X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ANNOUNCE;h=d3312067b523218bb135e56ae228afda2ecda98a;hb=d7ecdedd6735dd85f8a1f2b33350addd195124c4;hp=084bffa0a963c48928ef433f0be347d9f07ab87b;hpb=ae9e9d933a30488ad44a6187851d80322fa0dc65;p=lyx.git diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index 084bffa0a9..d3312067b5 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,227 +1,244 @@ -Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 2) +Public release of LyX version 2.2.2 =================================== -We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (beta 2). +We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.2.2. This is the second +maintenance release in the 2.2.x series. -Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs and -added some graphical improvements: - * A new math toolbar replaces the old (faithful) math panel. - * The converter file cache can be now configured in the graphical interface. - * The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window. +You can download LyX 2.2.2 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/. -Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of -the user interface have been made, such as: +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. - - Syntax highlighting for the user preamble and the LaTeX log file - - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog) +LyX 2.2.2 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more +reliable and more stable. We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number +of improvements. Most of these are relatively minor, but we nonetheless +encourage all users of 2.2.1 to upgrade to this version. -Compare with the latest stable release this is the culmination of 1 -year of hard work, and we sincerely hope this you will enjoy the -results. The changes are too numerous to summarize in a few words, -with initial unicode support as the flagship of new features, jump -directly to the end of this message if you want to know more. -As usual with major releases, 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. -See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in that release. +One new feature is the use of the "scaling" option when exporting images +for XHTML. This does not work the same way as with LaTeX export. What it +does is add something like "width: 50%" to the style attribute. This will +ordinarily be interpreted by the browser as a percentage relative to the +current element. -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 2.2.2, 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 and the LyX wiki, which lives at +http://wiki.lyx.org/. If you can't find the answer there, e-mail the LyX +users' list (lyx-users lists.lyx.org). - 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. +We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.2.2. - 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. +The LyX team. +http://www.lyx.org - 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 1.5.0beta2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with -bzip2, which yields smaller files): +What's new +========== - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.bz2 +** Updates: +*********** -Note that due to the ammount of changes no patch is provided to upgrade -from version 1.4.4. +* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT -Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows -installers) should soon be available at - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/ +- Enable the use of LuaTeX for all polyglossia-supported languages. +- New document parameter "Save transient properties" under Document Properties > + Format. (Output has been renamed into Format.) Disabling this option is made + to play nicer in collaborative settings. (bug 9841) -If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0beta2, 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 -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 @ lists.lyx.org). +* USER INTERFACE -Enjoy! +- Syntax highlighting in the preamble and and the source view has been made + compatible with dark themes (bug 8325). -The LyX team. +- Changed the display of buttons for collapsed branches. We now display the + same thing as if the branches were open (bug 10213). + +- "Provides 1" now works with fontspec, subfig, and listings (bug + 10257). + +- Added a new module "Title and Preamble Hacks". + +- Bring window to front after loading a document in single instance (bug 7875). + + +* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION + +- Updated Brazilian, French, German, Interlingua, Italian and Slovakian user + interface localization. + +- Increase the maximum value for the number of last open files that LyX can + remember (bug 9924). + +- Change mouse cursor to indicate row/column selection in tabulars. + +- Make inset-select-all select all cells only in tables. + +- Automatically show the review toolbar if the document has tracked changes + (bug 8738), and related UI improvements. + +- Implement "Dissolve Inset" and "Show Label" context menu items for + arguments (bug 10150). + +- Restore selected reference when using "Go to label" and "Go back" in the + cross-reference dialog. + + +** Bug fixes: +************* + +* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT + +- Correctly protect the \pagebreak command when needed (bug 10092). + +- Resolve problem on Windows with importing files from directories with + accented characters on FAT drives (bug 10218). + +- InPreamble styles should be written to the preamble as many times as the + user requests them, even if it results in duplicate commands. + +- Make sure we output all XHTML table cells, even the empty ones (bug 10153). + +- .svgz images are now converted to .svg for XHTML export (bug 10160). + +- Ask where to export file if not yet saved (bug 8814). + +- Fix size issue with outliner icons on HiDPI monitors (bug 10125). + +- Load math packages automatically with JSS template (bug 9242). + +- Calling a Computer Algebra System from LyX works again (windows only bug 10262). + +- Fix command clash between beamer and covington (from the Linguistics module). + +- Fix crash on Buffer preview when not exporting in thread. + + +* LYX2LYX + +- Fix paragraph argument conversion for \labelwidthstring etc (bug 10243). + + + +* USER INTERFACE + +- CharStyles now prohibit layout changes by default (bug 10237). + +- Fix display of labels in right-to-left languages (bug 10169). + +- Fix button label font of