X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ANNOUNCE;h=f9f8e964a4d975bb088561fbfaf09c1f19a94765;hb=2888d9e1edbc4fe8ede5505358be1287530f44ec;hp=e5f1177b609103d24f1d21ca5db4250719bee6e6;hpb=295eea310e4b6b5db8ab3728605a745efe7e1576;p=lyx.git diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index e5f1177b60..f9f8e964a4 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,228 +1,232 @@ -Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 2) +Public release of LyX version 2.3.2 =================================== -We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (beta 2). +We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.3.2. This is the second +maintenance release in the 2.3.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 2.3.2 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) - - Support optional arguments for environments +LyX 2.3.2 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more +reliable and more stable. One main fix involves a crash with external viewers +on Windows. We have also fixed a number of problems with the output of right- +to-left languages, thanks to the involvement of users. There was also an +infinite loop bug connected with the separation of environments that has been +fixed. But, for the most part, the fixes here are incremental. Please see below +for a full list. + +If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.3.2, 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. -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. +If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the documentation +that comes with LyX (under the Help or Apple menu) and the LyX wiki, which +is at http://wiki.lyx.org/. If you can't find the answer there, e-mail the +LyX users' list (lyx-users lists.lyx.org), where you will find an +active community of people who are ready to help. -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. +We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.3.2. -See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in that release. +The LyX team. +http://www.lyx.org -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. +What's new +========== - 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. +** Updates: +*********** - 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. +* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT -You can download LyX 1.5.0beta2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with -bzip2, which yields smaller files): +- Add support for non-ASCII characters in hyperlinks (bug 11165). - 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 +- Support rotated table cells with linebreaks (bug 8085). -Note that due to the ammount of changes no patch is provided to upgrade -from version 1.4.4. +- Add support for LyX logo in RTL output (bug 10423). -Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows -installers) should soon be available at - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/ +- Update support for linguistic subexamples. +- Support key symbols via menukeys package (part of bug 10641). -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). +* TEX2LYX IMPROVEMENTS -Enjoy! +- Add support for multirow (bug 11164). -The LyX team. +- Improve import of titling commands other than \maketitle (bug 6461). + +- Add support for horizontal longtabular alignment. + +- Add support for btUnit (multibib). + +- Add support for decimal alignment in table cells. + +- Add support for plural and capitalized refstyle references. + + +* USER INTERFACE + +- Improve layout of the character dialog (bugs 2752, 3804, 3884, and 4836). + +- Rework OK/Apply/Cancel behavior of preferences dialog (bug 10016). + +- Disambiguate dialog message (bug 11242). + +- Unify capitalzation in dialog (bug 11237). + +- Allow to change multiple table columns' width at once (bug 11205). + +- When using formal tables, draw top/bottom rules thicker when adequate. + +- Draw underline (and friends) over insets too (bug 11297). + +- Handle properly branches with a space in their name (bug 11108). + +- Allow the 'module in child not used in master' warning to be disabled. + +- Add bibtex inset to outliner if "add to toc" is checked (bug 11309). + +- Show module name with description (bug 11275). + +- GuiCitation: Don't reset filter on show (bug 11291). + +- If a master is being created at loading the child, un-hide it (bug 11162). + + +* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION + +- Update Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, German, Italian, Russian, + Slovak, Swedish and Ukrainian user interface localization. + +- Add some tooltips in citation dialog in favor of keyboard users (bug 11317). + + +* BUILD/INSTALLATION + +- The Windows installer no longer has a 'bundled' version that installs MiKTeX + alongside LyX. Users will need to install their own LaTeX distribution (as on + other platforms), preferably before installing LyX itself. + + + +** Bug fixes: +************* + +* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT + +- Fix footnotes in table with hyperref (bug 11212). + +- When cloning a buffer, do not start from a parent if it is not the + current master (e.g., when compiling a child alone). + +- Disallow paragraph customization in some single-par charstyle insets + (bug 9192). + +- Fix problems with extra table borders added on table modification + (bug 10010). + +- Fix text direction in figure wrap floats with RTL (bug 11029). + +- Fix text direction issue in info insets with RTL context (bug 10463). + +- Fix text direction problem with polyglossia with nested languages + (part of bug 10111). + +- Use LTR environment for forceLTR content in RTL context with + polyglossia (bug 10548). + +- Fix output of key symbols with info inset on the Mac (bug 10641). +- Fix output of table cells with multiple languages (bug 11128). -What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 2)? ----------------------------- +- Fix RTL table output with bidi package (non-TeX fonts) (bug 9686). -* Unicode +- Do not mark the import converters for Sweave and knitr as needauth. -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. +- Fix conversion of captions from LyX 2.0 documents. -* Integrated CJK support +- Ignore horizontal wheel scrolling in work area (bug 11257). -The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally -merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch. +- Avoid crash when cursor is outside of work area (bug 11296). -* Multiple views of the same buffer +- Fix crash on Windows when closing external viewers (bug 11210). -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 issue with erroneous qualified citations (bug 11308). -* Outliner and embedded TOC +- Add "hyperref-driver=dvips" option to the extra flags of the + latex->dvi converter (bug 11332). -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 loading order conflict with beamer-article and covington. -* Session managment +- Preserve a new paragraph after a float (bug 11398). -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. +* USER INTERFACE -* New Font Selection Interface +- Fix infinite loop while separating environments (bug 11295). -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 +- Fix loss of citation list after Undo (bug 9158). -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. - +- Fix document-wide language setting with minted (bug 11203). -* Nomenclatures +- Fix display of percent sign with numbers in RTL (bug 4057). -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 issues with dead key accents (bug 11183). -* Tabbed Widget +- Fix disappearance of blue (language) line in some situations. -LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents. +- Draw menu separator symbol according to text direction. -* Enhanced Math Toolbars +- Improve automatic removal of extra spaces, aka DEPM (bug 10503). -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. +- Avoid white space before math completion (bug 11283). -* Frontend News +- View and change Plural, Capitalization, and No Prefix options for + cross-references from the context menu (bug 11070). -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. +- Don't step counters in deleted material (bug 11135). -* Change tracking enhancements +- Fix display of raster graphics with viewports (bug 11180). -Major parts of the change tracking code were rewritten addressing -several problems that existed in the existing implementation. +- Fix some missing screen updates (bug 11323, regression in 2.3.1). -* Converter file cache +- Allow adjustment of margin settings in InsetLayout (bug 10177). -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 suprious comma in book and thesis bib preview (bug 11272). - \use_converter_cache true +- Merge paragraphs when pasted into an inset that forbids multiple + paragraphs (bug 8281). -to your preferences file. +- Fix display issue of individual pre- and posttext in citation dialog + (biblatex only) (bug 11352). -The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change -that with the line +- Fix display of overset, underset, and stackrel insets (bug 11367). - \converter_cache_maxage xxx +- Avoid extra space at the end of tooltips (bug 11353). -where xxx is the maximum age in seconds. +- Show cursor correctly when loading file (bug 11377). -* Unified Windows installer -The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding -both installers are welcome. +* TEX2LYX -* Minor user interface improvements +- Consider required modules when checking for layout definitions in modules + (bug 11156). -Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of -the user interface have been made, such as: +- Fix import of Arabic polyglossia environment (part of bug 10111). - - 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 import of unknown commands'/environments' options (bug 8685). -* 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. +* BUILD/INSTALLATION -** Bug fixes +- Fix linker options for Mac builds to avoid failures when running + install_name_tool on Mac to create relocatable binaries using the + bundled private frameworks. -Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX -bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)