X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ANNOUNCE;h=7591dcce955cd1761893d4181f127a949263e5d1;hb=02e59530b15d223c0978ecacfb7379f7bec986f4;hp=b5d0fee753c63092b1e63c24112022e16be6bc23;hpb=f9d1837048272dba79f15045725f4e70e442a633;p=lyx.git diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index b5d0fee753..7591dcce95 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,74 +1,36 @@ -Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (alpha 2) -============================================= +Public release of LyX version 2.0.0 +=================================== -We are pleased to announce the second alpha release of LyX 1.6.0 (the -first to be publicly announced). +We are proud to announce the public release of LyX 2.0.0. -LyX 1.6.0 will be the culmination of 9 months of hard work since the -release of the LyX 1.5 series. We sincerely hope you will enjoy the -result. +With this release, LyX celebrates 15 years of existence, and we start +a new family of 2.x releases to acknowledge LyX's passing from a child +to an adult. We hope you will celebrate this anniversary with us. -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 2.0.0 is the culmination of two and half years of hard work. This +release begins a new series of 2.0.x which will incrementally improve its +stability as the time passes. -The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release -compared to the current stable release (LyX 1.5.4). An updated list of -issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes +An overview of the new features can be found here: + http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20 +You can download LyX 2.0.0 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/. -In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what -http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject: +We hope you will enjoy the result! - 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 file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues and problems compared +to the current stable releases (LyX 1.6.x). We strongly recommend that +packagers of LyX on various platforms and distributions read this file. - 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. +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 2.0.0, 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. - 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 1.6.0alpha2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, -which yields smaller files): - - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0alpha2.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0alpha2.tar.bz2 - -Note that due to the amount of change, no patch is provided to upgrade -from version 1.5.4. - -Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows -installers) should soon be available at - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/bin/1.6.0alpha2/ - -If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.0alpha2, 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 1.6.0alpha2? ----------------------------- - -The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in -http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16 +http://www.lyx.org