X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=96c855dab04e67255dda6a070216d2b837b34ed8;hb=35b580fb30f266767938755140c9496141b297da;hp=1567487be074302471ebd13844c1b0a660f1afa0;hpb=e0a8abcf961635797fc646220f1974e0b4e1c26b;p=lyx.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1567487be0..96c855dab0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,9 +1,211 @@ -What's new in version 1.6.0beta3? ----------------------------- +What's new in version 2.0.0? +------------------------------- + +The new features in LyX 2.0 are detailed in +http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20 + +* Advanced Search Facility +* Spell-checking on the Fly +* Compare Documents Feature +* XHTML Output +* Multilingual Thesaurus +* XeTeX Backend +* Multiple Indices Support +* Progress View and Debugging Pane +* Enhanced Instant Preview +* Forward Search for DVI/PDF Files +* Enhanced Version Control Features +* Typesetting in background + + +What's new in version 1.6.10? +------------------------------ +The most notable new feature of this version is that it is able to read and +import documents of our new stable series, LyX 2.0.x. This is for the benefit +of users who want to stick with LyX 1.6.x for the time being, but still want +to cooperate with users of the new version. Note that LyX 1.6.10 still +writes the 1.6 format, so it cannot produce (but only interpret) LyX 2.0's +new features. + + +What's new in version 1.6.9? +----------------------------- + +We have fixed yet another number of crashes that have been reported to us +and ironed out many small glitches. Also, some features and additions from +the forthcoming 2.x series, such as support for CVS revision control and a +new Swedish localization, have been backported to LyX 1.6.9. + + +What's new in version 1.6.8? +----------------------------- + +LyX 1.6.8 is the result of our ongoing efforts to make our stable version +even more reliable and stable. We have fixed crashes that have been +reported to us, ironed out many small glitches, further polished the user +interface, updated the documentation and added some new layouts. + + +What's new in version 1.6.7? +----------------------------- + +From the list of fixes and improvements, we'd like to highlight +particularly that this release irons out all known stability problems with +Qt 4.6. LyX 1.6.7 is our first release that is supposed to run smoothly +with Qt 4.6, so we urge all distributors who use that version to upgrade +LyX as well. + + +What's new in version 1.6.6.1? +------------------------------ + +The sole purpose of this release is to fix one glitch that was introduced +by LyX 1.6.6: The spellchecker missed further misspellings after applying +a correction. This was due to the fix to different bug that had to be +reverted. In any other respect, this release is identical to Lyx 1.6.6. + + +What's new in version 1.6.6? +----------------------------- + +The release features a long list of fixes and improvements. Yet a number +of crashes, reported by our users or our automatic stability testing +program, were fixed. Moreover, LyX was improved in many details. It also +introduces new features, such as support for the enchant spell checking +backend and for aspell language varieties (such as old and new German +spelling in parallel). + + +What's new in version 1.6.5? +----------------------------- + +The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly +reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and +some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX +server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other +applications such as JabRef on this platform as well). + + +What's new in version 1.6.4.2? +------------------------------- + +The upgrade fixes recurring pseudo-crashes when running LyX on +Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). + + +What's new in version 1.6.4.1? +------------------------------- + +The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac, +which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible +via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue. + + +What's new in version 1.6.4? +------------------------------- + +This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release +covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe +issues, such as: + +* A workaround to a nasty problem in recent Qt versions (Qt 4.5.0 up to + 4.5.2) that made LyX crash if the document included images that were + scaled to certain sizes in the work area. +* Fixes to problems that might result in the loss of data. +* Many other stability improvements, thanks to a new debugging script that + helped to reveal uncovered critical bugs. +* Further fixes to the LaTeX importer (tex2lyx) and the conversion of + older LyX documents (lyx2lyx). + + +What's new in version 1.6.3? +------------------------------- + +This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual +improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are: + +* tex2lyx is now able to read files in all latex supported encodings and + transform them into the proper unicode-based format introduced in 1.5.0. + This paves the way for many other improvements in LaTeX->LyX translation +* The performance problems when editing a master with child documents have + been resolved. +* LyX 1.6.3 introduces some goodies provided by Qt 4.5 (menu support for + fullscreen mode in linux, close button on tabs). Of course these + improvements (as well as some Qt-related fixes) only show up if LyX is + compiled against Qt 4.5. + + +What's new in version 1.6.2? +------------------------------- + +This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release +fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by +users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to +dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes, +file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the +performance of the application has been improved, and the release also +introduces some new features and user interface improvements. + + +What's new in version 1.6.1? +------------------------------- + +This is the first maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and +as such, it mainly focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major +problems that slipped into the application in the wake of the new +features. + + +What's new in version 1.6.0? +------------------------------- The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16 +* Multiple Work Areas +* Split Views +* User-formattable Collapsable Insets +* Layout Modules +* Layout combobox changes +* Support for the LaTeX package hyperref +* Support for hyperlinks and URLs +* Improved floats +* New implementation of math macros +* Completion popup +* Inset Tooltip +* Context Menu +* Symbols dialog +* Shortcut Configuration dialog +* Paste Graphics from the Clipboard +* "Visual mode" for bidirectional cursor movement +* Fullscreen mode +* Extended Outliner +* Session management +* Subversion support +* Graphics parameters groups +* LyX functions manual +* Multi-LFUN Keybindings + + +What's new in version 1.5.7? +---------------------------- + +This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle and it is +expected to be the final release in this series, since a new series of +stable releases has just been introduced by our new major release, +LyX 1.6.0. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, the main feature of this +release is the ability to read files created by LyX 1.6.0 (this feature +requires python 2.3.4 or newer). + + +What's new in version 1.5.6? +---------------------------- + +This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been +started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX +even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also, +further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23 +languages. What's new in version 1.5.5? ----------------------------