows (but -within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that -you can paste the selected text using middle button multiple times, -even after the selection has been cleared. +- Fix on-screen display of special math fonts (bug 11802). +- Fix white frame border in fullscreen mode. -* Under the hood -As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX -core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and -easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust -application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly -code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX -1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development -series has been to bring this speed back. +* BUILD/INSTALLATION -** Bug fixes +- Wininstaller, fix bug where previous installations, with emergency version + greater than 1, could not be seen in registry on overinstall -Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX -bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-) +- Do not break configuration if a module file is not decodable (file + not encoded in utf-8). Rather than that, issue a warning and skip + that file (a variant of bug 11736).