X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ANNOUNCE;h=d3312067b523218bb135e56ae228afda2ecda98a;hb=d7ecdedd6735dd85f8a1f2b33350addd195124c4;hp=f78c6480180a2b157a38e9b5375a15accc1579aa;hpb=cb4c79b1c6dbe5b3294b8da305ee011dd3592346;p=lyx.git diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index f78c648018..d3312067b5 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,230 +1,244 @@ -Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 3) +Public release of LyX version 2.2.2 =================================== -We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (beta 3). +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 improvements, namely a new inset to support code listings. +You can download LyX 2.2.2 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/. -We have enabled the converter file cache by default. +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. -Internally we have renamed files to follow a consistent name pattern, -this will allow an easier navigation of the source code thus simplifying -bug fixing. +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. -Compared with the latest stable release, this is the culmination of -one year of hard work, and we sincerely hope you will enjoy the -results. The changes are too numerous to summarize in a few words, -with initial unicode support being the flagship among the new -features, see the end of this announcement for 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 latest 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 1.5.0beta3 here (the .bz2 are compressed with -bzip2, which yields smaller files): +** Updates: +*********** - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0beta3.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0beta3.tar.bz2 +* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT -Note that due to the amount of changes 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.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) -If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0beta3, 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 +* 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 @ lists.lyx.org). +- Syntax highlighting in the preamble and and the source view has been made + compatible with dark themes (bug 8325). -Enjoy! +- Changed the display of buttons for collapsed branches. We now display the + same thing as if the branches were open (bug 10213). -The LyX team. +- "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). -What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 3)? ----------------------------- +- Do not omit the first space of the selection when copying (bug 9995). -* Unicode +- Do not allow non-default layouts to be pasted into table cells that are not fixed + width (bug 8782). -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. +- Display the correct column alignment and a better column spacing in AMS + environments (bugs 1861, 9908). -* Integrated CJK support +- Disable properly toggling math display in places where it is not + possible (bug 10033). -The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally -merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch. +- Fix horizontal scrolling feature when inside a collapsable inset + with several paragraphs. -* Multiple views of the same buffer +- Fix selection of large formula with the mouse when horizontal + scrolling kicks in (but 10094). -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 bug where cursor can't be put at the end of a line before an + inset (bug 10180). -* Outliner and embedded TOC +- Fix display of collapsable insets when the same document is shown in + two views with different width (bug 9756). -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. +- fix display glitches when editing changes the dimension of insets + (bug 6691). -* Session management +- Raise GuiView on buffer switch to bring it topmost in multi-window mode. -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. +- Fix cursor position after Redo of a document settings change (bug + 10097). -* Source code Viewer +- Handle undo after deleting end of paragraph in change tracking mode + (bug 10253). -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. +- Disable Edit > Dissolve Inset in tabulars (bug 9954). -* New Font Selection Interface +- Shortcut preferences: ask the user for removing bindings when using the + "restore" button (#9174). -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: fix the already-bound-key detection logic. -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. - +- Shortcut preferences: don't forget to trigger the search when it is + initialized with the previous value. -* Nomenclatures +- Remove extra spacing around button insets (bug 10149). -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 drawing of buttons by enforcing equal left/right spacing (bug 10147). -* Tabbed Widget +- Fix problem with drawing of lists after pasting normal text (bug 8735). -LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents. +- Accessibility of the document class selector from keyboard (bug 10035). -* Enhanced Math Toolbars +- Fix title of LuaTeX and XeTeX error dialogs (part of bug 10013). -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 superseded by the toolbars. +- Remove special code for Qt5 to load SVG icons with HiDPI (bug 10281). -* Frontend News -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 transferred to a branch because its development has -essentially stalled. +* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION -* Change tracking enhancements +- Move documentation change logs to lib/doc (they are not distributed). -Major parts of the change tracking code were rewritten addressing -several problems that existed in the existing implementation. -* Converter file cache +* LYXHTML -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 enabled by default. +- Output width of table columns (bug 8168). -The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change -that with the line +- Fix output of math sizes (bug 10129). - \converter_cache_maxage xxx +- Fix output of vertical space in the middle of a paragraph (bug 8154). -where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file. +- Fix output of ABOVE and CENTERED label types (bug 8843). -* Unified Windows installer +- Output correct entities for named delimiters (bug 8280). -The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding -both installers are welcome. +- Added class attribute for mathbb to allow customization (part of bug + 8521). -* Program listings +- Use 'text-align: center;' with displayed equations (bug 8654). -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. +* 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 ;-)