X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ANNOUNCE;h=da074d5c03879f312a1ca62d4ec7c664afd40e9f;hb=f11bfe1697492f79f8cc02d4021305005cf539ef;hp=5e60057056d4cc7dc68f345271685f6568a7756a;hpb=16fc9cb4d614f1e23ca5dc6443b243c9f22453c3;p=lyx.git diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index 5e60057056..da074d5c03 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,229 +1,37 @@ -Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 2) -=================================== +Public release of LyX version 2.3.0beta1 +======================================== -We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (beta 2). +We are proud to announce the first public beta of the new LyX 2.3 series. +This pre-release is meant for testing and should not be used for serious work. +For curious users who would like to test in order to help catch bugs before +the 2.3.0 release, please back up all of your documents and be prepared for +the worst to happen. Most users (who desire a stable LyX version) should not +use this pre-release. -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. +The 2.3 series has a rich set of new features compared to the current stable +series. An overview of the new features can be found here: -Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of -the user interface have been made, such as: + http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX23 - - Syntax highlighting for the user preamble and the LaTeX log file - - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog) - - Support optional arguments for environments +You can download LyX 2.3.0beta1 from ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/. -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. +We appreciate your help in testing this pre-release! -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 lib/RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues and problems compared +to the current stable releases (LyX 2.2.x). We strongly recommend that +packagers of LyX on various platforms and distributions read this file. -The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known problems with this release -compared to the latest stable release, i.e. LyX 1.4.4. +As with any major release, this one comes with a lot of new features but +also some bugs. If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.3.0beta1, either +email the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org), +or open a bug report at http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome. +Please specify if the behavior you are reporting is different from behavior +in a previous LyX version. -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. - - 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 1.5.0beta2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with -bzip2, which yields smaller files): - - 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 - -Note that due to the ammount of changes no patch is provided to upgrade -from version 1.4.4. - -Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows -installers) should soon be available at - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/ - - -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). - -Enjoy! +If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the +documentation that comes with LyX (under Help) and the LyX wiki, which you +will find at http://wiki.lyx.org/. You can also send email to the LyX users' +list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org). The LyX team. - - -What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 2)? ----------------------------- - -* Unicode - -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. - -* Integrated CJK support - -The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally -merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch. - -* Multiple views of the same buffer - -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. - -* Outliner and embedded TOC - -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. - -* Session managment - -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. - -* Source code Viewer - -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. - -* New Font Selection Interface - -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 - -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. - - -* Nomenclatures - -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. - -* Tabbed Widget - -LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents. - -* Enhanced Math Toolbars - -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 - -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. - -* Change tracking enhancements - -Major parts of the change tracking code were rewritten addressing -several problems that existed in the existing implementation. - -* Converter file cache - -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 - - \use_converter_cache true - -to your preferences file. - -The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change -that with the line - - \converter_cache_maxage xxx - -where xxx is the maximum age in seconds. - -* Unified Windows installer - -The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding -both installers are welcome. - -* Minor user interface improvements - -Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of -the user interface have been made, such as: - - - 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 - -* Under the hood - -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. - -** Bug fixes - -Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX -bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-) +http://www.lyx.org