X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ANNOUNCE;h=d3312067b523218bb135e56ae228afda2ecda98a;hb=d7ecdedd6735dd85f8a1f2b33350addd195124c4;hp=f1289c376ea111cff5972553e5a2575dd47c1ceb;hpb=100aa5d78a5de9e0b1c835760a05ff58ffbc56e1;p=lyx.git diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index f1289c376e..d3312067b5 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,277 +1,244 @@ -Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (release candidate 2) +Public release of LyX version 2.2.2 =================================== -We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (release candidate 2). -We expect this to be the last release before 1.5.0. We do not anticipate -any further changes before 1.5.0, although any critical bugs and regressions -in 1.5.0rc2 will, of course, be addressed. +We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.2.2. This is the second +maintenance release in the 2.2.x series. -We encourage users to try this release candidate and report -any feedback or problems to lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org. +You can download LyX 2.2.2 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/. -Since the announcement of release candidate 1, we have mostly fixed bugs -and polished the graphical interface. +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. +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. -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. -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. -The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release -compared to the current stable release (LyX 1.4.4). An updated list of -issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes +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. +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. -In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what -http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject: +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 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. +We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.2.2. - 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. +The LyX team. +http://www.lyx.org - 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. +What's new +========== -You can download LyX 1.5.0rc2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with -bzip2, which yields smaller files): +** Updates: +*********** - 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 +* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT -Note that due to the amount of change, no patch is provided to upgrade -from version 1.4.4. +- Enable the use of LuaTeX for all polyglossia-supported languages. -Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows -installers) should soon be available at - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/ +- 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) -As confusing as it is, two sets of installers are available to windows -users: - * LyX-1.5.0rc2-Installer.exe and LyX-1.5.0rc2-Installer-bundle.exe; - * LyX-1.5.0rc2-AltInstaller.exe and LyX-1.5.0rc2-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 1.5.0rc2, 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 +* USER INTERFACE -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). +- Syntax highlighting in the preamble and and the source view has been made + compatible with dark themes (bug 8325). + +- 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). -Enjoy! -The LyX team. +* USER INTERFACE -What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 2)? ----------------------------- +- CharStyles now prohibit layout changes by default (bug 10237). -* Unicode +- Fix display of labels in right-to-left languages (bug 10169). -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. +- Fix button label font of inset arguments when some traits are inherited. -* Integrated CJK support +- When a counter is stepped, reset recursively all subcounters (bug #10063). -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. +- Fix on screen narrow box when using \width as box width unit (bug 10048). -* Language support +- Raise GuiView on buffer switch to bring it topmost in multi-window mode. -In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also -have full user interface support. +- Fix small typo in Reference dialog (bug 10194). -* Multiple views of the same buffer +- Fix default location for RPM based hunspell dictionary search (bug 10071 and 10192). -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 double input of tabulations with Qt5 < Qt5.5 (bug 9218). -* Outliner and embedded TOC +- Do not omit the first space of the selection when copying (bug 9995). -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. +- Do not allow non-default layouts to be pasted into table cells that are not fixed + width (bug 8782). -* Session management +- Display the correct column alignment and a better column spacing in AMS + environments (bugs 1861, 9908). -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. +- Disable properly toggling math display in places where it is not + possible (bug 10033). -* Source code Viewer +- Fix horizontal scrolling feature when inside a collapsable inset + with several paragraphs. -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. +- Fix selection of large formula with the mouse when horizontal + scrolling kicks in (but 10094). -* New Font Selection Interface +- Fix bug where cursor can't be put at the end of a line before an + inset (bug 10180). -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. +- Fix display of collapsable insets when the same document is shown in + two views with different width (bug 9756). -* Tabular extensions +- fix display glitches when editing changes the dimension of insets + (bug 6691). -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. +- Raise GuiView on buffer switch to bring it topmost in multi-window mode. -* Nomenclatures +- Fix cursor position after Redo of a document settings change (bug + 10097). -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. +- Handle undo after deleting end of paragraph in change tracking mode + (bug 10253). -* Tabbed Widget +- Disable Edit > Dissolve Inset in tabulars (bug 9954). -LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents. +- Shortcut preferences: ask the user for removing bindings when using the + "restore" button (#9174). -* Enhanced Math Toolbars +- Shortcut preferences: fix the already-bound-key detection logic. -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. +- Shortcut preferences: don't forget to trigger the search when it is + initialized with the previous value. -* Frontend News +- Remove extra spacing around button insets (bug 10149). -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. +- Fix drawing of buttons by enforcing equal left/right spacing (bug 10147). -* Change tracking enhancements +- Fix problem with drawing of lists after pasting normal text (bug 8735). -Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing -several problems that existed in the previous implementation. +- Accessibility of the document class selector from keyboard (bug 10035). -* Converter file cache +- Fix title of LuaTeX and XeTeX error dialogs (part of bug 10013). -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. +- Remove special code for Qt5 to load SVG icons with HiDPI (bug 10281). -The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change -that with the line - \converter_cache_maxage xxx +* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION -where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file. +- Move documentation change logs to lib/doc (they are not distributed). -* Unified Windows installer -The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding -both installers are welcome. +* LYXHTML -* Program listings +- Output width of table columns (bug 8168). -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. +- Fix output of math sizes (bug 10129). -Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that -supports all these three ways of listing computer programs. +- Fix output of vertical space in the middle of a paragraph (bug 8154). -* LaTeX-package support +- Fix output of ABOVE and CENTERED label types (bug 8843). -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 +- Output correct entities for named delimiters (bug 8280). -* Minor user interface improvements +- Added class attribute for mathbb to allow customization (part of bug + 8521). -Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as: +- Use 'text-align: center;' with displayed equations (bug 8654). - - 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 +* BUILD/INSTALLATION -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. +- Due to bug fixes, it is no longer discouraged to build against Qt 5.4. -* Limited support for local class and layout files +- Building against Qt < 4.7 no longer fails. -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. +- 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 ;-)