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+What's new in version 1.3.0?
+----------------------------
+
+As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
+release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
+on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
+glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this. 
+LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
+
+Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
+hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
+been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
+
+** Qt frontend
+
+This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
+either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
+of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
+functionally equivalent.
+
+Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
+latex-ttf-fonts package on ftp://ftp.lyx.org/ to get maths symbols
+displayed properly.
+
+** Xforms frontend
+
+The advent of the Qt frontend does not mean that the historical xforms
+frontend is dead. Actually, it is still the one which is the best
+implemented, because we have had more time to polish it. In this release,
+most of the dialogs have been redesigned to be tighter.
+
+Note also that the xforms library has been very recently updated to
+version 1.0. This version has been released under the LGPL (Lesser
+General Public License), and the availability of the source means that
+many bugs that have been plaguing LyX have been fixed in xforms. You
+are advised to upgrade to xforms 1.0 to enjoy all these new fixes. 
+In fact, LyX 1.3.0 no longer supports versions of xforms older than 0.89.5.
+
+In most cases the dialogs have been designed to make it impossible to input 
+invalid parameters. The exception to this rule is the input of length data. 
+Power LaTeX users can still input obtuse "glue lengths", but the widgets are 
+highlighted in red if this input is invalid or incomplete. This visual 
+feedback makes it easy to see why LyX won't allow you to Apply your changes.
+
+** Gnome frontend
+
+Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
+stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
+strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
+developer's list.
+
+** Instant preview
+
+preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
+of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the 
+LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at 
+http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
+Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
+allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
+figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
+rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
+preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
+actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
+
+** Math editor
+
+There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
+visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
+a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
+formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
+minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
+package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
+structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like 
+anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
+the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
+"regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
+behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
+get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
+support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
+"switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
+trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
+
+- Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
+  in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
+
+- Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
+  will result in nested font changes!  To remove a font change without
+  removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
+  like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
+  the inset and press 'backspace'.
+
+** Reading old files
+
+LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
+produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files 
+created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are 
+in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
+
+There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
+_newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
+to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
+1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
+
+** Miscellaneous changes
+
+- LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
+  equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
+  configure your font server).
+
+- The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text 
+  for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in 
+  tables of contents.
+
+- The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability 
+  to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
+  removed in 1.2.0
+
+- If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
+  spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
+  multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
+  installed.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.2.3?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
+where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
+special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
+Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
+
+** Updates
+
+- updated italian User Guide
+
+- updated french localization
+
+
+What's new in version 1.2.2?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
+1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
+1.2.1.
+
+** Updates
+
+- LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
+  advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
+  support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
+
+- selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
+  when dragging the mouse)
+
+- it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
+  particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
+  require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
+  found)
+
+- when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
+  automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
+  who are not aware that it is needed
+
+- when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
+  keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
+
+- in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
+  other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
+
+- Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
+
+- new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
+
+- update sciword bindings
+
+- small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
+  Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
+
+- update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
+  the interface
+
+
+What's new in version 1.2.1?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
+1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
+developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
+1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
+recommended.
+
+** Updates
+
+- it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
+  when this gets released) 
+
+- partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
+  the performance problems
+
+- new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
+
+- revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
+  table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
+  seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
+
+- it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
+  "document defaults"
+
+- when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
+  float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
+  help entering of ERT insets)
+
+- update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
+
+- update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
+
+- better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
+
+- cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
+  obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
+  M-p asterisk 6)
+
+- add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
+
+- support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
+  keys
+
+- it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
+  line and have this file created for you
+
+- new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
+  heb-article and hollywood textclasses
+
+
 What's new in version 1.2.0?
 ----------------------------
 
@@ -103,7 +337,8 @@ Other changes include:
 
 - Updated documentation
 
-- a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat and svprobth.
+- a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and 
+  svprobth.
 
 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
 
@@ -115,6 +350,112 @@ Other changes include:
 
 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
 
+What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
+------------------------------------
+
+LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
+
+New features:
+
+- add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
+
+- change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
+  appears to be more suitable.
+
+- add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
+  This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
+
+- add support for dvipdfm
+
+- when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
+  extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
+
+- insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
+  tokens in the file
+
+- new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
+
+- the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
+  slightly updated
+
+- updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
+
+- updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
+
+
+What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
+------------------------------------
+
+LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
+
+New features:
+
+- documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
+  change 
+
+- new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
+  documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
+
+- the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
+  support 
+
+- it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
+  different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
+
+- new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
+  Theoretical Computer Science 
+
+- new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
+
+- new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
+  versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
+
+- the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
+  LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
+  with the older version
+
+
+What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
+------------------------------------
+
+LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
+
+New features:
+
+- add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
+
+- the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
+  to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
+  install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
+
+- many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
+  documentation update.
+
+- preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
+
+
+What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
+------------------------------------
+
+LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
+
+New features:
+
+- updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
+  translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
+
+- better support for ukrainian language
+
+- non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
+  working --with-lyx-suffix.
+
+- in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
+  line-delete-forward. 
+
+- Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
+
+- Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
+
 
 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
 --------------------------------