X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ANNOUNCE;h=3017cf15b67bbbd3f3a63312c61ee141b91977d8;hb=48cd67ebf8f4025ecd57b3c651cf62c0e102a0be;hp=dcc8c77833259c8c05e1d6d8ae33531a6cc92f5b;hpb=fe0073a4a6418074e87cd5c2145ad8657d7e3c01;p=lyx.git diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index dcc8c77833..3017cf15b6 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,69 +1,39 @@ -Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 2) -========================================================= +Public release of LyX version 2.3.1 +=================================== -We are pleased to announce the first release candidate of LyX 1.6.0. +We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.3.1. This is the first +maintenance release in the 2.3.x series. -LyX 1.6.0 will be the culmination of 12 months of hard work since the -release of the LyX 1.5 series. We sincerely hope you will enjoy the -result. +You can download LyX 2.3.1 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/. -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. +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. -The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in -http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16 +LyX 2.3.1 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more +reliable and more stable. -The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release -compared to the current stable release (LyX 1.5.6). An updated list of -issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes +All python scripts distributed with LyX should now be compatible with both +python 2.x and python 3.x. +One oft-requested enhancement was to restore a keyboard shortcut for opening +the 'settings' menu of graphics, reference, etc, insets. This is now Control- +Alt-i, on Windows and Linux, and Control-Option-i on OSX (assuming you are +using the default keybindings). -In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what -http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject: +If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.3.1, 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. - 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. +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. - 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. - - 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. - -You can download LyX 1.6.0rc2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, -which yields smaller files): - - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc2.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc2.tar.bz2 - -Note that due to the amount of change, no patch is provided to upgrade -from version 1.5.6. - -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/ - -If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.0rc2, you may either -e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org), or open -a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org - -If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question, -first check out http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/. If you can't find the answer there, -e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org). - -Enjoy! +We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.3.1. The LyX team. +http://www.lyx.org +