X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ANNOUNCE;h=d979a6182114292c321d76b99acd95c782d1b021;hb=f1f6ca09630cfe6b7cc629c289c034fb4b1952ac;hp=5dcd4b8de08aed887ec816bfd38e5be7186fd7de;hpb=e88bc302c24bfdc21144a4444e0e4eef6fabd385;p=lyx.git diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index 5dcd4b8de0..d979a61821 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ -Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (beta 4) +Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 1) ============================================= -We are pleased to announce the fourth beta release of LyX 1.6.0. +We are pleased to announce the first release candidate of LyX 1.6.0. -LyX 1.6.0 will be the culmination of 9 months of hard work since the +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. @@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ 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 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 @@ -40,20 +43,20 @@ http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject: 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, +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-1.6.0alpha2.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0alpha2.tar.bz2 + 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. 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/ + ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/devel/ -If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.0alpha2, you may either +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 @@ -64,10 +67,3 @@ e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org). Enjoy! The LyX team. - - -What's new in version 1.6.0beta4? ----------------------------- - -The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in -http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16