inset arguments when some traits are inherited. + +- When a counter is stepped, reset recursively all subcounters (bug #10063). + +- Fix on screen narrow box when using \width as box width unit (bug 10048). + +- Raise GuiView on buffer switch to bring it topmost in multi-window mode. + +- Fix small typo in Reference dialog (bug 10194). + +- Fix default location for RPM based hunspell dictionary search (bug 10071 and 10192). + +- Fix double input of tabulations with Qt5 < Qt5.5 (bug 9218). +- Do not omit the first space of the selection when copying (bug 9995). -What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 2)? ----------------------------- +- Do not allow non-default layouts to be pasted into table cells that are not fixed + width (bug 8782). -* Unicode +- Display the correct column alignment and a better column spacing in AMS + environments (bugs 1861, 9908). -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 current available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8 -encoding or such brand new typesetting systems 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 in 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. +- Disable properly toggling math display in places where it is not + possible (bug 10033). -* Integrated CJK support +- Fix horizontal scrolling feature when inside a collapsable inset + with several paragraphs. -The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally -merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch. +- Fix selection of large formula with the mouse when horizontal + scrolling kicks in (but 10094). -* Multiple views of the same buffer +- Fix bug where cursor can't be put at the end of a line before an + inset (bug 10180). -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. +- Fix display of collapsable insets when the same document is shown in + two views with different width (bug 9756). -* Outliner and embedded TOC +- fix display glitches when editing changes the dimension of insets + (bug 6691). -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. +- Raise GuiView on buffer switch to bring it topmost in multi-window mode. -* Session managment +- Fix cursor position after Redo of a document settings change (bug + 10097). -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 managment will remember their state. +- Handle undo after deleting end of paragraph in change tracking mode + (bug 10253). -* Source code Viewer +- Disable Edit > Dissolve Inset in tabulars (bug 9954). -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. +- Shortcut preferences: ask the user for removing bindings when using the + "restore" button (#9174). -* New Font Selection Interface +- Shortcut preferences: fix the already-bound-key detection logic. -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 +- Shortcut preferences: don't forget to trigger the search when it is + initialized with the previous value. -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. - +- Remove extra spacing around button insets (bug 10149). -* Glossaries +- Fix drawing of buttons by enforcing equal left/right spacing (bug 10147). -Native LyX support for the nomencl package was implemented. With this, -you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures, -glossaries and fancy notations. +- Fix problem with drawing of lists after pasting normal text (bug 8735). -* Tabbed Widget +- Accessibility of the document class selector from keyboard (bug 10035). -LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents. +- Fix title of LuaTeX and XeTeX error dialogs (part of bug 10013). -* Enhanced Math Toolbars +- Remove special code for Qt5 to load SVG icons with HiDPI (bug 10281). -The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were -added, that allowed to integrate all of the math panel' content to the -math toolbars. -Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math -panel itself has been removed and superseeded by the toolbars. -* Frontend News +* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION -LyX 1.5 will use the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for -Windows users, since 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 removed. The work on the GTK frontend -has been transfered to a branch because its development has -essentially stalled. +- Move documentation change logs to lib/doc (they are not distributed). -* Change tracking enhancements -Major parts of the change tracking code were rewritten addressing -several problems that existed in the existing implementation. +* LYXHTML -* Converter file cache +- Output width of table columns (bug 8168). -A cache for converted files, such as included figures, was -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 disabled by default, and it can be enabled in the Preference -Settings dialog, in the Converters section or, if you want to use it, -add the line +- Fix output of math sizes (bug 10129). - \use_converter_cache true +- Fix output of vertical space in the middle of a paragraph (bug 8154). -to your preferences file. +- Fix output of ABOVE and CENTERED label types (bug 8843). -The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change -that with the line +- Output correct entities for named delimiters (bug 8280). - \converter_cache_maxage xxx +- Added class attribute for mathbb to allow customization (part of bug + 8521). -where xxx is the maximum age in seconds. +- Use 'text-align: center;' with displayed equations (bug 8654). -* Unified Windows installer -The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding -both installers are welcome. +* BUILD/INSTALLATION -* Minor user interface improvements +- Due to bug fixes, it is no longer discouraged to build against Qt 5.4. -Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of -the user interface have been made, such as: +- Building against Qt < 4.7 no longer fails. - - Syntax highlighting for the user preamble and the LaTeX log file - - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog) - - Support optional argument for environments +- Fix monolithic builds with autotools on Mac OS X. -* Under the hood +- Avoid 'ar' warning with recent binutils versions. -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. +- LyX compiled with Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 runs now on Windows Vista (bug 10186) -** Bug fixes +- Add some missing oxygen and IPA icons to the distribution. -Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX -bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)