X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ANNOUNCE;h=af28b0aa9b6c75d059c441620595d87aca449315;hb=90258a0dd34425631aa05b65e656b60ffed1711f;hp=d979a6182114292c321d76b99acd95c782d1b021;hpb=c602ab1524edde58be147671f5e2c9b530cc06ce;p=lyx.git diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index d979a61821..af28b0aa9b 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,69 +1,32 @@ -Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 1) -============================================= +Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 +=================================== -We are pleased to announce the first release candidate of LyX 1.6.0. +We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.0. -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. +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. -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. +You can download LyX 1.6.0 from http://www.lyx.org/Download -The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in -http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16 - -The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release -compared to the current stable release (LyX 1.5.5). An updated list of -issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes - - -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. +LyX 1.6.0 is the culmination of 15 months of hard work and you can +find an overview of the new features here: - 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 1.6.0rc1 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, -which yields smaller files): - - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc1.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc1.tar.bz2 - -Note that due to the amount of change, no patch is provided to upgrade -from version 1.5.5. +http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16 -Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows -installers) should soon be available at - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/devel/ +We hope you will enjoy the result! -If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.0rc1, 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 +Known issues with LyX 1.6 compared to the previous stable release +(LyX 1.5.6) can be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes160 -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). +If you think you found a bug in LyX 1.6.0, either e-mail the LyX +developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org), or open a bug +report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org -Enjoy! +If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the +documentation that comes with lyx and http://wiki.lyx.org. If you +can't find the answer there, e-mail the LyX users' list +(lyx-users at lists.lyx.org). The LyX team. +http://www.lyx.org