X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ANNOUNCE;h=60aada1adee4755b12429b3835bf722967eb9516;hb=ca339eb1991efcab02a5f1b7f33387b35df2a416;hp=b6bd62b26040bb83d3cbda9d9ac675de972c9dfa;hpb=1a11dfd6bdf0f4446c2a00d270a4e03dfc3879e4;p=lyx.git diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index b6bd62b260..60aada1ade 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,15 +1,16 @@ -Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1) +Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (release candidate 2) =================================== -We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (release candidate 1). +We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (release candidate 2). +We expect this to be the last release before 1.5.0, and until the +first stable release only critical bugs and regressions will be +addressed. We encourage users to try this release candidate and report any feedback or problems to lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org. -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. +Compared with the first release candidate we have mostly fixed bugs +and polished the graphical interface. Compared with the latest stable release, this is the culmination of one year of hard work, and we sincerely hope you will enjoy the @@ -50,11 +51,11 @@ http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject: internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the Macintosh and modern Windows platforms. -You can download LyX 1.5.0rc1 here (the .bz2 are compressed with +You can download LyX 1.5.0rc2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, which yields smaller files): - 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 + ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0rc2.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0rc2.tar.bz2 Note that due to the amount of changes no patch is provided to upgrade from version 1.4.4. @@ -64,15 +65,15 @@ installers) should soon be available at ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/ As confusing as it is, two sets of installers are available to windows -users: LyX-1.5.0rc1-Installer.exe, LyX-1.5.0rc1-Installer-bundle.exe and -LyX-1.5.0rc1-AltInstaller.exe, LyX-1.5.0rc1-AltInstaller-Complete.exe. +users: LyX-1.5.0rc2-Installer.exe, LyX-1.5.0rc2-Installer-bundle.exe and +LyX-1.5.0rc2-AltInstaller.exe, LyX-1.5.0rc2-AltInstaller-Complete.exe. The former is our official installer and the latter is previously known as LyXWinInstaller. Please feel free to try either of them. Feedbacks and bug reports on both installers are welcome because they will help the merge of two installers, which is expected to happen during the 1.5.x series of LyX development. -If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0rc1, you may either +If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0rc2, 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 @@ -85,7 +86,7 @@ Enjoy! The LyX team. -What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1)? +What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 2)? ---------------------------- * Unicode @@ -111,6 +112,11 @@ 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! +* Language support + +Besides the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi are now +supported in the user interface. + * Multiple views of the same buffer LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can @@ -151,7 +157,6 @@ 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. - * Nomenclatures Native LyX support for the nomencl package was implemented. With this, @@ -216,6 +221,15 @@ does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files. Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that supports all these three ways of listing computer programs. +* LaTeX-package support + +LyX provides the following new document classes: + - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group + - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package + - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU + - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package + - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs + * Minor user interface improvements Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of @@ -234,7 +248,6 @@ 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. - * Under the hood As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX