X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ANNOUNCE;h=6f60e735dac485d415fe4d985b4b4f16416eff72;hb=c053a9394d1075ecad02ccce2f34c95f08c1f00f;hp=d18634190d94c4cbcd9708bfc8c7e194081b9dea;hpb=23d0362d049e3c5a297efb946fc1012c44c15b34;p=lyx.git diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index d18634190d..6f60e735da 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,287 +1,32 @@ -Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 -=================================== +Public release of LyX version 2.1.0 +======================================== -We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0. +We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.1.0. -Since the announcement of release candidate 2, we have fixed bugs and -we have updated the documentation. +With this release, LyX celebrates 18 years of existence. The 2.1 series +has a rich set of new features compared to the current stable series. -Following the ad hoc tradition of 1.5.0 pre-releases, called -respectively Ruby (alpha), Towny (beta) and Quinta ("farm" in -Portuguese for the release candidates) this release starts the Vintage -selection that is (will be) the 1.5 series. +LyX 2.1.0 is the culmination of three years of hard work. An overview +of the new features can be found here: + http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX21 -LyX 1.5.0 is the culmination of 15 months of hard work since the -release of the LyX 1.4 series. We sincerely hope you will enjoy the -result. The changes are too numerous to summarize in a few words, but -initial unicode support is the flagship among the new features. See -the end of this announcement for further details. +You can download LyX 2.1.0 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. +We hope you will enjoy the result! -The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release -compared to the current stable release (LyX 1.4.5). An updated list of -issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes +The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues and problems compared +to the current stable releases (LyX 2.0.x). We strongly recommend that +packagers of LyX on various platforms and distributions read this file. +As with any major release, this one comes with lot of new features but +also some bugs. If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.1.0, either +email the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org), +or open a bug report at http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome. -In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what -http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject: - - 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. - - 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 1.5.0 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, -which yields smaller files): - - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.bz2 - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.bz2 - -and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will -also host the .bz2 versions): - - ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz - http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz - ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz - http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz - http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz - -Note that due to the amount of change, no patch is provided to upgrade -from version 1.4.5. - -Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows -installers) should soon be available at - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/bin/1.5.0/ - -As confusing as it is, two sets of installers are available to windows -users: - * LyX-1.5.0-Installer.exe and LyX-1.5.0-Installer-bundle.exe; - * LyX-1.5.0-AltInstaller.exe and LyX-1.5.0-AltInstaller-Complete.exe. -The former is our official installer and the latter was previously known -as LyXWinInstaller. Please feel free to try either of them. Feedback -and bug reports on both installers are welcome because they will help -the merge of the 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 1.5.0, 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://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find the answer there, -e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org). - -Enjoy! +If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the +documentation that comes with LyX (under Help) and the LyX wiki, which you +will find at http://wiki.lyx.org/. You can also send email to the LyX users' +list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org). The LyX team. - - -What's new in version 1.5.0 ? ----------------------------- - -* Unicode - -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 currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8 -encoding or a brand new typesetting system such 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 on the 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. - -* 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 setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by -using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors! -Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default -or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances. - -* Language support - -In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also -have full user interface support. - -* Multiple views of the same buffer - -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. - -* 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. - -* Session management - -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. - -* New Font Selection Interface - -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 - -LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of -LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented, -providing beautiful and elegant tabulars. - -* Nomenclatures - -LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this, -you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures, -glossaries and fancy notations. - -* Tabbed Widget - -LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents. - -* Enhanced Math Toolbars - -The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were -added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content -to the math toolbars. -Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math -panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars. - -* Frontend News - -LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for -Windows users, because 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 also removed. The work on the GTK -frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has -essentially stalled. - -* Change tracking enhancements - -Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing -several problems that existed in the previous implementation. - -* Converter file cache - -A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been -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. - -The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change -that with the line - - \converter_cache_maxage xxx - -where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file. - -* Unified Windows installer - -The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding -both installers are welcome. - -* Program listings - -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. - -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 - -Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as: - - - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file. - - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog). - - Support for optional arguments for environments. - -* Enhanced clipboard/selection handling - -The 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 the middle button multiple times, -even after the selection has been cleared. - -* Limited support for local class and layout files - -Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files -stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send -your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he -can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the -.cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and -.layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside, -should you use different directories for master and child documents. - -* 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. - -** Bug fixes - -Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX -bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-) +http://www.lyx.org